http://www.scribd.com/people/view/9697-fidelista This a feed for documents on Scribd written by fidelista 30 Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:56:59 GMT Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:56:59 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/867362/Antonio-Maceo-The-bronze-Titan I am indebted to him. Yesterday marked another anniversary of his physical death. There are over forty versions of how it occurred, but all concur on several details that are of great interest. Maceo was in the company of young Francisco Gómez Toro, who had entered Cuba through the west of Pinar del Rio, as part of the expedition headed by General Rius Rivera. Previously wounded in one arm, Panchito travelled next to Maceo from one shore of the Mariel Bay to the other. With them were 17 brave officers from his general staff, a number of marines and only one escort. That day, the 7th, in the Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:56:59 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/867362/Antonio-Maceo-The-bronze-Titan http://www.scribd.com/doc/819225/Fidels-messages-to-Chavez Dear Hugo: I send you revolutionary congratulations on your speech early today. It was an ‘I came, I saw, I conquered’ of dignity and ethics. Fidel Castro Ruz December 3, 2007 10:00 a.m. Dear Hugo: I try to be as succinct as possible in my reflections. These are directed at the public. I have to take into account the space that the news agencies and the international press dedicate to events that take place in the world every 24 hours and the maximum time that people give to one idea among thousands. Moreover, their perception is influenced by the speed at which an announcer reads over the Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:29:56 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/819225/Fidels-messages-to-Chavez http://www.scribd.com/doc/548505/A-People-under-Fire Venezuela, whose people are heirs to Bolivar�s ideas which transcend his era, is today facing a world tyranny a thousand times more powerful than that of Spain�s colonial strength added to that of the recently born United States which, through Monroe, proclaimed their right to the natural wealth of the continent and to the sweat of its people. Mart� denounced the brutal system and called it a monster, in whose entrails he had lived. His internationalist spirit shone as never before when, in a letter left unfinished due to his death in combat, he publicly revealed the objective of his res Fri, 30 Nov 2007 09:48:38 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/548505/A-People-under-Fire http://www.scribd.com/doc/508399/Oil-Costs-and-Development Chavez said it very clearly in Riad: developing countries spend upwards of a trillion dollars in oil and gas. He proposed that the OPEC, which was nearly dissolved before the establishment of the Bolivarian government -which chaired and preserved this organization over 8 years- assume the tasks the International Monetary Fund was created for but has never fulfilled. The dollar is in a state of free fall, he said. We are paid with paper notes. We can and ought to guarantee a supply of fuel, both to developed countries and to those struggling to develop that need to import it. The OPEC can grant Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:19:41 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/508399/Oil-Costs-and-Development http://www.scribd.com/doc/505895/The-conversation-with-Chavez Last November 15, I referred to a third reflection on the Latin American Summit which, as I then wrote, �I have yet to publish�. It strikes me as timely, however, to do so before the referendum of December 2. In this reflection, written on the 13th, I pointed out the following: Yesterday, the Cuban people had the opportunity to hear Ch�vez speak on the Round Table program. I phoned him when he said that Fidel was a man who was out of this world, that, on April 11, 2002, he spoke with him, when all official lines of communication were tapped, over a phone located in his kitchen. I was at Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:11:30 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/505895/The-conversation-with-Chavez http://www.scribd.com/doc/501997/In-Honor-of-Sergio-del-Valle Sergio and I had the privilege of being at the command post located on the right of the Almendares estuary at dawn of April 15, forty six years ago, when US B-26 bombers with Cuban insignias, piloted by mercenaries, attacked the air bases of Ciudad Libertad, San Antonio de los Banos and the Santiago de Cuba civil airport. It was a pre-emptive attack on this dark corner of the world. I would phone Sergio from any town near the central highway as I headed for the Bay of Pigs on April 17. In the midst of the battle waged by our infantry and our tanks there, from the command post, he informed me t Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:34:28 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/501997/In-Honor-of-Sergio-del-Valle http://www.scribd.com/doc/501984/The-ideological-Waterloo I have been working on the many reflections that I have promised. One of them deals with the main ideas of a book by Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, making use of his own words. His book clearly reveals how imperialism seeks to continue buying up the world�s natural and human resources with perfumed paper bills. Another idea I had consisted in compelling certain individuals to confess the truth about NATO�s war plans. I directly challenged Mr. Aznar and brought pressures to bear on US leaders to have them openly admit their responsibility in the empire�s wars. Some of Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:28:20 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/501984/The-ideological-Waterloo http://www.scribd.com/doc/489636/The-Summit-Debate All physical, geographic and time barriers disappeared. It seemed unreal. Never before had a dialogue of this nature taken place between heads of State and government, most of whom represented nations that had been pillaged by colonial and imperialist powers for centuries. Nothing could have been more instructive. The Saturday of November 10th, 2007, will go down in the history of our America as a day of truth. The ideological Waterloo took place when the King of Spain abruptly asked Chávez: “Why don’t you keep quiet?” All hearts in Latin America raced at that instant. The people of Ven Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:35:44 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/489636/The-Summit-Debate http://www.scribd.com/doc/486408/The-value-of-ideas Che was a man of ideas. It would have caused him profound pain to hear the speeches that, expressing traditional leftist positions, were delivered at the Latin American Summit held in Santiago de Chile. The Right also assumed traditional stances and made intelligent concessions to the supposed Left. Che would have been proud of the statements made by several