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The failed assassination of Che Guevara — Hasta siempre comandante

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

Havana (Cuba) | 13 October 2017
“Keep calm and aim well. You are going to kill a man!” with these words, Ernesto Guevara received his assassin, Sergeant Jaime Teran according to the criminal’s own testimony. It was in the little school of La Higuera, Vallegrande, Bolivia, at noon on 9 October 1967, that the soldier Jaime Teran, drunk and unable to look Che in the eye, fired a series of bullets at him that extended his agony until another criminal in military clothing finished him off.

The Cuban Communist Party: unity and revolution in perpetual motion

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

Havana (Cuba) | 5 October 2017
It was the night of 3 October 1965, in Havana, in what was then called the Chaplin Theatre (now known as the Carlos Marx Theatre): the very first Central Committee of the Communist Party was established and it established its official media, the newspaper, the Granma, the culmination of a defining stage in consolidating the Revolution.

When UN Gardens are visited by the olive green

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

Havana (Cuba) | 20 September 2017
In UN headquarters in New York, there was really not much the Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjold, could say in response to Fidel Castro, Cuba’s Prime Minister, as he was setting out to camp in the gardens of the UN building. This was Fidel’s response to a hotel in New York City refusing to let him and his country’s delegation to the 15th Session of the General Assembly, continue to stay there.

Hugo Chávez, Sabaneta’s boy… Dreaming of being armed

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

Havana (Cuba) | 5 August 2017
It was on 28 July 1954, in Sabaneta de Barinas, Venezuela that one of the most important revolutionary leaders in Latin America’s history was born: Hugo Chávez Frías.
His mother, Elena Frías, brought him into the world, yet only remained with him until he was delivered. Story has it that, as a child growing up, he enjoyed listening to the stories related by his grandmother about the heroes that liberated his country and those who confronted the injustices inflicted by dictatorial governments (...)

The Biggest Theft Committed by One Sovereign State against Another

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

Havana (Cuba) | 21 July 2017
In 1959, the first year of the Cuban Revolution, the Agrarian Reform was announced. This was pursuant to a strategy adopted by the new leaders navigating the Cuban ship, notably, the Cuban leader Fidel Castro, to dismantle the structures that the neo-colonial model had put in place. The United States responded by a basket of measures: the economic, trade and financial embargo together with terrorist operations, armed attacks and uprisings of conmen on the Island.

The primary target of the US’s bacteriological war against Cuba?

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

Havana (Cuba) | 5 June 2017
1 June 1964, 53 years ago: Fidel Castro, the leader of the Revolution, declared that it was likely that the Yankees would attempt a bacteriological war against our people; he also alerted global public opinion of these facts, facts which the US government hypocritically denied while US special services escalated action that, in the years to come, would cost many Cubans their lives and would also subtract millions from the Island’s economy.

Hugo Chávez, the voice of dignity

by Martha Gómez Ferrals

Havana (Cuba) | 24 May 2017
Many banners of struggle: these are the legacies that Hugo Chávez Frías as President of Venezuela left to the Latin American and Caribbean people at the time of his physical departure. These banners include dignity, unity and integration through solidarity of the region’s people. Threats and challenges that he knew how to assess, in his own way, during his life.

State Security Agencies: a response to strategies of aggression

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

Havana (Cuba) | 4 April 2017
On Tuesday 23 December 1958, top officials of the North American government had their Christmas holidays interrupted by having to attend a meeting chaired by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to evaluate the Cuban situation.

The Second Declaration of Havana, a program for the Revolution

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

Havana (Cuba) | 11 February 2017
At the beginning of 1962, US political aggression against Cuba knew no limits and far exceeded actions taken by the CIA and the US administration during the coups d’etat against the nationalist governments of Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954.

“The Fidel that I know”

by Aída Quintero Dip

Havana (Cuba) | 23 May 2016
I have read several articles on the personality of the leader of the Cuban Revolution but one of those that most moved me is The Fidel that I know, by Gabriel García Márquez, conceived through the eyes of a sincere friend. It has a depth and beauty so characteristic of the style of the Colombian Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, who has now passed away.

Marti’s warning at the 1891 International Monetary Conference

by Jorge Wejebe Cobo

13 May 2016
José Martí was the Uruguay representative at the International Monetary Conference that took place under the auspices of the US government from 7 January to 8 April 1891 in Washington. The overriding objective of this conference was to set up a Union of Latin American Nations under US control and to guarantee the superiority of the US economy and trade, and thus, US’s political supremacy.

Peace in a nutshell: Fidel

by Lubia Ulloa Trujillo

Havana (Cuba) | 10 May 2016
His words, actions and dreams penetrate to the depths of any human heart that loves peace as he does.

Ernesto “Che” Guevara, a Cuban Citizen

by Ángel Rodríguez Álvarez

Havana (Cuba) | 13 April 2016
On 7 February 1959, the Cuban Official Gazette in one of the few leaflets published in the 38 days following the triumph of the Revolution, gave notice of the promulgation of the Basic Law of the Republic of Cuba. The Magna Carta referred to included amendments said to be fundamental for future structural and substantive social changes, indispensable in light of the new realities that the country faced.

Salvador Allende: 40 years after his physical disappearance

by Rosa María González López

Havana (Cuba) | 12 September 2013
On 4 September 1970, the doctor and parliamentarian, Salvador Allende Gossens, a presidential candidate for the political coalition, Unidad Popular, of socialist popularity and supported by progressive sectors and the country’s left triumphed in the elections. He became the new constitutional president of Chile.
A month later – on 4 November – he was sworn into office - this natural leader of the dispossessed, the peasants, the workers and students; a sympathizer and supporter of (...)

Bahrain: the silenced revolt

Havana (Cuba) | 7 April 2012
While the Western media resort to every trick in the book to get people to believe in the narrative that an alleged popular uprising in Syria has been quelled in blood, mum’s the word with regard to the brutal suppression of the democratic movement in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen and Morocco. In this piece, Cuban journalist Dalia Gonzalez Delgado discusses the reasons behind the complacency shown by the "friends" of democracy and freedom towards the Kingdom of Bahrain.

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