And gets a hug-ito from Chavecito at a religious ceremony at Caricuao in his honor:
And if the speech he gave in Ecuador here is any indication, he will work well with the rest for integration:
BTW, El Ecuadorable and Evo are in there too. Watch for them.
He's done two things that are very decent, all things considered.
First, he's put a freeze on food prices so that poorer Mexicans can quit dying of NAFTA-induced starvation (or at least, slow it down a bit.) If he's smart, he'll decree a price rollback and make it permanent. And if he's REALLY smart, he'll tear up NAFTA. (Oh 'Bina, you really are a dreamer, aren't you.)
He's also advocated that Europe lift its sanctions against Cuba. Meaning Cubans can also quit starving for lack of Euros. Yay!
Now, if only he'd admit that his "election" was a sham, and cede to AMLO like he should have done in the first place, things could really get rockin'.
I seem to recall that he stepped down. He's now signing all his Granma articles as Comrade Fidel, rather than Comandante, too.
So why, then, are "experts" trying to analyze the latest video of him to assess his "viability"? Are they really so stuck as to how to turn Cuba into a capitalist hellhole? Do they seriously think it's all about Fidel, and only Fidel, when in fact it's all about CUBA?
BTW, they do have elections there, too. They just don't have right-wing parties. Which, if you ask me, is no loss. It already looks like they're holding their own without a charismatic leader in charge. Which begs the question: Why does the CIA still give a shit, and why are they still trying to kill him at this late stage of the game?
Elian Gonzalez, whose distant relations tried to keep him in Miami (over the protests of not only Elian's father, but Elian himself) is now a Young Communist.
I wonder if that wacky cult that sprang up around him is still operational, or if it has died of shame.
With a little help from Cuba and Venezuela, the town of Viacha, 64 km away from La Paz, now has a shiny new hospital.
Yes, they're making progress on gay rights faster than the "freedom-loving" US of A. And guess who's in the vanguard of this fight? Yes, it's ANOTHER Castro...
President Raul Castro's daughter, Mariela, is organizing Cuba's second anti-homophobia festival this week to boost public awareness of the country's long-marginalized gay community, this time with the approval of her dad's government."There's political support for this educational strategy. It's the best thing that's happened to us," Mariela Castro said about the backing the National Center for Sexual Education (CENESEX) she heads is receiving from Cuba's Communist Party.
She said Raul Castro, 76, "is helping us a lot ... not only because I'm his daughter, but because I've earned his respect by working at my job carefully."
A teacher and mother of three children, Mariela Castro, 46, took over from her late mother, Vilma Espin, in running Cuban Womens' Federation (FMC) after she died in 2007, and has headed CENESEX for the past 14 years.
A BBC report on the organic-garden revolution in Cuba:
The obvious order and beauty of the gardens belies all the anti-Cuban propaganda from those who would starve this island nation out of its sovereignty and into the arms of capitalism. It is, in fact, a study in sustainable culture. A person on the 100 Mile Diet could easily and happily do it in Cuba. The people there may not have a plethora of consumer goods to choose from, but they are healthy, they are far from starving, and they know their onions--literally--when it comes to self-sufficiency.
Cuban permaculturist Roberto Perez tells how his country adapted to economic and ecologic necessity thanks to the big US embargo aimed at starving the revolution out:
To outsiders, the Cuban system is frequently presented in the media as a failure; its successes (not to mention its fifty-plus years of sheer survival, which is its biggest success!) don't rate a mention. Just look at all the recent hoopla over cellphones and DVD players; only capitalistic "successes" make the news, and the fact that they don't remedy more pressing human needs is conveniently swept under the rug. Too bad that capitalism itself is still busy denying the obvious: that its own "grow or die" model has been an unmitigated disaster, responsible for everything from a rise in poverty and diseases, to global warming itself. In light of that, the Cuban model doesn't look so dumb.
In honor of Fidel Castro's recent announcement of his intention to retire, today we go retro:
Those were the good old Ches.
Oh what a tangled thread they weave--the crapaganda whores, whose job is to deceive!
For anyone who doubts that the US-owned and operated (by the State Dept.) Radio and TV Marti are in fact black propaganda organs and not messengers of liberty, read what one group of Cuban students had to say today:
The Cuban students whose images were exploited by the media in order to present them as examples of a rebellion against the government, denounced the videos as a manipulation in which they were used, and deny that they were detained as the media claimed yesterday.After the recording of a two-hour chat between the students (of the University of Information Sciences) and the president of the Cuban parliament, the western media began to distribute some small fragments, which they presented as illegal recordings that showed the students rising up against the Cuban government. They did not mention that these acts are always recorded by the students and linked in their entirety via the university intranet.
