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An Interview with Dr. Jorge Balseiro Estevez of the Henry Reeve Cuban Internationalist Medical Brigade

Cuba Takes Lead Role in Haiti’s Cholera Fight Cholera, the doctors with the Cuban medical mission that treat most of the patients here would soon confirm, had arrived in Haiti.

Various international (Ghana, Nigeria, Panama, India, etc.) support for the Cuban Five is reported on in the official web site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cuba . . .more>

Arnold August: Cuban Five has been a political case right from day one . . . more

Today, August 13, 2011 it is the birthday of Fidel Castro Ruz. . . . more

Amnesty International has published its 2010 Report on the Cuban 5 and the October 20110 appeal.

New Prize in Cold War: Cuban Doctors Imagine US taxpayers money to fund a program targeting Cuban doctors to encourage them to defect. Yes, there is a specific US government program which does this, and here's the proof from the US Citizen and Immigration Department's own documents.

US Top Diplomat Monitored Internet in Cuba Havana, Aug 27 Prensa Latina Chief of Mission of the US Interest Section in Havana, Jonathan Farrar, monitored the Internet for possible subversive actions, according to a cable released by Wikileaks and reproduced by Cuban websites on Saturday.

When the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) formulates its annual Human Development Index (HDI), it uses several socioeconomic indicators to rank member states and also measure quality of life in these countries. But a nation widely singled out for its positive achievements in education, health care and life expectancy has been left out of the index, complains Ambassador Pedro Nunez Mosquera Cuba's permanent representative to the United Nations. . . . more >

A former CIA asset goes to trial On January 10 one of the most dangerous terrorists in recent history will go on trial in a small courtroom in El Paso, Texas. It is where the reputed godfather of Cuban exile violence, Luis Posada Carriles, may finally face a modicum of accountability for his many crimes . . . . more>

HAVANA, Cuba, The documentary “Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up,” by US award-winning director Saul Landau, will be screened in New York on December 3rd.The screenings will be part of celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Center for Cuban Studies, in cooperation with the Center for Public Scholarship, at the New School. . . .more>

The Belgian Solidarity Organization Socialist Cuba Initiative will start a comprehensive program of activities to promote a world campaign for the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. since 1998. . . more>

Cuba makes cancer treatment breakthrough . . .more>

Ottawa: Harper claims to be pursuing an invigorated policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), he is ignoring Canada's natural advantages in Cuba . . . more

The United States has fined the French shipping company CMA CGM $374,400 for providing services to Cuba, according to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). . . more

Havana, Aug 18 (Prensa Latina) Cuban antiterrorist fighter Fernando Gonzalez is celebrating his 48th birthday on Thursday in a U.S. prison, where he has been unjustly held since September 12, 1998 despite his declared innocence. . . .more

Fidel's reflections: Under the title of "The Opinion of an Expert", I mentioned a really unusual activity of the United States and its allies which, in my opinion, underlines the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran . . . more>

Read the Canadian Network on Cuba's Bulletin for Parliamentarians January 2011

From the WikiLeaks cache, Michael Moore found this: On January 31, 2008, a State Department official stationed in Havana took a made up story and sent it back to his HQ in Washington. Here's what they concocted: "XXXXXXXXXX stated that Cuban authorities have banned Michael Moore's documentary, Sicko, as being subversive. Although the film's intent is to discredit the U.S. healthcare system by highlighting the excellence of the Cuban system, he said the regime knows the film is a myth and does not want to risk a popular backlash by showing to Cubans facilities that are clearly not available to the vast majority of them." Sounds convincing, eh?! There's only one problem -- 'Sicko' had just been playing in Cuban theaters. Then the entire nation of Cuba was shown the film on national television on April 25, 2008! . . . more>

Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) and Vancouver hip-hop artists will be traveling to Havana, Cuba to participate in the Annual International Hip-Hop Symposium. Vancouver Festival Sept. 24

When the United Nations appeals for more doctors and nurses to combat the deadly disease that is killing dozens by the day, it is to Cuba's medical brigade that U.N. officials are likely to turn to first . . . more>

HAVANA TIMES We’d like to put out an invitation to Cubans and readers from other countries to join in the debate on different issues regarding Cuba by commenting on articles presented on the website.

