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Cuban Economic News

The Entrenched Cuban Embargo, 10/19/09 Alberto Jones

The Handling of the Cuban Housing Crisis, 10/16/09  Alberto Jones

Cuba Financial Woes Risking its Future, while Sitting on Untapped Riches, 8/22/09  Alberto Jones

Cuba: a Recession-Resistant Nation with a Failing Economy, 7/25/09, Alberto Jones.  With recommendations for repair, including encouraging small business.

Hospital Garifuna de Ciriboya, una colaboracion de Cuba y la EE-UU, amenazado por los golpistas. Coup regime threatens Garifuna Hospital in Ciriboya, a collaboration between Cuba and America, 9/09

HOSPITAL GARIFUNA: Cuba y Estados Unidos trabajan juntos en Honduras  8/29/2009 Dick Emanuelsson: "Entrevista a John Garamendi, Vicegobernador del Estado de California en Estados Unidos durante la inauguración de una clínica en Ciraboya."

Honduran Garifuna Culture Threatened by Coup  9/4/2009 New American Media: by Willie Thompson - "The Honduran de facto coup government under Roberto Micheletti plans to eliminate the Honduran Garifuna people and culture. Micheletti has rescinded the Manuel Zelaya authorization to teach in the Garifuna language in school and to teach the language itself. All scholarships to Garifuna students have been eliminated. Now, Micheletti, with no opposition from the U.S. State Department, has set Sept. 1, 2009, to take over the Garifuna built and operated hospital and fire its Latin American Medical School (ELAM) trained Garifuna physicians, including Dr. Luther Castillo Harry, its founder. Dr. Castillo Harry has been targeted for assassination in order to decapitate the Garifuna leadership. 

A Sincere and Painful Apology to the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus  5/20/2009 Black Agenda Report, Alberto Jones: "These are the real battles for justice, equality and the future of our nation, that all Cubans and Afro-Cubans especially should be waging, not siding with those who castrated our independence in 1898 or those who enabled this [1912] massacre and kept us segregated, impoverished, ignorant until 1959 and today, are shamefully relying on the dark skin of some, willing to sell their intellect and soul to the highest bidder, by attempting to intimidate, blackmail or create a negative political scene against members of the CBC [Congressional Black Caucus], who have courageously stood by their brothers in Cuba for the past 25 years. " -- Alberto Jones, also posted on Norman Girvan and on AfroCubaWeb's Alberto Jones Column

Invoking MLK and Rosa Parks in Cuban Exile Politics, Claude Betancourt, 5/30/09: Brothers to the Rescue, Florida's MLK Institute for Nonviolence, and manipulating Cuban dissidents.

By Alberto Jones, 2009:

Cuba: a Recession-Resistant Nation with a Failing Economy, 7/25/09
Eternal Gratitude to Floridians and to Pastors For Peace, 7/18/09
Cuba’s Extraordinary Generosity Risking its own Survival, 6/24/09
Mimetism, New Weapon within the Cuba Hate Industry, 6/18/09
The OAS, an unburied political cadaver and Hillary’s retrograde thinking, 6/2/09
If they were only here? 6/1/09
Doing the Right Thing, Precludes Fear Mongering, 5/26/09
Opportunists fishing in murky waters, 5/18/09
Quakers Meeting in North Florida, 5/17/09
A Sincere and Painful Apology to the US Congressional Black Caucus, 5/10/09
Watching our Future slip away, 4/28/09
Ignoring History has cost us Fifty precious years of our lives, 4/18/09
Another Stray Brother: Rep Kendrick Meek, 4/10/09
Fifty years of infamy about to end, 4/8/09
Are we shooting ourselves in the foot? 3/30/09
The Race Card: their last bastion in a lost war, 1/31/09
Time to regain lost grounds or perish, 1/13/09

AN URGENT APPEAL FOR HELP, 5/2/09, The Caribbean American Children Foundation

The Caribbean American Children Foundation Newsletter #12, 4/09

Legacy of broadcasting icon Eugene Godfried hailed in Caribbean and US, 4/9/09 Caribbean Net News

By Alberto Jones, 2008: 

Unmasking Fifty Years of Lies and a Fictitious Country That Never Was, 12/11/08 
Debunking an Imaginary Country That Never Was, 12/11/08 
A Brilliant Future Within Reach, 12/8/08 
The Dawning of the Americas, 12/3/08 
A Great Beginning for a Successful Presidency, 12/1/08 
Caribbean Unification. A Non-deferrable Reality, 11/24/08 
Preventing a second Special Period: an urgent imperative, 11/15/08 
President Obama Can Enable All Non-tourist Travel, 11/13/08
Courageous Action needed to Jump Start Presidency, 11/10/08
Victimizers Disguised in Victim's Clothing, 9/23/08 
Putting an end to fifty years of a Right-Wing Cuban-American victim syndrome, 9/27/08 
A Moment of Truth: an appalling exchange with high ranking US Commerce, 9/22/08  Department Employee, 9/22/08 
Big Problems Demand Big Solutions, 9/16/08
A 15 year old missed opportunity may repeat itself, 8/13/2008 
Lies, hypocrisy and the end of an era, 8/12/2008 
Stolen Arts proudly displayed in Daytona Beach, 7/21/08 
Fifty Years of an Infamous Behavior, 6/7/08 
If they were only here?  Reflections on a Jamaican Cuban ancestry. 6/1/08 

Declaracion del II Encuentro Nacional Afrovenezolano, del 17 al 20 de julio de 2008, 19/8/08: "...Rechazar categóricamente la legislación racista de la Directiva del Retorno aprobada recientemente por el parlamento europeo. Exigir al Gobierno Venezolano a traves de sus instituciones activar el Plan de Acción de la III Conferencia Internacional Contra el Racismo. Profundizar el trabajo organizativo y formativo de los y las militantes a lo interno de la Red de Organizaciones Afrovenezolanas...."

