Cuba

Dozens Of Protesters Arrested As Obama Lands In Cuba

March 20, 2016 RT, www.rt.com Resist! Cuba, Human Rights, Obama

By RT. Cuban authorities have arrested more than 50 anti-government protesters just hours before Barack Obama’s plane touched down in Cuba, marring the beginning of a rare three-day visit to the island nation – the first for a US president in almost 90 years. Just hours ahead of Obama’s arrival, the Cuban police arrested more than 50 female activists during their weekly rally in protest of the detention of political prisoners. During their usual routine on Sunday, the Ladies in White tried to walk to other streets deviating from the route, where they encountered two counter demonstrations. “No human rights violations,” the group welcoming Obama on the island slogan read. The activists were also releasing copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The other counter-demonstration of several hundred government supporters was carrying signs that read "All marched for a prosperous and sustainable socialism" and shouting "Fidel, Fidel.”

Che Guevara’s Son On Obama In Cuba:

March 19, 2016 Jonathan Watts, www.theguardian.com Resist! Americas, Barack Obama, Cuba

By Jonathan Watts for The Guardian - With wary optimism, the son of Ernesto “Che” Guevara is coming to grips with the visit to Havana this Sunday of a contemporary who just happens to be the leader of the world’s capitalist powerhouse. Camilo Guevara – the eldest son of one of the Cuban revolution’s most famous figures – was born within a year of Barack Obama in the early 1960s, when Cuba and the US were starting one of the cold war’s most dangerous and enduring conflicts.

CIA Motto: “Proudly Overthrowing Cuban Government Since 1959.”

March 16, 2016 William Blum, www.counterpunch.org Educate! CIA, Cuba

By William Blum for Counter Punch - Now what? Did you think that the United States had finally grown up and come to the realization that they could in fact share the same hemisphere as the people of Cuba, accepting Cuban society as unquestioningly as they do that of Canada? The Washington Post(February 18) reported: “In recent weeks, administration officials have made it clear Obama would travel to Cuba only if its government made additional concessions in the areas of human rights, Internet access and market liberalization.”

Is South America’s ‘Progressive Cycle’ At An End?

March 13, 2016 Claudio Katz, www.venezuelanalysis.com Educate! Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador, Electoral Politics, Venezuala

By Claudio Katz for Venezuelanalysis. The progressive cycle arose in popular rebellions that brought down neoliberal governments (Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina) or eroded their continuity (Brazil, Uruguay). These uprisings modified the power relations but did not alter South America's economic insertion in the international division of labour. On the contrary, in a decade of rising prices for raw materials all countries reinforced their status as exporters of primary products. The right-wing governments (Sebastián Piñera in Chile, Álvaro Uribe-Juan Manuel Santos in Colombia, Vicente Fox-Enrique Peña Nieto in Mexico) used the foreign exchange bonanza to consolidate the model based on openness to free trade and privatizations. The centre-left administrations (Néstor and Cristina Kirchner in Argentina, Inácio Lula da Silva-Dilma Rousseff in Brazil, Tabaré Vázquez-José “Pepe” Mujica in Uruguay, Rafael Correa in Ecuador) promoted increased internal consumption, subsidies to local business owners and social welfare programs.

Cuba Impression

January 5, 2016 Gene Bruskin, www.stansburyforum.com Educate! Cuba, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Poverty, Socialism, Torture

By Gene Bruskin for Stansbury Forum - As I prepared for my recent November trip to Cuba I thought back to my many memories of my first visit in the spring of 1970. Having left teaching in the South Bronx, discouraged and risking the draft deferment NYC teaching ironically provided, I decided, with my wife at the time, to go on to Cuba on the Second Venceremos Brigade. The Brigade was a left initiative to help break the US imposed blockade on Cuba and 800 of us went from across the country to cut cane with the Cubans and help them succeed in their production goal in the Year of the Ten Million tons.

Internationalizing Movements: Peace Delegation To Cuba

December 6, 2015 Mackenzie McDonald Wilkins, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Cuba, Guantanamo Bay, Peace, Wars and Militarism

By Mackenzie McDonald Wilkins for Popular Resistance. Cuba - For a small island nation, continuously beaten down by the US, Cuba has an amazing history of reaching beyond its borders. With one of the best health education systems of any country, Cuba is known for sending doctors, not troops, around the world. Cuban doctors served on the battlefields of the Vietnam War, were the first to respond to the Ebola emergency in West Africa, and had the largest international medical contingent in Haiti after the devastating earthquake. “In the aftermath of the Kashmir earthquake of 2005,” says Seumas Milne, “Cuba sent 2,400 medical workers to Pakistan and treated more than 70% of those affected; they also left behind 32 field hospitals and donated a thousand medical scholarships.” Canadian professor John Kirk says “Cuban medical internationalism has saved millions of lives.”

