• The Albanian mafia
Outlaws of a new kind
May 31.12
SHADY figures are touring Europe in search of wealth. Their form of acquiring it has everyone perplexed. The items are other’s belongings which wind up in the hands of those who coveted them as much as their original owners, but could not have obtained them in any other way.

• Biofuels stealing food
May 31.12
The food crisis, aggravated by the use of corn and other grains in ethanol production, was one of the central issues discussed May 17-18 in the Mexican capital by deputy ministers of agriculture from the G-20 industrialized and emerging countries.

• THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION: SOMEONE KNEW IN ADVANCE
A coup d’état
May 24.12
ATTEMPTS to implicate Cuba in the Kennedy assassination continue, but in fact it was the consummation of a coup d’état plotted by CIA military chiefs and other U.S. ultra-conservatives.

• Washington Post reveals U.S. support for Syrian armed groups
May 17.12
DAMASCUS. May 16.—The U.S. and Gulf States are sending arms to irregular groups trying to overthrow the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, according to The Washington Post.

• The Kennedy assassination: somebody knew in advance
May 17.12
GEORGE H. W. Bush and Richard Nixon were in Dallas on the day of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, one year after the October Missile Crisis. However, they deny or fail to remember this fact.

• The third crisis of capitalism
May 17.12
THE system is a cat with seven lives left. During the last century, capitalism faced two monumental crises: the first at the outset of the 20th century, as imperialism was emerging, economic liberalism giving way to the monopolies’ concentration of capital.

• OBAMA’S LATIN AMERICAN POLICY
What’s changed? Who’s changed?
May 10.12
WHEN the presidents of Latin American countries first heard about Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008, they thought that perhaps U.S. policy toward the region might change.

• India’s rapid growth
May 10.12
INDIA attained its independence in 1947 in the midst of a chaotic economic and social situation, and after having been colonized by Britain for close to 200 years.

• Terrorist attack in South Florida condemned
May 10.12
Organizations of Cuban-Americans in Miami have strongly condemned the terrorist attack committed April 27, in Coral Gables, against Airline Brokers, a travel agency specializing in charter flights to Cuba, and called for an end to U.S. government restrictions on travel to the country.

• Washington Post advertisement demands freedom for the Cuban Five
May 4.12
Washington.— A full-page ad appeared April 30, in the Washington Post demanding the immediate release of the Five Cuban anti-terrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in the United States since 1998. Gerardo Hernández, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, Antonio Guerrero and René González, were arrested September 12 that year and subjected to a trial riddled with irregularities as a result of political motivations.

• Art Exhibition in Support of Cuban Five Opens at London Gallery
May 4.12
Beyond the Frame, an exhibition featuring contemporary Cuban art plus artworks by British and Irish artists with paintings and drawing by two of the Cuban Five, opened Monday April 23rd in the Gallery 27, Cork Street, London.

• Miami: Terrorists commemorate the anniversary of Orlando Bosch’s death with attack
May 3.12
As a result of the scandalous tolerance shown by U.S. authorities toward anti-Cuban terrorism, a bombing during the early morning hours of April 27 destroyed the offices of Airline Brokers in Coral Gables, Florida, one of eight companies with licenses to organize trips to Cuba.

• Washington on its own against Cuba
April 26.12
The government of the United States is finding itself increasingly alone in its efforts to isolate Cuba, hoping to overthrow the Revolution and eliminate all vestiges of the model of democracy and solidarity it represents to the rest of the world.

• 5 Days for the Cuban 5 in Washington D.C.
April 26.12
Brick by brick the mainstream media wall of silence surrounding the case of the Cuban Five is coming down. Alicia Jrapko, coordinator of the International Committee for the Release of the Cuban Five told Cubadebate: "We have managed to break through the mainstream media a bit. Univisión had impartial coverage for the first time."

• Stolen funds
April 23.12
The United States Treasury Department presented a report to Congress recently about frozen funds belonging to four countries (Iran, Sudan, Syria and Cuba) which the State Department had placed on their list of countries sponsoring international terrorism, as well as organizations and individuals who had been sanctioned by the U.S. government.

• Maximum security prison, turn left after "Hooters" Sign
April 16.12
April 12, 2012
Highway 15 connects California’s Inland Empire with Las Vegas – accounting for the relative thickness of Saturday morning traffic. So we don’t stare too long at signs advertising Gentleman’s Clubs – showing no gentlemen, but rather attractive young women.

