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Guatemala

The CIA has admitted that pilots recruited to bomb Cuba prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion also provided air support to defeat an insurrection in Guatemala

Playa Girón and the uprising in Guatemala
The CIA has admitted that pilots recruited to bomb Cuba prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion also provided air support to defeat an insurrection in Guatemala
Author: Gabriel Molina Franchossi | informacion@granma.cu
may 5, 2016 10:05:06

During the dawn hours of November 13, a group of Guatemalan militay officers rebelled against the regime of General Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes, accusing him of ignoring rampant corruption in his administration, and inviting foreign intervention in the country.

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Photo: http://www.prensalibre.com
Five months before the invasion at Playa Girón, November 13, 1960, Cuban pilots being trained in Guatemala by the CIA to attack the island, bombed Guatemalan military forces leading an uprising against the government of General Miguel Idígoras.
The political and military support provided by the Eisenhower administration and the CIA to Idígoras, saved the dictatorial regime which had approved the use of an estate – the Helvetia owned by Roberto Alejos, brother of the country’s ambassador in the U.S. – for the purpose of training troops to invade Cuba. This attack did eventually take place at the Bay of Pigs, in April of 1961.
The arrogance of CIA officials and their Cuban agents provoked the uprising in Guatemala by a group of officers who were able to take the Matamoros Garrison with the goal of assuming government power. The insurgents demanded the closing of the Retalhuleu base, in the country’s southwestern region, and the removal of corrupt officers collaborating with Idígoras, who had taken the place of puppet Carlos Castillo de Armas, installed as head of state in 1954 by the CIA, after the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz, the elected President of Guatemala. Castillo was dealt justice by a soldier within the government’s own headquarters.

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May Day, Uncategorized

Massive May Day parade in Havana

International solidarity on May Day
More than 200 friends of Cuba from 34 countries make up the 11th May Day Solidarity Brigade, who have traveled to the island to express their support for the Cuban Revolution. The brigade’s activities extend from April 25 through May 8 and include participating in the massive May Day parade in Havana

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Author: Nuria Barbosa León | internet@granma.cu
april 28, 2016 08:04:16

Every year friends from different parts of the world join the Cuban people to celebrate May Day. Photo: Juvenal Balán
More than 200 friends of Cuba from 34 countries make up the 11th May Day Solidarity Brigade, who have traveled to the island to express their support for the Cuban Revolution. The brigade’s activities extend from April 25 through May 8 and include participating in the massive May Day parade in Havana. 
Staying at the Julio Antonio Mella International Camp, located in the municipality of Caimito, Artemisa province, just west of Havana, the “brigadistas’” program includes voluntary work on local farms, talks from experts on the current process of updating the country’s economic model, tributes to Cuban heroes and visits to the provinces of Villa Clara, Sancti Spíritus and Havana.

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Cuban Economy

Cubans welcomed the announcement on April 22 of a reduction of up to 20% in the price of certain products, the majority foodstuffs.

Reduction in food prices of up to 20%
Cubans welcomed the announcement on April 22 of a reduction of up to 20% in the price of certain products, the majority foodstuffs.

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Author: Redacción Nacional | internet@granma.cu
april 28, 2016 10:04:29

Cubans welcomed the measure designed to increase the population’s purchasing power over the short term.
Cubans welcomed the announcement on April 22 of a reduction of up to 20% in the price of certain products, the majority foodstuffs.
The Ministry of Finance and Prices highlighted in an informative note published the same day in the national press, that the Central Report to the 7th Party Congress, held April 16-19, states that “salaries and pensions are still insufficient to meet the needs of the Cuban family.”
The note adds that although the definitive solution to this complex situation will only be reached through an increase in the productivity and efficiency of the national economy, “the political will of the Party and government leadership to do everything possible to improve the situation of the population in the context of existing limitations, as well as a drop in food prices on the world market,” have led to the adoption of such measures, which aim to gradually increase the population’s purchasing power over the short term.
The announcement had an immediate impact: “Great news, I think the country’s policies should continue along this line, not only with well deserved wage increases based on greater productivity, but by continuing to reduce prices, above all of basic and essential products,” stated Jorge Luis, one of the many readers who expressed his reaction to the measure on the Granma website.
Cuba is currently in the process of updating its economic model in order to build a prosperous and sustainable socialism. As President Raúl Castro stated at the close of the recently held 7th Party Congress, this process demands “that the principles of justice and equality, which have served as the Revolution’s foundation, be preserved and strengthened.”
The Communist Party of Cuba First Secretary added, “A Revolution of the humble, by the humble and for the humble, as Fidel defined it, with undeniable social works constructed, will never find solutions to its problems behind the backs of the people, or with the restoration of capitalism, which would imply the application of shock therapies to layers of the population with the least resources, and destroy the unity and confidence of the majority of our citizens in the Revolution and the Party. In Cuba, I reiterate once again, no one will be left to their fate.”

Andrés Gómez

Barack Obama and terrorism, described Miami as an example of hope for the Cubans

Andrés Gómez, Director of Areítodigital / April 11, 2016

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Miami.- I have lived in Miami since November 29, 1960, and now
I’m 68 years old. I was 13 when I arrived with my family,
much like almost 130,000 Cubans who left their country in that
year as a result of the radical changes made by the Cuban
revolutionary process and war threats issued by the United States
that were partially carried out in April 1961, five months later,
with the Bay of Pigs invasion, the defeat of which those 55 years
ago will be soon celebrated by the Cuban people in revolution.

Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, and not in Miami. After
living in that city for so many years I know very well that
“clear monument”, as Obama described Miami, calling
it an example of hope for the Cubans, especially the young
people,” in his well-timed and much-quoted speech of March
22 in Havana’s Gran Teatro.

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