Túpac Katari, five years of Bolivian sovereignty in telecommunications
Túpac Katari, five years of Bolivian sovereignty in telecommunications By Lemay Padrón Oliveros * Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews La Paz (PL) – When Evo Morales spoke of the possibility of Bolivia having its own space satellite, some thought he was joking. Five years later, however, the first Bolivian satellite, Túpac Katari […]
Palestinian prisoners go on hunger strike against Israeli mistreatment
Palestinian prisoners go on hunger strike against Israeli mistreatment The protest was seconded by thousands of Palestinian prisoners in various detention centres inside and outside the occupied territories. Published: Wednesday 23 January 2019 | 09:09:46 pm. Updated: Wednesday 23 January 2019 | 10:50:35 pm. Author: Juventud Rebelde digital@juventudrebelde.cu A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. […]
NATO’S Cruel 70-Year History
NATO’S Cruel 70-Year History By Manuel E. Yepe http://manuelyepe.wordpress.com/ Exclusive for the daily POR ESTO! of Merida, Mexico. Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann. The ultra reactionary American writer, columnist, politician, and radio commentator Patrick (Pat) Joseph Buchanan recalled, on January 18th in his column widely circulated in several countries, that on this date, seventy […]
AMLO Practices what he preaches
AMLO Practices what he preaches Published: Tuesday 25 December 2018 | 07:39:10 pm. By Marina Menéndez Quintero marina@juventudrebelde.cu A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. The new President of Mexico delivers… and makes the most of the time. He could be seen as the other side of social plundering, which in other Latin American countries means […]
Bolivia: An Example of Economic Stability
Bolivia: An Example of Economic Stability Published: Thursday 17 January 2019 | 10:12:09 am By Hedelberto López Blanch hedelberto@opciones.cu A CubaNews translation. Edited by Walter Lippmann. Who would have thought, 13 years ago, that with the arrival of indigenous president Evo Morales Ayma to the presidency of Bolivia, that this country, for the first time in […]
The U.S. War Against The Weak
The U.S. War Against The Weak By Manuel E. Yepe http://manuelyepe.wordpress.com/ Exclusive for the daily POR ESTO! of Merida, Mexico. Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann. War Against the Weak is a well-documented book of more than half a thousand pages, written by Edwin Black. It describes a criminal operation planned by the United States […]
Ernest Tate on Cuba
The pdf link below is chapter fifteen from volume one of Ernest Tate’s memoir, “Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 1960s”, published by Resistance Books, London. In this chapter, using archival sources, he describes in detail how a small group of Canadian revolutionary socialists in the Socialist Educational League, S.E.L., later to become the League […]
Cuba’s 1959 revolution — six decades on, and still daring …
Dear compas and friends Happy 2019 to one and all! Please find attached my kernel of corn {grano de mais} in celebration of the 60th anniversary of the January 1959 victory of the Cuban people against the Batista dictstorship, led by the July 26th Movement. My personal way of commemorating those events is to send […]
WASHINGTON WILL NOT BE ABLE TO DEAL WITH TWO COLD WARS
By Manuel E. Yepe http://manuelyepe.wordpress.com/ Exclusive for the daily POR ESTO! of Merida, Mexico. Translated and edited by Walter Lippmann. Patrick Joseph Buchanan is an American writer, broadcaster and political commentator characterized –because of his ideological orientation—as fascist and ultraconservative. He began his political career with Richard Nixon and then went on to work as […]
The Decline of U.S. Supremacy
Manuel E. Yepe looks at the decline of US supremacy in the world through the lens of Harvard professor Stephen Walt, as outlined in his latest book, The Hell of Good Intentions.