Celebran en Cuba Foro "Nuevo País Racial", CubaNuestra Digital, 8/7/08  El Partido Independiente de Color, Granma, Silvio Castro, 8/6/08

Conclusión: el II Encuentro Nacional Afrovenezolano, 19/7/08: "no tenemos un Estado expresamente racista, pero sí una sociedad donde aún existen focos racistas y discriminatorios que se expresan, por ejemplo, en muchos medios de comunicación, en algunas instituciones del Estado y empresas privadas donde han discriminado personas por su color de piel desechando su capacidad intelectual y técnica. De eso hay denuncias en el Ministerio del Trabajo."

Afrovenezolanos Exigen Profundizar la Revolucion, 11/7/08, Prensa Afrovenezolana

Fifty Years of an Infamous Behavior, 6/7/08 Alberto Jones

Cuba News Headlines - Africa,  ongoing

Obong of Calabar disputed crown: My story, by Edidem Ekpo Okon Abasi, 5/17/08, Vanguard, Nigeria: Andy Petit exposes the tissue of lies put forth by the illegitimate 2nd Obong., 5/17/08, Vanguard, Nigeria: Andy Petit exposes the tissue of lies put forth by the illegitimate 2nd Obong., 5/17/08, Vanguard, Nigeria: Andy Petit exposes the tissue of lies put forth by the illegitimate 2nd Obong.

Raza y Racismo  5/17/2008 La Jiribilla, a well known Havana cultural magazine: edition devoted to "Race and Racism"

Documentos del Partido Independiente de Color  5/17/2008 La Jiribilla 

Rich culture on display swindled from weak, poor: a Batista legacy, 5/19/08, column in the Daytona Beach News Journal, Alberto Jones

Setting the Record Straight, 5/7/08 - letter to the Jamaica Observer, Alberto Jones

Mercaderes del Odio y la Decepcion, 26/4/08 Alberto Jones

Acorralados por racismo. Peligroso ser negro, 4/08 Afro Ecuador

A Region at Risk of Famine and the Need of a Survival Strategy, 4/17/08 Alberto Jones

An un-erasable historical disaster, 4/14/2008  Alberto Jones

No Time for Barbaric Actions, 4/10/08 Alberto Jones

Celebrating the Exemplary Life of Dr. D’Adesky, 4/7/08 Alberto Jones

Letter from Congresswomen Yvette Clarke (D, Brooklyn) on Cuba, 3/31/08

A 154 años de la abolición de la esclavitud ....la deuda continua 23/5/08  Colectivo Red Afrovenezolana

A Critical Look at the Future of Cuba, Part III, 3/13/08 Alberto Jones

Extended coverage of the police riot at Edison High School, Miami, against Haitian and African American students. Cuban American Assistant Principal Perez assaults a student, police are called in to stop a peaceful demonstration and cause over 30 casualties on 2/29/08.

Venezuelan activist lectures on social issues  2/29/2008 Daily Collegian. Jesus "Chucho" Garcia persuades Cuban instructors in Venezuela to include a discussion of racism in their course work.

A Tragic Past and a Glimmer of Hope over the Horizon, 2/08, Alberto Jones

History Continues To Repeat Itself, 2/08  Another Sad Birthday, 2//08 by Alberto Jones

A Critical Look at the Future of Cuba, Parts I and II, 2/08 Alberto Jones

Irania Martinez Garcia, from the town of Guantanamo, Cuba, is a finalist for the CNN Heroes award. AfroCubaWeb columnist Alberto Jones had to go accept the finalist award as she is not allowed in by the US government. 12/6/07.  See also Eternal Gratitude to CNN, 12/07 by Alberto Jones.

Cuban Americans write letters to the editor attacking African American columnist  Tonyaa Weathersbee, of the Florida Times Union, because of her articles on Cuba. Alberto Jones comments. 11/07

Updates to JFK Assassination News, 12/07

Manipulating the United Nations, 10/07 Alberto Jones

Unmasking the Promoters of the Racial War in Cuba, 9/07 Alberto Jones Desenmascarando a los Promotores de la Guerra Racial en Cuba, 9/07

Seeing the people, not Cold War politics, Florida Times-Union, 2/07. By Tonyaa Weathersbee, a member of the prestigious Trotter Group. This article is about Alberto Jones, who writes a column on this site.

Ambush at Columbia University, 9/25/07 Alberto Jones

Born to Kill and Destroy, 8/07 Alberto Jones

Ending a Vicious, Cruel and Wicked Law Imposed on Our Families, 8/2007 Alberto Jones

Another Failed Tool in the Anti-Cuba Arsenal, 7/200 Alberto Jones

Guantanamo: A Dagger in the Heart of the Cuban People, 6/07 Alberto Jones

A Silly Harangue to the Cuban Armed Forces, 4/07 Alberto Jones

A Monstrous and Wicked Worldwide Attack on the Poor, 3/07 Alberto Jones

A Defining Tour of a Failed Political Experiment, 3/07 Alberto Jones

A wonderful idea risks going wrong, 3/07  Alberto Jones

The Cuban Migration Fallacy, 12/06 Alberto Jones

Rising from the Ashes of the Special Period, 12/06 Alberto Jones

A better world is still possible, 12/2/06 Alberto Jones
Un Mundo Mejor Es Aun Posible, 2/12/06

Eugene Godfried interviews the leader of Curacao's Independence Party  -- Curazao and the Netherlands on the way to suffocate free press in Dutch semicolony, the Netherlands Antilles?  These islands are Curazao, Bonaire, Saint Martin, Saba and Saint Eustatius.  Independence activist Joceline Clemencia from Curazao denounces the de facto censorship imposed by commisioner Zita Leito on local communications media. This measure coincides with the visit of Queen Beatrix to the islands. No protests are tolerated against 1) the financial crisis in the islands or 2) the decision to dismantle the federative union of the 5 islands with the Netherlands in order to enter into direct one on one submission - divide and conquer.

