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Army General Raúl Castro Ruz

Excerpts from speeches by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz

We will renounce none of our principles
Excerpts from speeches by Army General Raúl Castro Ruz emphasizing the need to respond to every challenge with unity, strength, optimism, and unwavering confidence in victory

Raúl Castro Ruzjune 3, 2019 09:06:21

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Photo: Estudio Revolución
Once again, an adverse scenario has been created and again our enemies’ euphoria resurfaces, and they rush to make their dreams of destroying the example of Cuba a reality. This is not the first time, nor the last, that the Cuban Revolution must face challenges and threats. We have faced all dangers and resisted undefeated for 60 years.
For us, as for Venezuela and Nicaragua, it is very clear that the siege is tightening and our people must be alert and prepared to respond to every challenge with unity, strength, optimism, and unwavering confidence in the victory.
After almost a decade of practicing unconventional methods of war to prevent continuity or stop the return of progressive governments, the circles of power in Washington sponsored coups, first a military one to overthrow President Zelaya in Honduras and later the parliamentary-judicial coups against Lugo in Paraguay and Dilma Rousseff in Brazil.
They promoted rigged, politically motivated judicial processes, as well as manipulative campaigns to discredit leaders and organizations of the left, making use of their monopoly control of mass media. In this way they succeeded in imprisoning compañero Lula da Silva and deprived him of the right to run for President as the candidate of the Workers’ Party, to avoid his sure victory in the last elections. I take this opportunity to appeal to all honest political forces on the planet to demand his release and to stop the attacks and judicial persecution of the Dilma Rousseff and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

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“compensated” under the Helms-Burton Act

Descendants of Batista’s henchmen look to be “compensated” under the Helms-Burton Act

Descendants of Batista’s henchmen look to be “compensated” under the Helms-Burton Act
With the U.S. government re-activating the Helms-Burton Act’s Title III, José Ramón López – son of a swindler and lackey of the Batista dictatorship, José López Vilaboy – has filed a claim on Cubana Airlines, legally confiscated as a misappropriated asset after the triumph of the Revolution

Dolphin Xiqués Cutiñomay 31, 2019 15:05:24

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Fulgencio Batista became a major stockholder in Cubana de Aviación S.A. via murky financial maneuvers, with the rest of the shares owned by his henchmen. Photo: Granma Archives

When dictator Fulgencio Batista decided to flee Cuba, a large number of his cronies joined the expedition. Some 25 suitcases accompanied him onto the aircraft and he pressed a bulging briefcase to his chest. The briefcase contained dollars and Batista, who trusted no one, feared losing them. He was well acquainted with his traveling companions, the many outrages they had committed and the shady operations they ran.

The money had been given to him by his closest relatives, like Andrés Domingo and Morales del Castillo, Presidential secretary; José López Vilaboy and Manuel Pérez Benitoa, although the latter had been in New York since the end of December, when he took Batista’s children to the city, along with 43 million dollars that were deposited in the dictator’s account, although the story goes that he deposited 42 and kept a million himself.

Lopez Vilaboy couldn’t get a seat on the planes that took off with the dictator’s pals, obliging him to seek refuge in the Guatemalan embassy in Havana.

These days, with the United States government re-activating the Helms-Burton Act’s Title III, granting the right to file court claim to those who were not citizens of that country at the time of nationalizations, a character known as José Ramón López, who says he is the son of Cuban businessman José López Vilaboy, has asserted that, pre-1959, his father’s properties included the Rancho Boyeros airport, Cubana Airlines, the Colina Hotel, and other buildings. Continue reading Descendants of Batista’s henchmen look to be “compensated” under the Helms-Burton Act →

Helms-Burton Act Mexico

The United States and its glass house

The United States and its glass house
The application of Title III of the Helms-Burton Act is a flagrant violation of international law and an unacceptable attack on the self-determination of the peoples of the world

Oscar Sánchez Serramay 28, 2019 15:05:30

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Photo: Granma
The empire no longer dresses up in sheep’s clothing; it fears that, as in the fable, the shepherd will take it for food for his family. Today, it does not disguise itself, but is enraged and seeks to cling to its ancestors, dusting off the Monroe Doctrine, McCarthyism and the worst moments of the Cold War.

It sinks its claws into Latin America and the Caribbean, destroying its peoples, either through the seizure of power by servile oligarchies representing its interests (any resemblance to Chile, Brazil or the self-proclaimed Lima Group, is not purely coincidental); the destabilization of legitimately and democratically elected governments, such as Venezuela or Nicaragua; or its genocidal economic war against the Cuban Revolution.

The Trump administration’s concern for the properties of those who lived in Cuba before 1959 is fanciful. Title III of the Helms-Burton Act and all its letter are just a pretext to end the Cuban model, humanist par excellence, which remains stuck like a thorn in the empire’s side, and has prevented it from continuing with what it started 174 years ago, in 1845. Continue reading The United States and its glass house →

Cuba China

Army General Raúl Castro Ruz receives Admiral Miao Hua

Raúl receives Admiral Miao Hua, member of the Central Military Commission of the People’s Republic of China
During the fraternal meeting, the excellent relations of friendship shared by the two countries’ Parties, governments, peoples, and armed forces were reaffirmed

Granmamay 17, 2019 09:05:00

During the fraternal meeting, the excellent relations of friendship shared by the two countries’ Parties, governments, peoples, and armed forces were reaffirmed.

 

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Photo: Estudios Revolución
Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Central Committee, received Admiral Miao Hua on Thursday morning, a member of the Central Military Commission of the People’s Republic of China, and director of its Political Work Department, as well as the delegation accompanying him on an official visit to Cuba, invited by the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.

During the fraternal meeting, the excellent relations of friendship shared by the two countries’ Parties, governments, peoples, and armed forces were reaffirmed.

The meeting was also attended by the members of the Political Bureau and Army Corps Generals Leopoldo Cintra Frías and Álvaro López Miera, minister and first deputy minister of the FAR, chief of the General Staff, respectively.