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11Mar

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Cuba, USA

Trump Spokesperson: ‘Cuba Hasn’t Made Any Concessions’

NOVANEWS By Telesur The Trump administration has made it clear it will be reviewing all agreements with Cuba. U.S. President Donald Trump believes that Cuba, “with all the things it has been given,” has not made any “concessions” within the process of normalization of bilateral relations, according to Trump’s adviser Helen Aguirre Ferre in an interview with EFE Wednesday. “President (Trump) has been very clear about the fact that all the agreements reached during the previous administration with Cuba will be re-assessed,” said Ferre, the White House director of media affairs. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had already warned during his confirmation hearing that “there will be a comprehensive review of current policies and (Obama’s) executive orders regarding Cuba to ...

24Feb

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Castro: Political Power and the New Culture of Communication

NOVANEWS By Arnold August Global Research Among his many other achievements, Fidel’s accomplishments as the constructor of the new Cuban society include: overthrowing capitalism in favour of socialism and its related principles of equality and solidarity; defeating U.S. neo-colonialist domination to attain sovereignty, independence and dignity; upholding human rights in the areas of health, education, culture and sport; respecting racial equality, gender equality, food and housing for all; and defending freedom of speech and the press, the latter being one of the domains in which Fidel’s example still has much to teach us, and creating a civilized social/political atmosphere without violence. The basis of these exploits, which did not exist before 1959, is the political powe...

19Feb

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Cuba Honors Literary Legend Gabriel Garcia Marquez with Statue

NOVANEWS Gabriel Garcia Marquez Statue in Havana, Cuba at the International Book Fair. | Photo: Reuters The Colombian Nobel prize winner in Literature will be remembered in Cuba, one of his favorite destinations. A statue to honor Colombian writer and Literature Nobel prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez will be unveiled in Havana, Cuba on Thursday to remember his literary work and legacy for Latin American writers. RELATED: How Fidel and Gabriel Garcia Marquez Changed Cinema Forever Cuban artist Jose Villa Soberon was commissioned to make the sculpture to be placed in the Museum of the Caribbean in Barranquilla. The current Colombian ambassador to Cuba, Gustavo Bell, insisted on also installing a copy in Havana, a city visited many times by the author. Villa Sobero...

24Jan

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Cuba, Syria, USA

US-led coalition air raids breach Syria sovereignty

NOVANEWS Press TV Cuba has denounced US-led coalition airstrikes in Syria, saying they violate the Arab country’s sovereignty as they are not permitted by Damascus. Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Humberto Rivero made the criticism during a UN Security Council meeting in New York on Wednesday. “We demand the cessation of the violations of Syrian sovereignty and the foreign military presence without the consent and the coordination of operations with the Syrian government, the only legitimately elected authority in the country,” Rivero said. He further condemned the “politicization” of the crisis in Syria and “the tampering of the humanitarian crisis and the suffering” of people in the Middle Eastern country. Those who are “supplying weapons, money and patronage to terrorist gr...

21Jan

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Cuban “Left” Opposition and Annexationists: Two Wings of the Same Eagle

NOVANEWS By Arnold August In my previous article, titled “The End of Ideology in Cuba?,” I created a fair amount of controversy in stating, “I have always maintained that the most dangerous opposition to the Cuban Revolution comes from the so-called left, and not from the openly right Plattists, or annexationists.” The majority of readers praised the article; many others participated in the serious debate; and only a couple very strongly objected to it, mainly singling out that particular sentence. Thus, let us deconstruct the perception. It mentions the “openly right Plattists, or annexationists.” This means that there exists in Cuba both the openly pro-U.S. opposition and the hidden annexationists. The latter comprises these so-called “leftists.” Their narratives are carefully...

17Jan

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Cuba and US Hold Cold War Compensation Meetings

NOVANEWS A man rides a homemade bike with an advertising banner in Havana, Cuba, July 13, 2016. | Photo: Reuters Cuba has said that the blockade has cost the island nation US$125.9 billion. Representatives of Cuba and the United States held a meeting Thursday to discuss mutual economic compensation over assets lost as a result of Washington's decades-long blockade and the Cuban Revolution, an ongoing thorny issue since both nations restored diplomatic relations in July 2015. RELATED: Why the US Immigration Policy Toward Cuba Had to Go Washington seeks compensation for its assets seized during the Cuban revolution while Havana expects to receive something in return for the damage caused by the U.S. economic blockade on the island, which is still in force after more th...

17Jan

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The Cuban Revolution Will Never Be Destroyed

NOVANEWS Fidel Castro, former president and leader of the Cuban revolution, died in November at age 90. | Photo: Reuters. "There is no alternative, nor a historical need to change systems, I do not think anything of what the enemies of Castroism are hoping for." Fidel Castro’s legacy and the power of the Cuban Revolution will live on, prominent Russian historian Nikolai Sergeyevich Leonov — who once served as Fidel Castro's interpreter during the late Cuban revolutionary's visit to the Soviet Union in 1963 — told EFE in a recent interview. OPINION: The World Must Learn From Cuba Leonov, who wrote a book on Raul Castro’s personal life, recalled that "Cuba never reduced the importance of education, science and technology, even in the special period." "Fidel did not close off a single...

10Jan

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The End of Ideology in Cuba?

NOVANEWS By Arnold August Global Research In 1960, the American sociologist and academic Daniel Bell (1919–2011) published The End of Ideology. It became a classic book in official political science. The publication was listed by Times Literary Supplement as one of the 100 most influential non-fiction books in the second half of the 20th century. While there were other “end of ideologies” in the 1950s and early 1960s, Bell’s is considered the most authoritative. The many varieties that emerged from this school of thought have a common denominator. While not oversimplifying this important trend, for the purposes of this article one can say that it surfaced out of the perceived failures of both socialism in the former U.S.S.R. and capitalism in the West. It was born out of oppos...

3Jan

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The World Must Learn From Cuba

NOVANEWS By: Joe Emersberger "Cuba’s achievements expose the very limited, and often deplorable, nature of capitalist democracy. On the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, why has the small Caribbean nation outperformed many capitalist democracies in key ways despite fifty years of attack? According to UNICEF’s most recent statistics (updated to 2015), Cuba, for almost two decades, has had a lower child mortality rate than the United States. That’s an astounding human rights achievement – especially when you consider that Cuba has been under merciless assault by the United States for over fifty years - an assault that has included major acts of terrorism (like blowing up a factory and killing hundreds of workers in the middle of the Cuban missile crisis) not simply economic strangul...

3Jan

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Cuba Marks 60 Years Since Late Fidel Castro Sparked Revolution

NOVANEWS An image of late Cuban President Fidel Castro hangs on a building as a replica of the Granma yacht passes by during a march in Havana, Jan. 2, 2017. | Photo: Reuters. On Jan. 1, 1959, Fidel Castro and his troops claimed victory for the Cuban Revolution after the fall of the Batista dictatorship. Cuba celebrated 60 years Monday since the launch of its revolution in 1956, the first anniversary without late former president and revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, with a military parade and march of hundreds of thousands of citizens in Havana’s iconic Revolution Square. ANALYSIS: After Fidel, What to Watch Out For in Cuba in 2017 The Cuban military, workers, students, children and youth joined in the events, one day after the country commemorated the anniversary ...