Iraq’s Tragedy and a world in limbo, 11/10/06, Alberto Jones

Cuba y las tinieblas del racismo, BBC, 10/10/06

Infame Pirateria de Medicos Cubanos Internacionalistas, 8/29/06 Alberto Jones

Fidel at 80: Confidential Memories by Leonardo Boff, Theologian, 8/11/06 "Due to the North American pressure I had to make a rapprochement to the Soviet Union, but if I had had at that time a theology of liberation, I would most certainly had embraced it and applied it in Cuba." 

Our Latest Dirty Ploy, 8/13/06, Alberto Jones

Portrait of an Evil Ideology, 8/11, Alberto Jones

Lies, hatred and fantasy will not help us return to Cuba, 8/4/06, Alberto Jones

El "Código de Maceo", Tisingal, Armando Vargas Araya, 6/25/06. El bolivariano Maceo, su codigo militar

Humans, our worst enemy, 7/19/06, Alberto Jones

PLATT AMMENDMENT II - AN OUTRAGE, 7/9/06, Alberto Jones

New film site: Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power, 6/15

Georgia boycott contemplated, for the signing of the signing the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act, SF Bay View, 4/19/06 - "Angel Luevano, California LULAC state director, said that “historically, Mexico extended the greatest hospitality to people from Georgia and throughout the South as a haven for runaway slaves. In fact, the reason that Mexico lags behind the United States in development to this day is the loss of territory that Mexico suffered as a direct consequence of attempting to free the slaves illegally brought to Texas by Americans. That set off the chain of events which led to the illegal provocation of war against Mexico by President Polk, which was denounced by then Congressman Abraham Lincoln and later described as atrocity by then Army Capt. Ullyses S. Grant.”

The Black Mexico Home Page: www.afromexico.com - note the menu bar up top, some great history discussed here. 4/20/06

IFCO: Support the Caravan to Cuba End the Blockade, 2/06

05 Cuban Census: Total population: 11.177.743; whites: 65% - 7.271.926; blacks: 10% - 1.126.894; mulattos: 24,9% - 2.778.923. Actually taken in 2002, these numbers are way off from other data.

Turning the United Nations into an irrelevant White Elephant, 11/12/05 Alberto Jones

Dec 1: Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day 11/26/2005  brphrd.com:  "December 1 - Mass March & Rally * No to Poverty, Racism & War! * Bring the Troops Home Now * Cut the War Budget, Not Healthcare, Housing and Education * Justice for Hurricane Katrina Survivors * Military recruiters out of our schools. * Jobs - A Living Wage - the Right to Organize"

The Caribbean American Children Foundation Newsletter #10, 10/05

Chabot Cuba conference faces a challenged Afro - Cuba  10/19/2005 SF Bay View: "The panelists reported that the income gap between Black and white Cubans widened during the "special period" (1990s) after the fall of the Soviet Union and the tightening of the U.S. economic blockade. Remittances - money sent by Cubans in the United States to their families in Cuba - go mostly to white Cubans, 30 to 40 percent. Only 5 to 10 percent goes to Black Cubans... Twenty percent of the audience was African North Americans, who met with other African North Americans and Alberto Jones on Sunday to explore a remittance program for Afro-Cubans and to educate and organize African North Americans to put an end to the U.S. blockade and travel embargo against Cuba."

We support Cuba because Cuba supports Blacks and Africa - Response to Chabot Cuba Conference report  11/9/2005 SF Bay View: "The problem is, when you speak of Cuban realities - or realities in Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil etc. - who is Afro-Cuban and who is not? When I first went to Cuba in 1974, years after the first waves of gusano defections to Miami, I was informed by reliable medical authorities that so many whites had left that by then fully 80 percent of the Cuban population was susceptible to sickle cell anemia. In other words, Cuba was becoming darker by white political default."

All Saints Episcopal Church, Guantanamo, celebrating 100th anniversary, 10/31/05 Cuban American Children's Foundation, Alberto Jones

Interview with Harry Belafonte on Cuba, 10/25/03 by Sandra Levinson 

A Monstrous Complicity, 10/5/05, by Alberto Jones

Chronology of a failed Annexation attempt, 10/4 Alberto Jones

Building the Adamsbrook Anglican Center for All Saint's Church, Guantanamo, Cuba, 9/05: plea for funds, project status

Administration Ineptitude, Worst Than Katrina, 9/4/05 Alberto Jones

Carriles: Will Justice Be Done? 8/05 by Alberto Jones

Congress attempts to further Assata Kidnapping, 6/15/05 HOA

Carriles:a Living Monster of our Making, 5/30/05 Alberto Jones

 J. Keith Motley denied as Chancellor of UMass Boston: a black man doing a good job is shunted aside in favor of an opponent of stem cell research, Black Voter Network, 5/24/05