"It’s getting more outrageous every day. And this could happen in Canada. Indeed we already have the MasterCard (CUETS) issue and Canadian business being affected by the U.S. Extraterritorial law. The Harper government should be asked to enforce its own legislation – the Canada’s Foreign Extra Territorial Measures Act (FEMA) - and to protest any U.S. anti-free speech legislation, as vigorously as they are acting on anti-semitic legislation" says Nino Pagliccia who suggest you read this from Havana Journal: OFAC orders US domain registrar, eNom, to take down Cuba websites.

Interview with Oscar Martinez, the Deputy Head of the International Relations Department of the Cuban Communist Party: "We are not retrenching. That`s a capitalist term. We are not putting people out in the street. We are not going to leave them without social assistance. We are re-organising the workforce, not firing workers. We are directing them to other areas of work vital for the economy, mainly food production. We are making these changes as part of updating our economic model in order to ensure that our socialist system is sustainable on the basis of the rational and effective use of the workforce." . . . more>

Don't Just Close Gitmo. Give It Back. Author: Julia E. Sweig . . . .more>

What do mid-term election results mean for US foreign policy? . . . more>

Obama's Self-inflicted Isolation (The Havana Note). . . more>

Another visit with Gerardo Hernandez, Wednesday, 27 October 2010, By Danny Glover and Saul Landau: We sat in the waiting room with eight other people, all black or Latino, while prison authorities “counted” -- presumably -- the prisoners.?. . . more>

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn almost a half-century of U.S. sanctions against Cuba . . .more>

Will Castro's praise lure Israelis to Cuba? Marketing head of top travel agency says recent favorable comments about Israel by Cuba's former president, Fidel Castro, may change all that. . . more from Haaretz>

Raúl Castro Ruz participated in the closing ceremonies of the 86th plenary session of the Central Organization of Cuban Workers (CTC) National
Council, where he reiterated the Revolution's confidence in the labor movement. . . more>

It started simply enough. A small, U.K.-based agricultural consultant, Fertecon, took a check for £7,156 to its banker, Lloyds, and asked them to cash it. Lloyds refused. The reason? The check came from Cuba . . . more>

Amost all of us have paid taxes at some point in our lives. However, it is not always clear how we pay them, where they go or the mechanisms used to collect them. And it is a fact that, even though we daily check figures and accounts in order to balance domestic expenses, the Cuban population knows little about concepts such as taxes, rates or contributions
. . . .more>

Dancers from New York City Ballet will perform at the International Ballet Festival in Havana next month . . .more>

Fidel Castro, has told a visiting American journalist that the island's state-dominated system is in need of change. . .more>

In Spanish: Cuba and Norway have signed a bilateral agreement for medical aid to Haiti. . . more>

Raul Castro:"This session of the National Assembly has passed two significant bills". . . . more>

I extend a warm welcome to our Cuban brothers and sisters to the wonderful world of paying taxes. . . .more>

Cuba announced on Sept. 13 that it would lay off half a million workers and push many of them into the private sector. It later detailed some 178 private jobs that will be allowable. . . more>

In large parts of Pinar del Rio and Isla de la Juventud, houses, schools, hospitals and other public buildings that weren't demolished, lost their roofs or suffered other kinds of damage . . . more>

This week, speculation is circulating in Washington that the Obama administration will issue an executive order to relax restrictions on the Cuban travel ban before Labor Day. . . more>

A modern neurosurgery system —called Estereoflex— developed in Cuba will soon benefit Argentinean patients . . .more>

The 60-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Cuba is "a chokehold" on the Caribbean island nation, Cuban union members told their U.S. colleagues during nine U.S. unionists' recent research trip there . . . more>

Saul Landau: In late September 2009, shortly after Fidel Castro and I exchanged hugs of greeting, I flashed back to my first visits to Cuba, in 1960 and 1961.. . . .more>

Leonard Weinglass: The Five should have been returned to Cuba shortly after their arrest . . . .more>

Hugo Chavez and Raul Castro interviewed by Sean Penn: By now, Oct. 2008, I had digested earlier visits to Venezuela and Cuba . ..more>

Five Cubans convicted in 2001 of spying for the Castro regime have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to grant a new trial . . . more>

