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Chronicle of indignation on Wall Street
October 6.11
EVERYONE wants this to be the United States' Tahrir
Square, a Puerta del Sol, an Athens, or a Santiago
de Chile, and everyone – authorities, mass media,
leftists – suppose that something could or should
explode in this country given the crises, the greed
of big business, extreme inequity and unemployment.
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Brazilian President receives Foreign Minister Bruno
Rodríguez
October 6.11
BRASILIA.—The President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff,
received Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez
Parrilla, who was on an official visit to this
country. The meeting took place at the Planalto
Palace on September 29.
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Selective accusations against Bolivia
October 6.11
THE UN High Commissioner for Human Rights recently
condemned “the excessive and indiscriminate use of
force by the Bolivian government against the march
of 1,500 indigenous people,” protesting the
construction of the Villa Tunari-San Ignacio de
Moxos highway.
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Corrupt
ex-director of Radio-TV Martí offers cheap course on
Cuban regime
June
30.11
THE Institute of Cuban and Cuban-American Studies (ICCAS)
at the University of Miami, headed by a former CIA
analyst and funded by USAID, is announcing a special
course: Fidel Castro and the Political Process in
Cuba, taught by Pedro Roig, Mafiosi ex-director
of Radio-TV Martí.
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Batista supporters
again
June
30.11
IT would seem unbelievable, but more than 50
years after Batista’s ignominious flight from Cuba
on January 1, 1959, the inheritors of his
dictatorship are still inflicting damage on the
Cuban people, more motivated by feelings of
resentment and hatred than by logic and reason.
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AFRICA: the poor
excluded from benefits of high economic growth
June
30.11
PARIS.— The high economic growth enjoyed by
many African states during the 2000s have not led to
poverty elimination. This is because the growth did
not happen in the sectors where poor people work, as
in agriculture, or in the rural areas where poor
people live, or simply did not involve labor
provided by poor...
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Case of
the Five censored in U.S.
media
June
24.11
WASHINGTON, June 23.— The International Committee
for the Freedom of the Cuban 5 today gave an example
of U.S. media censorship in relation to the case of
the Cuban anti-terrorists incarcerated in the United
States.
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THE 2012 ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
Evening with seven
mini-dose candidates
June
23.11
IN the evening of June 13, in the quasi-medieval
atmosphere of Saint Anselm College in Manchester,
New Hampshire, a liberal arts university founded by
the Saint Benedict Order in 1889, seven politicians
were presented to enter – given their number and the
media coverage – what could be considered the
beginning of the battle within the Republican Party
for the nomination of the presidential candidate for
the November 2012 elections.
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Cuba: USAID planning to
spend millions on infiltrating youth
June
23.11
AFTER 10 weeks of negotiations
with Senator John Kerry and his staff, who froze its
Cuba subversion and destabilization program, the U.S.
International Aid for Development (USAID) feels
sufficiently confident in a prompt solution to
announce new funds for future projects in relation
to interference in communications materials,
particularly aimed at minors.
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Obama
continuing to spend $20 million on USAID subversion
in Cuba
June
16.11
WHILE the economic crisis is sentencing hundreds of
thousands of U.S. citizens to poverty, the
Washington government continues channeling tens of
millions of dollars into plans of interference whose
ineffectiveness is well known.
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NATO: Free Africa from
the Africans!
June
10.11
AS far as the United States and
Europe are concerned, Africans have nothing to say
about what happens in Africa. South African
President Jacob Zuma made a
second trip to Libya
this week, on behalf of the African Union, seeking a
diplomatic end to NATO’s war against Mouammar
Gaddafi’s government.
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Spanish police
repression in Valencia
June
10.11
MADRID, June 9.—The National Police
of Valencia today charged demonstrators in the
vicinity of the Valencia Courts.
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Understanding the war in Libya (III)
June
9.11
IN every war it is. At first, it is almost
impossible to oppose. The media hype is such that
one is immediately branded as an accomplice to a
monster.
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A city for the
poor, another for the rich
June
9.11
PLATO, the Greek philosopher who live in the
4th century B.C. defined his era very well, and ours
as well, when he said, "All cities, including the
small ones, are in fact divided in two, one for the
poor, another for the rich; they are at war with
each other."