Yesterday, on the 11th of February, the media began to denounce the "detention" of a student, Eliecer Avila. In a video, this student is now denouncing that statement as false. The lie began to spread, curiously, in Radio Marti and TV Marti, two media created in the United States "to bring the truth" to Cuba. However, once the message was repeated via other media and agencies, they withdrew the item from their website. The media did not stop repeating that "young Avila Cicilia was arrested at 9 a.m. on February 9 by state security agents, who arrived at his home in the El Yarey neighborhood of Vazquez, municipality of Puerto Padre, in the province of Las Tunas."
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Note: I totally respect John McCain's bipartisan work (with fellow senator Russ Feingold, D-HotStuff) on campaign financing reform, even if it never went anywhere (because the Bushpig Party just ran a big-ass dollar-driven steamroller right over it). But this is just ridiculous--and Fidel Castro has called him out for it:
Forget the magic underwear; Mitt Romney is unfit for presidency for many important reasons that have nothing to do with religion.
For one thing, there's the little matter of his corporate ties. This is a man who became monstrously and obscenely rich off the same financial mess that is resulting in so many foreclosures across the US. He claimed he was "going to fight for every job", but his not-so-former firm, Bain Capital, is in fact responsible for massive job losses all across the Fruited Plain. He's right up there with Henry Kravis and all those other big-time highway robbers. Mitt, does your Heavenly Father like it when you lie through your well-tended teeth?
Then there's the little matter of his former aide, a College Republican and former student body president, who just embodies that family-values thing sooooooo well. Don't they vet these people for chastity and lawful conduct before they hire them to smear Democrats about their so-called lack of family values?
And of course, there's the tragic tale of the Romney family dog--a universal moral fable on the unwisdom of strapping an animal carrier to the roof of one's car with a live animal therein. Can a man who treats his own pet so callously be trusted with the reins of power? Ask "Seamus"--he knows.
But what really tells me this man is either callous or clueless--or more likely, both--is this little item:
Like other Republican presidential contenders, Mitt Romney favors a get-tough policy on illegal immigrants. But Romney's desire for tougher immigration enforcement doesn't apply to Cubans, who he says should be welcomed with open arms."I can tell you my inclination would be to say as many Cubans as want to come here should come in," Romney said in an interview Tuesday with The Tampa Tribune editorial board.
And in case you're wondering--yes, he's in favor of keeping up the embargo that is the real reason so many Cubans are so miserable. It hasn't democratized the island a whit, and if anything, has driven things in the opposite direction--but hey, what are a whole lot of impoverished Cubans when there's a capitalistic democratic principle at stake? And to hell with logic. All that matters is that more gusanos get to come in, so the Repugs get more votes. Mexicans and other Central Americans trying to get in without papers, however, are still "illegal" and, since they vote Democratic (when they do finally get their papers and become able to vote), can go hang.
I don't know how the Heavenly Father feels about such strange double and triple standards, but seeing as I come from a country that manages to love freedom and democracy while not embargoing Cuba in any way, well--perhaps I need some magic underwear myself, just to be able to follow Mitt's impeccable logic.
I'll bet Mittens, being an inveterate panderer, also loves those right-wing Venezuelan escualidos--they carry suitcases full of money with them wherever they go.
They couldn't have picked a finer piece of shit for their #1 Most Wanted Terrorist, either. Unlike Osama, he's still alive, and still running around loose to boot. This one can still be made to rot in prison, if the FBI hurry up and nab him before he croaks.
Way to go, ladies...I'm joining your mailing list, and ordering a t-shirt.
And of course, since this happened in Cuba, we only get to hear about it after the fact...
Former CIA agent Philip Agee, a critic of U.S. foreign policy who infuriated American intelligence officials by naming purported agency operatives in a 1975 book, has died, state media reported Wednesday. He was 72.Agee quit the CIA in 1969 after 12 years working mostly in Latin America at a time when leftist movements were gaining prominence and sympathizers. His 1975 book "Inside the Company: CIA Diary," cited alleged CIA misdeeds against leftists in the region and included a 22-page list of purported agency operatives.
