Nelson Mandela Ex-Presidents 

Mandela and Fidel: What is not being said

THE death of Nelson Mandela has precipitated a torrent of interpretations on his life and work, all of which present him as a disciple of pacifism and a kind of Mother Teresa of South Africa. This is an essentially incorrect, and premeditated, image, promoted to obscure the fact that after the Sharpeville massacre in 1960, the African National Congress (ANC)... Read More
eritrea women fighters Opinions 

Eritrea; The African Cuba

by Thomas C. Mountain This article was originally published on telesurtv.net. “Both countries have been maliciously accused of supporting terrorism and seen their peoples life’s made hard due to the embargoes.” Eritrea is the African Cuba with the similarities between the two small, revolutionary, socialist countries almost too many to list. To start with, Cuba is the only country in… Read More

Cuban leader Castro address to the nation, Thawing relations with US and the Path Forward

Compañeras and compañeros: We have experienced intense and moving moments in recent days. This December we successfully hosted the Fifth Caricom-Cuba Summit and the XIII Summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America last Sunday, an occasion on which we paid tribute to its creators: the dear Bolivarian President Hugo Chávez Frías and Commander in Chief of... Read More

US Embassy in Havana: Washington’s “Cuba Gambit”

The lame duck, Obama, extending a conciliatory hand to Cuba by opening an embassy in Havana, by reopening, after 54 years of a criminal and crippling embargo, diplomatic relations? – At the same time Obama is making not a single concession in terms of lifting the blockade. This smells like a trap. Imagine – a US Embassy in Havana –… Read More

Revelations about U.S. operations in Cuba corroborate President Raúl Castro’s assertions

 President Raul Castro's denunciations of the United States government's attempts to destabilize Cuba were corroborated by the April 3 revelation of a plan to draw Cuban youth toward counter-revolution, with the participation of a U.S. government agency. To undermine Cuban authorities, Washington planned the creation of a "Cuban Twitter," promoted by USAID (U.S. Agency for International Development), through a network... Read More

Cuban Parliament Passes New Foreign Investment Law

CUBA, April 1st, 2014. The Cuban Parliament unanimously adopted last March 29 a new Foreign Investment Law, crucial to updating the country’s economic model and building a prosperous and sustainable socialist system. The law was adopted with modifications submitted by the parliamentary commissions on Economic, and Constitutional and Legal Issues. . Read More

The US Blockade against Cuba is Aggressively Extraterritorial and a Violation of International Law

Genesis of the U.S. Blockade against Cuba On January 1st, 1959, the revolutionary struggle against the Cuban dictatorial regime ended victoriously. The revolutionary movement lead by Fidel Castro acceded to power. The measures adopted by the Revolutionary Government to recover the Cuban wealth and destine it to the people constituted a mortal blow to the interests of the biggest North... Read More

Fidel Castro: Mandela Is Dead, So Why Hide The Truth About Apartheid?

Maybe the empire thought that we would not honor our word when, during days of uncertainty in the past century, we affirmed that even if the USSR were to disappear Cuba would continue struggling. World War II broke out on September 1, 1939 when Nazi-fascist troops invaded Poland and struck like a lightning over the heroic people of the USSR,... Read More