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Understanding the war in Libya
The true objectives
of the United States go far beyond oil
June
2.11
We have already pointed out several clues so that,
finally, at this stage of our reflection, we can
dismiss the possibility of a humanitarian war and
say that it was not an impulsive response to the
recent events either.
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United
States: Goodbye, Public Education
June
2.11
If you had to express the greatness of the United
States in one word, that word would be "education,"
according to Paul Krugman, the 2008 Nobel Laureate
in Economics.
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The
‘indignant’ will remain in the Puerta del Sol
June
2.11
MADRID.— Demonstrators camped in Madrid’s Puerta del
Sol, representing the 15-M Movement against the
Spanish ruling class, will remain in the plaza
indefinitely.
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Understanding
the war in Libya (I)
May
26.11
Part 1: Questions to be asked
in every war
27 times. The United States has bombed another
country 27 times since 1945. And each time, we were
told that these acts of war were "fair" and "humanitarian."
Today, we are told that this war is different from
previous ones.
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Ros-Lehtinen
calls a meeting in Washington to attack and defame
ALBA
May
26.11
THE Republican Congresswoman and chair of the
House Foreign Relations Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
is once again behind a right wing "summit" in
Washington set to attack and defame Venezuela,
Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba and Nicaragua.
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Lincoln Díaz-Balart
resuscitates clandestine group
May
26.11
FORMER Congressman Lincoln Díaz-Balart who
early last year left his seat in Congress, has
devopted himself to reorganizing the clandestine
group created by his father, La Rosa Blanca,
according to information circulating in Miami.
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U.S. 2012 Elections
Many names
floated, no Republican candidate yet
May
18.11
Republican Party politicians are taking their time
before officially entering the coming Presidential
elections, which formally opened in April and will
take place November 4, 2012. Those aspiring to be
chosen as the party’s candidate are considering the
odds carefully.
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ROS-LEHTINEN THREATENS ENEMIES OF THE UNITED STATES
"Their day of
justice will come as well"
May
12.11
RECENTLY Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was mourning the death
of terrorist Orlando Bosch in Miami. Now she is
celebrating the death of another terrorist, Osama
bin Laden and threatening "enemies" of the United
States that "their day of justice will come as well."
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CIA and drugs in
Afghanistan: an infernal duo
May
12.11
DOCUMENTS disclosed by WikiLeaks and anonymous
sources even cited by newspapers like The
Washington Post have concluded that decision
making around solving drug trafficking in
Afghanistan lies in the U.S. capital.
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Chernobyl’s dangers
still exist
May
12.11
PRIPIAT, Ukraine (IPS).— It was almost 6:00am on
April 26, 1986 when Alexey Breus left his apartment
for the Ukrainian nuclear power plant and his work
in the fourth reactor, without knowing anything
about the historic nuclear disaster which had begun
five hours earlier.
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Bin Laden
family’s relations with the United States greater
than supposed
May
5.11
THE surname Bin Laden has been demonized, through
now representing the boogeyman of the 21st century.
Just its mention evoked terror in U.S. society; it
was utilized to promote the fear syndrome and to
justify the most retrograde and anti-democratic
actions in the United States.
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Puerto Rico
recalls death of Cuban Carlos Muñiz Varela
May
5.11
FRIENDS and family of Carlos Muñiz Varela
commemorated the 32nd anniversary of his murder on
April 28, at San Juan Cemetery in Puerto Rico.
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Fourteen blockade
directives
May
5.11
FERNANDO Arrojas, director of the Cuban Central Institute for
Digital Research
(ICID), devoted mainly to the production of medical
equipment, has sent a synthesis – based on his own
experiences – of the difficulties faced daily by Cuban
entities as a result of the U.S. blockade of the island,
to La Pupila Insomne website.
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Washington
appoints business attaché in Caracas head of the
USIS
April
29.11
JOHN Patrick
Caufield, business attaché at the U.S. embassy in
Caracas, who has headed up this diplomatic
representation since the last ambassador was
withdrawn, is to replace Jonathan Farrar as head of
the U.S. Interests Section (USIS) in Cuba.