[...]
Agee's U.S. passport was revoked in 1979. U.S. officials said he had threatened national security. After years of living in Hamburg, Germany — occasionally underground, fearing CIA retribution — Agee moved to Havana to open a travel Web site.
The site, cubalinda.com, is designed to bring U.S. tourists to Cuba, offering package tours and other help that is largely off-limits to Americans because of the U.S. trade embargo. Agee opened the site in 2000 with European investors and a state-run travel agent as his partners.
There was no mention of Agee's death on the site Wednesday.
...and as proof of that, I offer the latest thoughts from the mouth of Fidel Castro:
Ailing leader Fidel Castro said in a letter read on state television Monday that he does not intend to cling to power forever or stand in the way of a younger generation, but invoked the example of a renowned Brazilian architect who is still working at 100."My elemental duty is not to cling to positions, or even less to obstruct the path of younger people, but to share experiences and ideas whose modest worth comes from the exceptional era in which I lived," Castro wrote in the final paragraph of a lengthy letter discussing the Bali summit on global warming.
[...]
"I think like (Oscar) Niemeyer that you have to be of consequence up to the end," Castro wrote in Monday's essay, referring to the Brazilian architect who was honored around the world as he turned 100 on Saturday.
Niemeyer helped design the U.N. headquarters and the main buildings of Brazil's capital, winning in 1988 the Pritzker Architecture Prize — dubbed the Nobel of architecture.
In an essay over the weekend, Castro paid homage to Niemeyer, a lifelong communist who was exiled for several years during Brazil's 1964-85 military dictatorship.
If anyone is looking to accuse somebody (I won't say who) of trying to impose "Castro-communism" and make himself president for life, don't bother. Even Castro the communist isn't interested in being president for life.
Suck on that, ye rightards.
In a celebrity culture replete with vapid idiots like Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton, et al, it's easy to get cynical about celebs in general. The antics of the young, rich and stupid often make us forget that their elders exist, let alone that among them are ones like Omar Sharif--a great actor whose conscience refuses to be silent:
Omar Sharif still regrets having played Che Guevara in a 1969 film which was "entirely manipulated by the CIA", which he regards today as the biggest mistake of his life."I asked to make a movie that didn't take a fascist tone," he said in an interview in Cairo, where he just finished filming his latest, Al Musafir (The Traveller), with young Egyptian director Ahmed Maher.
In 1969, it was just two years after the guerrilla war had ended in Bolivia, "and Che was still an incredible hero," said Sharif.
The actor, 76, bitterly remembers that his "Che" had a certain dignity because he demanded it in his contract, "but Jack Palance's Fidel Castro, and the movie in general (directed by Richard Fleischer) resulted in a fascist product."
"The CIA was behind it, and wanted to make a film that would please the Miami Cubans. I alone cared about the outcome," he recalled, adding that a movie house on the Champs-Elysees in Paris was burned by audience members incensed by the negative image the film gave of Che and the Cuban Revolution.
Translation mine.
BTW, I could not find this story ANYWHERE in the English-language media. The closest I could get to a recent news story about him was this unflattering item. Which makes him sound a bit like a male Lindsey Lohan.
Don't you love that liberal media memory hole?
Cuba has DEMOCRACY? Seriously???
And BushCo wasn't consulted on this?
Yowza. That won't make the Miami Mafiosi very happy.
Newly-elected municipal assemblies will convene across Cuba in two weeks as the communist-run island's multitiered-election process advances without word on the future of an ailing Fidel Castro.In an order published Thursday on the front page of the state newspaper Granma, Cuba's top executive body decreed that the 15,236 municipal assembly members elected on Oct. 21 and in two subsequent runoff votes will meet for the first time Nov. 16. The order was signed by Castro's brother and acting president, Raul.
Assembly members will later start choosing candidates for parliamentary elections due sometime next spring.
It is unclear whether Fidel Castro, 81, will be healthy enough to run for parliament — where he must hold a seat to remain head of government. Even if he retains his seat, legislators could decide to replace him with his brother as head of the Council of State.
I'm a little late in paying tribute to Che Guevara on this blog, but better late than never. Here's a rap song dedicated to El Comandante Amigo:
Cuban doctors working in Bolivia have saved the sight of the man who executed revolutionary leader Che Guevara in 1967, Cuban official media report.Mario Teran, a Bolivian army sergeant, shot dead Che Guevara after he was captured in Bolivia's eastern lowlands.
