Reflections by comrade Fidel The youth is more interested than anyone else in the future. Until very recently, the discussion revolved around the kind of society we would have. Today, the discussion centers on whether human society will survive. These are not dramatic phrases. We must get used to the... » read this article

Reflections by comrade Fidel THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION AND PEACE I know Chavez well, and no one could be more reluctant than him to allow a showdown between the Venezuelan and Colombian peoples leading to bloodshed. These are two fraternal peoples, the same as Cubans living in the east, center and... » read this article

Reflections by Comrade Fidel  Last October 1st commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Peoples’ Republic of China.  On that historic day in 1949, Mao Zedong presided over the first parade of the Peoples’ Army and the people of China in Tiananmen Square as leader of the Communist Party of China. ... » read this article

The concept of nation emerged from the combination of common elements such as history, language, culture, costumes, laws, institutions and others related to the material and spiritual life of human communities. Bolivar, who worked the great heroic deeds that made him be known as ‘The Liberator’ during his struggle for... » read this article

(Taken from CubaDebate; Translated by Granma Int'l.) THE interminable document read out yesterday by Nobel laureate Oscar Arias is far worse than the seven points of the act of rendition that he proposed on July 18. He did not communicate with international opinion via a Morse code. He spoke before... » read this article

(Taken from CubaDebate) IN my reflection written last Thursday night, June 25, I said: "We do not know what will happen tonight or tomorrow in Honduras, but the brave conduct of Zelaya will go down in history." Two paragraphs before I noted: "What is happening there will be a test... » read this article

(Taken from CubaDebate) I am halting for a moment the work on a historic episode that I have been writing for the last two weeks to express my solidarity with the constitutionally-elected president of Honduras, José Manuel Zelaya. It was impressive to see him on Telesur, haranguing the people of... » read this article

TEN YEARS TEACHING AND LEARNING “Hello President” began broadcasting on May 23, 1999. That day this year, Chávez was in Ecuador celebrating the 187th anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha. Tomorrow the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the program will begin. The case of Hugo Chávez is an exceptional... » read this article

Reflections of Fidel What went through my mind TODAY the presence of the Influenza A (H1N1) virus in Cuba was announced. The carrier is a young Mexican citizen who is studying medicine in our country. The only thing that can be affirmed for now is that the CIA did not... » read this article

Reflections of Fidel The struggle has barely begun (Taken from CubaDebate) GOVERNMENTS might change, but the instruments with which they converted us into colonies are still the same. For one president in the United States with a sense of ethics, in the last 28 years we have had three who... » read this article

(Taken from CubaDebate) CARTER is the only ex-president of the United States that I have had the honor of knowing, apart from Nixon, who had not as yet become president. I had visited Washington to take part in a press conference that represented a difficult challenge for me, given the... » read this article

An important US political delegation is visiting us right now. Its members belong to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) which, in practice, has functioned as the most progressive wing of the Democratic Party. The Congressional Black Caucus was founded in January 1969 by the 12 African-American legislators who were members... » read this article

IT is a difficult subject to explain, although it seems very simple. The U.S. Federal Reserve system was created in 1913 as the result of capitalism in full development. Salvador Allende, a man we all remember as from our era, had turned about 15 years old. World War I broke... » read this article

I did not want to write a third consecutive reflection, but I can not leave this until Monday. There is one accurate response to Bush’s "democratic capitalism:" Chavez’ democratic socialism.  There couldn’t be a more accurate way to express the great contradiction that exists between North and South in our hemisphere,... » read this article

WHO could doubt it? Observers from all over the world and the whole caboodle attended the Venezuelan elections on November 23. They dispatched their cables with total freedom. The oligarchy was busy shouting to the world the gross calumny that the extension of the closing of the polling booths, which... » read this article

AS if there weren’t sufficient reasons to lose ones mind, the proliferation of initials related to the crisis are multiplying in such a way that nobody can finally work them out. The first was the G-20, a select group in Washington that claimed to represent everyone; the second, the likewise... » read this article

HER book exposes a series of atrocious crimes recently committed by the United States against the Latin American peoples. It is a basic text for understanding the real meaning of the Yankee imperialism. It is the most objective and detailed denunciation that I have read to date, unsurpassed in its... » read this article

I did not want to talk a lot, but he obliged me to expand on things; I asked some questions and, basically, listened to him. His words recounted the feats of the Chinese people in the last 10 months. Heavy and unseasonal snowfall, an earthquake that devastated surface areas equivalent... » read this article

BUSH seemed happy to have Lula seated on his right during dinner on Friday. Hu Jintao, whom he respects for his country’s enormous market, the capacity to produce consumer goods at low cost and the volume of his reserves in U.S. dollars and bonds, was seated to his left. Medvedev,... » read this article

According to recent statements, some supportive governments do not cease to say they want to facilitate transition in Cuba. What kind of transition? Transition to capitalism, the only system they have absolute faith in. They do not say a word about the merits of our people,... » read this article