revolutionary and courageous leaders, regardless of the little or great deal of political experience any of them may have. Experience is the mother of science and of ideas. It was from the battles waged by a handful of Cuban combatant Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:25:58 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/486408/The-value-of-ideas http://www.scribd.com/doc/437860/Bush-mambi Viva Cuba libre! (Long live free Cuba!). That was the war cry throughout the plains and the mountains, forests and sugarcane fields, identifying those who began Cuba’s first war of independence on October 10, 1868. I would never have imagined I’d be hearing those words 139 years later, coming from the mouth of a president of the United States. It is as if a king of days gone by, or his regent, were proclaiming: Viva Cuba Libre! On the contrary, a Spanish warship drew near the coast and with its guns destroyed the small sugar mill where Carlos Manuel de Céspedes declared the independence o Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:48:29 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/437860/Bush-mambi http://www.scribd.com/doc/431944/Declaration-by-the-Commander-in-Chief-Fidel-Castro Bush is obsessed with Cuba. Yesterday news reached us that a White House spokesperson announced that the president would suggest new initiatives for the transition period already underway. Another spokesperson from the Department of State later confirmed it, reiterating Bush’s exacting and threatening tone. As was affirmed by Ricardo Alarcón, Speaker of our National Assembly, who is very well informed about Bush’s machinations and intentions, the Cuban American mafia firing squads would certainly follow, with carte blanche to eliminate anyone suspected of being a principled member of the Sat, 27 Oct 2007 21:35:39 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/431944/Declaration-by-the-Commander-in-Chief-Fidel-Castro http://www.scribd.com/doc/414886/Bush-Hunger-an-Death For the first time, just before the UN discusses, as it does every year, the project of the Cuban resolution condemning the blockade, the President of the United States announces that he will adopt new measures to accelerate the "transition period" in our country, equivalent to a new conquest of Cuba by force. On the other hand, the danger of a massive world famine is aggravated by Mr. Bush’s recent initiative to transform foods into fuel while, calling on strategic security principles, he threatens humanity with World War III, this time using atomic weapons. Such crucially important issue Tue, 23 Oct 2007 13:25:48 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/414886/Bush-Hunger-an-Death http://www.scribd.com/doc/410771/The-elections Our elections are the antithesis of those held in the United States, not on Sundays but on the first Tuesday of November. Being very rich or having the support of lot of money is what matters the most there. Huge amounts are later on invested in publicity, specialized in brain washing and the creation of conditioned reflexes. With honorable exceptions, no one can hope to be appointed to an important post without being backed by millions of dollars. Being elected President in the US requires hundreds of millions, which come from the coffers of big monopolies. Elections can be won by a candida Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:01:04 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/410771/The-elections http://www.scribd.com/doc/390147/A-silent-complicity The world cannot afford to let the tragedy of NATO’s war against Yugoslavia be forgotten due to the silence of those who were actors and accomplices of that brutal genocide. President Clinton, National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and other close collaborators of the President, including the person who was ordered by Berger not to take notes when Cuba was discussed, were at the meeting Clinton held with Aznar in the White House on April 13, 1999, where the decision to intensify the bombings was made, and Aznar suggested that Serbian television, radio a Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:46:34 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/390147/A-silent-complicity http://www.scribd.com/doc/377694/CHE I make a halt in my daily struggle to bow my head in respect and gratitude to the exceptional combatant who fell in combat on October 8th, forty years ago; for the example he passed on to us as leader of his Rebel Army Column, crossing the swampy grounds of the former provinces of Oriente and Camagüey, while being chased by enemy troops. He was the liberator of the city of Santa Clara and the mastermind of voluntary work; he accomplished honorable political missions abroad and served as messenger of militant internationalism in East Congo and Bolivia. He built a new awareness in our America a Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:23:54 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/377694/CHE http://www.scribd.com/doc/372762/Second-and-third-message-to-Milosevic-and-his-reply On April 2, 1999, I sent Milosevic my second message through our UN mission: “It would be advisable not to indict the three US prisoners. International public opinion is now especially susceptible and a strong anti-Serb movement might result”. On April 5, 1999, I sent him a third message through our mission in the UN and Yugoslavia: “We congratulate you on the decision with regards to the three prisoners as reported by press agencies. Your promise to treat them well and to release them when the bombings cease is very intelligent and apt. It has foiled the United States’ maneuver to tur Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:14:16 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/372762/Second-and-third-message-to-Milosevic-and-his-reply http://www.scribd.com/doc/353205/Milosevics-response In my reflections of Monday, October 1st, I referred to the message I had sent to Milosevic on March 25, 1999. On March 30, I received from Milosevic the following note: “H.E. Mr. President: “It was with great attention and sincere gratitude that I received your message of March 25, 1999. I appreciate your strong words of support and encouragement for Yugoslavia, as well as the condemnation of NATO’s aggression expressed by Cuba and its representatives, especially at the U.N. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) is exposed to an aggression by the United States and NATO, the bigges Wed, 03 Oct 2007 17:38:33 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/353205/Milosevics-response http://www.scribd.com/doc/351570/The-emires-illegal-wars When the United States and its NATO allies started the war on Kosovo, Cuba immediately defined her position on the front page of the newspaper Granma, on March 26, 1999. This was done in a Declaration of her Ministry of Foreign Affairs under the title of “Cuba's appeal to end NATO’s unjustified aggression against Yugoslavia.” I take essential paragraphs from that Declaration: “After a number of painful and highly manipulated political occurrences, extended armed confrontations and complex, hardly transparent negotiations around the issue of Kosovo, the North Atlantic Treaty Organizat Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:06:18 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/351570/The-emires-illegal-wars http://www.scribd.com/doc/345108/Aznars-Silence During a Round Table program aired on Cuban television on April 25, 2003, I pointed out that the then Spanish President José María Aznar, an ally of the world's leader in genocides and massacres, had met with President William Clinton on April 13, 1999, at an uncertain juncture of the war in Yugoslavia, and had told him, verbatim: "If we’re at war, let’s make it an all-out war, in order to win, to achieve more than a partial victory. Even if the war must last a month, three months, let's wage it. I don't understand why we have not yet bombed Serbian radio and television". Aznar and US go Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:45:15 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/345108/Aznars-Silence http://www.scribd.com/doc/338062/One-more-argument-for-the-UN While I am working with the already famous Greenspan book, I read an article published by El País, a Spanish newspaper with a circulation of more than 500,000, according to reports; I would like to pass this on to the readers. It is signed by Ernesto Ekaizer, and it literally reads: “Four weeks before the Iraq invasion which happened in the night of March 19 to 20, 2003, George W. Bush publicly sustained his demands of Saddam Hussein in the following terms: disarmament or war. In private, Bush acknowledged that war was inevitable. In a long private conversation with the then Spanish presid Fri, 28 Sep 2007 19:13:15 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/338062/One-more-argument-for-the-UN http://www.scribd.com/doc/308308/El-Socialismo-del-Siglo-XXI EL SOCIALISMO DEL SIGLO XXI Heinz Dieterich Steffan 1 El Socialismo del Siglo XXI Heinz Dieterich Steffan Índice Prólogo a la edición mexicana ______________________________________________ 3 Agradecimientos _________________________________________________________ 8 Introducción_____________________________________________________________ 9 1. Polémica por el nuevo socialismo _________________________________________ 11 2. Fin de la civilización burguesa ___________________________________________ 12 2.1 Ciencia y nuevo socialismo __________________________________________ 12 2.2 Ag Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:38:12 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/308308/El-Socialismo-del-Siglo-XXI http://www.scribd.com/doc/305629/Deliberate-lies-strange-deaths-and-sgression-to-the-world-economy In one of my reflections I made reference to gold bars deposited in the basements of the Twin Towers. This time the subject is quite a bit more complicated and hard to believe. Almost four decades ago scientists living in the United States discovered the Internet, the same way that Albert Einstein, born in Germany, discovered in his own time the formula to measure atomic energy. Einstein was a great scientist and humanist. He contradicted Newton’s laws of physics, held sacred until then. However, apples continued to fall due to the laws of gravity that had been defined by Newton. These were Wed, 19 Sep 2007 11:27:30 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/305629/Deliberate-lies-strange-deaths-and-sgression-to-the-world-economy http://www.scribd.com/doc/281320/The-empire-and-its-lies It was Reagan who created the Cuban American involvement in the blockade and in terrorist revealed years later, when the United States full of information that had been shamefully to light earlier, our conduct would not have National Foundation, whose sinister actions against Cuba would be declassified secret documents, albeit crossed out. Had these documents come been different. When, on March 30, 1981, we received news in Cuba that Reagan had been shot with a low-caliber weapon in an assassination attempt, we sent him a message condemning the act. The 22-caliber lead bullet lodged in one o Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:15:31 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/281320/The-empire-and-its-lies http://www.scribd.com/doc/276051/W-and-APEC Important meetings take place at such a frantic pace and Bush flies around and speaks at such speed that it is almost impossible to keep track. En route to Sydney, he stopped over for a few hours in Iraq, no less. I can’t say whether this happened two or three days ago, because when it's Thursday in Sydney and the sun is almost at high noon over the land, it’s still Wednesday in Havana with its fresh night air. The globalized planet Earth changes and transforms our concepts. Only one reality remains unchanged: the Empire’s network of air, sea, land and space military bases, increasingly Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:01:45 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/276051/W-and-APEC http://www.scribd.com/doc/269989/The-SuperRevolutionaries Every day I carefully read the opinions about Cuba in the traditional press agency releases, including those from the peoples which were part of the USSR, those from the People’s Republic of China and others. News reaches me from the Latin America press, from Spain and the rest of Europe. The picture is increasingly uncertain as we face the fear of a prolonged recession like that of the 1930s. On July 22, 1944, the United States government received the privileges granted in Bretton Woods to the most powerful military power, that of minting the dollar as the international exchange currency. A Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:35:59 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/269989/The-SuperRevolutionaries http://www.scribd.com/doc/269648/Dialogue-among-Civilization DIALOGUE AMONG CIVILIZATIONS INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR On August 3, under the title of A Reflection on Hard and Obvious Realities, I published a number of remarks on the prerogatives of power and its effect on human beings and quoted the arguments advanced by Colonel General Leonid Ivashov, VicePresident of the Russian Academy for Geopolitical Affairs and former Secretary of the Council of Defense Ministers of the Community of Independent States and Chief of the Military Cooperation Department of the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Defense. As I indicated on that occasion, Ivashov is a w Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:24:15 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/269648/Dialogue-among-Civilization http://www.scribd.com/doc/263789/Submission-to-imperial-politics Of all the presidents of the United States, and those who aspire to that office, I only met one who, for ethical-religious reasons, was not an accomplice to the