An Interview with Dr. Jorge Balseiro Estevez of the Henry Reeve Cuban Internationalist Medical Brigade			Cuba Takes Lead Role in Haiti’s Cholera Fight Cholera, the doctors with the Cuban medical mission that treat most of the patients here would soon confirm, had arrived in Haiti.
Various international (Ghana, Nigeria, Panama, India, etc.) support for the Cuban Five is reported on in the official web site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Cuba . . .more>
Arnold August: Cuban Five has been a political case right from day one . . . more			Today, August 13, 2011 it is the birthday of Fidel Castro Ruz. . . . more
Amnesty International has published its 2010 Report on the Cuban 5 and the October 20110 appeal.
New Prize in Cold War: Cuban Doctors Imagine US taxpayers money to fund a program targeting Cuban doctors to encourage them to defect. Yes, there is a specific US government program which does this, and here's the proof from the US Citizen and Immigration Department's own documents.		US Top Diplomat Monitored Internet in Cuba Havana, Aug 27 Prensa Latina Chief of Mission of the US Interest Section in Havana, Jonathan Farrar, monitored the Internet for possible subversive actions, according to a cable released by Wikileaks and reproduced by Cuban websites on Saturday.	When the U.N. Development Programme (UNDP) formulates its annual Human Development Index (HDI), it uses several socioeconomic indicators to rank member states and also measure quality of life in these countries. But a nation widely singled out for its positive achievements in education, health care and life expectancy has been left out of the index, complains Ambassador Pedro Nunez Mosquera Cuba's permanent representative to the United Nations. . . . more >
A former CIA asset goes to trial On January 10 one of the most dangerous terrorists in recent history will go on trial in a small courtroom in El Paso, Texas. It is where the reputed godfather of Cuban exile violence, Luis Posada Carriles, may finally face a modicum of accountability for his many crimes . . . . more>
HAVANA, Cuba, The documentary “Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up,” by US award-winning director Saul Landau, will be screened in New York on December 3rd.The screenings will be part of celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Center for Cuban Studies, in cooperation with the Center for Public Scholarship, at the New School. . . .more>			The Belgian Solidarity Organization Socialist Cuba Initiative will start a comprehensive program of activities to promote a world campaign for the five Cuban antiterrorists unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. since 1998. . . more>
Cuba makes cancer treatment breakthrough . . .more>
Ottawa: Harper claims to be pursuing an invigorated policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), he is ignoring Canada's natural advantages in Cuba . . . more	The United States has fined the French shipping company CMA CGM $374,400 for providing services to Cuba, according to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). . . more		Havana, Aug 18 (Prensa Latina) Cuban antiterrorist fighter Fernando Gonzalez is celebrating his 48th birthday on Thursday in a U.S. prison, where he has been unjustly held since September 12, 1998 despite his declared innocence. . . .more
Fidel's reflections: Under the title of "The Opinion of an Expert", I mentioned a really unusual activity of the United States and its allies which, in my opinion, underlines the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran . . . more>			Read the Canadian Network on Cuba's Bulletin for Parliamentarians January 2011
From the WikiLeaks cache, Michael Moore found this: On January 31, 2008, a State Department official stationed in Havana took a made up story and sent it back to his HQ in Washington. Here's what they concocted: "XXXXXXXXXX stated that Cuban authorities have banned Michael Moore's documentary, Sicko, as being subversive. Although the film's intent is to discredit the U.S. healthcare system by highlighting the excellence of the Cuban system, he said the regime knows the film is a myth and does not want to risk a popular backlash by showing to Cubans facilities that are clearly not available to the vast majority of them." Sounds convincing, eh?! There's only one problem -- 'Sicko' had just been playing in Cuban theaters. Then the entire nation of Cuba was shown the film on national television on April 25, 2008! . . . more>
Mobilization Against War and Occupation (MAWO) and Vancouver hip-hop artists will be traveling to Havana, Cuba to participate in the Annual International Hip-Hop Symposium. Vancouver Festival Sept. 24		When the United Nations appeals for more doctors and nurses to combat the deadly disease that is killing dozens by the day, it is to Cuba's medical brigade that U.N. officials are likely to turn to first . . . more>	HAVANA TIMES We’d like to put out an invitation to Cubans and readers from other countries to join in the debate on different issues regarding Cuba by commenting on articles presented on the website.
