La entrevista con el dictador comunista cubano Fidel Castro fue publicada en el diario La Jornada, de clara tendencia izquierdista y publicada en Ciudad México.

By Manuel Cereijo.

“Chinese personnel are operating from this base. Chinese satellites are used by this base”

Since 1998, in spite that very little has been written about the Bejucal base in Cuba, Cuba’s system of international communications surveillance is in full operation. Most of what has been written has been ignored by US and European authoritities. Bejucal is an electronic espionage base used by the Cuban military intelligence to intercept and process international communications passing via communications satellites.

Por Baldomero Vásquez.
El tema de las bases militares norteamericanas en Colombia, para contribuir a combatir en ese país al narcotráfico y a los guerrilleros terroristas de las FARC, ha sido criticado con una gran hipocresía por los diferentes actores y presidentes “antiimperialistas” latinoamericanos. Como siempre les marca la pauta en esa materia el octogenario destructor [...]

Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Cuban-American poet, critic, curator, professor and collector is unique. It is not often that one man can be all of the above and achieve worldwide notoriety in all.

By Manuel Ballagas.
Fidel Castro’s newly found role at the helm of Cuba’s international relations has claimed its first victim –Mexico.
In a couple of recent articles, two of many “reflections” Castro has published after he officially resigned some years ago, Cuba’s former Commander-in-Chief turned his guns on the only Latin American country that never broke with [...]

Funcionarios de Estados Unidos y del Congreso confirmaron el martes que el gobierno de Barack Obama considera levantar algunas de las restricciones que rigen los viajes de norteamericanos a Cuba.
Los funcionarios dijeron que esto era un intento por medir el interés de los Castro en mayores reformas tras la liberación de un puñado de presos [...]

By Humberto Fontova. “We lived surrounded by rats, cockroaches, scorpions –and I have to say it–with human excrement, yes, with excrement…dengue and tuberculosis ravaged the prisoners. Forty prisoners were crammed into cells measuring 32 square feet.” Julio Galvez

By Manuel Cereijo.

“A government’s treatment of its own citizens is an indication of its intention to the rest of the world”

Can the free world help transform fear societies( read CUBA, for example) into free societies? If so, how? To some, the options for exporting democracy are fair limited. Democracy, the skeptics warn, can not be imposed from the outside.

By Humberto Fontova.

The dictator who came the closest in history to igniting a nuclear war made several public appearances this week to predict imminent nuclear war. The cataclysm he craved in Oct. 1962 will erupt, he warned on Cuban TV this week, when the Israelis and their Yankee vassals, provoke Iran in the straits of Hormuz.

Writing a straight news story of Fidel Castro’s first government appearance in front of Cuba’s National Assembly Saturday in four years is easy. Castro had intestinal surgery in 2006 and turned over the presidency of Cuba to his younger brother Raúl.