brutal terrorism against Cuba: James Carter. That assumes, of course, another President who forbade that United States officials should be used to assassinate Cuban leaders. That was the case of Gerald Ford who replaced Nixon after the Watergate scandal. Given his irregular manner of ascending to the office, one might characterize him as a symbolic President. It is to the illustrious President Eisenhower, not in the least opposed to an Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:50:44 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/263789/Submission-to-imperial-politics http://www.scribd.com/doc/262970/Remembering-Chibas-100-years-after-his-birth When I read Hart's article, published by Granma in commemoration of Chibás' birth, and saw it quoted a paragraph of the speech I delivered at the Colón Cemetery on January 16, 1959, eight days after my arrival in Havana following the revolutionary triumph, many memories of fallen, heroic comrades came to me. I thought of Juan Manuel Márquez, a brilliant orator and follower of Marti's ideas and second chief of the Granma expeditionary force. I thought of Abel Santamaría, who was to take command of our forces were I to fall during the attack on the Moncada garrison; of Pedro Marrero, Ñico L Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:05:41 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/262970/Remembering-Chibas-100-years-after-his-birth http://www.scribd.com/doc/259793/The-empire-tastes-an-unprecedented-moral-defeat The words of Roberto González, a lawyer born to a Cuban family that fled to the United States during the dictatorship and returned to Cuba following the triumph of the Revolution, come to mind as I begin to reflect on this issue. Like René, he was born in the United States during his family’s sojourn there. He has been fighting tirelessly to obtain the release of his brother René, who endures cruel and unjust imprisonment, as do four other heroes who sought to defend their country in the struggle against terrorism. “The worst thing that can happen to us is to allow a sense of defeat or Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:41:46 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/259793/The-empire-tastes-an-unprecedented-moral-defeat http://www.scribd.com/doc/248154/The-Empire-and-the-independent-Island The history of Cuba during the last 140 years is one of struggle to preserve national identity and independence, and the history of the evolution of the American empire, its constant craving to appropriate Cuba and of the horrendous methods that it uses today to hold on to world domination. Prominent Cuban historians have dealt in depth with these subjects in different periods and in various excellent books which deserve to be readily available to our compatriots. These reflections are addressed especially to the new generations with the aim of helping them learn about very important and decis Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:52:58 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/248154/The-Empire-and-the-independent-Island http://www.scribd.com/doc/238348/Key-address-by-Dr-Fidel-Castro-Ruz-President-of-the-Republic-of-Cuba-at-the-World-Conference-against-racism-racial-discrimination-xenophobia-and- Excellencies: Delegates and guests: Racism, racial discrimination and reactions of the human beings but phenomenon born directly of wars, or collective exploitation of the history of human societies. xenophobia are not naturally instinctive rather a social, cultural and political military conquests, slavery and the individual weakest by the most powerful all along the No one has the right to boycott this Conference which tries to bring some sort of relief to the overwhelming majority of mankind afflicted by unbearable suffering and enormous injustice. Neither has anyone the right to set preco Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:50:26 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238348/Key-address-by-Dr-Fidel-Castro-Ruz-President-of-the-Republic-of-Cuba-at-the-World-Conference-against-racism-racial-discrimination-xenophobia-and- http://www.scribd.com/doc/238242/Speech-delivered-by-Dr-Fidel-Castro-Ruz-President-of-the-Republic-of-Cuba-at-the-Commemoration-of-the-60th-Anniversary-of-his-admission-to-Universi Dear students and professors of Universities fro all over Cuba; Dear comrades, leaders and guests who have shared with us so many years of struggle: This is the most difficult moment, when I must say some words in this Aula Magna, where so many words have already been spoken. A universe of ideas comes to mind, and it’s only logical, because time has passed. You have been very kind to remember that today is a very special day: the 60th anniversary of my timid entry into this University. There is a photo somewhere, I was just looking at it: I was wearing a jacket, and I have an angry face, or Thu, 09 Aug 2007 14:33:57 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/238242/Speech-delivered-by-Dr-Fidel-Castro-Ruz-President-of-the-Republic-of-Cuba-at-the-Commemoration-of-the-60th-Anniversary-of-his-admission-to-Universi http://www.scribd.com/doc/236340/A-Written-Record Many events important events take place around the world. Some are related to Cuba. Sometimes, the news reaching our country are much more interesting than a simple reflection I can offer with the purpose of raising the public's awareness. The BBC interview of Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, one of our Five Heroes, which was televised yesterday, had a profound impact on me. What human content, profundity and brilliance characterized it, qualities that only a mind that has endured 9 years of unjust psychological torture can have. We urge the Round Table to continue to inform us on the historic proc Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:33:16 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/236340/A-Written-Record http://www.scribd.com/doc/230090/Politics-and-Sports I am writing this quickly and a little late. I should do this because of the strong emphasis I have placed in the analysis of this matter. Besides, the news is not disheartening. The wire services announced that the two boxers who had defected in Rio de Janeiro had been found and arrested by the authorities on a beach close to that city. Remember that they had been given up for missing. They were there without any documents. They were not sent to prison. They remained in the same hotel where they were staying, under the surveillance of the Federal Police. The boxers told the police that they Sun, 05 Aug 2007 20:17:00 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/230090/Politics-and-Sports http://www.scribd.com/doc/222350/A-Reflection-on-Hard-and-Obvious-Realities Because of its importance, I am prioritizing this subject, among others. I am not going to deny that the prerogatives of power, whether real, relative or fictitious, have an influence on human beings, because they were all educated this way, right