A Monstrous Assault On The Cuban Family, 4/28/05 Alberto Jones

Comenzó Festival de Folclor Internacional, 4/26/05

Self Serving Use of Terrorism, 4/21/05 Alberto Jones

Selling the Human Rights Commission to the Highest Bidder, 4/14/05 Alberto Jones

Loosing the War on Moral Authority, 3/29/05 Alberto Jones

A Political Comedy in Iraq, 1/31/05 Alberto Jones

Homage And Lesson Learned From Mr. Charles W. Cherry's Death,12/25/04 Alberto Jones

All Saints Episcopal Church, Guantanamo, seeking help, 11/25/04

Only in Miami, 11/23/04 Alberto Jones

A Failed Witch Hunt, 11/21/04 Alberto Jones

Destructive Genes, 11/18/04 Alberto Jones

Re-Enactment Of the Cold War Mentality: Background to a Currency Shift, 10/25/04 Alberto Jones

Mel Martinez: a Monster in Silk Clothing, 10/21/04 Alberto Jones

Commentary: Afro-Cubans could influence an anti-Bush vote in Fla.  10/28/2004 Black America Web: "According to ABCnews.com, scores of Cubans are working the phones from across the Florida Straits. They are urging their relatives in the battleground state of Florida to vote for Democratic challenger John Kerry for president.

Solidarity Denial In Times Of Need, 9/14/04 Alberto Jones

A Shining Example Of A Positive Human Behavior, 8/30/04 Alberto Jones

A Treacherous Betrayal Of One Of Our Own, 8/27/04 Alberto Jones

The Future Of Our Region In Limbo, 8/14/04 Alberto Jones

Newsletter #8, Caribbean American Childrens Foundation, 8/2004

U.S. INTELLIGENCE LISTED COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT URIBE AMONG "IMPORTANT COLOMBIAN NARCO-TRAFFICKERS" IN 1991  8/2/04 National Security Archives

Unmasking a Hypocrite: Prostitution Now and Then! 8/2/03 Alberto Jones on the extensive US Navy related corruption in Guantanamo pre-59.

SIMPLE MECHANISM TO DEFEAT PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH IN NOVEMBER 2004, recipe from Miami, 7/04

A Plea For Help - Caribbean American Children Foundation, 7/24/04 - "if those Haitian students that are presently enrolled would successfully graduate, that would mean a 25% increase in Haiti's present physician pool."

On The Wrong Side Of History, 6/30/04, also A Tragic Day In The American History, by Alberto Jones

The Missing Cuban Musicians, a 34 page report on the US ban against Cuban musicians, by Ned Sublette and immigration attorney Bill Martinez, Cuba Research & Analysis Group, 6/24/04

SHAME!!!!!  5/11/04, Alberto Jones: "Why is it so difficult for Mr. Diaz-Balart et al., to admit that children do not die anymore in Banes or in any other place in Cuba because of preventable diseases as they did when we had Freedom of Speech, Democracy, Free Election and Free Enterprise, under their beloved General Antonio Machado or Fulgencio Batista?"

Ayuda Urgente, An Appeal For Help, The Caribbean American Children Foundation, 6/13/04 - they have 3 buses full of supplies to get to Cuba.

Rogelio Scull, founding member of Afro-Cuba de Matanzas, dies in Texas prison hospice, 6/12/04. 

Unmasking The Human Right Myths, 4/04/04, Alberto Jones

A Shameful Political Ploy, 3/23/04, Alberto Jones

Haiti, A Man-Made Tragedy, 3/1/04, Alberto Jones

For Young Cubans, a Test of Ideas is at Hand, Black America Web, 4/14/04

A Call In Defense Of Our Families, 2/16/04, Alberto Jones

III Conference The Nation and Emigration, May 21-23, 2004. El Exilio gathers in Cuba.

Ignoring Realities And Compromising The Future, 1/3/04, Alberto Jones

A War For No Good Reason, 12/27/03, Alberto Jones

Kennedy Assassination News: the 40th anniversary brings a torrent of articles, some trying again to smear Cuba.

Free Sundiata Acoli - Sundiata needs you to send a letter to the parole board now!  11/7/03 Sundiata was Assata Shakur's partner in the 1973 New Jersey Turnpike "driving while black" assault committed by authentic Nazis in the New Jersey State Troopers.

Letter to Senator Coleman, 10/27/03, Alberto Jones on Apartheid in pre-Castro Cuba.

New U.S. Treasury Department Rules 
Cast Chill Over Scientific Publishing, 10/03, OFAC runs wild!

"Afro-Cuban Dissidents Treated Especially Cruelly", 10/15/03, Letter to the Los Angeles Times by Alberto Jones

Afro-Colombian Leader Murdered by the FARC, 9/6/03

Maraca Tour Manager appeals for help on US Visa, 7/27/03

Alberto Jones: Roots of Cuba's Revolution, 7/23/03 and A Despicable Political Ploy: on BET's charging racist execution of hijackers,  6/23/03

Help the Children of Cuba, 5/18/03, Alberto Jones

Actor Danny Glover , target of right-wing witch hunt, receives telling support from African Americans, 5/18/03

Hothouse Shut Down Immediately Prior To Sold-Out Performance Of Legendary Cuban Band Orquesta Aragon, 5/14/03

La Aragón se impuso al veto yanqui, 4/27/03

Message from Havana to friends who are far away, Granma, Cuba, 4/24/03 signed by some folks featured on AfroCubaWeb, deals with the recent US treatment of Cuba and worldwide reactions.