• Coup feared as Greece veers toward economic collapse
April 11.12
In an interview published in the French newspaper Liberación, March 3, 81-year-old Michel Rocard, Prime Minster during François Miterrand’s administration, declared, "My conclusion is that the inequitable developments will lead to a civil war.

• The U.S. has confiscated more than $493 million in Cuban funds since 2010
April 11.12
The government of the United States has confiscated more than $493 million from Cuba since 2010, as part of the economic blockade imposed by Washington on the Caribbean nation.

• The U.S. has confiscated more than $493 million in Cuban funds since 2010
April 11.12
The government of the United States has confiscated more than $493 million from Cuba since 2010, as part of the economic blockade imposed by Washington on the Caribbean nation.

• Bahrain: the silenced revolt
April 4.12
WHO has heard anything concrete about the protests in Bahrain? Very few people, no doubt. Not because it is a small country, but because in the contemporary world, what doesn’t appear in the media virtually does not exist.

• Protesters in U.S. demand justice for Trayvon Martin and an end to racist laws
April 4.12
THOUSANDS of people of have joined marches in cities across the United States protesting racism, discrimination, state laws about the use of force and the lack of justice in the case of Trayvon Martin, a Black teenager killed in Sanford, Florida, according to Telesur.

• US-ISRAEL-IRAN
Impending war in the Middle East
March 22.12
THROUGHOUT the history of humanity no war has been so foretold as the military conflict looming in the explosive region of the Middle East in relation to Iran and its controversial civil nuclear program, which the West charges has military ends, without any concrete evidence.

• Who is isolated?
March 22.12
IT is well-known that the majority of U.S. citizens favor more friendly relations with Cuba, despite the venom they have been fed by the mass media for more than 50 years. Opinion polls consistently show this.

• Cracks in the capitalist system
March 22.12
NOT even where the capitalist system has achieved its highest levels of development has injustice been eliminated, according to the president of the Communist Party of Luxembourg (KPL), Ali Ruckert, in a conversation with Granma.

• Russia faces Western voracity
March 8.12
THE United States is having a little harder time in its umpteenth attempt to eliminate another government. Once again, Washington has made use of its political arsenal – in order to later deploy its military – in Syria, under the usual pretext of defending civil rights.

• 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN RUSSIA
Vladimir Putin elected as President
March 8.12
MOSCOW, March 5.— With 99.99% of the ballots counted, Vladimir Putin, the candidate of the current ruling party Russia United, garnered 63.6% of the votes; the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, won 17.18%, and independent candidate Mikhail Projorov, 7.98%, according to Russia’s Central Electoral Commission (CCE).

• Syria: heralding a change in the international strategic situation?
March 8.12
EVIDENTLY the Cold War ended in the final decade of the 20th century with the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the European socialist countries, but the U.S. plan of domination enshrined in the Project for the New American Century, drawn up by a group of neoconservative and Zionist strategists, remains in the minds of Washington politicians.

• Indignation and Wall Street
March 1,12
THE Occupy Wall Street movement has completed five months of sustained protest in the streets of the United States. And the indignados’ intention is to remain there.

• France: way to the Élysée marked by crisis
March 1,12
THE principal forces in France are involved in a tough fight for the presidency of the country, marked by social malaise produced by economic stagnation, growing public debt and the highest unemployment rate in 12 years.

• U.S. economic sanctions, principal obstacle to the country’s development
March 1,12
THE solidarity group Cuba Sí France recently interviewed Salim Lamrani, French journalist and academic, on the occasion of the publication of his book État de siège: economic sanctions against Cuba constitute the principal obstacle to the country’s development.

• Egypt after Mubarak
February 23,12
ON February 11, 2011, Egyptians made history. After 18 days of popular protest, President Hosni Mubarak ceded power. What has happened since? Was this a revolutionary triumph for the demonstrators in Tahrir Square?

• Vietnam’s challenges in the Year of the Dragon
February 16,12
THIS year is a crucial one for the Vietnamese people. Accompanied by the positive influence of the Dragon – the zodiac sign which rules 2012 in Vietnamese culture – the government is aspiring to advance in the projects of building socialism and national modernization.