from the remotest of times of the species. I did not arrive in just a minute at what I am thinking today about power, but I consider that this is a matter of consistent thinking. I attribute the modest contribution of our Revolution to the fact that our responses to questions have never regressed, despite the harsh reality imposed upon us by the em Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:17:38 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/222350/A-Reflection-on-Hard-and-Obvious-Realities http://www.scribd.com/doc/220469/The-Eternal-Flame This is a political reflection. To be more precise: it is another proclamation. Exactly one year ago today, on July 31, 2006, I issued the first proclamation. But the year gone by is worth 10, for I have had the opportunity to live a unique experience which has afforded me information and knowledge on vital questions facing humanity, knowledge I have conveyed to the people of Cuba with the utmost honesty. Today, I am bombarded with questions as to when I will take up again what some call power, as though that power were possible without independence. The world knows a real and destructive pow Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:25:35 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/220469/The-Eternal-Flame http://www.scribd.com/doc/218486/In-Spite-of-Everything Do you think that you merely enjoy the Pan American Games? Think again, and you will realize that no matter your age, you run, jump, put the shots, throw javelins, discuses and hammers; soar above hurdles and tracks, relay batons, spike balls, score a basket, row, execute ippons, turn your rival over, follow strategies, splash water over yourself after running for two hours and even stop taking in the oxygen that your lungs are demanding. What a wonderful show the athletes put on for us! But you do not just enjoy; you participate, especially when athletes from your country are competing. In o Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:53:53 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/218486/In-Spite-of-Everything http://www.scribd.com/doc/214715/The-Revolting-Commercialization-of-Athletes What, from the technological and economic points of view, has been the worst problem faced by poor countries? The brain drain. What has been their worst problem in patriotic and educational terms? Talent theft. In poor countries, local newspapers and honest individuals who are interested in sports begin to ask themselves why they must endure the theft of their nation's talented athletes, after the many sacrifices and investments it took to train them. Cuba, whose successes and efforts in the field of amateur sports no one can put in question, suffers these kinds of piranha bites more than any Sun, 29 Jul 2007 16:40:39 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/214715/The-Revolting-Commercialization-of-Athletes http://www.scribd.com/doc/208199/Is-Brazil-the-United-States-substitute A short while ago I was saying about the brain drain that is disgusting. A bit later, a good offensive player on the Cuban handball team showed up wearing the uniform of a professional Sao Paulo team. Betrayal for money is one of the favorite weapons the United States uses to destroy Cuba's resistance. The athlete was a higher education student; he would be a graduate with a degree in Physical Education and Sport, an honorable job. His income is modest, but his professional training is highly appreciated; whatever the sport or specialty, if they attract a large audience and commercial publi Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:04:37 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/208199/Is-Brazil-the-United-States-substitute http://www.scribd.com/doc/200475/The-Brain-Drain I mentioned something and included a quotation on this topic for an example I used in my last reflection, titled "Bush, Health and Education", which I dedicated to children. In this reflection, aimed at the first class to graduate from the University of Information Sciences (UCI), I shall delve more deeply into this thorny issue. These graduates were the pioneers, from whom I learned much about the intelligence and the values our young people can cultivate when they study assiduously. I also learned much from the excellent staff of professors, a great many of whom had studied at the José Anto Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:19:53 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/200475/The-Brain-Drain http://www.scribd.com/doc/200474/Reflexions-on-the-PanAmerican-Games Aren’t you watching the Pan-American Games? I think I hear many Cubans asking. Of course I am! I answer; I can hardly get my eyes off the TV set. Sometimes I forget about the time when I should take some meal or pill. And then I complain because no one dared to pull me away from a baseball inning when the game was quite even, Mayeta was batting, two men were on base, and there was one out. I, as much as you, have lived through the vicissitudes of such matches. It could be a women’s volleyball match between Cuba and the United States, in which our team played a perfect game. Our women’s Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:18:11 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/200474/Reflexions-on-the-PanAmerican-Games http://www.scribd.com/doc/200473/Bush-Health-and-Education I will not refer to Bush's health and education, but to that of his neighbors. It was not an improvised declaration. The AP agency tells us what his opening words were: "Tenemos corazones grandes en este país" (We have big hearts in this country); he said this in Spanish in front of 250 representatives of private and religious groups, foundations and NGOs who had come to Washington with all expenses paid by his government. Of these, some 100 came from the United States. “The meeting, called the White House Conference on the Americas, is part of the ideas outlined by Bush as he began a tour Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:16:42 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/200473/Bush-Health-and-Education http://www.scribd.com/doc/200472/Cubas-SelfCriticism The National Directorate of the UJC (Communist Youth League) agreed to communicate the following measure as it was concluding its strategy: “Last Saturday, July 7, the National Bureau of the Communist Youth decided to tighten up the plan for the mobilization of forces of the Student Work Brigades (BET), guided by the principle of using students for tasks of a social and recreational nature, in numbers adjusted to a necessary minimum and within municipalities where they reside, in order to avoid relying on transportation. “That decision was discussed on the same day with the National Genera Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:12:43 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/200472/Cubas-SelfCriticism http://www.scribd.com/doc/200471/World-Tyranny-The-Basics-of-the-Killing-Machine The founding fathers of the