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The
Pentagon’s greatest shame: the illegal Guantánamo
prison
April
28.11
THE United States committed acts of abuse on
prisoners in the prison it maintains on illegally
occupied territory in Guantánamo, as confirmed by
759 secret reports disclosed by WikiLeaks, which
also reveal that 60% of the prisoners taken to that
prison had no links whatsoever with the jihad.
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Ten visits to
the Camps of Shame
April
28.11
AS part of its campaign for the right to oversee
immigrant detention camps, the Euro-African network
Migreurop, March 7, 2011, launched its second series
of visits by parliamentarians to such centers.
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U.S. abuse exposed in illegal Guantánamo base
April
26.11
WASHINGTON, April 25.—More than 750 secret reports
disclosed by Wikileaks have confirmed abuses
committed by the United States in the prison on the
illegal Guantánamo base and the fact that 60% of
prisoners with no links to the jihad have been taken
there.
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Gagarin’s flight: the conquest begins
SOVIET cosmonaut Yuri
Gargarin’s flight 50 years ago initiated the human
conquest of space. That feat summed up a history of
dreams, attempts and efforts on the part of Russia
to reach outer space, incubated from the 19th
century.
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2012 elections in the
United States
Obama and his billion
THIS
past April 4, Barack Obama formally announced his
candidacy for the presidential elections scheduled,
as established, within 20 months; that is to say for
November 6, 2012. This step opens the election
process for the person who will take office as U.S.
president on January 20, 2013.
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Cason
for mayor
April
14.11
WASHINGTON, April 13.— In payment for
the provocative and subversive activities which
James Cason sponsored as chief of the U.S. Interests
Section in Havana, the Cuban-American mafia has
promoted him to the post of mayor of Coral Gables,
an affluent city in the south of Florida. In
response, Cason thanked the Miami mafia for their
firm support of his candidacy. "It's a miracle.
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US
aircraft still bombing Libya
April
14.11
WASHINGTON, April 13.—U.S. air force
planes are still bombing targets in Libya despite
having transferred the command of operations to
NATO, the Pentagon admitted today, ANSA reports.
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"I am
supremely grateful to the United States," says
Posada Carriles
April
11.11
AS soon as Judge Kathleen Cardone read the verdict
of "not guilty" on April 8, Posada and his three
lawyers merged into a close embrace that lasted
several seconds.
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Mafia justice: Posada acquitted on all charges
April
11.11
ON April 9, a jury in the nation which has afforded
itself the right to draw up a list of countries
allegedly sponsoring terrorism, found international
terrorist Luis Posada Carriles innocent of 11
charges of perjury, fraud and obstruction. The El
Paso court judge announced the decision, which
cannot be appealed.
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U.S. government promoting Internet aggression
against Cuba
April
1.11
THE Department of State and its destabilizing agency
USAID project spending a further $30 million on
interventionist operations attempting to use the
Internet as an instrument of infiltration and
intelligence within Cuban national territory.
• UNITED
STATES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
Social
budgets slashed, but money for war
April
1.11
OPERATION "Odyssey Dawn" against the forces of
Muammar Gaddafi in Libya demonstrates that the
developed countries’ budget problems are not
affecting the launching of military missions.
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Obama's tour
Recycling the
Alliance for Progress?
March
24.11
PRESIDENT Barack Obama has made his first tour of
Latin America and the Caribbean since he was elected,
by coincidence, exactly 50 years since John F.
Kennedy's launching of his Alliance for Progress.
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Allied
forces attack residential neighborhoods in Tripoli
March
24.11
BERLIN, March 23.— The bombing of a residential
neighborhood in the Libyan capital today by the
international coalition of imperialist powers caused
"a significant number of civilian deaths," reported
the official Libyan news agency Jana.
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IAEA describes nuclear
crisis in Japan as "very grave"
March
17.11
TOKYO, March 16.— Yukiya Amano of Japan, head of the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said
today that the nuclear crisis in Japan is "very
grave," while three of the Fukushima I reactors have
suffered partial meltdowns and the United States has
warned that the radiation in the plant is "extremely
high", ANSA reports.
