The Discreet Terror of Fidel Castro

As Comrade Fidel said on 28 September

So what will become of Cuba after Fidel departs?

However, the thorn personified in Fidel Castro remains intact and is increasingly robust.

Concerning Fidel Santana Mejía Francisco Elías Ramos Ramos Guillermo Antonio Brea Zapata and Manuel Terrero López

Venezuela Carlos Tablante, Demetrio Boersner, Boanerges Salazar, Orangel Hernandez, Fidel Garofalo, Neiza Pineda, Kidder Salazar, Luisa Kislinger

President Fidel V. Ramos issued a memorandum to the line agencies ordering the full implementation of this comprehensive programme.

62. The administration of President Fidel V. Ramos has fully supported the programme in all spheres of its implementation.

Fidel Castro s resignation from two of his three leadership posts, together with the appointment of his younger brother, Raúl, as his successor, marks the end of an era sort of. Raúl replaced Fidel as President of the Councils of Ministers and of State, but not as First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party.

Even Fidel Castro now says that the only thing worse than being exploited by multinational capitalism is not being exploited by multinational capitalism.

MEXICO CITY Fidel Castro s resignation from two of his three leadership posts, together with the appointment of his younger brother, Raúl, as his successor, marks the end of an era sort of. Raúl replaced Fidel as President of the Councils of Ministers and of State, but not as First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party.

President Fidel Castro Ruz has said that Cuba is willing to have this dangerous international terrorist tried by a Venezuelan court or by an international court.

President Fidel Castro urged President Vicente Fox to ask the United States Head of State, George W. Bush, what he knows about the case of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.

This is why President Fidel Castro, in his recent honorary address at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, affirmed The world cannot save itself if it continues on its present course.

The Government informed the Special Rapporteur that no complaint had been lodged in the case of Fidel Hernández Catalina, but that the competent authorities had been instructed to carry out an investigation.

President Fidel Castro, in a speech given before more than 1,300,000 Cubans on 1 May, recognized the importance of investigations by the United States press, given the failure of the country's authorities to act.

Let us all unite in the struggle. As President Fidel Castro has said, Cuba will never tire of calling for this. Let us unite and globalize our opposition to every boastful act of hegemony.

In Venezuela, President Hugo Chávez s opponents will unite behind a single candidate for October s presidential election. But everything depends on Chávez s health, which, like that of Fidel Castro in Cuba a closely guarded state secret.

Given that Lula is an avowed leftist who counts Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro among his friends, Brazil s performance is all the more surprising. How could he manage to preside over such a spectacular stock market boom?

In addition, he has planned numerous attempts on the life of President Fidel Castro, for one of which he was sentenced in Panama, where he was fraudulently pardoned on 26 August 2004 by former President Mireya Moscoso.

Posada and his accomplices planned to place a potent C 4 explosive charge in the auditorium of the University of Panama at a time when President Fidel Castro would be meeting with hundreds of Panamanian students and professors.

President Fidel Castro has reported that, during a trip to Chile, Bosch and the terrorist organization Command of United Revolutionary Organization (CORU) agreed to eliminate prominent Chileans living in exile on orders from the military junta headed by Pinochet.

I recently examined one period of CIA activity in my book To Move the World JFK s Quest for Peace. Soon after Kennedy assumed the presidency in 1961, he was informed by the CIA of its plot to overthrow Fidel Castro.

This spring marks the third anniversary of the wave of repression in which Fidel Castro s regime arrested and handed down long sentences to 75 leading Cuban dissidents. Soon afterwards, many friends and I formed the International Committee for Democracy in Cuba.

Fidel García Ramírez, agricultural secretary of the DRP in Guerrero, was reportedly detained on 15 June 1997 in the Xocoyolzintla community, municipality of Ahuacuotzingo, Guerrero, by members of the public security police, who reportedly handed him over to the army the same day.

Diasporas are not gusanos or worms, as Fidel Castro refers to Cubans abroad. They are a channel through which not only money, but also much tacit knowledge, can flow, and they are a potential source of opportunities for trade, investment, innovation, and professional networks.

The death watch for Fidel Castro is something that only Gabriel Garcia Marquez could get right. His novel Autumn of the Patriarch captures perfectly the moral squalor, political paralysis, and savage ennui that enshrouds a society awaiting the death of a long term dictator.

For years, he has been accused of taking over where Fidel Castro left off supporting the rhetoric of radicalism and anti imperialism, if not revolution, throughout Latin America. It could now be time for other Latin American nations and the international community to take such charges more seriously.

While Fidel wrote doctrinaire articles in the official press, the armed forces took over politics and production. Fidel s appearance at the Party s congress an event full of political significance, because he has only rarely participated in public events since becoming sick in 2006 seemed to confirm his support for this outcome.