American nation could not imagine that what they were proclaiming at that time, as any other historical society, was carrying within it the seeds of its own transformation. The attractive Declaration of Independence of 1776, which celebrated its 231st birthday last Wednesday, stated something which in one way or another captivated many of us: “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:10:37 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/200471/World-Tyranny-The-Basics-of-the-Killing-Machine http://www.scribd.com/doc/200470/The-Killing-Machine Sunday is a good day to read something that would appear to be science fiction. It was announced that the CIA would be declassifying hundreds of pages on illegal actions that included plans to eliminate the leaders of foreign governments. Suddenly the publication is halted and it is delayed one day. No coherent explanation was given. Perhaps someone in the White House looked over the material. The first package of declassified documents goes by the name of “The Family Jewels”; it consists of 702 pages on illegal CIA actions between 1959 and 1973. About 100 pages of this part have been dele Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:09:24 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/200470/The-Killing-Machine http://www.scribd.com/doc/200467/The-Good-Lord-Protected-Me-From-Bush An unusual news item appeared a few minutes ago, coming from EFE and REUTERS. I am going by the Spanish version: “One day, the Good Lord will take Fidel Castro away." This wasn’t said in a pious church. Our man spoke at the Naval Academy in Newport, just as he had done at West Point, where he uttered the famous phrase about what dozens of dark corners of the world could expect. He was answering a question, clearly well thought out, about the situation in Latin America, made by a Colombian graduate of the Academy. What a coincidence! Immediately, as if he were anxious to say something about Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:03:28 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/200467/The-Good-Lord-Protected-Me-From-Bush http://www.scribd.com/doc/200466/An-honorable-response Events follow each other at an incredible pace. Sometimes, several occur simultaneously. Their inherent significance and usefulness as examples is what I wish to, or, better, feel compelled to comment on. I am not referring, today, to what occurred in Geneva, which is considered a well-deserved revolutionary victory for Third World nations. Rather, I shall refer to Cuba's response to the European Council on Foreign Relations, published last Friday, June 22, on Gramna's front page. The statement was a response worthy of our Revolution and its high political leadership. One by one, all points ca Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:01:56 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/200466/An-honorable-response http://www.scribd.com/doc/200465/Another-argument-for-the-Manifesto Why did I once claim, in one of my reflections, that Bush had authorized or ordered my death? That phrase may appear ambiguous and vague. Perhaps it would be more accurate, though even more confusing, to say that he both authorized and ordered my death. Allow me to explain immediately: The denunciation surrounding his plan to assassinate me was made before he snatched an electoral victory from his opponent through fraud. As early as August 5, 2000, I denounced these plans in Pinar del Rio, before a vast congregation of combative citizens who had gathered there for the traditional July 26 festi Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:00:05 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/200465/Another-argument-for-the-Manifesto http://www.scribd.com/doc/124785/Response-to-the-Message-from-the-Young-Communists-League Response to the Message from the Young Communists League Dear comrades, Reading your message filled me with emotion. None of you had been born when the Revolution triumphed. The ideas that this message beautifully express sprang from history's deepest furrow. Their roots are sustained by every act of sacrifice and heroism of an admirable people, who was able to overcome all obstacles. They find fertile ground, too, in the example and the values created by other peoples. What is a life bereft of ideas worth? Marti once said that “trenches of ideas are more valuable than trenches of stones Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:23:41 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/124785/Response-to-the-Message-from-the-Young-Communists-League http://www.scribd.com/doc/124134/A-reflection-on-my-reflections While writing a brief reflection is helpful, in that the hundred and twelve accredited foreign newspapers and press agencies in our country that receive it in advance can publish important parts of its text, long reflections allow me to expound, as extensively as I wish, on concepts I deem important and which provide our people, the main protagonist against any potential aggression, as well as countries facing similar circumstances, the required information to form their own judgment. This dilemma is, for me, a headache. I am also concerned about the space they take up on the front pages of o Sat, 23 Jun 2007 09:11:00 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/124134/A-reflection-on-my-reflections http://www.scribd.com/doc/122750/They-Will-Never-Have-Cuba I hope that no-one say that I am gratuitously attacking Bush. Surely they will understand my reasons for strongly criticizing his policies. Robert Woodward is an American journalist and writer who became famous for the series of articles published by The Washington Post, written by him and Carl Bernstein, and which eventually led to the investigation and resignation of Nixon. He is author and co-author of ten best-sellers. With his fearsome style he manages to wrench confessions from his interviewees. In his book, State of Denial, he says that on June 18, 2003, three months after the Iraq war Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:07:47 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/122750/They-Will-Never-Have-Cuba http://www.scribd.com/doc/122747/Vilmas-Struggles Vilma is dead. Even though the news was expected, it was still an impact. Out of respect for her delicate health condition, I never raised her name in my reflections. Vilma’s example today is more necessary than ever. She devoted her entire life to the struggle for women’s rights when in Cuba most women were discriminated against as human beings, the same as in the rest of the world, with only the honorable revolutionary exceptions. It was not always this way throughout the historical evolution of our species, leading her to fulfill the social role befitting her as a natural workshop where Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:03:32 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/122747/Vilmas-Struggles http://www.scribd.com/doc/102886/Needing-Affection Albania was really