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  • letter of may to Obama.
    2 May 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mr President Obama
    The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mr President,
    As I have been doing every month since your election in November 2008, I am writing you concerning the five Cuban patriots Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, and René González, imprisoned in your country for almost thirteen years now.
    When I wrote my last letter, I did not know that Jimmy Carter, along with his wife Rosalynn, was going to Cuba on (…)

  • My absence on the Central Committee
    20 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    I was familiar with the content of compañero Raúl’s report to the 6th Congress of the Party. He had shown it to me a few days previously on his own initiative, as he has done on many other occasions without me asking him to because, as I already explained, I had delegated all my responsibilities within the Party and the state in the proclamation of July 2006.
    Doing so was a duty that I did not hesitate for a second to fulfill.
    I knew that the state of my health was serious, but I felt (…)

  • letter of april to Obama.
    2 April 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mr President Obama The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500.
    Mr President,
    The little village where I live with my family is situated at the foot of the Pyrenees Mountains, in Bearn.
    Chiefly at the end of the nineteenth century, a number of people from Bearn, just as their neighbors the Basques, immigrated to Argentina, to Uruguay, to Cuba and to (…)

  • Fidel Castro’s Reflections: NATO’s Inevitable War
    4 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Cuban Revolution leader said that in contrast with what is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies the first spot on the Human Development Index for Africa and it has the highest life expectancy on the continent. Education and health receive special attention from the State. The cultural level of its population is without a doubt the highest. Its problems are of a different sort.
    NATO’S INEVITABLE WAR
    In contrast with what is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies the (…)

  • Letter of march to Obama.
    3 March 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mr President Obama The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500.
    Mr President,
    I would like to begin this letter with a poem written by one of the Cuban Five, Antonio Guerrero, when he was locked up in solitary confinement at the Oklahoma Federal Prison, waiting for his next transfer. This was one year ago.
    A poem of hope, that pays homage to the international solidarity movement that is growing ever stronger, asking (…)

  • The Progressive Score on Haiti: U.K.9, U.S.45, Canada 0
    27 February 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stuart Hammond
    "No Canadian Members of Parliament have indicated support for the right of Aristide to return to his homeland, nor explicitly condemned the Haitian election for its exclusion of Famni Lavalas, nor called for new elections.."
    http://rabble.ca/news/2011/02/progr...

  • Letter of february to Obama.
    2 February 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mister President Obama The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    In my letter of the month of November 2010, I recalled the arrest of Francisco Chavez Abarca.
    This Salvadorian terrorist had been arrested in Caracas July 1st 2010 while attempting to enter into Venezuela with false identity papers. As he later admitted, his objective was to evaluate the possibility of creating, in connection with radical opposition members, unrest and acts (…)

  • What’s Causing Kidney Disease in Nicaragua: BUSPH Researchers Investigate
    12 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    It’s a compelling public health mystery: Thousands of people in Northwestern Nicaragua are dying from chronic kidney failure, and no one knows why.
    Now, an interdepartmental team of Boston University School of Public Health [BUSPH] researchers is on the case, sifting for answers.
    "The disease has, essentially, been a death sentence once you get it," said BUSPH researcher Daniel Brooks, an associate professor of epidemiology who leads the group. "We don’t often have public health (…)

  • letter of january to Obama.
    1 January 2011 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mister President Obama
    The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino, and René González, have not yet been liberated, they are still rotting away in prison in your country.
    You have already, as is the custom at Christmastime, granted a pardon to several convicts – drug traffickers and individuals who have committed fraudulent acts. You haven’t lifted a finger for the five (…)

  • letter of december to Obama.
    1 December 2010 par (Open-Publishing)

    Mr. Barak Obama, President The White House
    1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
    Washington DC 20500
    Mister President,
    Last October 8th, on the occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Lui Xiaobo, from China, you declared – “Fundamental human rights must be respected for every man, woman and child”. How can you, Mister President, make such a remark and at the same time fail to respect these rights in the country that you govern? This same October 8th, two Cuban women, (…)