Cuban media reported news of the surgery ahead of the 40th anniversary of Che's death on 9 October.
Mr Teran had cataracts removed under a Cuban programme to offer free eye treatment across Latin America.
The operation on Mr Teran took place last year and was first revealed when his son wrote to a Bolivian newspaper to thank the Cuban doctors for restoring his father's sight.
And boy, is he pissed.
On a more serious note, yesterday would have been Che Guevara's 79th birthday, if he had lived. Here are Eduardo Galeano's remembrances of "El Comandante Amigo":
Continue reading "Festive Left Friday Blogging: Chesus is Risen!" »
From Aporrea, we have this little item on just how far the Bush Crime Family is willing to go to conceal the evidence of its misdeeds:
The Venezuelan documentary, "Posada Carriles: Terrorism Made in USA", which tells the history of this terrorist and his connection to the CIA, has been confiscated by US security services at the airport of Miami. The film, in DVD format, was found in a parcel of mail from Caracas, bound for El Paso, Texas, where a social organization was to receive it today, Friday, May 11, to be shown as part of a program of activities there against the release of the terrorist Posada Carriles.The film is now in the hands of the Bush government, and the US mail services report that it will be "held for inspection". This occurred yesterday (Thursday) at 1:30, and the film is being held in custody, which is to say that the showing slated for today will be suspended, as the documentary will not arrive on time. The only information we received from Miami Airport is that the inspection "will take 8 days or more".
Is the White House so desperate in the case of Posada Carriles that it would order its agents at the airport to confiscate a DVD? Why is the Bush government "inspecting" this documentary? Eight days to "inspect" a 90-minute film? Do they suspect that the DVD is concealing some kind of WMD? Will the DVD pass the lie-detector test in an interrogation? Will it be re-edited? Or will they send it to terrorist groups in Miami so that they include us on their hit list? Is this some kind of test of the limits of people's patience for absurdity, since BushCo chose to liberate the terrorist Posada Carriles, but take into custody the documentary "Posada Carriles"?
Continue reading "CubanaBomber Death Watch: You have a right to be informed!" »
Saul Landau comes up with one truly worthy of The Onion, from Progreso Weekly:
Posada to address UM graduates
DRAFT OF SPEECH FOUND IN EL PASO TEXAS JAIL CELL OF LUIS POSADA CARRILES AFTER HE WAS BAILED OUT TO GRADUATING STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERISTY OF MIAMI
WTF?
Or, failing that, the sudden disappearance and/or death?
An anti-Castro Cuban militant is to face trial in the US in May, charged with lying to immigration officials.Luis Posada Carriles has been held in an immigration detention centre in Texas since 2005 after crossing the border illegally from Mexico.
Both Venezuela and Cuba want to put Mr Posada on trial for allegedly masterminding the bombing of a Cuban jetliner in 1976 that killed 73 people.
Continue reading "CubanaBomber Death Watch: How long till the mistrial?" »
Uh, this must be part of that "culture of life" I always hear right-wingers babbling on about.
The city of Miami is planning an official celebration at the Orange Bowl for whenever Cuban President Fidel Castro dies.Discussions by a committee appointed earlier this month by the city commission to plan the event have even covered issues such as a theme to be printed on T-shirts, what musicians would perform, the cost and how long the celebration would last.
I suspect there is more truth in this than anyone realizes.
I also suspect that Cuba's real democratic future will come by way of Venezuela, Bolivia and other Latin American allies, not Miami or Washington.
I mean, just look at what he once told Evo!
President Evo Morales said Friday that his close ally Fidel Castro once advised him to shun arms for his populist cause and change Bolivia through democratic means.The Cuban president, who once tried to spread armed revolt throughout South America, "never told me that you have to take up arms, never," Morales said in an interview Friday with Bolivian radio network Fides.
Morales, who was democratically elected in 2005, said Castro urged him three years ago not to follow his own example of rising to power through armed revolution. Instead, Castro urged Morales to pursue a democratic revolution similar to the one Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez claims to be leading.
"At the beginning of 2003, when I was invited to a big conference in Cuba, (Castro) said, 'Don't do what I did; don't have an armed uprising,'" said Morales. "'Lead a democratic revolution, like Chavez's, with a constitutional assembly.'"
