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Mar 13, 2019Walter Lippmann

A Few Final Thoughts February 2019

Constitution of the Republic of Cuba in PDF

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Two Months in Cuba

In the US anything goes against dissidents

Posted: December 15, 2023

A Shadow on the Sixties: Covert Operations and the Counterculture

The 1960s and 70s in the US, a time of seismic social and cultural shifts, also cast a long, dark shadow. Dissenting voices, particularly those challenging the status quo, faced a stark reality: being labelled an “offsider” could have dire consequences.

Internet dating in Cuba

Posted: December 26, 2022

CUBADEBATE looks at the phenomenon of internet dating in Cuba.

Cuba in the foreign policy of the USA

Posted: December 19, 2022

CUBADEBATE provides a comprehensive look at Cuba’s position in US foreign policy at the end of the year 2022.

Cuban Families Code 2022 – Summary

Posted: September 19, 2022

This is a summary of the main provisions of the Cuban Families Code to be voted on in a national referendum on September 25, 2022.

I live in Los Angeles and visit Cuba often.  This site is an expression of my passion for Cuba, it’s people, politics and culture.  You’ll find thousands of current and historic translations from Spanish publications, blogs, books and movies. 

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My interest in Cuba has deep family roots. My father and his parents lived there from 1939 to 1942. As Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany, they were unable to enter either Great Britain or the United States, despite having close relatives in each. The Roosevelt administration strictly enforced a restrictive quota on Jewish immigration. My father and his parents had to wait in Cuba until 1943 before obtaining permission to enter the US. I was born in New York City in 1944. (A good history of the Jewish experience in Cuba is Robert M. Levine’s 1993 Tropical Diaspora (ISBN:0-8130-1218-X). There’s also a novel which eloquently evokes the time when my father lived in Cuba, Passing Through Havana, by Felicia Rosshandler (ISBN: 0-312-59779-7). My father took me to Cuba in August, 1956. We visited his old residence and met some of his old friends. I don’t remember much about it except that Cuba was a very hot and sticky place. (I was only 12 at the time.) We stayed briefly at the Hotel Nacional, and after that we moved to a smaller hotel. We traveled to Pinar del Rio with one old friend, John Gundrum, also a German immigrant, but one who’d never left Cuba. In November, 2000 I made my second visit to Cuba as an adult. I’d spent three weeks there in late 1999, on a delegation of yoga teachers and students meeting and practicing with our Cuban counterparts. I knew more than most in the US about this Caribbean nation. I’ve read a lot of Cuban history, and followed Cuban affairs closely. Now I wanted to take a much closer look. How do Cubans actually live, day-to-day? I wanted to get a sense of how they work, their likes, dislikes and so on. It’s one thing to hear and read about a place, in the media (Cuba is terrible place! People are dying to leave!) or, on the other hand, uncritically favorable accounts among the few left media sympathetic to Cuba.

To Subscribers to Walter Lippmann’s Blog

Posted: March 13, 2019

CUBAN CHRONICLES by Walter Lippmann March 13, 2019 FOR SUBSCRIBERS TO WALTERLIPPMANN.COM’s blog only. I’m about to post some older materials from the CubaNews Yahoo News Group, and some other materials which were first posted to Facebook, just collecting previous postings in one convenient location: my website. If you’ve not seen them before, I hope […]

Cuban cigarettes

Posted: February 15, 2019

CUBAN CHRONICLES by Walter Lippmann February 15, 2019 These are Cuban cigarettes, not at the duty-free, and you’ll notice the price is 6 cuc for a carton, that is 10 packs and other words 200 coffin nails. Originallly posted to facebook February 15, 2019 at 9:06am Feb 15, 2019Walter Lippmann

The plane has been called for boarding

Posted: February 15, 2019

CUBAN CHRONICLES by Walter Lippmann February 15, 2019 The plane has been called for boarding so I’m going to go now I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do any more posting from inside the plane. On the way to the airport, I had to make a quick stop at the office of the […]

With Suitcases at The Airport

Posted: February 15, 2019

CUBAN CHRONICLES With Suitcases at The Airport by Walter Lippmann February 15, 2019 Here I am at the airport. Over a two months nap over a two-month span, I accumulate a massive quantity of books. If there’s any space left beyond the books, and the Cuban coffee that I purchase, I sometimes by a few […]

Walter Lippmann, gives his opinion on Sexo Sentido

Posted: February 20, 2020

JUVENTUD REBELDE’s Sexo Sentido column asks Walter Lippmann why he translates their columns into English.