• Luis Posada Carriles: new plots against Cuba
February 16,12
ACCORDING to reliable sources, terrorist Luis Posada Carriles is plotting new acts of violence against Cuba, and is doing so in a context of total compartmentalization and secrecy, with the support of a number of counterrevolutionary and criminal members of Miami's anti-Cuban mafia.

• Stevenson is fine
February 9,12
RECENTLY there has been speculation that Teófilo Stevenson (Las Tunas, 1952) is not well, that a liver problem had him on the ropes. Being, in fact, as headstrong as ever, he took it upon himself to deny the rumors. As the mythical heavyweight told this reporter at his home in Havana’s Náutico neighborhood, "Stevenson is fine."

• LONDON ON THE HORIZON
February 9,12
No one can deny that 2011 was a tremendous year for Cuban track and field athletes: Yarelis Barrios (for the second time) and Dayron Robles won Diamond League championships, pole vaulters Lázaro Borges and Yarisley Silva emerged on the elite level, while javelin thrower Guillermo Martínez, Yipsi Moreno with the hammer and triple jumper Alexis Copello continued to demonstrate their success.

• 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CARIBBEAN CRISIS
The 'incompatible' island
February 9,12
ON January 31, 1962 – 50 years ago – an event which had been brewing for nine months was finally consummated. It would later be known as "the only moment in history when the world was on the brink of nuclear war."

• The Tibet of yesterday and today
February 9,12
TIBET, a country located in southeast China, is a plateau surrounded by the highest mountain ranges in the world. Rich in water and forestry resources and with a varied fauna, it possesses exquisite landscapes which attract thousands of tourists every year.

• Syria
Syrian independence in the balance
February 9,12
THE orchestrated attack on Syria is being relentlessly pursued. Mounted by the U.S. government in conjunction with its European allies, particularly neo-colonialists Sarkosy and Cameron, it is backed by corporate media demonization of the government of President Bashar Al-Assad and the false presentation of an opposition fighting for democratic freedoms.

• Spain behind bars
February 2,12
THE number of prisoners in Spain has dramatically increased during the last 10 years and currently stands at more than 77,000, thus placing this nation among European Union countries with the highest rate of inmates per total population.

• "We want our right to independence to be respected"
February 2,12
MORE than 37 years have passed since Morocco invaded Western Sahara. Its colonization continues in spite of negotiations and United Nations resolutions. In a climate of international and regional tensions in North Africa, the Polisario Front held its 8th Congress last December. Malainine Etkana, SADR ambassador to Cuba, gave an interview to Granma about his people’s conflict

• PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI CONFLICT
Israel seeks to erase Palestinian identity
26.Enero.12
THE Israeli government does not want peace with Palestine. Its plans are distinct, to de-Arabize the region, a strategy which has taken various forms.

• Guantánamo is and will continue to be Cuban territory
26.Enero.12
WITH justified anger, millions of people throughout the world are demanding the closure of the detention center operated by the United States on the military base it illegally occupies in Cuban territory. But this demand overlooks another equally reprehensible crime committed by the same offender.

• Tensions heighten
UK increasing military presence around the Malvinas
20.Enero.12
LONDON, January 19.—The British government has approved a contingency plan to increase its troops in the vicinity of the Malvinas, which will heighten the sovereignty conflict over the Islands, usurped by the UK in 1833.

• The U.S. economic war on Iran
19.Enero.12
NEW YORK - Here's a crash course on how to further wreck the global economy.
A key amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act signed by United States President Barack Obama on the last day of 2011 - when no one was paying attention - imposes sanctions on any countries or companies that buy Iranian oil and pay for it through Iran's central bank. Starting this summer, anybody who does so is prevented from doing business with the U.S.

• Obama, close Guantánamo naval base!
19.Enero.12
WASHINGTON.— Hundreds of civil rights protesters, some of them dressed in orange prison jumpsuits and their heads covered with black hoods, resembling prisoners in the illegal Guantánamo Naval Base detention camp, formed a human chain outside the White House to mark the 10th anniversary of the U.S. prison on the base.

• Notes from a Guantánamo survivor (*)
19.Enero.12
I left Guantánamo Bay in a very similar way to my arrival five years earlier, hands manacled to the waist, from the waist to my ankles, and ankles to a bolt in the floor of the airplane.

