Imagen: El veterano Arturo Sánchez Bella participa en el homenaje a los mártires de la Brigada 2506, en una ceremonia el 17 de abril de 2017, en el Monumento a Bahía de Cochinos en La Pequeña Habana. PATRICK FARRELL El Nuevo Herald: POR PEDRO ROIG. 16 DE ABRIL DE 2019 01:12 PM, ACTUALIZADO 16 DE ABRIL …
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The Domestic Scene The limited economic changes introduced by Gen. Raúl Castro in Cuba encouraged some observers to proclaim the end of communism and the dismantling of the totalitarian system in the island. Notwithstanding Raúl Castro’s own statements that he was not elected to restore capitalism, these observers insisted on their belief that economic reforms …
Complete Biographies of Cuba Power Elite. General of the Army Raúl Castro (86 years old) First Secretary of the Communist Party An intolerant Marxist-Leninist, Raúl Castro is a highly organized, cautious and clannish leader with an unwavering commitment to Communism, Russia, Iran and Venezuela. In March 1953, Raúl traveled to Vienna (four months before the “Moncada”) …
Cautiously, not to confront President Donald Trump or provoke a Russian-U.S. crisis, the Russians are finalizing their plans to install a Glonass station in Cuba. The installation of the Global Satellite Navigation System (Glonass), administered by the Russian Ministry of Defense, has been in the planning stage for four years. It is supervised by …
Investors hoping to do business in Cuba face numerous problems/issues which include the resolution of U.S. properties confiscated by the Cuban government in the early 1960s; an arbitrary legal system controlled by the Communist Party and the military; widespread corruption; a value system that includes stealing from enterprises and working as little as possible; and …
For over ten years the Marxist “Gerontocracia” led by General Raúl Castro (86) and Machado Ventura (87) has been carefully engaged in selecting the new generation of leaders to integrate a younger inner circle of power. On April 19, 2018, Miguel Díaz-Canel was designated President of the Council of State and Ministers by Cuba’s “Poder …
In preparation for the transfer of the Cuban presidency from General Raul Castro to Coronel Miguel Diaz-Canel on April. 19, the Cuban Communist Party-Political Bureau held its V Plenary meeting. · Raul Castro will remain as Secretary General of the Party and head of its Politburo, until 2021, the maximum authority according to Cuba’s Constitution. …
By: Nicolas J. Gutierrez, Jr. * I. Introduction. The Trump Administration’s recent unprecedented hyper-shortened suspension of the Title III right-of-action provision of the Cuban Liberty & Democratic Solidarity (LIBERTAD) Act of 1996 (more commonly referred to as the Helms-Burton law) has sent shock waves of both elation and concern among those that typically follow these …
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Cuban Studies Institute in Washington for Cuba Seminar The International Republican Institute hosted a seminar on Cuba organized by the Cuban Studies Institute for current and former U.S. officials at the IRI headquarters in D.C. on April 26, 2018. The morning seminar focused on the succession taking place in Cuba and implications for U.S. …
On December 1, 1961, barely seven months after the defeat of the Bay of Pigs invasion, Castro announced to the world that he was leading a Communist revolution: “I am a Marxist-Leninist and shall remain a Marxist-Leninist until the day I die.” Following this announcement Castro began to build a totalitarian state. Lenin’s idea of …
