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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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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 (…)

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.

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 (…)