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Iran war will be worst mistake in US history: Fidel Castro
Cuba’s revolution leader Fidel Castro
Cuba’s revolution leader Fidel Castro has warned Washington against a military attack on Iran, describing such a move as the worst mistake in US history.
In an article titled “The Roads Leading to Disaster,” published in the official daily Granma on Thursday, Castro said there is no doubt that the US would be making the greatest mistake in its history...
USA goes on rampage over Iran's Latin American ambitions
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at the Miraflores presidential palace, Caracas, January 9, 2012
Last week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made a week-long tour of Latin America. The Iranian leader visited Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba and Ecuador.
Ahmadinejad does not have many friends in the world. All of them, except for Syria, are in Latin America....
US warns Latin American states over Iran ties
US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland
The US has warned Latin American states against a further expansion of diplomatic and business ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“We are making absolutely clear to countries around the world that now is not the time to be deepening ties, not security ties, not economic ties, with Iran,” US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said...
Obama tells Venezuela to Cut its Ties with Iran and Cuba
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez
Following the expansion of economic and political relations between Tehran and Caracas, US President Barack Obama has demanded the Venezuelan government sever all ties with Iran.
“I think the government’s ties with Iran and Cuba have not benefited the interests of Venezuela and its people,” Obama said in the email...
Russia to develop defense project in USA's backyard
Russian warship docking in Cuba
Russia has decided to resume defense cooperation with the country, which remains in a state of a conflict with the United States, even though it is situated very close to US borders. It goes about Cuba. Russia will resume cooperation with this country against the background of the rising tensions in the US-Russian relations. Russia’s defense export giant Rosoboronexport...
Nations condemn Cuba blockade
Towards the twentieth condemnation of U.S. blockade against Cuba.
While the United States intensified its economic blockade against Cuban trade and finance, the UN General Assembly advanced a new condemnation almost unanimously, against this siege, the twentieth in 20 consecutive years.
The topic will be considered by the highest organ of the United Nations next Tuesday, when it will vote on a resolution...
Chavez tells Venezuelans he'll win Long Battle Against Cancer
Hugo Chavez (R) in Cuba with Fidel Castro (L)
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, making his first public appearance since having a tumor removed in Cuba, promised supporters that he will win his battle against cancer though it will likely take some time.
Speaking from a balcony at the presidential palace in Caracas yesterday evening, Chavez described how he underwent surgery on June 20 after...
Is Hugo Chavez Dead?
After Undergoing Surgery In Cuba, Some Are Speculating That Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Is Dead. BBC reported just a momemnt ago that “Absence of ill Hugo Chavez sparks speculation“.
Hugo Chavez, the president of Venezuela, is undergoing medical treatment in Cuba, leading to all sorts of rumors about his health. There are even people speculating that Hugo Chavez is dead.
Is Hugo Chavez...
Fidel Castro resigns from top leadership of Cuban communist party
Pensive: Dressed casually in a track suit, the 84-year-old former leader looked ill at ease as he posed for photographs in his home in Havana, Cuba.
After a staggering five decades in power, Fidel Castro has confirmed his resignation from the leadership of the Communist Party in Cuba today, paving the way for a raft of economic and political reforms.
The unprecedented news follows his brother Raul’s...
Obama to sign Executive Order to hold enemies of US without charge or trial indefinitely
The Obama administration is preparing an executive order that would formalize indefinite detention without trial for some detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but allow those detainees and their lawyers to challenge the basis for continued incarceration, U.S. officials said.
The administration has long signaled that the use of what the administration calls prolonged detention,...
Cuba offers 19 ways Obama can loosen US embargo
Bruno Rodriguez
Cuba is offering a series of small but specific steps the administration of President Barack Obama can take to soften the United States’ 48-year-old trade embargo, including expanding flights and establishing ferry service between both countries and dropping bank bans that keep U.S. credit cards from working on the island.
The 19 suggestions are a new – and perhaps conciliatory...
Fidel Castro speaks out against the Bilderberg Group
Former Cuban President Fidel Castro continues to taunt the West, this time with an article that accuses the ultra-secretive Bilderberg Group of conspiring to create a one-world government.
Despite his advanced age and periodic bouts with an intestinal disorder, 84-year-old Castro continues to warn on the West, this time by dedicating three pages in the Communist Party newspaper Granma that quotes...
Communist Hugo Chavez Demands Arizona Immigration Law be Repealed
Venezuela President Hugo Chavez has little room to critique Arizona's new immigration law given the country's own record of human rights violations, experts told FoxNews.com.
On the heels of Mexican President Felipe Calderon’s speech slamming Arizona’s immigration law, Cuban leaders and Venezuela’s president are adding to the chorus and calling the law ‘racist and xenophobic”...
Russia prepares to drill for oil off Cuban coast in spite of Obama ban
Although most polls show that the American public is in favor of offshore oil drilling, the Obama administration is ready to ban it.
Although most polls show that the American public is in favor of offshore oil drilling, the Obama administration is ready to ban it.
Meanwhile, according to an editorial in the Washington Times on March 18, 2010, Russian will be erecting oil derricks very close...
Elderly couple Arrested for Spying on America for the Cuban Government
The story seems like a throwback to the Cold War era: an American couple arrested by federal authorities and accused of spying on the U.S. for a communist country. But the couple in question are in custody right now. U.S. officials believe Dr. Walter Kendall Myers Jr. and his wife, Gwendolyn Steingraber Myers, have been spying for the Cuban government for 3 decades.
The following are excerpts from...