I N T E R N A T I O N A L

• International campaign to support the island continues
September.18.08
DIVERSE governments, organizations and Cuba solidarity groups have continued to join the international support campaign for the island, established in the face of the devastation recently caused by the powerful Hurricanes Gustav and Ike which, in eight days, caused seven deaths and billion-dollar losses to the economy, infrastructure, agriculture and services in the Caribbean nation.

• "Our solidarity is not just words"
September.18.08
NEVER were two nations as united as Cuba and Timor Leste through links of cooperation and solidarity at such difficult moments in history; two nations so distant, geographically speaking, but both determined to face the future.

• Caught between a rock and a hard place
September.18.08
NOBODY knows for sure if it is a case of information intoxication or reality, but the most recent reports on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are quite confusing.

• Number of victims from Hurricane Ike rises to 50 in USA
September.18.08
WASHINGTON, September 17 — The number of deaths caused by Hurricane Ike in the United States has risen to at least 50, according to authorities, while rescue teams continued to remove rubble and more than three million consumers in Texas and six other states are without electricity.

• IMPERIALIST ARROGANCE
Bush wants to impose Posada Carriles on Honduras
August 29.08
WHEN the U.S. ambassador approached the new Honduran president just a week after his swearing-in in 2006, everything seemed to indicate that the Bush Administration thought it could impose — without facing any resistance whatsoever — the undesirable presence of Luis Posada Carriles on that country.

• Putin accuses United States of orchestrating conflict in Georgia
August 29.08
NEW YORK, August 28.—Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin today accused the U.S. government of orchestrating the conflict in Georgia as an electoral ploy to benefit the aspiring Republican candidate, Notimex reported.

• Sudden order for Posada to stand trial
August 12.08
BARELY three days after the vice president of Panama confirmed that his country is to apply for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, the Court of Appeals in New Orleans, which has broken records in its slowness in considering the case, has suddenly ordered that the terrorist be tried in El Paso on charges of immigration fraud.

• Thousands of demonstrators oppose Bush
August 7.08
SEOUL, August 6.—U.S. President George W. Bush has traveled to Thailand after staying less than 24 hours in the Korean capital, the scene of demonstrations against him. According to EFE, while in Seoul, Bush tried to put pressure on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea by demanding verification of its denuclearization, while his statements of support for the South Korean president, Lee Myung-bak, were accompanied by a request to send troops to Afghanistan.

• Bloody day in Iraq: at least 50 dead and more than 300 injured
July 26.08
BAGHDAD, July 28.—The White House is insisting that the violence in Iraq is diminishing; however, facts demonstrate the opposite. This Monday was a bloody day. A number of attacks left at least 50 dead and more than 300 injured, leading Iraqi authorities to declare a curfew in Baghdad and Kirkuk, 250 kilometers north of this capital, EFE reports.

• Massive USAID fraud: Congress bends to Bush
July 25.08
With the recognition that the Cuban-American mafia has been diverting funds for the U.S. government’s annexationist plans for Cuba for years now, Congress froze $45 million of funds allocated this year to the U.S.

• Number of hungry worldwide reaches 50 million
July 22.08
DURING 2007 the number of hungry people in the world increased to more than 50 million, a figure that could continue to rise this year. The food crisis has taken on ominous and tragic tones. Its consequences speak for themselves and it has provoked a wave of protest as hunger has worsened around the planet.

• ALADI general secretary begins visit to Cuba
July 14.08
HAVANA.— Hugo Saguier, general secretary of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI), began his schedule of official activities here today after arriving on Sunday, invited by Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque.

• Canadian members of Parliament demand justice for the Cuban Five
July 11.08
FIFTY-SIX members of Canada’s Parliament have just signed a petition demanding justice for the Cuban Five, the anti-terrorist fighters arbitrarily sentenced to long prison sentences in the United States since September 12, 1998. "Nothing justifies keeping them behind bars," the petition says.

• G8 Summit ends on flat note
July 10.08
TOKYO, July 9.—The Summit of the Group of Eight (G8), the richest countries in the world, and another 14 dignitaries and special guests ended today without glory after discussing the world’s most pressing problems.

• Meeting with poor countries today ends G-8 summit
July 9.08
TOKYO.—A summit meeting of the eight richest countries in the world (G-8) ends today in the Toyako Visitor Center in this city with a meeting of dignitaries from five emerging economies.

• U.S. airline fined for violating blockade against Cuba
June 30.08
SPIRIT Airlines, the largest private airline in the United Sates, was fined $100,000 by the federal government for violating the blockade against Cuba, according to Notimex.

• European Council in Brussels
EU foreign ministers revoke unjust sanctions against Cuba
June 20.08
BRUSSELS, June 19.— The European Union agreed on Thursday to revoke its sanctions against Cuba, reported the bloc’s foreign relations commissioner, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, quoted by Reuters.

• Why Bush let the cockroach in Former Bolivian "Minister of Death" granted asylum in U.S.
June 16.08
CARLOS Sánchez Berzaín, a strongman for the murderous Sánchez de Lozada administration who ordered the 2003 massacre of workers in Bolivia and who Bush is now allowing to relax on the beaches of Miami, calls himself Chulupi, the Guaraní word for cockroach.

• U.S. grants asylum to former Bolivian minister accused of genocide
June 16.08
THE granting of asylum to former Bolivian Defense Minister Carlos Sánchez Berzaín by the United States could complicate relations between the two countries, according to the Bolivian ambassador in Washington, Gustavo Guzmán.

• U.S. air raids kill 40 Afghan civilians and 11 Pakistani soldiers
June 12.08
KABUL/PESHAWAR, June 11.— A U.S. air raid against a town in southeast Afghanistan in the province of Paktika, near the Pakistani border, killed 40 people, including woman and children, and destroyed a number of homes.

• Pentagon asks for destruction of Guantánamo notes
June 9.08
A military defense lawyer has said that the Pentagon asked interrogators at the U.S. military base in Guantánamo to destroy their written notes in case of being summoned to testify regarding alleged ill-treatment of detainees.

• FAO Summit concludes
Cuba notes lack of political will on part of countries of the North
June 6.08
ROME, June 5.—The UN Summit on Food Security: The Effects of Climate Change and Bioenergy concluded at midnight on Thursday with the commitment of heads of state and government, ministers and other representatives to assume the urgent task of guaranteeing foodstuffs and eradicating hunger as ongoing national policy.

• Nepal: many unknowns
June 6.08
APART from four monarchists, the rest of Nepal’s 563 deputies voted at the end of May in favor of constituting a federal republic, abolishing the figure of the king, his court and the privileges enjoyed over more than two centuries by a corrupt dynasty capable of committing regicide among its own members.

• FAO criticizes rich countries at Rome Summit
June 3.08
ROME (PL).—At a remove from protocol and in incisive language, Jacques Diouf, director-general of the FAO, criticized rich countries on Tuesday for turning their backs and allowing the world food crisis to grow.

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