African Peoples Against The War On Iraq & The Iraqi People, Saturday, 3/29/03, Leimert Park in Los Angeles, CA, International Black Coalition for Peace and Justice

Alberto Jones: An Old Rotten Practice, 3/1/03; Macabre Obsession, 2/28;  Shame on Us, 2/28/03;  A Human Tragedy In The Making, 2/24/03

Fidel Castro Ruz, at the closing session of the Pedagogy 2003 Congress, 2/7/03 - a speech that discusses some racial issues in Cuba.

Fidel Castro Ruz, en la clausura del Congreso Pedagogía 2003, 2/7/03 "Many blacks think that this is a historic speech" - BBC on this speech

Operation Northwoods & supporting material, 2/7/03 - details of the infamous 1962 plan to foment war with Cuba through false incidents featuring real American and Cuban exile deaths. Available evidence is examined along with the stellar careers of its authors.

Roots Of Anti-American Sentiment, Alberto Jones, 12/29/02

The US Treasury - Office of Foreign Assets Control: Assault on US Freedoms, 12/26/02

Social change in Cuba is complex as black and white, Interview with Pedro Pérez-Sarduy, Seattle Times, 11/24/02 

New Cuba to US Travel Restrictions, 10/02

La Guerrita del Doce, noventa años después: Granma, 6/17/02 Gisela Arandia puts on a conference.

Jalil Muntaqim - COINTELPRO prisoner whose release the NY Post is fighting - action item. 6/10/02

Noted madrina Cachita More passes in Miami, funeral held in Havana, 3/28/02

La Peña responds to Anthrax letters it received, 3/20/02

Reactions to William Rasberry's column on Cuba, 2/18/02, Alberto Jones

Hurricane Michelle: impact and aid efforts

Official Cuba note on Russia's withdrawal from Lourdes, Cuba, 10/17/01

Fidel's Speech on "Infinite Justice", 9/22

Call on Spanish government to sue CANF president for embezzlement, 9/13, Granma

Fidel Castro's speech in Durban, 9/1/01

Intensification of the cold war, 8/28/01, Granma

Convicted Bomber Freed, Thanks To CANF, 8/2/01 Click10

Franjuls acquire Domino Sugar, boast of the days of slavery, 7/26/01

Cuba answers US cyberterrorism lies, 6/17/01

The Least We Know: Otto Reich and terrorist Orlando Bosch, 4/01 from the Washington Office on Latin America, Washington, DC

Insurrección y represión en Honduras: vinculos anti-golpe, noticias en vivo.  Insurrection and repression in Honduras: anti-coup links, live feeds.  10/09  Asaltado el hospital Garífuna por elementos de la Fuerza Armada, 10/7/09

Honduras' General Romeo Vásquez Velásquez and the Narcotraffickers, 11/1/09

Sin el negro, Cuba no sería Cuba, 10/20/09, Heriberto Feraudy Espino, UNEAC

Carta a Granma, 21/10/09, Cofradia de la Negritud: "Estamos una vez más, compañero Barredo, frente a uno de los puntos problémicos heredado por una de las revoluciones -- la  cubana de 1959 -- que más lejos llevó en América la demolición social del capitalismo neocolonizador y dependiente y que, sin embargo, hasta hoy, no ha podido independizarse  de un canon patriótico eurocéntrico, en el que sólo los antiguos liberticidas, los señores de la propiedad y la riqueza o los entendidos en los valores librescos europeos pueden ser recordados como protagonistas de los actos libertarios y de la dignidad cívica."

Cartas desde Tegucigalpa, 29/9/09 "Mataron a un número indeterminado de compañeros de la primera barricada al final del Puente Guancaste."

Juan Almeida Bosque joins the ancestor, 9/11/09:  Yo quiero que triunfe la Revolución para que sea el pueblo el que dé las órdenes, Marta Rojas, 14/9/09

Sobre Color Cubano, 10/09, Gisela Arandia. Color de Cuba, un espacio de encuentros sobre la problemática racial, ha desaparecido y se ha creado una Comisión orgánica de la UNEAC. Resumen de logros y problemas. Color de Cuba, a set of UNEAC working groups on race & identity in Cuba, has been replaced by a UNEAC commission. Summary of accomplishments and issues.

Venezuela: La Cumbre Africa-Suramerica, 9/23/09-9/27/09

Musica de la Resistencia en Honduras, Radio Globo, 9/09: Tema Resistencia Honduras, Nos Tienen Miedo

Preocupa discriminación racial en Cuba - Activan Cofradía de la Negritud (CONEG) para crear conciencia, IPS, 9/2/09 Racism in Cuba & the Black Fellowship, 9/2/09 Havana Times interviews Tato Quinoñes on the revival of the Black Fellowship, CONEG. See also the text of the 1998 Carta de Presentación introducing CONEG.

General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez and the Gobierno del Reino: Theocracy in Honduras?, 8/12/09

See our new Central America News section to follow the coup in Honduras and the resistance to it, 7/09.  Honduras has 8.3 million people, 99% are of Indian or African descent, including the Garifuna and folks from the West Indies. The army, at 9000, and the police, at 14,000 and notoriously corrupt, are dwarfed by the number of people in the streets. The golpistas, many of them ibero-spanish, have taken to wearing white as a demonstration of their backing for the coup.

Operation Pedro Pan: A horribly black mark on (U.S.) history  5/21/2009  Progresso Weekly: "Years before his death, in Miami Beach in the presence of my mother, my sister Maria, her husband and me, he told us that he was one of the persons responsible for redacting the fake law that caused the “removal of parental rights” hysteria. It is why I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that Operation Pedro Pan was a sinister immorality play designed and dreamt up by the CIA before the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion."

