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27Nov

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Castro: Stood in the face of Washington fifty years

NOVANEWS Stood in the face of Washington fifty years .. and President al - Assad senta telegram offering condolences leader Fidel Castro ... .. goodbye At the age of 90 years, left the Cuban leader Fidel Alejandro Castro, an ally of Syria, which prompted the positions of the United States to the inclusion of his country on the «black list» for decades, along with Syria, North Korea, Iran and Libya, to find Washington itself forced later to re-normalize its relations with Cuba, which has withstood in the face of the economic blockade and diplomatic isolation for more than half a century. President Bashar al-Assad at the forefront of mourners the death of the leader and sent a telegram to the President of the Republic of Cuba Raul Castro Ruz condolences for the death of his brother, the ...

26Nov

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Myriad ways CIA tried and failed to assassinate Fidel Castro

NOVANEWS Fidel Castro The father of the Cuban Revolution remains unbeaten by his foes even in death. We look over the most dramatic assassination plots on El Comandante – from character-assassinations by way of LSD, to Italian mobsters, tuberculosis wetsuit, and exploding cigar. “If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal,” Castro is famously quoted as saying. Cuba’s ex-intelligence chief Fabian Escalante – the person tasked with guarding Fidel’s life – puts the number of attempts at 638. The man also claimed to Reuters in a 2010 interview that the John F. Kennedy assassination could well have been an attempt to expedite the process of removing Castro from power: the American president, some said, was not doing enough. Of course, by the ...

26Nov

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Fidel Castro, Cuba’s longtime leader, dies at 90

NOVANEWS Fidel Castro © Desmond Boylan / Reuters After years of dealing with failing health, Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban revolution who steered the country through decades of a US economic blockade, has died, state media report. Trends Fidel Castro Castro died in Havana on Friday at 10:29pm local time, Cuban television said. His death was announced by his brother Raul, who took the reins after Fidel stepped down. “According to the will expressed by comrade Fidel, his body will be cremated", Raul said. Castro led the country from 1959 to 2006, when an intestinal condition nearly led to his death. He ceded power to his brother first provisionally, and then formally in 2008. In his last years, he mostly stayed out of the public eye, only occasionally providing comme...

26Nov

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FIDEL CASTRO-IN ENGLISH

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem, Sr FIDEL CASTRO By: Teresinka Pereira is this the last poem, the last memory, homage, hope to go to embrace you there were the palm trees waving in the wind call to social equality with love and justice? Commander Fidel Castro, for a long time the capitalist vultures announce your death and their howls of beasts of bad augury leave me with biternness in my mouth and petrify me with so much sadness! I can't say good-by: with passing years history will redeem you while we prepare ourselves to follow your commands until it's our time to return like you to the land of all where we can rest.

26Nov

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Obama: End The Embargo on Cuba Before Trump Presidency

NOVANEWS By Ollie Hopkins Morning Star THE election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States, where he will be in office alongside Republican Party majorities in both houses of Congress, raises new threats to Cuba. The Obama administration has not gone far enough with its Cuba policies: the blockade is still in place, Guantanamo Bay is still illegally occupied and US interference in Cuba continues. Nevertheless, the limited progress that has taken place, including the re-establishment of diplomatic relations, has been a welcome move in the right direction. This progress is now under serious threat from a Trump administration. This week Trump appointed the pro-blockade lobbyist Mauricio Claver-Carone to his transition team, which may give an insight into a chan...

26Nov

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Iran’s president condoles death of Cuba’s revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro

NOVANEWS In this handout picture released by Estudios Revolucion, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani (L) is received by former Cuban president Fidel Castro (R) in his house in Havana, on September 19, 2016. (Via AFP) Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has extended his condolences to the Cuban government and nation as well as the Latin American people over the death of Cuba’s revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro. In a message to Cuba’s President Raul Castro on Saturday, Rouhani said the death of the “indefatigable combatant and leader of Cuba’s Revolution” caused deep sorrow and grief for him. “At a time that the world’s oppressed nations are suffering from the violation of the most basic and fundamental human principles such as peace, justice and freedom, there are fortunately noble m...

26Nov

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Fidel Castro Ruz. His Legacy Will Live Forever

NOVANEWS By Fidel Castro Ruz and Prof Michel Chossudovsky Global Research Today, November 25, 2016 Fidel Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution has passed. His legacy will live forever. The Cuban Revolution constitutes a fundamental landmark in the history of humanity, which challenges the legitimacy of global capitalism. In all major regions of the World, the Cuban revolution has been a source of inspiration in the relentless struggle against colonial domination and US imperialism. Fidel Castro was the embodiment of these struggles against global capitalism, committed to a World of Peace, a World of truth, where people join hands, a World of understanding, a World of tolerance and respect. Fidel Castro was “a man of tremendous integrity, with an acute mind and sense...

21Nov

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Will Trump End 56 Years of US Embargo on Cuba?

NOVANEWS By Stephen Lendman Global Research Will Trump seek more cooperative relations with other countries, prioritizing diplomacy over confrontation? Promised outreach to Russia is encouraging. Days earlier, he and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone – Xi telling him cooperation is the only choice between both countries. He responded saying he’s willing to work with Beijing cooperatively, believing bilateral relations can “definitely achieve greater development.” Both leaders agreed to meet soon. Trump’s intended relations with Cuba remain to be seen. Campaigning in September, he said he’d reverse Obama’s (dubious) diplomatic outreach by executive order unless its government meets US demands – not an encouraging sign. For 24 consecutive years, General Assembl...

24Oct

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Cuba ‘will not cease defending its revolutionary and anti-imperialist ideals’

NOVANEWS Proletarian issue 74 (October 2016) President Castro reaffirms Cuba’s commitment to socialism at non-aligned movement summit. The following speech was delivered by Comrade Raul Castro to the 17th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Venezuela on 17 September 2016. We are 120 non-aligned states, which adhere not only to the Bandung principles but also to the declaration of the non-aligned movement on purposes, principles and its role in the current international juncture that was approved at the 14th NAM summit in Havana. Our enormous strength cannot be underestimated when we proceed in a concerted fashion. In the 14th NAM summit, held in Havana in 2006, we rejected any attempt at ‘regime change’ and appealed to all countries to abstain from resorting ...