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3Dec

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Cuba

Castro and Silvio Rodriguez: A Revolutionary Friendship

NOVANEWS Silvio Rodriguez and Fidel Castro | Photo: Secunda Cita On his 70th birthday, teleSUR compiles some of the folk singer's iconic hits dedicated to the Cuban Revolution. Famed Cuban folk singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez, who turns 70 today, has paid tribute to late revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, calling him “one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time." IN DEPTH: Fidel: A Revolutionary Life “Eternal glory to Fidel. My deep condolences to his relatives, to the people of Cuba, to the world and to the whole universe for the loss of one of the most extraordinary human beings of all time,” said Rodriguez in a blog post upon hearing of Fidel's death. The prolific musician, who has released more than 20 albums, never denied support for Fidel and ...

3Dec

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Cuba, North Korea

North Korea Pays Tribute to Anti-Imperialist Friend Fidel

NOVANEWS North Korean flags fly at half-mast Monday, mourning the death of Fidel Castro. Photo: AFP Both countries joined forces against U.S. imperialism and anti-communist attacks. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is observing a three-day mourning to honor late Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, who died on Friday at 90 years old. GALLERY: Havana Says Goodbye to Fidel Fidel "made distinguished contributions to accomplishing the cause of independence against imperialism," DPRK leader Kim Jong-Un said in a message posted by the country's official news agency. He "established the socialist system where the people became the genuine masters for the first time in the Western Hemisphere." Authorities kept flags at half mast as a tribute to the leader,...

1Dec

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Cuba

The Dangerous Bias of the “Unbiased” About Fidel’s Cuba

NOVANEWS By Prof Susan Babbitt Global Research When I wrote an article on Cuba’s philosophical traditions, a left-wing friend, also a friend of Cuba, said I should acknowledge and address Cuba’s alleged human rights violations. Unless I did that I was presenting Fidel Castro as a “Messianic figure”. I am not being objective. Ideas are Cuba’s best gift to the world. Fidel Castro expressed them, in deed, speech and theory. If I write about something Canada does well, should I discuss the residential school programs, or the suicide epidemic among youth (even in rich southern Ontario). These matter deeply to the country’s self-conception. Yet no one will accuse me of bias if I leave them out writing about philosophy in Canada. In the case of Cuba, any positive reference, no ma...

1Dec

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Cuba, Palestine Affairs

Fidel Castro: More Than a Friend of Palestine, Much More

NOVANEWS By Telesur Under the leadership of Comandante Fidel Castro and his comrades, Cuba has played an outsized role in supporting revolutionary and progressive movements around the world, far greater than might be expected from a relatively small country. Some of Revolutionary Cuba’s actions are well-known, such as the its role in defeating the CIA/South African attempt to conquer Angola in the 1970s and 80s. The decisive Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was not only a victory for the Angolan people, it was also a key factor in the downfall of the apartheid regime in South Africa itself. Cuba’s solidarity with numerous movements in Latin America is widely documented. Less known, is the long history of Cuba’s solidarity with the Palestinian and other struggles in the Middle East and North A...

1Dec

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Fifty Truths about Fidel Castro

NOVANEWS By Salim Lamrani Global Research The historic leader of the Cuban Revolution has forever marked the history of Cuba and Latin America, making his country a symbol of dignity and resistance. 1. Fidel Castro was born into a family of seven children on August 13, 1926, at Birán in the current province of Holguín, from a union between Angel Castro Argiz, a wealthy Spanish landowner from Galicia and Cuban born Lina Ruz González. 2. At the age of seven, he was sent to the city of Santiago de Cuba where lived with the teacher who was to be responsible for his education. She nonetheless abandoned him to his fate. “She deceived my family”, and “I have known hunger”, Fidel Castro recalled. A year later, in January 1935, he entered the religious school, Hermanos de La Salle, as...

30Nov

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Cuba

No Pasaran, Comandante Fidel!

NOVANEWS By Andre Vltchek Global Research Many years ago, Fidel declared: “Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.” It did; destiny shaped them all, los Barbudos, and threw them right into the center of the whirlpool of world history. As they fought for the freedom of Cuba, of Latin America and the entire oppressed world, they actually managed to defy their own words: in the end they irreversibly shaped the fate of our Planet, of the entire humanity. Fidel stood firmly at the forefront of the struggle, from the very outset to his last breath. As always, when the giants get reunited with mother Earth, the entire world shook and the ground trembled on all continents. For several moments, everything stopped, got frozen. I was driving through Central Vie...

30Nov

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Fidel Castro’s Legacy: The Power of Ideas. Living in Solidarity

NOVANEWS By Prof Susan Babbitt Global Research There’s a famous anecdote about the voyage of the Granma, the tiny vessel that left Mexico sixty years before the day that Fidel Castro died this week. As the boat was nearing its destination in the east of Cuba, after two years of preparation, a man fell overboard. Possibly wrecking the entire mission, Fidel Castro refused to leave. The overloaded yacht went round and round in the dark until the man was finally spotted and rescued. It’s more than a story. It exemplifies a philosophical conception of human beings, and our value, that goes back hundreds of years in Cuba and millennia elsewhere. It is not the view most of us live by, in the North at least. While European philosophers were pushing liberalism, giving centrality to the...

30Nov

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Fidel Castro’s Revolutionary Spirit Inspires the World to Pursue Equity and Justice

NOVANEWS By Zhong Sheng Global Research Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro passed away on November 25. People from around the world offered condolences for his loss, paying tribute to his legendary life and immortal spirit. Over the past half century, Castro has been regarded as a symbol that represented the pursuit of justice. “He has devoted all his life to the Cuban people’s great cause of struggling for national liberation, safeguarding state sovereignty and building socialism,” Chinese President Xi Jinping said in his message of condolence to his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro. “He has made immortal historic contributions to the Cuban people and to the world socialism development,” Xi added. Calling Castro “a great figure of our times,” he said that Comrade Castro wil...

27Nov

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Cuba, Lebanon

Hezbollah Offers Condolences to Cuban Leadership, People over Castro Death

NOVANEWS Cuban revolutionary icon Fidel Castro Head of Hezbollah International Relations Department Sayyed Ammar Al-Moussawi phoned, on behalf of the party, the Cuban embassy in Beirut to offer condolences over the death of the major leader Fidel Castro. Stressing that Castro has been always the minaret of the rebels across the world. Al-Moussawi expressed his full trust that the revolutionary leadership in Cuba will continue following the path of the late leader Castro. Source: Al-Manar Website

27Nov

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Cuba, USA

How FIDEL CASTRO Was Almost Overthrown by the Return of Jesus

NOVANEWS Whatever we may or may not think about Fidel Castro and his long era in Cuba (all of which is difficult, complex and debatable), it has to be said that there is something poetically pleasing about the fact that he survived some 634assassination attempts, outlasted nine US Presidents and became the third longest- serving head of state in the world. Only Queen Elizabeth II and the King of Thailand have lasted longer than Castro as head of state. Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, who was a friend and ally of Castro’s and also somewhat a student of Castro’s early accomplishments, managed to last over forty years himself: but though Gaddafi too was subject to assassination attempts by the CIA and others, it wasn’t nearly as many as Castro. Most of these assassination plots originated with the...