In true Cuba style, the World Food Summit would not conclude until the Cubans pointed out the long history of hypocrisies, deceits, and obfuscations characteristic of the global north and especially, the US. Cuba knows that the the western countries are largely going through the motions in addressing the “food crisis.” As a

(Check out the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five website for more information: http://www.freethefive.org) GRANMA June 7, 2008 Attorney Leonard Weinglass: “There are 40 pages of ideological prejudice in the new ruling from Atlanta.” ARLEEN RODRIGUEZ DERIVET A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta upheld Wednesday the guilty verdicts of the Cuban Five, prisoners in the

In typical low-down US style, the State Department chastised Cuba in its 2008 Human Trafficking Report for not making significant efforts to confront the alleged trafficking of women and children for the purpose of sexual exploitation. In addition, the report described Cuba as a sexual tourism destination. Too bad we couldn’t lock a few State

This June 14 is the 80th anniversary of Che Guevara’s birth and it is a good occasion to review various parts of his life. In late 1964, after making a speech before the UN General Assembly, Che Guevara embarked on a lengthy tour of Africa that began and ended in Algeria. He visited Mali, Congo

Note to Readers: I just finished reading an article featuring a Jorge Ramos (Noticiero Univision) interview with Barack Obama about Latin American issues. Thanks to Machetera, a terrific blog you should check out (http://machetera.wordpress.com), I have an English translation of the article. Unfortunately, throughout the interview, Senator Obama lays on the right-wing rhetoric, especially

If any of you care to remember Elian Gonzalez, the young Cuban boy who in 2000 floated onto the Florida shore and was later given over to his family back in Cuba, well he’s in the news again. This time the young man has decided to join Cuba’s Young Communist Union. After being accepted by

Brasileirada…hahaha If you know me you know I have the memory of an elephant (amazingly though after all the damage caused, but that is another post…or not!:). If you know me you also know that I get super EMO when I remember something memorable of my / our past, or listen to a song that

At the risk of sounding like I’m indulging in “yellow journalism”,  this may well be correct. Buried in today’s papers (the front page news in all the national papers was about the disco raid disaster) was an item on the charges being brought against the masterminds of the phoney “kidnapping” of Cuban illegals being sent to

  This dark and depressing film takes place with Annie (Annabella Sciorra) and Chris (Robin Williams) falling in love. They start a family and are the happy couple with their two children, until tragedy strikes and both children and killed in a horrific car accident. Four years later Chris dies in his own accident leaving a

Rated R for language and sexuality. 139 Minutes Written And Directed By: Cameron Crowe But if anybody else wants to come with me, this moment will be the ground floor of something real and fun and inspiring and true in this godforsaken business and we will do it together! Who’s coming with me besides…”Flipper” here? -Jerry Maguire Synopsis Jerry Maguire