Take Back the Workplace 11/12/2017

Posted: November 13, 2017

#MeToo Survivors March – Take Back the Workplace March and Rally, Hollywood, California November 12, 2017 Text and dozens of photos by Walter Lippmann. Hundreds of women and men came out on short notice today to protest sexual abuse and rape. Called by local organizations and a group of female farmworkers, an estimated 500 people assembled […]

Letter to Walter Lippmann

Posted: September 21, 2017

LETTER FROM JACK SHEPHERD TO WALTER LIPPMANN July 12, 1997 Dear Walter: American medicine is dominated by the drug companies in alliance with the FDA and the majority of the doctors. It results in high costs and inferior medical treatment.   Drug companies cannot patent substances that occur naturally in the human body such as […]

Jack Shepherd

Posted: September 5, 2017

Jack Shepherd (1919-1998) Jack Shepherd, a steelworker who headed a committee of a coalition of 25 locals in Southern California that tried to get workers involved in antiwar demonstrations last April and November, said that the attitude of the average worker was that “Nixon will bring the war to an end.” http://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/06/archives/antiwar-groups-to-protest-here-activists-reject-new-tactic-at.html Photos by Walter […]

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About that “other” Walter Lippmann

If you don’t know me personally, you might be wondering, ” Walter Lippmann”, haven’t I heard that name before? Well, you very well may have. The “other” Walter Lippmann was more or less the George Will of his time, though he had been mildly socialistic as a young man. We shared little beyond our name, and our secular, German Jewish background. But, because my name is spelled exactly as his was, people sometimes ask if we are related. There’s no family or other connection. Read More from some scholars whose work I appreciate who’ve written about his ideas and politics.

 

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Great actor Sidney Poitier dies at 94

Posted: January 11, 2022

GRANMA reports on the death of the great US actor, Sidney Poitier, age 94, in the Bahamas in 2022.

Censorship and freedom of expression

Posted: November 6, 2021

GRANMA looks at the role US national security agencies play in the production of spy movies such as the James Bond series.

Leni Riefenstahl and a final adjustment

Posted: January 27, 2021

GRANMA’s principal film critic shares unsavory facts about the famous German director from the research by a German filmmaker Nina Gladitz

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Manuel Yepe 1936-2022

Posted: May 17, 2022

CUBADEBATE announces the death of Manuel E. Yepe, attorney, diplomat, and Fidelista since the clandestine struggle.

On the desertion of César Prieto

Posted: June 2, 2021

Cuban blogger Roberto M. Yepe comments on the desertion of Cuban baseball player César Prieto in May 2021 in Florida.

REVIEW: Vicki Huddleston’s Cuba memoir

Posted: June 6, 2018

Retired Cuban diplomat Nestor Garcia Iturbe takes a critical look at Vicki Huddleston’s OUR WOMAN IN HAVANA.

We Keep Being Put on New Lists

Posted: November 9, 2017

We Keep Being Put on New Lists By: Dr. Néstor García Iturbe Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews. The Trump administration, at the head of the United States government, has just included Cuba on three new lists. That is part of the policy change, which Trump announced when he met in the city […]

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Fidel Castro, speaking in Bayamo, Cuba, July 26, 2006. I took this picture, surrounded by tens of thousands of Cubans. It is my favorite picture of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution.

Fidel almost always spoke in Spanish. In this section you will find a selection of Fidel Castro’s speeches and writing, translated to English.

Fidel Castro on his mother Lina

Posted: August 16, 2018

GRANMA: Fidel Castro answers Ignacio Ramonet’s request that he speak about his mother.

Jesus Christ, Revolutionary

Posted: September 5, 2017

Fidel Castro saw Jesus Christ as a revolutionary: “I believe that many of the passages of the preachings of Christ, such as the Sermon on the Mount, cannot be given any interpretation other than what you call the option for the poor.” (Excerpt from FIDEL AND RELIGION.)

The Novel of His Memories

Posted: June 16, 2017

Gabo and I were in the city of Bogotá on the sad day of April 9, 1948 when [Colombian Liberal leader and presidential candidate Jorge Eliécer] Gaitán was killed.

Fidel Castro Speech October 3, 1965

Posted: February 22, 2016

Speech given Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government, in the presentation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, at the “Chaplin” theater October 3, 1965. Havana Domestic Radio and Television Services in Spanish 0150 GMT 4 October 1965–F (October […]

Fidel Castro on 1983 Coup in Grenada

Posted: November 7, 2017

Speech by Fidel Castro at the eulogy for the heroes killed in unequal combat against U.S. Imperialism in Grenada. Held in Havana on November 14, 1983.. SOURCE: The African Communist, No. 97, 1984, pp. 75-91. Scanned from pdf at The African Communist #97, 1984, by Walter Lippmann, November 2017, pp. 75-91

Fidel Castro Welcomes Pope John Paul in 1998

Posted: March 14, 2016

Mar 14, 2016Walter Lippmann Source : Fidel Castro: Bienvenida A Su Santidad Juan Pablo Il

Second Declaration of Havana: Validity of a Demand for Justice

Posted: March 1, 2016

The Second Declaration of Havana, approved on February 4, 1962 in the middle of a process of shaping up the people’s political power, far-reaching revolutionary changes, serious class struggle, and growing interventionism by the United States against Cuba.

Fidel Castro Speech October 3, 1965

Posted: February 22, 2016

Speech given Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and Prime Minister of the Revolutionary Government, in the presentation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, at the “Chaplin” theater October 3, 1965. Havana Domestic Radio and Television Services in Spanish 0150 GMT 4 October 1965–F (October […]

 
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