*Say WHAT? You’re Cuba, yet you don’t know what to do with your dissidents? Does Fidel have senile amnesia? Hint: you arrest them and all their friends! Their friends used to be hard to find, but now you just bust whoever follows ‘em on Twitter. Have you learned nothing from Iran?
Posts Tagged ‘Cuba’
Posada indicted on new charges
An anti-Castro Cuban militant was accused Wednesday in a federal indictment of lying about his involvement in a series of 1997 bombings that targeted tourist spots in Cuba.
Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative and U.S. Army soldier, was indicted on 11 counts, including perjury and obstruction of a federal proceeding.
Among other things, Posada has [...]
Something big is up in Havana
From Havana Note, who is friendly towards Cuba.
What has happened is that Raul Castro, now President of Cuba, has sacked his brother’s closest followers and advisers in government.
Both Vice President Carlos Lage and Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque have been given pink slips. These were Fidel’s most obvious heir apparents and his chief ideological spear [...]
Russia interested in Cuban oil
Russian oil companies are expressing an interest in tapping Cuba’s offshore oil potential ahead of an official state visit by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
Brazil may get the contracts to drill the deep water wells while US firms can do nothing.
If major oil is found offshore Cuba, I bet the embargo gets lifted immediately. Not that [...]
Cuba and the EU restore ties
This will make next week’s vote at the U.N. General Assembly, condemning the U.S. policy of embargo and the extraterritorial sanctions embodied in the Helms-Burton Act, even more lonely for the United States. It is quite a prominent dismissal of American interests, something the Europeans do only with considerable deliberation and cause.
Perhaps they assume President [...]
End the Cuba embargo now
Lawrence Wilkerson, retired Army Colonel and past aide & adviser to Colin Powell, on why Cuba embargo needs to end now.
Let’s chalk up the losses of late in Latin America:
We’re being tossed out of Venezuela.
We’re being tossed out of Bolivia.
We’re despised in Argentina.
Nicaragua looks favorably on Russia’s move into Georgia.
Honduras and Guatemala hold their noses [...]
Washington and Havana: Co-dependent on the embargo
The Havana Note is a DC-based blog whose contributors include Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, a former aide to Colin Powell. They favor “engagement with Cuba” and, I assume, ending the embargo. They can be quite Cuba-friendly.
But they do think there’s co-dependent behavior going on, what with the “continued dysfunction of Washington’s dependence on the Embargo as [...]
The Castropedia: Fidel’s Cuba in facts and figures
From The Independent comes a fascinating assortment of information about Cuba.
Quote attributed to Castro: “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.”
Size of the original rebel army led by Castro and including Che Guevara that sailed to Cuba in 1956, eventually toppling President Batista on 1 January 1959: 82
Most [...]
Next president. New policy on Cuba needed
Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief-of-staff to Colin Powell, on why the US badly needs a new policy towards Latin America and Cuba.
Whoever is the new president in January 2009, two things need to happen with regard to Latin America and Cuba. First, Cuba, never on the front burner, needs at least to be put on the [...]
Cuba returning U.S. fugitives
Cuba has sent three fugitives back to the US for prosecution.
Now that Raul Castro is in charge, and in what is viewed as a new indicator of cooperation with U.S. law enforcement, Cuba has been handing over wanted Americans.
However, Cuba has not turned over Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur or rogue financier Robert Vesco.
Cuba health care
From a PSL review of Sicko, on Michael Moore taking 9/11 rescue workers to Cuba after they were repeatedly denied treatment in the US.
Reggie Cervantes, who has suffered from a pulmonary condition since 9/11, purchases the same medicine for five cents that would cost $120 here.
The right wing has been quick to call the Cuba [...]
Pastors for Peace
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A Pastors for Peace US-Cuba Friendship bus caravan came to Hartford CT on Tuesday. This is their 18th caravan and they will be bringing literally tons of medicine and other needed supplies to Cuba in defiance of the embargo.
Father Luis Barrios spoke of the game played at the US / Mexico [...]
The Power of Community. How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba lost over half its oil imports. They reorganized, went full-tilt green, and has survived surprisingly well. What Cuba did could become a model for the future, because not only is oil running out, the use of it contributes to global warming.
Cuba transitioned from large scale farming, with [...]
Fidel Castro in “serious and deteriorating condition”
Three operations have failed. His death, it appears, could be near.