• Russia accuses U.S. of violating international law
January 16,12
MOSCOW, January 15.—"The situation in the Guantánamo detention center is a serious violation of international norms and rights," states the Russian Foreign Ministry in a report published on its official website.

• Venezuelan consul in Miami expelled
January 12,12
THEY didn’t even take the trouble to hide it. The Department of State decision to expel Livia Acosta, the Venezuelan consul in Miami, was announced by Roger Noriega, a former official of the Reagan and Bush administrations, who masterminded the montage of false information and the media campaign resulting in to this incident.

• Illegal Guantánamo naval base prison: 10 years in existence
January 12,12
WASHINGTON, January 9.—The U.S. prison facility on the illegally occupied Guantánamo naval base has been in existence 10 years this January 11, in spite of the commitment to close it made by President Obama at the beginning of his term.

• Indefinite detention of terrorism suspects in U.S.
January 5.12
WASHINGTON.—The recently signed National Defense Authorization Act for the 2012 fiscal year (NDAA) has generated fierce criticism among political analysts, given that one of its paragraphs permits the indefinite detention of terrorism suspects.

• China rejects unilateral sanctions against Iran
January 5.12
BEIJING, January 4.—The Chinese government today rejected the imposition of unilateral sanctions on Iran and confirmed that its relations with Tehran in the economic, commercial and energy sectors are "normal, transparent and open," according to news agencies.

• U.S. has spent more than 200 million dollars to subvert Cuba's government
January 5.12
THE U.S. Department of State has spent $200,826,000 on programs directed against Cuba since 1997, according to Just the Facts, a civic organization which tracks government spending on defense and security in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• U.S. advisor calls for elimination of subversive efforts in Cuba
January 5.12
FAILED projects undertaken by the U.S. to promote subversion in Cuba have a problematic history. They have been characterized by embezzlement and poor management, are highly politicized, and should be eliminated, according to Fulton Armstrong, advisor to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

• Marthe Voisin, great friend of Cuba, dies in France
January 5.12
PARIS.— AT the age of 105, Marthe Rosine Voisin has died in France. This great friend of Cuba was the widow of eminent scientist André Voisin and visited Cuba on a number of occasions.

• The United States vs the world
December 29.11
THERE was a time when the U.S. had lots of friends, or at least relatively obedient followers. These days, it appears that it has only adversaries, of all political stripes. Moreover, things don’t appear to be going very well with these adversaries.

• Putin: the world is tired of the U.S. dictatorship
December 22.11
PRIME Minister Vladimir Putin has affirmed that the world is tired of the dictatorship of the United States, a country only interested in having vassals instead of allies.

• Self-proclaimed pacifist and democrat who spent 40 years planting bombs
December 15.11
ONCE again Ramoncito and his Democracy Movement have appeared on the scene, orchestrating a new provocation against Cuba. This man has spent 40 years planting bombs and engaging in violent attacks with total impunity.

• More about terrorist Ramón Saúl Sánchez Rizo
December 15.11
WHEN I met Ramón Saúl Sánchez, in early 1995, he was gaining notoriety in Miami political circles through a somewhat peculiar variant of pacifism, born of particular, inexplicable circumstances.

• U.S. Congress considering new anti-Cuba bill
December 14.11
WASHINGTON, December 13.— The U.S. Congress is discussing a bill which, if approved, will once again further restrict travel to Cuba by U.S. and Cuban-born citizens, as well as the sending of remittances to the island.

• Syria: another misconception
December 14.11
SYRIA, the heart of the Middle East, in both a geostrategic and nationalist context. It shares borders with Iraq, Lebanon (where it has bases), Israel, Turkey and Iran, with which last country it has a strong alliance, recently confirmed by Iranian President Ahmadinejad in the context of the current heightened European and U.S. aggression against Syria, when he stated that Iran will not permit any foreign injustice there.

• Durban: final opportunity
December 1.11
THE 17th UN Climate Change Conference (Conference of the Parties / COP), which opened on November 28 and ends December 9 in Durban, South Africa, inevitably faces a number of questions and challenges.

• American style killing machines
December 1.11
WITH the drone bombing attacks the United States government is carrying out in tribal regions of Pakistan, it's hard to know what to believe. An article in the Wall Street Journal summarizes the situation this way, "Combatants of terrorist groups are fired upon, but their identity is not always known."

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