the only place where Bush got any affection; to such an extent that the reception in Bulgaria where several thousand people awaited him waving little American flags seemed cool to him. Bush’s support for Albania's immediate entry into NATO and his decision to demand independence for the province of Kosovo made quite a few Albanians a bit crazy. Newspapers and other media report that some of them, when questioned individually, answered: “Bush is a symbol of democracy. freedom." The United States is a protector of peoples' Thousands of unarmed Albanian soldiers and police Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:08:16 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/102886/Needing-Affection http://www.scribd.com/doc/100915/The-Tyrant-Visits-Tirana We now know that Bush's strange visit to the capital of Albania really happened. There he resolutely spoke in favor of independence for Kosovo without the least respect for the interests of Serbia, Russia and the various European countries, all sensitive to the fate of the province which was the scenario for the latest NATO war. He lectured Serbia that it would receive economic aid if it would support the independence of Kosovo, the birthplace of that country’s culture. You can take it or you can leave it! Bush is craving after affection. He fully enjoyed his reception without protests in Bu Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:21:27 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/100915/The-Tyrant-Visits-Tirana http://www.scribd.com/doc/98148/Bushs-lies-and-cons I don’t like the idea of seeming to be a vengeful person, someone wishful to relentlessly pursue an adversary. I had promised myself to wait a bit and see how the contradictions between Bush and his European allies would unfold on the vital subject of climate change. But George W. Bush went too far when he made a declaration that we read in an AP piece last Friday. The President of the United States stated that he would go to the Vatican “with a very open mind and…ready to listen” to the Pope, and he assured that they share a “common respect for human life and human dignity” and fr Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:43:06 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/98148/Bushs-lies-and-cons http://www.scribd.com/doc/90184/The-G8-Meeting For those who are not informed –and I am one of them-, G-8 refers to the group of most developed countries, including Russia. The anticipated meeting which begins in 6 days has awakened great expectations due to the profound political and economic crisis threatening the world. Let's read the news services. The German news agency DPA announces that the German minister of Transportation and Urbanism, Wolfgang Tiefensee, declared “that the European Union countries have agreed on a common strategy.” “The European ministers of Urbanism meeting in the eastern city of Leipzig in an informal c Wed, 30 May 2007 18:20:43 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/90184/The-G8-Meeting http://www.scribd.com/doc/88438/Ideas-can-not-be-killed A few days ago, while analyzing the expenses involved in the construction of three submarines of the Astute series, I said that with this money "75,000 doctors could be trained to look after 150 million people, assuming that the cost of training a doctor would be one-third of what it costs in the United States.” Now, along the lines of the same calculations, I wonder: how many doctors could be graduated with the one hundred billion dollars that Bush gets his hands on in just one year to keep on sowing grief in Iraqi and American homes. Answer: 999,990 doctors who could look after 2 billion p Tue, 29 May 2007 10:24:42 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/88438/Ideas-can-not-be-killed http://www.scribd.com/doc/83048/Bush-expects-everything-tob-be-solved A word popped up in my mind. I looked it up in the dictionary and there it was; it’s an onomatopoeic word and its connotation is tragic: bang. I’ve probably never used it in my life. Bush is an apocalyptic person. I observe his eyes, his face and his obsessive preoccupation with pretending that everything he sees on the "invisible screens" are spontaneous thoughts. I heard his voice quaver when he answered criticism from his own father about his Iraq policy. He only expresses emotions and constantly feigns rationality. Of course he is aware of the impact of every phrase and every word on t Sat, 26 May 2007 08:11:51 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/83048/Bush-expects-everything-tob-be-solved http://www.scribd.com/doc/80928/For-the-deaf-who-wont-listen A summary of the FAO declaration from its headquarters in Rome, on May 16, 2007. World cereal production is on track to reach a record level in 2007. In spite of this, supplies will be barely adequate to meet increased demand, boosted by the development of the biofuels industry. International prices for most cereals have risen significantly in 2006-07 and the current forecast shows that prices will stay high in 2007-08, according to the relevant report "Crop Perspectives and Food Situation". It is forecast that the cereal import bill of the low-income food deficit countries will increase by ab Thu, 24 May 2007 18:26:01 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/80928/For-the-deaf-who-wont-listen http://www.scribd.com/doc/72987/Nobody-wants-to-take-the-bull-by-the-horns On March 28, less than two months ago, when Bush proclaimed his diabolical idea of producing fuel from food, after a meeting with the most important U.S. automobile manufacturers, I wrote my first reflection. The head of the empire was bragging that the United States was now the first world producer of ethanol, using corn as raw material. Hundreds of factories were being built or enlarged in the United States just for that purpose. During those days, the industrialized and rich nations were already toying with the same idea of using all kinds of cereals and oil seeds, including sunflower and s Wed, 23 May 2007 12:41:12 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/72987/Nobody-wants-to-take-the-bull-by-the-horns http://www.scribd.com/doc/69811/The-english-Submarine 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. "A nuclear reactor will allow it to navigate without refuelling during its 25 year of service. Since it makes its own oxigen and drinking water, it can circumnavigate the globe without needing to surface," was the statement to the BBC by Nigel Ward, head of the shipyards. "It’s a mean looking beast", says another. "Looming above us is a construction shed 12 storeys high. Within it are 3 nuclearpowered submarines at different stages of constru Tue, 22 May 2007 09:08:41 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/69811/The-english-Submarine http://www.scribd.com/doc/65249/The-unanimous-opinion At the 6th Hemispheric Meeting in Havana, when the discussion turned to the subject of production of biofuels from foodstuffs, which are constantly getting