Category: Latin America

Book Review: What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five

http://mltoday.com/article/1777-stephen-kimber-what-lies-across-the-water-the-real-story-of-the-cuban-5/28 Stephen Kimber, “What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five” Stephen Kimber has written a book about the Cuban 5 that catches you like a detective story. The book also presents previously unknown information about the case, even for those campaigning for their freedom.  The Cuban 5 are political prisoners … Continue reading Book Review: What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five

Book Review: Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion

https://mronline.org/2013/10/18/smith181013-html/ http://www.torontoforumoncuba.com/international/what-does-democracy-look-like   Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion  By Arnold August Co-Published by Fernwood Publishing (Halifax and Winnipeg, Canada) and ZED Books (London, New York) 2013   For full information: http://www.democracycuba.com Arnold August has written an important book on the developing participatory democracy and peoples’ empowerment in those ALBA countries that form the … Continue reading Book Review: Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion

Loyola Fall 2013 Latin America and Political Repression Film Series

Latin America and Political Prisoners Film Series Loyola University (downtown campus) Corboy Law Center,    room 422 Sundays,     2pm 25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago  September 15   Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up?   By Saul Landau  2010  85 min Twelve years after five Cubans were arrested in America for espionage, Saul Landau has made a … Continue reading Loyola Fall 2013 Latin America and Political Repression Film Series

On CANTV: Gay Cuba, The History of Cuba’s Policies Towards Gays

Gay Cuba:  The History of Cuba’s Policies Towards Gays  On CAN TV: Thursday July 4,      9 pm            CanTV 21 Thursday July 11,   11:30pm      CanTV 21 Thursday July 18,   9:00pm        Can TV 21 Friday July 26,         7:00 Pm   … Continue reading On CANTV: Gay Cuba, The History of Cuba’s Policies Towards Gays

Cuba’s Changing Economic System Remains an Environmental Model

Left Forum June 2013 This panel provides on exchange with representatives of the Cuban Mission to the UN. We will explain why the World Wildlife Fund recognizes Cuba as possessing the only environmentally sustainable economic system, the new economic policies being implemented and their meaning, the Cuban electoral system,  Cuba's world wide humanitarian aid, developments … Continue reading Cuba’s Changing Economic System Remains an Environmental Model

Presentation at African Liberation Day

   This I believe is the 50th anniversary of ALD being held on May 25. It is not a happy time for African liberation. The rich white man’s plunder and destruction of Africa has not ceased. Over 5 million have been killed in the Congo, the land of Lumumba, in imperialism’s looting of their resources. … Continue reading Presentation at African Liberation Day