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46,000 buildings damaged in Japan
March
14.11
TOKYO, March 13.— At least 46,000 buildings were
damaged or destroyed by the earthquake and tsunami
which hit Japan on Friday, according to official
estimates, cited today by television broadcaster NHK.
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Alan Gross awaiting
sentence
March
7.11
The trial of U.S. citizen Alan Phillip Gross,
accused of the crime of acts against the
independence or territorial integrity of the state,
concluded on March 5, when the People’s Provincial
Court declared the case closed for sentencing. Its
ruling should be announced in the next few days.
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Hurricane Prices
February
24.11
HURRICANES were not big
news in Cuba during the 2010 season. It appears that
nature has been generous, after years of brutal
lashings. In 2011, however, we were surprised by an
event as costly as several hurricanes hitting the
country: the exorbitant increase in food prices
internationally, with statistical records already
being established.
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Not up for discussion
in El Paso
February
24.11
WHEN the U.S government’s
memory fails in El Paso, it could turn to one of its
former agents, such as Tony Veciana, who does recall
its crimes.
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Sustainable food
security: a necessity
February
17.11
THE recurring food crisis, which is currently at one
of its most serious points, is of concern to the
inhabitants of the planet and is becoming an issue
of great interest for the world media.
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BROTHER OF POSADA VICTIM TO ROS-LEHTINEN:
"You don’t even see the
terrorist within!"
February
10.11
IN a letter addressed to Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, known
for her support for notorious Cuban-American
terrorists, Livio di Celmo, brother of the Italian-Canadian
tourist killed in 1997 by a mercenary hired by Luis
Posada Carriles, accuses the U.S. Congresswoman of
being no less than an accessory to the crime.
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FROM THE FOREIGN
PRESS
Monarchies in the
21st century
February
10.11
ARE societies evolving?
What is social progress?
Gradually, throughout history, humanity has managed
the organization of societies in such a way that
power has been democratized. Doubtless, at a slow
pace, but without stopping. When and fundamentally
why the exercise of political power was left in the
hands of just one person is very difficult, if not
impossible to determine.
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Attack on computer of
key witness in Posada case
February
10.11
JOURNALIST Ann Louise Bardach, a key U.S.
prosecution witness in the trial of Luis Posada
Carriles in El Paso, Texas, stated that she has been
the victim of a cyber-attack, according to a note in
the Along the Malecón blog.
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FROM THE FOREIGN PRESS
The assassination of a
nation
January.21.11
THIS January, 50 years have
passed since one of the worst crimes of the Cold War:
the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, which not only
signified the death of the prime minister of a
democratically elected government, but also the end
of the possibility of the Congo developing as an
independent nation.
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Miami: billboard to the
Cuban Five taken down
January.21.11
FOR 24 hours an air of tolerance and
freedom of expression could be breathed in Miami.
But not for much longer. On January 11, exercising
its right to freedom of opinion, the Martí Alliance,
an organization of Cubans and Latin Americans ...
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Those now protecting
Posada also conspired against Kennedy
January.21.11
WHEN asked if those currently
protecting the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in
Miami belong to the same Cuban-American mafioso
family which conspired to assassinate Kennedy in the
1960s, Division General (ret.) Fabián Escalante Font,
for years head of Cuban State Security, affirmed, "It’s
the same mob."
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FROM HAITÍ
Woudline will not be
deceived
January.13.11
OUR ever-present Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara said,
"A people that cannot read or write is a people easy
to deceive."
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Posada to be
tried for immigration fraud, not terrorism
January.13.11
IN what may already be considered another farce, the
trial of the self-confessed terrorist Luis Posada
Carriles has begun in El Paso, Texas. The charges?
Perjury and naturalization fraud, not murder and
terrorism.
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Trial of terrorist
Chávez Abarca
Further evidence of
Posada’s guilt
January.13.11
THE Salvadorian terrorist Francisco Chávez Abarca
has acknowledged certain truths that we Cubans have
known for many years.
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