On August 20, lawyers for the Cuban Five presented their arguments to the US Court of Appeals in Atlanta, arguing their clients did not get a fair trial. (Keep reading…)

July 12, 2007. http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia.php?id_noticia=24223 Translated by Dana Lubow

We Cubans associate the Special Period with the worst economic crisis of the revolutionary phase: it is synonymous with scarcity, food shortages, blackouts, bicycles as transportation, houses in deplorable, almost irreversible condition, little television transmission, the disappearance of numerous newspapers, reductions of print runs of major newspapers, a drastic reduction of most leisure options for the populace, constant siren alerts in the face of possible imperialist aggression, massive mobilizations to dig tunnels, evacuation exercises, training of territorial militias and other similar actions. (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension, August 12, 2007

Introduction

The Cuban revolution with its socialist economy has demonstrated tremendous resilience in the face of enormous political obstacles and challenges. It successfully defied a US orchestrated invasion, naval blockade, hundreds of terrorists’ attacks and half-century boycott.(1) Cuba was able to withstand the fallout from the collapse of the USSR, the Eastern European collectivist regimes, China and Indo-China’s transit to capitalism and to construct a new development model. (Keep reading…)

Green Left Weekly 25 July 2007 Issue #718

“Cuba has an energy policy whose core concept is to rely less and less on hydrocarbons and give greater space in the energy balance to renewable sources like solar, wind, tide, and water. Cuba has put in place a conservation system that starts at house level and continues to the public sector and cooperative farms, by substituting incandescent lamps by fluorescent bulbs, distributing energy-saving household appliances, and revamping the national power grid” — Prensa Latina news service, June 8. (Keep reading…)

Counterpunch June 1. 2007

I landed at Jose Marti International airport in May of 1960, 17 months after a young, bearded man and his fellow barbudos had captured control of the island and sent a hated dictator fleeing. Musicians played a lively tune as the passengers deplaned, a young woman pushed a rum-flavored drink into my hand and I spotted a young, uniformed man with lieutenant’s bars on his shoulders. I gave him the note that Raulito Roa (of the Cuban UN delegation) had given me in New York, saying I was a young progressive writer and to provide me with help in understanding the revolution. (Keep reading…)

009.html Granma (Cuba) May 26, 2007

The press dispatches bring the news; it belongs to the Astute Class, the first of its kind to be constructed in Great Britain in more than two decades. (Keep reading…)

(This article appeared online March 23, 2007, in The Nation Magazine.)

“I am for the Cuban revolution. I do not worry about it, I worry for it and with it.” – from Listen, Yankee: The Revolution in Cuba (Keep reading…)

USA Today
February 27, 2007

By Havana ˜ Years before George W. Bush proclaimed his support for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriages in the United States, the ideologically rigid government of Fidel Castro made a big move in the opposite direction. (Keep reading…)

Associated Press January 29, 2007

The city of Miami is planning an official celebration at the Orange Bowl whenever Cuban president Fidel Castro dies. (Keep reading…)

Hudson Valley Activist Newspaper January 4, 2007

Cuba is the only country in the world that enjoys sustainable development, according to the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) The Living Planet Report 2006. In addition, despite unrelenting U.S. enmity, Cuba registered a 12.5% increase in its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) during the last 12 months, the highest such indicator in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2006, according to a Dec. 22 disclosure by Economy and Planning Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez. The average GDP growth for the region was 5.3%. (Keep reading…)