The shamelessness of the United
States government
One
out of every four prisoners in
the world is in a U.S.
penitentiary.
(02-28-10) |
Lincoln Díaz-Balart and Mel
Martínez tried to silence
corruption witness
"They wanted to silence" Jorge
de Castro Font, the Puerto Rican
politician convicted of
corruption, to avoid the
involvement of Republican Party
figures such as Cuban-Americans
Lincoln Díaz-Balart and
Melquíades "Mel" Martinez,
according to the Primera Hora
newspaper, which reported how
the former senator received an
offer of no prosecution in
exchange for his collaboration.
(02-26-10) |
Impact of drug-trafficking in
2009 : A Never-Ending Threat and
the Inevitable Response
The increase in international
drug trafficking activity in our
geographical area, encouraged by
the insatiable market in the
United States, had its principal
impact on Cuba in terms of the
increased volume of drugs
confiscated by Cuban authorities
in 2009.
(02-24-10) |
Magalys: A Revolutionary Teacher
Seven decades of life are
nothing when there is a will to
find new energy in the new
generations. This is the secret
of a dedicated teacher who
continues to give back to the
Cuban Revolution. (02-22-10) |
Statement by the Cuban Ministry
of Foreign Affairs on Round of
Migration Talks with the
Government of the United States
As it was timely informed, on
February 19, 2010, a new round
of migration talks was held
between the Governments of the
United States and Cuba.
(02-20-10) |
The Rains, Anything but a
Blessing
The arrival of the rainy season
has further complicated the
chaotic situation in
Port-au-Prince. Help would seem
to be planned, but the Haitian
people don’t know about it.
(02-20-10) |
Senator Bob Menéndez, Caught
Red-Handed
Democratic Senator Robert "Bob"
Menendez, one of the most
steadfast representatives of the
Cuban-American mafia in Congress,
was caught red-handed. (02-18-10) |
The Only Solution Possible to
the Environmental Crisis
The call made by Hervé Kempf is
far from being a lone voice in
the dessert. Ears will always
have to remain open to what
Revolution leader Fidel Castro
already said in 1992. (02-16-10) |
Fruit Trees: the Salvation
The accelerated increase of
fruit trees resulted in
salvation for the four Basic
Units of Cooperative Production
(UBPCs) among which the Havana’s
Empresa de Cítricos Ceiba (Ceiba
Citrus Fruit Company)
distributes its land.(02-14-10) |
Cuban Railroad Recovery
The first stretch of the
reconstruction of the central
railroad was inaugurated on
January 29, something of great
significance for the national
economy.
(02-12-10) |
Howard Zinn: The Necessary
Thinking
Members of the U.S. Congress
were presented last week with a
thick volume containing budget
specifications outlined by the
Obama administration for the
next fiscal year. Howard Zinn
never learned of this. He had
died days earlier.
(02-10-10) |
Leonard Peltier: An Unrepented
Outrage
In November 2000, just two
months before the end of his
mandate, U.S. President Bill
Clinton said during a radio
interview that he was going to
very seriously consider the
pardon petition presented by the
defense attorneys of Leonard
Peltier. (02-08-10) |
Farmers Strive to Revamp Rice
Complex
At 38, after 20 years devoted to
the business of family rice
growing, Miguel Arturo Duran
Arregoitía heads the Ascunce
Manuel Domenech Cooperative, the
largest rice producer in the
country. (02-06-10) |
Gary Prado Never Changes his
Spots
When a few days ago the
connection of former general,
Gary Prado Salmón, with the
terrorist cell thwarted in April
2009 in the Bolivian city of
Santa Cruz was confirmed, some
recalled the old Spanish saying:
a leopard never changes its
spots.
(02-04-10) |
Honduras: The leaving of its
president
President José Manuel/ Mel
Zelaya made a dignified and sad
exit from his country, Honduras
on January 27, six months after
he was violently deposed by a
coup d’état.