The genesis of African and Indian cooperation in colonial North America: An Interview with Helen Hornbeck Tanner. Ethnohistory Quarterly, (Spring, 2009) American Society for Ethnohistory by Ivor Miller  (PDF, 1.14 MB)

BIENVENIDO AL INFIERNO  5/1/2009 El Blog de Manolin, el Medico de la Salsa: "Todas estas cosas las escribo por responsabilidad, para que los de Cuba tengan conocimiento de la verdad y para que los de Miami rectifiquen, pues no tiene jutificacion ninguna. En mi corazon no hay rencor ni nada feo, soy una de las personas mas felices de este mundo, la vida ha sido muy generosa conmigo, pero no todo es color de rosas en esta vida y las cosas feas que me han pasado, curiosamente, me sucedieron en Miami." Nice job exposing the Estebans.

Tracking the success of the Movimiento Nacional Afrocolombiano, 4/09

Some Quick Comments on Carlos Moore's PICHÓN by Walterio Lord Garnés and David González López  2/15/2009 Walter Lipmann: "Walterio Lord Garnés and David González López are collaborators attached to the Centro de Estudios de África y Medio Oriente in Havana and to the University of Havana’s Cátedra “Amílcar Cabral” de Estudios Africanos. They have written dissertations at home and abroad and published works about African and Afro-Cuban cultures in Cuban and foreign publications. 

The Discourse on Racism in Anti-Castro Publications, 2008-2009; The Obama Factor

Carlos Moore letter to Raúl Castro, 12/17/08  James Early: Carlos Moore's Outcast Vision and Dangerous Deceit  12/28/2009 AfroCubaWeb

Asociación Cultural Yoruba de Cuba En Francia: Llamamiento contra el Bloqueo, 12/08

Entrevista a Jesus Chucho Garcia. Desde Angola, 11/24/08

Afro-Latinos in Latin America and Considerations for U.S. Policy  11/21/08 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE

Fifty Years of African Impact on Cuba: By David González López, Amílcar Cabral Chair. University of Havana. From Temas no. 56: 29-37, octubre-diciembre de 2008. 

Coverage of US elections and the ever present vote fraud at Black Voter Net, includes Vote Fraud News. Voter suppression and vote fraud were overwhelmed by the outpouring of voter support for Obama but were very much in evidence this time around.

Spritual Warfare: Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witchhunter  9/16/2008 London Times: "The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells."[Mama Jane is a diviner who had to leave town as a result, though some accused witches in Kenya are burned.]

Our Russia News page tracks news about Cuba's former patron,  who the neocons have embroiled in numerous disputes.

Classifieds in Cuba: Cuba's Craig's List, 9/08

Death Squad attacks Obong Palace, Cross River State, Nigeria 8/25/08 The Obong, traditional ruler of the Efik, escapes unhurt, many are wounded.  Efik Ékpè lodges are ancestral to the Cuban Abakuá. Extensive photo journal of the initial attack: help identify the hoodlums, 8/25/08

Before Calabar Burns, 8/8/2008 Press Release from the Etubom Traditional Council of the Efik Nation on the murder and mayhem committed by Cross River State government backed militias, with photos of some victims. The Cuban Abakuá are Efik in origin.

Ekpo Ekeng, youth leader of Cobham Town and member of Calabar Mgbe (Ékpè), is interviewed on the recent events in Calabar, 8/08

Constitution of the Calabar Mgbe, 7/08 This Cross River, Nigeria, organization has as goal reunion with all Ekpe, including those in Cuba (Abakuá).

Gov Liyel Imoke sacked, 7/15/08, Vanguard: Cross River State Governor Imoke was hostile to the Obong of Calabar, who has a history of working with his fellow Ekpe members from Cuba.

Ekpo Ekeng, youth leader of Cobham Town, Calabar, and a member of Calabar Mgbè, on the Paris Cuba-Ekpe Encounter, 5/08

Traces of the Trade: story of the Rhode Island based DeWolf family, the largest slave traders in the history of the US, produced by their descendants, 6/08

Caminos magazine devotes its last issue to the ever controversial race question in Cuba, Cuba Now, 5/26/06  Features discussion of the Commission on the Centenary of the Founding of the Independents of Color.

Otra vez raza y racismo, Caminos, 5/08

Asesor de política exterior de John McCain - Otto Reich: "Obama no tiene ni un día de experiencia internacional"  5/25/2008 El Mercurio:  - "Aunque dice que nunca ha abandonado la vida política, lo cierto es que Otto Reich, ex jefe de la diplomacia estadounidense para América Latina, anunció su retorno con "bombos y platillos", nada menos que como asesor del candidato republicano a la Casa Blanca, John McCain."  See also our Otto Reich page for highlights of his career.

Jacuma Kambui and his alleged Assata connection, Andy Petit, 5/3/08 A pseudo radical attempts to fool us with net shenanigans.

Evidence surfaces suggesting Roland Carnaby, gunned down by Houston PD on 4/30/08, was in fact CIA. Is this part of an internal war pitting neocons against other Americans? Who is spinning Carnaby as a fraud? Hans Wolff reports.

The vicious racism that is a hallmark of US history rears its head, braying about the Rev Wright. Here is one response:  Obama's Minister Committed "Treason" But When My Father Said the Same Thing He Was a Republican Hero  3/16/2008 Huffington Post: by Frank Schaeffer.  

