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• Climate Change Summit about to close without agreement
December.18.09
COPENHAGEN, December 17.— The UN Summit on Climate Change, which ends today in Copenhagen, had not reached any concrete agreements as of last night, but it did feature countless appeals by political leaders to find a consensus before it is too late.

• ALBA raises its voice in Copenhagen
December.17.09
COPENHAGEN, December 16.—In the midst of tense debating sessions, the UN Climate Change Summit continues with the appearance yesterday, Wednesday, of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and his Bolivian counterpart, Evo Morales, AFP reports.
- Socialism is the course for the salvation of the planet

• Polar ice could disappear in five years
December.16.09
COPENHAGEN.—Recent computer models suggest that the Arctic Ocean could be left virtually without ice in summertime as soon as 2014, affirmed former vice president Al Gore, addressing the UN Climate Change Conference.

• Ibero-America asks Obama to end the blockade of Cuba
December.2.09
ESTORIL, Portugal, December 1.—The 19th Ibero-American Summit, which ended today in this city, approved a joint declaration demanding the end of the economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba, mounted by the United States for 50 years, which was signed by the 22 member countries of the bloc.

• The intellectual emptiness of Human Rights Watch
November.19.09
HUMAN Rights Watch (HRW) is again going too far against the Cuban Revolution in a vain attempt to sully the island’s impeccable work for the dignity and authentic human rights of more than 11 million Cubans.

• International symposium for the Five in Cuba
November.18.09
HOLGUIN.— The city of Holguín will once again be converted into an opportune location to intensify the call for the liberation of the five Cuban anti-terrorists unjustly incarcerated in U.S. prisons.

• Cuba condemns attitude of the rich countries at the Rome Summit
November.17.09
ROME, November 16. — Cuba has condemned the attitude of the rich countries who were absent from the Heads of State or Government meeting at the FAO Food Security Summit taking place in this capital.

• At least 147 dead in a double attack in Baghdad
October.26.09
BAGHDAD, October 25. — At least 147 people were killed and more than 700 injured this Sunday in Baghdad after suicide bombers drove two truck bombs into government buildings, Iraqi Heath Minister Saleh al Hasnawi stated, according to Telesur.

• Terrorist Santiago Álvarez, friend and benefactor of Posada Carriles, released from jail in the United States
October.22.09
THE double standard of the U.S. government continues. The Cuban Five, in jail; Luis Posada Carriles and now another notorious terrorist, Santiago Álvarez Fernández-Magriñá, free on the streets of Miami. Álvarez was released from federal prison on Wednesday after completing a sentence of not even four years in jail.

• Only socialism will save the planet, affirms Chávez at the UN
September.25.09
UNITED NATIONS, September 24.—President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela affirmed here today that socialism is the only true way forward for the salvation of the planet.

• The challenge of the Kennedy family
September.3.09
UP until his last breath, Edward Kennedy bore the challenge of his family: to clean up the dirty politics of the United States.

• 2009 already the most fatal year for occupying soldiers
September.3.09
THIS year – 2009 – is already the most fatal year for foreign forces deployed in Afghanistan since the end of 2001, after five occupying soldiers – four of them from the U.S. – were killed on August 25, at a time when U.S. public opinion is moving increasingly against the intervention.

• Cuban foreign minister affirms viability of socialism despite blockade
September.2.09
BEIJING, China, September 1. — Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla today affirmed the viability of socialism in his country despite the U.S. policy of aggression, which, he said, remains intact. Neither the blockade policy, nor the global economic...
 
• Chávez highlights Africa-South American unity
September.1.09
TRIPOLI, Libya, August 31. —Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez highlighted the importance of unity between Africa and South American within the formation of a multipolar world while addressing the African Union Congress (UA) in Libya, DPA reports.
 
• Anti-Cuba terrorism in Puerto Rico
August.31.09
REYNOL Rodríguez, one of the capos of the Alpha 66 group in Miami, was linked to terrorist operations in the 1970s that ended, successively, in an unsuccessful plot to assassinate the Puerto Rican independence leader Juan Mari Bras; the death of his son, Santiago "Chagui" Mari Pesquera in 1976; and the murder of Cuban Carlos Muñiz Varela in 1970.