...but it sure doesn't look that way to me. From the mouth of this congresscritter (R-Crazybitch), strange and vile things sure do have a way of popping out:
It sounds just like she's calling for murder, does it not?
Continue reading "Ileana Ros-Lehtinen claims this is edited..." »
Even though the dictator is dead, his Big Lie lives on. And who "better" than the Washington Post Whore to keep that odious Energizer Bunny from Hell drumming and drumming and drumming? For they have written a very slimy apologia for Pinochet, and of the most cowardly kind...the unsigned editorial. Implying that the WaHoPo endorses him even in death, even not denying what he did. This is, of course, entirely in line with the fact that they are NO liberal paper at all, but a "my country, right even when wrong" one.
Continue reading "The Washington Post is Pinochet's bitch" »
From the Beeb, two items of note. First, from Cuba:
Frail Cuban leader Fidel Castro has stayed away from the opening ceremony of his 80th birthday celebrations in Havana on doctors' orders.A message apparently written by Mr Castro was read out saying he was not yet strong enough to attend the event.
Continue reading "Fidel's still not well, but Evo's been a busy boy!" »
And this one's downright treasonable. At least three operatives were present at the scene of Bobby Kennedy's shooting--allegedly by a lone nut named Sirhan Sirhan.
Maybe the nut wasn't so lone--or so nuts!--after all, suggests the evidence...
A Bloomberg news article, of all things, manages to take an objective, nonjudgmental tone (or something reasonably like it) on the Venezuela-Cuba relationship. It's too long to excerpt meaningfully here, so I'll just give you the link.
Well, I'll be god-damned. Looks like the CIA has a massive embarrassment on its hands.
Actually, how about a steaming pile of its own ca-ca? Because that's what Luis Posada Carriles is...and you know what they say about steaming piles of ca-ca. Good luck trying to wash off that smell, Lady Macbeth:
I guess we now know where the Miami Herald's priorities lie!
The shill-ridden paper fired three of its so-called reporters last month after it was revealed that they had been taking thick stacks of taxpayer money to produce anti-Castro propaganda for the US government. Now they're back, and the paper's publisher has quit in disgust:
Do bears shit in the woods?
During an exchange regarding the Havana Summit of non-aligned nations on the September 15 edition of MSNBC's Tucker, conservative Orlando, Florida, radio host Pat Campbell said that "Pat Robertson may actually have been on to something when he suggested possibly assassinating Hugo Chavez." Throughout the segment, host Tucker Carlson suggested that both "the left" in general and Sam Seder, host of Air America Radio's The Majority Report, in particular are guilty of "defending the enemies of America."
Continue reading "Are right-wing talkers all raving asshats?" »
You get a bullet in your own foot!
The discovery of potential deep-water oil and gas reserves off Cuba's northern coast has caught the eye of the world's energy-hungry nations.India's state-run oil firm ONGC, already signed up to exploration in the area, has just upped its stake - the latest to place its bets on a Cuban oil rush.
The 44-year-old US trade embargo, meanwhile, continues to bar American companies from doing business with the Caribbean island.
Continue reading "See what you get for that Cuban embargo?" »
At least 10 Florida-based journalists were paid by the US government to contribute to anti-Cuba propaganda broadcasts, the Miami Herald says.Three writers have been sacked by the Miami Herald newspaper group for an alleged conflict of interest.
One was paid $175,000 (£98,000) for hosting shows on the US-funded channels TV and Radio Marti, the paper says.
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Right here, baby!
Researchers have developed a "man-made" scorpion venom to be used in the treatment of brain tumours.The venom is used as a carrier to deliver radioactive iodine into tumour cells left behind after surgery has removed the bulk of the tumour.
So far the technique has been tested in 18 patients and further trials are under way, a report in the Journal of Clinical Oncology says.
Initial findings suggest the treatment is well-tolerated and may be effective.
But since it's BushCo USA, it's somehow being spun as "democracy".
US President George W Bush has approved an $80m (£43m) fund towards boosting democracy in Cuba.The president said the fund would help the Cuban people in their "transition from repressive control to freedom".
Continue reading "Anywhere else, this would be called tyranny" »
Don't you hate it when things like this happen?
Uruguay's Emergency Plan (PANES) Coordinator, Bertha Sanseverino, announced that the country will introduce Cuba's Literacy Plan, currently applied in many parts of the world."Just as Venezuela is supporting us in the productive field, Cuba is giving us assistance in the fields of health and education," Sanseverino commented, as quoted by El Observador daily.