Emergency Fast To Save Innocent Guantanamo Prisoner

September 18, 2015 Witness Against Torture, www.popularresistance.org Resist! Cuba, Guantanamo Bay, Torture

By Witness Against Torture - Witness Against Torture is calling for an emergency fast to highlight the case of Guantánamo prisoner, Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni man who has been detained at the prison without charge since 2002 and cleared for release in 2009. According to his attorneys, Tariq, who at 74 pounds—56% of his ideal body weight-- is on the brink of death according to three health officials. Please consider fasting on Friday, September 18, 2015 in solidarity with Tariq Ba Odah and the remaining 115 Guantánamo prisoners. If you plan to fast, send an email to witnesstorture@gmail.com. Please include in the email where you live and a brief statement as to why you are fasting. If you cannot fast on Friday, feel free to choose another day this week to fast.

How Latin American Integration Leads To The TPP

September 6, 2015 Francisco Dominguez, www.opendemocracy.net/francisco-dominguez/latin-america-integration-i Educate! Cuba, Imperialism, Latin America, TPP, Venezuela

By Francisco Dominguez for Open Democracy - Impressive steps have also been taken to eliminate racism, bigotry, gender and sex discrimination, and intolerance towards sexual diversity. In all these regards Latin America shows not only that another world is possible but is being built right now. The region, however, confronts a US that despite some promises and gestures from President Barack Obama in seeking to normalize relations with Cuba and Venezuela, includes many broadly unaccountable and unelected US bodies which continue with a Cold War-like policy of intervention and interference in the internal affairs of many Latin American nations. Many such destabilization plans involve the large-scale illegal funding by the NED, USAID, IRI, NDI, and many other more secretive US outfits of extreme right-wing and violent groups.

Luci Murphy: Cultural Warrior For The Movement

August 21, 2015 Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com Resist! Activism, Brazil, Cuba, Palestine, Social Justice

By Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo and Luci Murphy in Black Agenda Report - Luci Murphy is a preeminent advocate of utilizing culture to advance social and political justice. She is often the featured vocalist at progressive events. Her boundless energy has made Luci indispensable in organizing Latin American solidarity, the peace movement, sustainable development and other progressive causes. She is a native of D.C. where she is a vocalist who often leads group singing, but “sun-lights” as a medical interpreter of Spanish and English. She has a long history of community activism, especially working with children at risk. Luci visited Lebanon to observe Palestinian Refugee Camps, China just before the normalization of relations with the U.S., Brazil for a grass-roots organizing conference, and Cuba to oppose U.S. travel restrictions. A past president of the D.C. League of Women Voters, she has also served on the Steering Committees of the People’s Music Network, "Health Care Now!,” and Washington Inner-City Self Help.

Obama Seeks To Stop Release Of Hunger Striking Gitmo Detainee

August 17, 2015 Spencer Ackerman, www.theguardian.com Educate! Cuba, Guantanamo, Human Rights, Obama, Torture

By Spencer Ackerman in The Guardian - In an extremely rare legal manoeuvre, the Obama administration has challenged a legal request to free a hunger-striking Guantánamo Bay detainee entirely in secret. US officials said the objection to freeing Tariq Ba Odah, who is undernourished to the point of starvation, and the decision to challenge his legal gambit outside of public view, are indications that the Obama administration will fight tenaciously to stop detainees from seeking freedom in federal courts, despite Barack Obama’s oft-repeated pledge to close Guantánamo. Late on Friday, the US justice department submitted a long-awaited filing in Ba Odah’s habeas corpus petition. The filing was kept under seal, a rarity for a challenge to the so-called “great writ,” the underpinning of Anglo-American jurisprudence.