• The challenge of the Kennedy family
August.27.09
UP until his last breath, Edward Kennedy bore the challenge of his family: to clean up the dirty politics of the United States. In a “Reflection” last April, Fidel acknowledged that family, in particular the assassinated President John F. Kennedy (JFK), as being representative of “a new generation of Americans confronting the old and dirty politics of men in the mold of Nixon and had defeated him with a feast of political talent.”

• The latent seeds of Auschwitz
June.25.09
AFTER Nuremberg, where those centrally responsible were tried for crimes against humanity and peace, it seemed as though the world had seen the end of an era, the end of barbarism, and the beginning of a new era based on an international order that would not allow a repetition of the events of World War II.

• U.S. survey reveals drop in approval rating for Obama
June.18.09
WASHINGTON, June 17.—The popularity of President Barack Obama has dropped in the U.S. as a result of unemployment and the budget deficit, according to a survey published today by the NBC television channel and the Wall Street Journal daily.

• U.S. recovery will take time, Treasury secretary says
June.17.09
WASHINGTON.— U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has announced that the financial system is beginning to unfreeze but maintained that any upturn in the economy would be slower than usual, Reuters reports.

• Vindication of Cuba
Beyond the OAS
June.5.09
THE General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) has revoked without conditions the sanction of Cuba’s expulsion from that body imposed by the U.S. government 47 years ago in the disastrous Punta del Este Meeting of Consultation of Foreign Ministers.
• The shameful history of the OAS (III and Final)
May.29.09
On September 2, 1960, after the OAS conspiracy against Cuba was established in San José, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro convened the Cuban people in a Great General Assembly in the José Martí Plaza de la Revolución, and read out the historical proclamation known as the First Declaration of Havana, whose eighth and final paragraph defined:
"…The National General Assembly of the People of Cuba reaffirms its faith in that Latin America will soon be marching, united and triumphant, free from the bindings that are turning its economies into wealth relinquished to U.S. imperialism and preventing its true voice from being heard at the meetings where domesticated foreign ministers form an infamous chorus led by their despotic masters.

• Cuba demands transparency in the WTO
May.29.09
GENEVA, May 28.—Cuba and a number of developing countries have asked the World Trade Organization (WTO) to bring the Doha Round to a happy conclusion, but with transparency and the participation of the entire international community, PL reports.

• The shameful history of the OAS (II)
May.27.09
ON March 18, 1959, just two and a half months after the popular victory of January 1st, Raúl Roa García, the new Cuban ambassador to the Organization of American States, was setting out the position that would define the relationship between the triumphant Revolution and the hemispheric organization from then on: "…For long years, Cuba’s genuine voice had not been raised or heard in the OAS Council….

• The shameful history of the OAS (Part 1)
May.22.09
SINCE its take-off as a nation, the United States of America has always countered the ideology of Latin American unity and integration with its pretensions for continental domination, an ambition expressed on December 2, 1823 in the famous Monroe Doctrine and synthesized in the phrase: "America for the Americans."

• More criticism of United States at WTO
May.22.09
GENEVA, May 21 (PL).—Delegates from Cuba, the European Community (representing the 27 member states) and a further 12 countries reiterated their criticisms of U.S. persistence with its illegal Section 211, which infringes the right to trade and directly affects Cuba.  In addition to the island and the European Community, the U.S.

• Protests in Germany against crisis
May.18.09
BERLIN, May 17.— More than 100,000 people protested here to demand changes in the German government’s economic policies, Prensa Latina reported.

• Questions for Hillary Clinton
May.7.09
ON April 22, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made a number of statements in which she included the issue of the downing — in a Cuban government decision in defense of national sovereignty — of two airplanes belonging to the terrorist organization Brothers to the Rescue, in 1996. These statements were made to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs. Among other things, she said:
"I well remember when those two small, unarmed planes doing nothing more than dropping pamphlets were shot down by the Castro regime."

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