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27Sep

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Cuba, USA

Cuba-U.S. Relations

NOVANEWS A review of "Cuba-U.S. Relations-Obama and Beyond" by Arnold August By Nino Pagliccia Global Research A new book by Canadian journalist and political scientist, Arnold August, has recently been published by Fernwood Publishing (2017) titled “Cuba-U.S. Relations-Obama and Beyond.” The book has a well-written Foreword by eminent Canadian scholar Keith Ellis (“Arnold August brings to the task his finest gift, his superbly developed talent as a journalist.”). Ricardo Alarcon, former permanent representative of Cuba to the United Nations, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Deputy and President at the National Assembly of People’s Power, wrote the Introduction to the book where in his last sentence he writes that Che Guevara’s warning, “never trust imperialism, not one...

18Aug

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Cuba, Venezuela

Nicolas Maduro Pays Homage to Fidel in Visit to Cuba

NOVANEWS Cuban President Raul Castro Ruiz walked with the Bolivarian administrator, touring the Santa Ifigenia’s expansive grounds. | Photo: Efe Maduro arrived just days after the renowned leader would have celebrated his 91st birthday. The birth of the late, revolutionary leader Fidel Castro was commemorated Tuesday in a ceremony lead by Cuban President Raul Castro Ruiz and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Santa Ifigenia cemetery in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba. RELATED: Venezuela Can Give US 'Free and Fair Elections' Lessons! Maduro arrived just days after the renowned leader would have celebrated his 91st birthday. With flowers adorning the mausoleum, the event began with a ceremonial change of the honor guard, then with the procession...

2Aug

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Cuba, Ukraine

Cuba Has Treated Over 26,000 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Victims

NOVANEWS teleSUR Since 1990, Cuban medics have treated over 26,000 victims of the 1986 nuclear disaster in Chernobyl, Ukraine, scientific network Scielo reported in a recent study. The areas of treatment, according to Scielo, were primarily focused on dermatology, endocrinology and gastroenterology. The report detailed that 84 percent of the total number of patients treated were children from Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. The majority of people were treated in 1991, when Cuban medics attended to 1,415 patients. Over 1,000 children received medical treatment annually from 1990 to 1995. With its main treatment area located on Tarara beach, east of Havana, the main objective of the program was to provide comfortable lodging facilities and an overall healthy environment, where patients co...

22Jul

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Africa, Cuba

Inclusive development and responsible leadership are Fidel Castro’s legacy to Africa

NOVANEWS Paresh Soni Betrayal of the liberation struggle by post-independent regimes and elites in many African countries is the reason I am making a clarion call to civil society, in particular my contemporaries, the youth, and the electorate to reconceptualise their thoughts about state governance and leadership. Corruption, cronyism, looting of the national purse, state capture and service delivery strikes are a stark reminder of this reality. It was Benjamin Disraeli who said: "The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example”. Fidel Castro’s legacy to the world mirrors this quotation accurately. The death of Fidel Castro, a global iconic leader, should exhort us to think strategically about transformatory leadership for ...

29Jun

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Africa, Cuba

Namibia conference affirms Africa-Cuba solidarity

NOVANEWS Legacy of cooperation against colonialism and imperialism continues Abayomi Azikiwe The Fifth Continental African Conference of Solidarity with Cuba was convened June 6-8. It brought together over 200 delegates from 26 African states under the theme of “Intensifying Solidarity and Continuing the Legacy of Fidel and Che.” Close bonds between the people of the African continent and the Caribbean island-nation of Cuba have been centuries in the making. Africans caught in the Atlantic Slave Trade were taken to Cuba where their presence made an indelible mark on the character of the political, economic and cultural fabric of the country. Since the 1960s, in the early aftermath of the 1959 seizure of power by revolutionary forces led by Fidel Castro, Che Guevar...

27Jun

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Cuba, USA

World Peace Councils Slams US Interventionism in Cuba

NOVANEWS A mural in Cuba. | Photo: Reuters Trump’s policies denounced as “unfounded and hypocritical accusations against Cuban democracy.” The World Peace Council (WPC) has strongly rejected the U.S. President Donald Trump’s rollback of normalizing relations with Cuba. RELATED: ‘Doomed to Fail’: Cuba Responds to Trump’s Policy Reversal In a statement published on Monday, the WPC called interventionist actions by the United States as “attempts to frustrate the progress of the Cuban Revolution and isolate the nation through a criminal blockade imposed for over five decades.” They also slammed the reasoning behind the rollback as “typical of a failed and outdated policy, of unfounded and hypocritical accusations against Cuban democracy.” Follow Embajad...

27Jun

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Cuba, USA

US Actor Danny Glover Blasts Trump’s ‘Obsolete’ Anti-Cuba Policies

NOVANEWS Danny Glover speaking at a rally in support of the "Cuban 5". | Photo: EFE Glover has been an outspoken supporter of the Cuban Revolution as well as other progressive governments in Latin American. U.S. actor Danny Glover has backed the statement from the Union of Cuban Writers and Artists (UNEAC) against U.S. President Donald Trump’s rollback of normalizing relations with Cuba. RELATED: Russia Affirms Solidarity with Cuba, Laments US ‘Cold War’ Rhetoric The Cuban organization sent its message to writers, artists and academics earlier this month, with the document having been signed by more than 800 people from 35 countries thus far. The organization denounced Trump’s policies, as well as his speech that announced the changes as “antiquated, obsolete...

24Jun

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Cuba

Trump Turns Back the Clock With Cold War Cuba U-Turn

NOVANEWS By Ron Paul Nostalgia seems to be very popular in Washington. While the neocons and Democratic Party hard-liners have succeeded in bringing back the Cold War with Russia, it looks like President Trump is determined to take us back to a replay of the Bay of Pigs! In Miami on Friday, the president announced that he was slamming the door on one of President Obama’s few foreign policy successes: easing 50 years of US sanctions on Cuba. The nostalgia was so strong at Trump’s Friday speech that he even announced participants in the CIA’s disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in the audience! President Trump said Friday that his new policy would be nothing short of “regime change” for Cuba. No easing of US sanctions on Cuba, he said, “until all political prisoners are freed, f...

24May

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Cuba, USA

The Most Dangerous Spy You’ve Never Heard Of: Ana Belén Montes

NOVANEWS By Susan Babbitt | CounterPunch Ana Belén Montes gave classified information to Cuba for 17 years before her arrest in 2001 for espionage. Pleading guilty, she avoided conviction for treason, which carries the death sentence. She is called “the most dangerous spy you’ve never heard of.”[i] She deserves to be known now. Her story shows the personal cost of some truths. I don’t mean the suffering endured in prison, a predictable result of breaking US law. I mean the cost of believing, as US citizen and government employee, truths about US state terror, supported by evidence. The truths are well-known, or at least readily available. But they’re not easily believed, even when known to be true. By the time Montes began spying for the Cubans, the US had been carrying out a ruthless ...

17Mar

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Cuba

Most Important Battle Is Beating Demoralization

NOVANEWS By: teleSUR Cuban Minister of Culture Abel Prieto Jimenez. | Photo: Reuters A conversation with the Cuban minister of culture reminds us, "The battle of consciousness and ideas must be won." The great battle underway today on a global level is taking place in the minds of each and every one of us, rather than in specific physical locations. Revolutionaries, warriors of ideas, are not lacking; but the forces are dispersed in the face of a powerful, compact bloc of mass media which looks to turn human beings into captives of their emotions, disconnected from their ability to think. ANALYSIS: 3 Tactics Mainstream Media Uses to Attack Hugo Chavez's Legacy It is no coincidence that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called for a communication revolution in...