The Clinton Campaign Embraces the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to Launch Attacks on Obama 2/27/2008, Buzzflash: Rush Linmbaugh, the Drudge Report, Rupert Murdoch, and Richard Mellon Scaife are new Clinton allies.

The Afrovenezuelan Network and the Paramilitary Menace, 3/7/08  La Red Afrovenezolana ante la Amenaza Paramilitar, 7/3/08 Jesus "Chucho" Garcia.

Site run by the Raizales, an English speaking people of African descent on  islands claimed by Colombia off the coast of Nicaragua: www.amensd.org. The Colombian government favors its Ibero-Spanish elite in their take over of the islands. We track Raizales News.

The Black right wing’s agenda in Colombia, 2/08, Jesus “Chucho” Garcia   Y Tantos Negros Que Apoyan a Uribe, 2/19/08, Macobe Luchador   Why Afro-Colombians Oppose the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, 2/2008 by Marino Cordoba, founder of the Association of Internally Displaced Afro-Colombians (AFRODES)

New book focuses on racial issues in Cuba - its author, Esteban Morales, scrutinizes the topic of race relations in the island from colonial times to present day.  2/4/2008 Cuba Now.  See also our page on Esteban Morales.

Coverage of  Sibel Edmonds' exposé of the Turkish Russian Israeli mafia and its tentacles into the US establishment, 1/08

Centenario de la fundación del Partido Independiente de Color, 2/1/08, Cubarte, por Fernando Martínez Herredia

Hacia el centenario de los Independientes de Color, Granma, 28/12/07

International Commission formed to commemorate the founding of the Independents of Color in 1908. Se formo una Comisión Internacional para conmemorar la fundacion de los Independientes de Color en 1908. Commission International crée pour commemorer la fondation des Independants de Couleur en 1908.   12/07

Prólogo a la edición en castellano - Afrocuba: Una antología de escritos cubanos sobre raza, politica y cultura Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. 1998 Pedro Pérez Sarduy y Jean Stubbs (compiladores)

¿Qué tienen los negros en cuba? por Pedro Pérez Sarduy, 1996, Revista Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana. What Do Blacks Have in Cuba? by Pedro Pérez Sarduy, 1996, Revista Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana.

Antonio Maceo: The Bronze Titan  12/10/2007 Granma: by Fidel Castro

Republican Candidates advocate indicting the Castro brothers for 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown. Backgrounder. 12/07

The Open Wound: The Scourge of Racism in Cuba from Colonialism to Communism  by Iván César Martínez, former Cuban diplomat,10/07.  Also has comments on our Eugene Godfried 1912 interview.

Interview with Eugène Godfried: Call for dialog on the 1912 Massacre, 10/5/07  Accompanied by commentary from the former head of the Caribbean Section of the Department of the Americas of the Central Committee, Osvaldo Cárdenas. Entrevista con Eugène Godfried: una llamada para el dialogo sobre la masacre de 1912, 5/10/07  Acompañado por comentarios del antiguo jefe de la Seccion del Caribe del Departamento de las Americas del Comite Central, Osvaldo Cárdenas.

Eugene Godfried Calls on Fidel Castro for Reflection and Action concerning the 1912 Massacre: YouTube Video , 9/07 Eugene Godfried Ruega a Fidel Castro Reflexion y Accion sobre 1912: Video en YouTube, 9/07

The Discourse on Racism in Anti-Castro Publications, 9/07

“Sociedades de Negros”  /  “Societies of Blacks”  The African Cuban Diaspora’s Cultural Shelters and their Sudden Disappearance in 1959, by Eugene Godfried, 9/2000

The 1912 Massacre, AfroCubaWeb, 9/07

Cuba: Color de la Piel, Nación, Identidad y cultura: ¿ un desafío contemporáneo? de Esteban Morales Domínguez, 6/07 [27 pages, PDF, 245kb]

U.S. blind to true colors of Cuba's problems by DeWayne Wickham, USA Today, 5/30/02  Still topical...

Time for America to Be Relevant in Cuba 4/14/2007 Washington Post: By Charles B. Rangel and Jeff Flake

Cuba: Algunos Desafios del Color, 1/07 [49 pages, PDF, 315kb ] de Esteban Morales Domínguez: interesting list of issues from an AfroCuban at Havana University who ran their Center for US Studies.

National Summit on Cuba: New Jersey, 2006 10/28/06

Katrina: they left them there to die!  Community Rally Aug 29, 2006, one year later.... Boston, MA

Reunión 8/17/06 en Madrid: la situación actual de Cuba, Federación Panafricanista, España

"Human Rights Activist J. Soffiyah Elijah Opens National Network of Grantmakers Conference", Dr. Elijah has written on Cuba's criminal justice system. 10/06

New web site on Assata at happybirthdayassata.org, 8/06

Black Voter Network is back as Black Voter Net after parties unknown seized their domain name. They have a separate page on Katrina Survivors Fight Back listing activities and groups. This site also covers news of  Global Warming,  Peak Oil, the peak and decline of oil production, and Drug Trafficking & State Terrorism, a topic well known to Florida watchers.

