Category Archives: cuba
Monte Rouge.
This is a Cuban short comedy poking fun at Cuban state security. I wonder how funny they think it was? Unfortunately there is no English subtitle so Spanish is required. The discussion is because the state security have rationed microphones … Continue reading
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Comandante. An Oliver Stone Documentary about Castro
To see the other parts follow each link 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLUcOqeoKck 2 Using Elian as a political tool. Oliver Stone ask him if he ever used a psychiatrist! 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB5gtr7DTrI 3 Here we can see Cult to the personality of Fidel … Continue reading
We are not communist!
It is time to refresh some people’s memories about Fidel Castro’s speech where he mentioned very clearly that they were not communist (In English). He says “and of course I have said very clear that we are not communist, very … Continue reading
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L’État c’est Moi (I am the State).
” Le Roi Soleil or the Sun King, Louis believed in the Divine Right of Kings” that is a fragment of Wikipedia’s entry for Louis XIV of France. He was considered the archetypal absolute monarch of early modern Europe. World history has a way of recycling old cliches … Continue reading
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Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
A few days after the earthquake in Cuba’s executive mansion, we are still feeling the aftershocks. Carlos Lage Davila (Vice President of the Council of State of Cuba) and Felipe Perez Roque (the foreign minister of the Republic of Cuba) both wrote letters recognizing errors and renouncing … Continue reading
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Site of Blogger Yoani Sanchez is down.
The site of Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez is down We get this The last two post in our blog reproduce the last post from her site regarding the current changes in Cuban goverment.
Fidgeting on Mount Olympus.
Yoani’s site generationy seems to be down fortunatelly I have a copy of her post so people can read here while the site is down. “Yesterday, with my lunch half eaten, a friend called to ask if I had … Continue reading
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Is the revolution reinventing itself? Do we have a new revolution with Raul Castro?
Raul Castro’s name may have being practically unknown to many for about 50 years but now he is the man in charge of the Cuban government. After some timid changes looking more like window dressing and that deal more with … Continue reading
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Can a one party system be called a democracy?
As we know the Cuban government is ruled by only one party “the communist party” and Fidel Castro in multiple speeches has mentioned that Cuba’s government is one of the most democratic governments of the world. A one party system … Continue reading
