W. T. Whitney, Jr. Fabian Escalante, a founder of Cuba’s state security services, served as head of Cuba’s Department of State Security in 1976 -1996 and vice-minister of the Interior Ministry. After 1993, he headed the Cuban Security Studies Center. In short, his views on threats posed by U.S. government agencies and on protecting Cuba’s…
Category: CUBAN REVOLUTION
The Lesson Nicolás Maduro Gave to His Counterparts at CELAC
Laila Tejaldine The President of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, emerged stronger from his participation in the VI Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC). Despite the more than 400 sanctions against Venezuela, despite the 2 assassination attempts against President Nicolás Maduro, despite the formation of the Lima Group to overthrow the Constitutional…
Should the Cuban Revolution Hold on to Power?
Introduction Part 1: The Account of Comrade Frank García Hernández Versus That of His Overseas ‘Friends’ Part 2: Demanding the Impossible: Left ‘Criticisms’ of Cuba Part 3: The Objective Situation Facing the Cuban Revolution Part IV: Lenin’s New Economic Policy and the Cuban Situation
In Nobody’s Backyard: Rejecting Geo-Political and Historical Fatalism
Gerald A. Perreira Except for the hum of US helicopters flying overhead, there was a deafening silence throughout the Caribbean region, during the recent Operation Tradewinds, Progressive and Pan-African forces did not utter a word, as soldiers from Guyana, Brazil, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago participated in this region-wide…
The United States: Six Decades of Criminal Policies against Cuba
Hector Bernardo The invasion of Playa Girón, the bombing of the Barbados airliner, the brutal blockade that increased in the midst of the pandemic, the assassination attempts against Fidel Castro, the hotel bombings, Operation Peter Pan, the ZunZuneo project and the disappearance of Cuban diplomats in Argentina are just some of the events that comprise…
The Defense of the Cuban Revolution is a Struggle Against Fascism
José Luis Granados Ceja (@GranadosCeja) Members of the National Federation of Revolutionary Students “Rafael Ramirez” demonstrate in support of the Cuban Revolution and against US imperialism in front of the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico, July 17, 2021. (José Luis Granados Ceja) Both Republican and Democrat administrations are willing to work with far-right actors…
July 26th Became a Movement: The Cuban Masses Make History
Gregory E. Williams Members of Cuba’s 26th of July Movement. Today the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba is a museum and a school—fitting, given the Cuban Revolution’s well-known commitment to education. But this was the site of a battle that radically altered the course of history on the island. In the early morning hours…
Cuba: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise
Frei Betto I do not wish the future of Cuba to be like the present of Brazil, Guatemala, Honduras or even Puerto Rico, Few are unaware of my solidarity with the Cuban Revolution. For 40 years I frequently visited the island for work commitments and invitations to events. For a long period, I mediated the…
Netflix, Tavistock and ‘Inception’: What is the ‘Matrix’ of the Collective Dream?
José Negrón Valera “You are invited to a series of online ‘Social Dreaming‘ sessions taking place on Zoom from 12-1:15pm (GMT / BST) every Thursday from March 18 to June 24, 2021, including a post-matrix review.” “Participants share their overnight dreams and free associate with the dreams offered in the matrix to find links, make…
Cuba: Beside the People, With the People and for the People, the Revolution Continues!
Speech delivered by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, president of the Republic of Cuba, in the act of revolutionary reaffirmation, in the esplanade of La Piragua, Havana, on July 17, 2021, Year 63 of the Revolution. Dear Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, leader of the Cuban Revolution; People of Cuba, Cuban men and women; Compatriots: Long…
Cuba: Statement of the International Relations Commission of the National Assembly of People’s Power
Confronting Interference, for an End to the Blockade and Respect for Cuba’s Sovereignty We address Parliaments, Parliamentary Friendship Groups and legislators, to spread our truth in the face of the immense and brutal political-media operation against Cuba, oriented and financed from the United States, deployed through social networks, with automated patterns with hundreds of thousands…
Latin America in Dispute: Interview with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza
In an interview for the program Latin America in dispute, broadcast by the multistate Telesur, the People’s Power Minister for Foreign Relations, Jorge Arreaza, confirmed that the Bolivarian Government’s commitment to the events promoted by imperialism in the region, such as the assassination in Haiti and the attempts to destabilize Cuba, “it is always for…