"It’s getting more outrageous every day. And this could happen in Canada. Indeed we already have the MasterCard (CUETS) issue and Canadian business being affected by the U.S. Extraterritorial law. The Harper government should be asked to enforce its own legislation – the Canada’s Foreign Extra Territorial Measures Act (FEMA) - and to protest any U.S. anti-free speech legislation, as vigorously as they are acting on anti-semitic legislation" says Nino Pagliccia who suggest you read this from Havana Journal: OFAC orders US domain registrar, eNom, to take down Cuba websites.
Interview with Oscar Martinez, the Deputy Head of the International Relations Department of the Cuban Communist Party: "We are not retrenching. That`s a capitalist term. We are not putting people out in the street. We are not going to leave them without social assistance. We are re-organising the workforce, not firing workers. We are directing them to other areas of work vital for the economy, mainly food production. We are making these changes as part of updating our economic model in order to ensure that our socialist system is sustainable on the basis of the rational and effective use of the workforce." . . . more>
Don't Just Close Gitmo. Give It Back. Author: Julia E. Sweig . . . .more>		What do mid-term election results mean for US foreign policy? . . . more>	Obama's Self-inflicted Isolation (The Havana Note). . . more>
Another visit with Gerardo Hernandez, Wednesday, 27 October 2010, By Danny Glover and Saul Landau: We sat in the waiting room with eight other people, all black or Latino, while prison authorities “counted” -- presumably -- the prisoners.?. . . more>		UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to condemn almost a half-century of U.S. sanctions against Cuba . . .more>	Will Castro's praise lure Israelis to Cuba? Marketing head of top travel agency says recent favorable comments about Israel by Cuba's former president, Fidel Castro, may change all that. . . more from Haaretz>
The Guardian's thumbnail description of 50 Years of Castro. . . more>		The Guardian The skyline is the same. So are the fabulous cars – Dodges, Buicks, Cadillacs and Chevrolets, held together with rope and soap . . .more>	It is important for the moment to deal in the form of notes with some media disinformation regarding the municipal elections which just recently came to an end . . .more>
Raúl Castro Ruz participated in the closing ceremonies of the 86th plenary session of the Central Organization of Cuban Workers (CTC) National Council, where he reiterated the Revolution's confidence in the labor movement. . . more>		It started simply enough. A small, U.K.-based agricultural consultant, Fertecon, took a check for £7,156 to its banker, Lloyds, and asked them to cash it. Lloyds refused. The reason? The check came from Cuba . . . more>	Amost all of us have paid taxes at some point in our lives. However, it is not always clear how we pay them, where they go or the mechanisms used to collect them. And it is a fact that, even though we daily check figures and accounts in order to balance domestic expenses, the Cuban population knows little about concepts such as taxes, rates or contributions . . . .more>
Dancers from New York City Ballet will perform at the International Ballet Festival in Havana next month . . .more>		Fidel Castro, has told a visiting American journalist that the island's state-dominated system is in need of change. . .more>
In Spanish: Cuba and Norway have signed a bilateral agreement for medical aid to Haiti. . . more>		Raul Castro:"This session of the National Assembly has passed two significant bills". . . . more>	I extend a warm welcome to our Cuban brothers and sisters to the wonderful world of paying taxes. . . .more>
Cuba announced on Sept. 13 that it would lay off half a million workers and push many of them into the private sector. It later detailed some 178 private jobs that will be allowable. . . more>		In large parts of Pinar del Rio and Isla de la Juventud, houses, schools, hospitals and other public buildings that weren't demolished, lost their roofs or suffered other kinds of damage . . . more>	This week, speculation is circulating in Washington that the Obama administration will issue an executive order to relax restrictions on the Cuban travel ban before Labor Day. . . more>
A modern neurosurgery system —called Estereoflex— developed in Cuba will soon benefit Argentinean patients . . .more>		The 60-year-old U.S. trade embargo against Cuba is "a chokehold" on the Caribbean island nation, Cuban union members told their U.S. colleagues during nine U.S. unionists' recent research trip there . . . more>	Saul Landau: In late September 2009, shortly after Fidel Castro and I exchanged hugs of greeting, I flashed back to my first visits to Cuba, in 1960 and 1961.. . . .more>
Leonard Weinglass: The Five should have been returned to Cuba shortly after their arrest . . . .more>		Hugo Chavez and Raul Castro interviewed by Sean Penn: By now, Oct. 2008, I had digested earlier visits to Venezuela and Cuba . ..more>	Five Cubans convicted in 2001 of spying for the Castro regime have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to grant a new trial . . . more>

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An Interview with Dr. Jorge Balseiro Estevez of the Henry Reeve Cuban Internationalist Medical Brigade