more expensive, the huge majority voiced their opposition with indignation. But it was undeniable that some individuals with prestige, authority and good faith had been won over by the idea that the planet's biomass would suffice for both things in a relatively short time, mindless of the urgency to produce the foods, which are already scarce enough, that would be used as raw material for ethanol and agridiesel. On the other hand, when the Fri, 18 May 2007 10:35:39 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/65249/The-unanimous-opinion http://www.scribd.com/doc/65248/Lessons-we-learned-from-the-6th-hemispheric-meeting-in-Havana María Luisa Mendonça brought to the meeting in Havana, a powerful documentary film on the subject of manual sugarcane cutting in Brazil. As I did in my previous reflection, I have written a summary using María Luisa’s own paragraphs and phrases. It goes as follows: We are aware that most of the wars in the last few decades have been waged over control of energy sources. Both in central and peripheral nations, energy consumption is guaranteed for the privileged sectors, while the majority of the world's population does not have access to basic services. The per capita consumption of energy Fri, 18 May 2007 10:31:02 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/65248/Lessons-we-learned-from-the-6th-hemispheric-meeting-in-Havana http://www.scribd.com/doc/65243/The-debate-heats-up Atilio Borón, a prestigious leftist intellectual who until recently headed the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), wrote an article for the 6th Hemispheric Meeting of Struggle against the FTAs and for the Integration of Peoples which just wrapped up in Havana; he was kind enough to send it to me along with a letter. The gist of what he wrote I have summarized using exact quotes of paragraphs and phrases in his article; it reads as follows: Pre-capitalist societies already knew about oil which surfaced in shallow deposits and they used for non-commercial purposes, such as water Fri, 18 May 2007 10:19:20 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/65243/The-debate-heats-up http://www.scribd.com/doc/65233/The-tragedy-threatening-our-species I cannot speak as an economist or a scientist. I simply speak as a politician who wishes to unravel the economists’ and scientists’ arguments one way or another. I also try to sense the motivations of each one of those who make statements on these matters. Just twenty-two years ago, here in Havana, we had a great number of meetings with political, union, peasant and student leaders invited to our country as representatives of these sectors. They all agreed that the most important problem at that time was the enormous foreign debt accumulated by the nations of Latin America in 1985. That de Fri, 18 May 2007 09:59:00 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/65233/The-tragedy-threatening-our-species http://www.scribd.com/doc/65232/It-is-imperative-to-immediately-have-an-energy-Revolution I hold nothing against Brazil, even thought to more than a few Brazilians continuously bombarded with the most diverse arguments, which can be confusing even for people who have traditionally been friendly to Cuba, we might sound callous and careless about hurting that country’s net income of hard currency. However, for me to keep silent would be to opt between the idea of a world tragedy and a presumed benefit for the people of that great nation. I do not blame Lula and the Brazilians for the objective laws which have governed the history of our species. Only seven thousand years have pass Fri, 18 May 2007 09:55:37 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/65232/It-is-imperative-to-immediately-have-an-energy-Revolution http://www.scribd.com/doc/63934/A-brutal-reply George W. Bush is undoubtedly the most genuine representative of a system of terror forced on the world by the technological, economic and political superiority of the most powerful country known to this planet. For this reason, we share the tragedy of the American people and their ethical values. The instructions for the verdict issued by Judge Kathleen Cardone, of the El Paso Federal Court last Friday, granting Luis Posada Carriles freedom on bail, could only have come from the White House. It was President Bush himself who ignored at all times the criminal and terrorist nature of the defend Thu, 17 May 2007 19:12:07 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/63934/A-brutal-reply http://www.scribd.com/doc/26049/The-internationalization-of-genocide The Camp David meeting has just come to an end. All of us followed the press conference offered by the presidents of the United States and Brazil attentively, as we did the news surrounding the meeting and the opinions voiced in this connection. Faced with demands related to customs duties and subsidies which protect and support US ethanol production, Bush did not make the slightest concession to his Brazilian guest at Camp David. President Lula attributed to this the rise in corn prices, which, according to his own statements, had gone up more than 85 percent. Before these statements were mad Sun, 08 Apr 2007 10:57:41 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/26049/The-internationalization-of-genocide http://www.scribd.com/doc/22198/More-than-3-billion-people-in-the-world-are-being-condemend-to-a-premature-death-from-hunger-and-thirst MORE THAN THREE BILLION PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ARE BEING CONDEMEND TO A PREMATURE DEATH FROM HUNGER AND THIRST. It is not an exaggeration; this is rather a conservative figure. I have meditated for quite a long time on that after the meeting held by President Bush with the US automakers. The sinister idea of turning foodstuffs into fuel was definitely established as the economic strategy of the US foreign policy on Monday, March 26th last. A wire service issued by the AP, a US information agency with world-wide coverage, literally reads: WASHINGTON (AP), March 26 - President Bush touted the b Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:14:10 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/22198/More-than-3-billion-people-in-the-world-are-being-condemend-to-a-premature-death-from-hunger-and-thirst http://www.scribd.com/doc/19385/A-kangaroo-in-Australia The kangaroo lost its courage a long time ago, but recently its keys, too. “And this all happens in Australia!” whizzes in the marsupials brain. The kangaroo jumps to the locksmith. Hop! Hop! Hop! Knock! Knock! “Come in!”, says the locksmith. Although it’s strange that you have to knock at the door and the shopkeeper requests to come in. But today the marsupial doesn't care a pap for it and enters the shop. “A new key, please!” “No problem” The shopkeeper with the long beard yanks a key. “This is the one, you wanted to find!” „From where to you get this key??“ “I st Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:42:29 GMT http://www.scribd.com/doc/19385/A-kangaroo-in-Australia