Since 11 April, in statements delivered by President Fidel Castro Ruz, the Government of Cuba has condemned the presence of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles in the United States and has shown convincing proof that he is in the United States despite the authorities' public and private refusals to acknowledge his presence.

President Fidel Castro, in all his appearances, has emphasized that it is impossible for the United States Government to be ignorant of the whereabouts of Luis Posada Carriles, when, for one thing, the application forms for asylum in the United States require an address where the applicant can be reached.

As a follow up to that forum, and in line with the 1996 peace agreement between the Philippine Government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), President Fidel Ramos has agreed to the proposal of the UNESCO Director General to establish a Centre for the Culture of Peace in the Philippines.

H. E. Mr. Fidel V. Ramos, President of the Republic of the Philippines, will deliver UNFPA s Seventh Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture, on the theme It Can Be Done ... Population Management through People Empowerment and Consensus Building , today, 26 November 1997, at 11 a.m. in the Economic and Social Council Chamber.

Néstor ridiculed President George W. Bush in front of the world host to a summit of heads of state, he organized a parallel anti summit with supporters of Fidel Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. More recently, Cristina s foreign minister presided over the requisitioning of a US military plane on Argentinean soil.

Jerónimo Hernández López and Gonzalo Rosas Morales, Jesuit priests of the San Cristóbal de las Casas diocese and leaders, respectively, of the Committee for the Defence of Indigenous Freedoms and of the Xi apos nich indigenous organization, as well as community leaders Ramón Parcero, Fidel Vera, Carlos Cruz, Pascal Alvaro and Sebastián González.

H. E. Mr. Fidel V. Ramos, President of the Republic of the Philippines, will deliver UNFPA s Seventh Rafael M. Salas Memorial Lecture, on the theme It Can Be Done ... Population Management through People Empowerment and Consensus Building , on Wednesday, 26 November 1997, at 11 a.m. in the Economic and Social Council Chamber.

BUENOS AIRES Raúl Castro s consolidation of his position as successor to his brother Fidel confirms that his Cuba will give the military domestic hegemony, which makes any serious political or economic opening in the near future seemingly impossible. The Cuban Communist Party s recent Sixth Congress reflected this, offering little new and rehashing a lot of the old.

As long as Fidel is around writing, meeting foreign dignitaries, and weighing in on everything from ethanol to the American presidential campaign two things will remain clear. First, Raúl will barely be able to budge even on the modest, strictly economic and regulatory reforms that he hopes, somewhat naïvely, will put food back on Cubans table.

President Fidel Castro has publicly presented plentiful evidence of the links between Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, with revealing details about their criminal activities conducted under the protection of the United States authorities, who cannot bring themselves to act in order to put a stop to the impunity that such repugnant individuals enjoy in that country.

In the night of 9 October 1996, military personnel from the Pichari and Tambo bases entered the community of Chalhuamayo Alto, Tambo district, La Mar province, Department of Ayacucho, and detained eight persons Damián Llance Huachaca, Fidel Palomino Vega, Máximo Huicho Huachaca, Alejandro Quispe Huayhua, Ercilia Luchca Taype, Cirila Taype Huaracca, María Morán Huayta and Sofía Morales Yaguillo.

But the democratic transitions in Eastern Europe made Fidel Castro wary, so the first opportunity for a similar transition in Cuba was lost. Now an opportunity to introduce young blood and new ideas has similarly been missed although the Sixth Congress adopted a ten year limit for holding office, the two people designated to succeed Raúl Castro are both octogenarians.

Tuto warns that, should Evo win, he might consolidate a Latin American axis of evil connecting a leftist Bolivia with Fidel Castro s Cuba and Hugo Chávez s Venezuela. Evo counters that Tuto is too linked to Bolivia s corrupt political establishment one of the most dishonest in the world according to the watchdog group Transparency International to do much for Bolivia s two thirds Indian majority.

The first American immigration agreement with another country was signed in 1907 the so called Gentleman s Agreement with Japan, while the US and Mexico negotiated and administered the Bracero Program for more than twenty years, from 1942 thru 1964. And, of course, the US has had a standing immigration agreement since 1965 with a country most Americans would not imagine Fidel Castro s Cuba.

He participated in the 1995 attack against the Guitart Cayo Coco Hotel in Cuba and in planning an attack against the President of Cuba in the Dominican Republic, and was a member of the team which, together with Posada Carriles, Jiménez Escobedo, Novo Sampoll and Remón, organized the attempted assault against the commander in chief, Fidel Castro Ruz, in Panama in 2000.

On 6 May President Fidel Castro Ruz referred to a letter sent to the Department of Homeland Security by Representative William Delahunt, member of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, and provided to Newsweek magazine, in which he criticized the lack of action of the United States authorities, which he termed hypocrisy , in view of the evidence linking Posada Carriles to terrorism.