(02-02-10) |
Free Software Migration:
Lucidity, not Finished Recipes
A computer specialist sits in
front of a PC. Using a
programming language, he writes
a code that the machine will
understand later on. He has
created a software application.
If he delivers it with what he
wrote the code is open and the
software is free, if it meets
all the requirements. (01-31-10) |
Railroads Being Repaired in
Havana City
Rail workers and soldiers from
the Young Workers Army (EJT)
take over the repair of the rail
road.
(01-29-10) |
Basic Units of Cooperative
Production: Neither Obstacles
nor Protection
The Basic Units
of Cooperative Production (UBPC)
consider themselves the victims
of a distorted organizational
scheme that impedes them -due to
excess obstacles and protection-
from fulfilling the mission for
which they were created in 1993. (01-27-10) |
The Doctor Who Was Lucky to
Survive
SANTA CLARA.- The oculist from
Santa Clara, Luis Rafael Prays
Denis, is the Cuban doctor saved
by intensive care nurse Idalmis
Borrero, amid the devastating
earthquake of Haiti. (01-25-10) |
When the Earth
Shook in Haiti:
Where
were the Cubans?
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI. — Not
even in the midst of this
stressful situation have the
Cubans lost their spark, and
when I ask how it is possible
that the 200-plus Cubans whom,
at 4:53 p.m. today, January 12,
were living here in this city
managed to survive the deadly
earthquake, some people tell me
that it was divine intervention;
others, with a half-smile, say
it is aché (grace in the
Afro-Cuban religion); others
refer to good luck and how when
"it’s your destiny, nothing
changes that;" but most of them
still can’t believe it….
(01-24-10) |
The Apu Mallku
of the New Era
TIWANAKU, La Paz. — Twelve minutes
after Thursday noon, at the Gate of
the Sun of the Kalasasaya Temple,
Evo Morales received from the hands
of two children the staffs with
which his country’s native peoples
consecrated him as President and
spiritual leader of the Pluri-national
State of Bolivia between 2010 and
2015. (01-23-10) |
Evo Morales:
Bolivia, in Permanent Combat against
Capitalism
LA PAZ, Bolivia. — The man in front
of me this January morning tells me
that in 1971, when he was 14 years
old, there was a persistent draught
in the ayllu (rural
indigenous district) where he grew
up. (01-22-10) |
Fighting for life
Despite his delicate condition, we
were able to talk with Joel Melo. "When
the earthquake happened we were in
the classroom that was on a second
floor. The tremor was enormous,
everything collapsed and we finished
up on the first floor. (01-19-10) |
Scientists in Cuba’s Armed Forces:
Putting Science at the Service of
Sovereignty
The scientific contributions of
Cuban military maintain the combat
readiness of weapons and safeguard
national sovereignty. (01-16-10) |
Alejandro de Humboldt National Park:
Efforts Underway to Keep Intruding
Species Out
Over 300 hectares of the Alejandro
de Humboldt National Park, a World
Heritage Site, have benefited from
actions seeking to reduce invasive
alien species of flora and fauna.
(01-14-10) |
Our Thanks to Cuba for its
Support, Determination and Strength
In a pleasant meeting with a
journalist from this
newspaper,
the Prime Minister from Saint Lucia,
Stephenson King, who recently
concluded an official visit to Cuba,
spoke about different topics of
interest. (01-12-10) |
Statement from the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs
MINREX categorically rejects this
latest hostile action by the United
States government, which stems from
the unjustified inclusion of Cuba on
the so-called list of state sponsors
of terrorism for purely political
reasons, which have as their sole
purpose justification of the
blockade policy, overwhelmingly
condemned by the international
community. (01-08-10) |
2009: Deceptions, Crises and Hopes
The year 2009 has ended and the
international panorama offers a
curious gamut of conflicts,
crossroads, frustrations and extreme
situations intermixed with positive
hopes and developments, all combined
with the serious global economic
crisis provoked by the United States.
(01-01-10) |