20 Years Agrarian & Fisheries Reform Call In Curaçao Curaçao 7/12/06 20 Aňa Reforma Agrario I Peska, Papiamentu, 7/12/06 Eugene Godfried

Venez Extols African Contribution, 5/06

Source: McKinney fiasco shakes Capitol Police, officer knew her  4/18/2006 Redding News Review: "A source said an officer, who says Rep. Cynthia McKinney struck him in the chest with a closed fist, knew who she was, and claims the incident has caused infighting among U.S. Capitol Police. The source, who is close to the ongoing grand jury investigation of the March 29 scuffle, said Paul McKenna, a third year officer in the U.S. Capitol Police, was given a picture of the congresswoman in training. "No one believes that a man with a name that similar to hers would not know who she is," the source told Redding News Review. "He clearly knew who she was and what she looked like but stopped her anyway." ...The source - who did not want to be identified in fear that they might lose their job - also said that the incident has resulted in "fighting and heated arguments between white and black officers." "This case is tearing the department apart," the source said. "The blacks say the whites were screwing with her, but the white officers are saying that she should have stopped."

Hands Off Assata petition to Chicago City Council, 9/05

Assata Shakur’s appeal attorney explains her case Lies are being manufactured to convert Assata into a terrorist to justify the $1 million bounty on her head by Evelyn A. Williams  8/10/2005 SF Bay View

IFCO's 2005 Caravan stopped at the border as US government seizes computers; Caravan continues to Mexico and Cuba without computers, 7/21/05 They have the phone numbers of State Department and other officials who are directing the harassment.

Castro Strikes a Nerve , 6/3/05: Assata, Posada, the Cuban 5, and the US criminal justice system, by Soffiyah Elijah, Deputy director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School.

Official Response to Announcement of $1 million Bounty and the Listing of ASSATA SHAKUR on Domestic Terrorist Watch List, HOA, 5/15/05

Assata and Posada: Two different colors, two different stories  5/18/2005 SF Bay View: "The generally unacknowledged factor of Posada and Bosch’s blowing up of the Cubana airliner, however, is this. If tourists to Cuba take the time to visit Havana’s Sport’s Palace, guides will inevitably take them to the memorial wall. From there, visitors will be greeted by row after row of young, mostly Black faces staring back at them – photographs of Cuba’s Olympic athletes who were returning from the Pan American Games in Venezuela and were on board the airliner Posada and Bosch likely bombed. Therefore, by putting a $1 million bounty on Sister Shakur, who, they say, is linked to the killing of one white person, while allowing Posada and Bosch remain free in the U.S. after killing at least 73 mostly Black people, the U.S. has once again exposed itself as a government that continues to capitulate to and accommodate itself to racism."

Feds offer $1 million reward for Assata Shakur 5/05  Several commentaries, including USA Today, Tom Joiner's Black America Web, and Fidel Castro

Walterio Carbonell: Vivito, coleando y con las pilas puestas, 4/22/05, Jiribilla Desde El Monte hasta La Selva, 4/13/05, Encuentro: false announcement of Carbonell's death.

Domino Sugar workers against the Fanjuls, 2/05

Quintín Banderas, glorioso mambí, 1/16/05

Reports of massive vote fraud across the US with over 300 articles since Nov 2nd:  Black Voter Network, 1/5

Assata Shakur: Flight from Justice, 11/21/04 -  another shot from the New Jersey propaganda machine.

Oakland area CBC member Rep Barbara Lee squared off with Claudia Bermudez, daughter of Col Enrique Bermudez of "Dark Alliance" Cocaine Contra fame, in 2004 Congressional elections, 8/2/03. Lee won.

Miami: A los que quieran expresar su descontento  6/18/04 AfroCubaWeb: "... su descontento por las crueles medidas tomadas contra la familia cubana, por la presente Administracion, pueden participar en los siguientes eventos que tendran lugar el sabado 19 de Junio."

Pastors for Peace/IFCO - 15th Caravan to Cuba: 6/04-7/04. Updated 6/3/04. See links for route, cities across US and the crossing to Mexico.

US Hip Hop group Bojah harassed by OFAC for attending August '03 Havana Hip Hop Festival, 6/15

More Agents Track Castro Than Bin Laden, AP, 4/29/04

Cuba: Race Problem Cannot be Solved Until it’s Acknowledged, Black America Web, 4/16/04

Current U.S. Policy Re: Entry Of Cubans Into The U.S., 2/5/04: "Since most cuban artists are compensated by the cuban government, they are rightly considered to be its employees." See also Cuban artists kept out of U.S., 3/6/04, where this is repeated as the reason for keeping out Carlos Varela, arguably one of the most independent Cuban artists.

TransAfrica in groundbreaking trip to Venezuela, 1/04

Jesus "Chucho" Garcia, of the Red AfroVenezuelana, to tour the US in April 04

U.S. Policy on Cuba Deprives Black Americans, Black AmericaWeb, 11/17: "traveling to Cuba - a majority-black nation - must remain a no-no for most of us, otherwise Miami's Cuban exiles, who are more than 90 percent white, will put a chokehold on the Bush administration's re- election bid.  But the larger issue regarding the travel ban to Cuba isn't the White House's political schemes. It's that you - Mr. and Ms. BlackAmericaWeb.com - are being deprived of an affirming and even life-changing experience. Cuba, just 90 miles to the south of Miami, is defined and dominated by African culture and heritage. And all Cubans, even the white ones, seem to know this." This site is for the US based and nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show. Thank you Tom Joyner! This article is by David Person of the Huntsville Times - he is a member of the Trotter Group of African American columnists. Thank you David Person!

Two More suggestions for action re Cuba travel bills, 11/4/03

Administrative Prosecutions of Cuba Travelers To Start, 10/29/03, OFAC runs wild!

Black Arts Mouvement founder Askia Toure launches new webs site, 11/6/03

Walker, Bush & the Nazis, 10/18/03

Campus police assaults Africana Studies professor at U Mass Boston over military recruitment, professor being tried. 11/6/03

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