Continue reading "Evil wicked Cuba sets example again (twice!)" »
Wayne Madsen drops a stunner--one that further raises Venezuela and Cuba in my estimation, and...well, let's face it, BushCo couldn't sink any lower. So let's just say they ignored one more reliable source of antiterror information...
In addition to Russia, Jordan, France, Germany, and other nations, Venezuelan and Cuban intelligence picked up chatter about a "major terrorist attack" on the United States prior to 9/11.Cuban intelligence, which has an extensive network in Florida -- a home base of the hijackers and their handlers -- initially picked up reports about the attack and passed the information to both the United States and Venezuela ... however, the Bush administration failed to react to this and other foreign warnings.
And it's one that might just put Big Pharma out of business...
The diluted venom of the blue scorpion has been used in Cuba as an anti-carcinogenic for more than a decade, though the scientific community is cautious about employing the formula, which is still in the research phase.A queue of people can usually be found at the pharmaceutical laboratories Labiofam in the outskirts of Havana, waiting for the chance to try the product. It is provided free-of-charge if doctors determine it to be appropriate for the individual's case. Patients from abroad head to Labiofam as well, drawn by the success stories circulating about the venom.
It's often said that Fidel Castro is a dictator, and it's true that there are no presidential elections in the apparently one-party republic of Cuba (although there are local ones, interestingly enough.)
And given what happened in Venezuela for the 40 years of supposed "democracy" (the infamous Punto Fijo pact, which basically made sure the same shit always happened, no matter who the asshole in power was), it's clear that no true democracy pertained there either. At least, not until Hugo Chavez--formerly a failed military coup plotter!--stood as a civilian and a democrat for the first time in the 1998 elections and bested his nearest competitor by more than a 15-point margin.
Now it turns out that Castro, the once isolated communist dictator, has emerged as an unlikely savior of the young, fragile true democracy of Venezuela. In an interview with Ignacio Ramonet (of Le Monde Diplomatique), he reveals fully, for the first time, the key part he played in the reversal of the 2002 coup that toppled and nearly killed his friend:
Continue reading ""A president under arrest"--and guess who saved his life?" »
Here's another little snippet the CIA would rather we all forgot, courtesy of Prensa Latina:
The smoke of the battle of Playa Giron dissipated 45 years ago when the Cuban people defeated the mercenary attack concocted by the US to destroy the then-emerging Cuban revolution.The goal of the mercenary brigade, trained and armed by the White House to invade Cuba, was to make a beachhead and install a counterrevolutionary government in three days, composed of people from the US military base of Oppalocka, FL.
That puppet government, following its recognition by Washington and the Organization of American States, would request direct US military intervention in Cuba, disregarding the number of people probably killed or the international laws violated.
Well, some of them, anyhow.
They've written a letter to Dubya, urging him to send known terrorist (and former CIA asset) Luis Posada Carriles back to Venezuela to face justice, and to refuse him citizenship in the United States.
I'm not sure in what spirit this article was written, but if it's a spirit of regret for die Vergangenheit, the author really ought to reconsider. And count the blessings:
For decades, Latin America was referred to as the United States' "backyard." Today, such a statement could be regarded as reckless, since the United States appears to be losing allies by the handful in the region. Almost all of South America appears to be shifting to the left, partially because North America has abandoned the region, but also due to deception of native upper-class criollo [native] oligarchs.A Washington Post article last week suggested that while the Bush Administration sinks deeper and deeper into Iraq, abandoning Latin America and contributing only a paltry sum of money in aid, Venezuelan Head-of-State Hugo Chavez distributes hundreds of millions of dollars to allied parties and governments throughout the hemisphere.
Raul Martinez's painting "Marti y la Estrella" during the first day open to public of the "Art of Cuba" exhibition in São Paulo, Brazil. (Photo credit: AFP/Mauricio Lima)
In good company, of course. Marching through downtown Caracas, February 4. (Photo credit: Luigino Bracci)
Continue reading "Festive Left Friday Blogging: Where's Hugo?" »
Yes!
Health ministry officials say Cuba's $1.8bn (£1bn) and growing tourism industry will soon be overtaken as the number one foreign exchange earner by biotechnology joint ventures, vaccine exports and the provision of health services to other countries.Successful clinical trials in several countries have already established Cuba as a world leader in cancer research and treatment.