US And Cuba: New Tactic, Same Goal

August 10, 2015 Gloria La Riva, www.liberationnews.org Resist! Blockade, Capitalism, Cuba, Embargo, Imperialism

By Gloria La Riva for Liberation News - Hillary Clinton reflects that of many in the U.S. ruling establishment—soon, perhaps a majority—who are now suddenly clamoring for a different approach in U.S. policy to try to accomplish the same aim of the last 56 years: destabilization of Cuba’s government and system. President Barack Obama spoke similarly on Dec. 17, “… we will end an outdated approach that, for decades, has failed to advance our interests. … ” Clinton’s Miami speech was filled with disingenuous claims about helping the Cuban people, in the typically arrogant attitude of U.S. imperialists towards Cuba, Venezuela and the rest of Latin America. Cuba faces new challenges with U.S. plans at “engagement” and subversion. Congressional funds are currently financing more anti-Cuba “democracy” programs. But if there is a people, country and government that can face those challenges and continue defending the Revolution, it is Cuba. The ulterior designs of the US on Cuba can keep on trying another 56 years. They will fail again.

Iran And Cuba – Is Diplomacy Working?

July 28, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.clearingthefogradio.org Educate! Cuba, Diplomacy, Iran

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers in Clearing The Fog Radio - Two major diplomatic changes occurred recently between the US and Iran and Cuba. Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Russia, UK, US + Germany) completed an agreement regarding Iran’s nuclear program. It is historic that the US and Iran engaged in diplomatic relations and that the sanctions against Iran will end. The agreement opens Iran up for more foreign investment and trade. Will war be averted? We speak with Professor Muhammad Sahimi, a chemical engineer who frequently writes about Iranian politics and the nuclear program to hear an Iranian perspective on this agreement. And diplomatic relations were restored with Cuba after 54 years of economic and political isolation. The Cuban embassy was reopened in Washington, DC. We speak with Miguel Fraga, the First Secretary of the Cuban Embassy about the restoration of diplomacy, what Cuba is asking of the US and how the US is responding.

Media Reflects Bias Of US Foreign Policy: Iran & Cuba Compared

July 25, 2015 John C. O’Day, www.fair.org Educate! Cuba, Iran, Media

By John C. O’Day in FAIR - This was a particularly busy week for the United States news media, with headlines featuring the announcement of a completed multi-lateral nuclear agreement between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the P5+1 bloc of nations, as well as a historic resumption of formal diplomatic ties marked by the reopening of United States and Cuban embassies in Havana and DC. The parallel coverage of the Iranian and Cuban diplomatic achievements offered a distinct, real-time display of the dramatic shift in US media villain-making over the last two decades and its concurrent silencing of oppositional voices. Corporate media in the United States have a long history of neglecting the viewpoints of those who are often most profoundly affected by US foreign policy, especially when such voices cast a negative light on policies that members of the US government and media elite are invested in promoting.

Cuban Embassy Opens In Washington, But Issues Remain Unresolved

July 21, 2015 Paul Lewis, www.theguardian.com Create! Cuba, Diplomacy, Embargo, Guantanamo, usa

By Paul Lewis in The Guardian - Cuba’s blue, red and white-starred flag has been raised above the country’s newly inaugurated embassy in Washington, heralding the formal restoration of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba . The establishment of embassies in both Washington and Havana, for the first time in 54 years, marked the symbolic end to one of the last vestiges of the cold war. After more than half a century of diplomatic animosity, the world’s capitalist superpower is once again on formal speaking terms with the small, communist state to the south. Cuba’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez, flew to Washington to preside over the flag-raising ceremony on Monday and met with his US counterpart, John Kerry. It was the first time a Cuban foreign minister was hosted by a secretary of state in Washington since 1958. Appearing side by side at a State Department press conference, both diplomats expressed hope that a reset between the US and Cuba would lead to significant improvements in relations between the two countries.

26th Friendshipment Caravan To Cuba Launched In DC

July 4, 2015 Interview with Gail Walker Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, www.blackagendareport.com Organize! Cuba, Imperialism, Resistance

Interview with Gail Walker by Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo in Black Agenda Report - There was a resistance to Cuba’s self-identification as socialist and that became a flashpoint for some people within the US government. I think we also have to look at the fact, that at the same time, there were claims that Cuba was directing missiles towards the US, during the so-called US-Cuba missile crisis. There were missiles that the US was directing towards Turkey, so it was a time during the cold war when tensions were high. But, often we only hear one side of that story. But, all of that has led the US government to punish Cuba and the US blockade of Cuba has become the longest and most abusive form of collective punishment. We are grateful that there is finally a shift, a sea change, a rethinking of the best ways for there to be relations between the US and Cuba.

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