Reflections by comrade Fidel
What went unsaid about Cuba
http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/reflexiones/2008/ing/f260808i.html,
Reflexiones del compañero Fidel:
LO QUE NO SE DIJO SOBRE CUBA
http://www.cubadebate.cu/index.php?tpl=design/especiales.tpl.html&newsid_obj_id=12322,
CUBA: The End of the Long Olympics Reverie
-By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA, Aug 26 (IPS) - Cuba has had a rude awakening from a three-decade dream as undisputed Olympic games leader in Latin America and the Caribbean, turning in the worst performance since Mexico City in 1968.
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43682,
TEACHER PROBED OVER CUBA TRIPS SAYS, 'ADIOS'
-By YOAV GONEN, Education Reporter, IRENE PLAGIANOS and DAREH GREGORIAN
New York Post
A Manhattan public high-school teacher who twice took students on embargo-busting field trips to Cuba has resigned, The Post has learned. Nathan Turner, a popular history instructor at the top-tier Beacon School, allegedly led dozens of students and teachers on at least two such spring-break excursions. Department of Education officials last week confirmed the resignation, along with that of fellow Beacon teacher Geoffrey Hunt, who also made jaunts to Castro country, according to sources. Officials declined to discuss whether Turner's departure was related to two ongoing investigations sparked by the April 2007 Post exposé of the outings. The Treasury Department is exploring the trips' legality. Educational travel to Cuba is limited to college students, sources said. Each traveler could be fined up to $65,000. And Special Commissioner of Investigation Richard Condon is looking into whether Beacon administrators and Education officials sanctioned as many as six trips to Cuba, starting in 2000. Principal Ruth Lacey has denied approving last year's trip, the most recent, but prior outings were advertised on the school's Web site and documented in its yearbook, sources said.
update: Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs
August 2008
Background Note: Cuba
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2886.htm,
Viejo proyecto, nueva ansiedad
¿Un socialismo democrático y seguramente irreversible? ¿Cuál?
-Félix Guerra
http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/viejo-proyecto-nueva-ansiedad,
We Are Armed with the Ideas of Freedom
Said Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya during a ceremony in which his country joined the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA)
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art04.html,
Cuba Promoted In International Fair In A Turkish Aegean City
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=248879,
Cuba cuenta con más de 46 mil habitaciones hoteleras
-Roberto F. Campos
La Habana, 27 ago (PL) Cuba crece en su infraestructura de recreo al contar en la actualidad con 46 mil 500 habitaciones hoteleras, informó hoy el viceministro de turismo, José Ramón Rodríguez.
http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/article.asp?ID=%7BBCF58F8D-747D-4FB6-9839-405E506583A1%7D&language=ES,
Two Cubans Join Dominican Academy of Spanish Language
HAVANA, Cuba, Aug 26 (acn) Havana City Historian Eusebio Leal and Roberto Fernandez Retamar, president of Casa de las Americas cultural institution, were welcomed as members of the Dominican Academy of Language (ADL). Like other personalities —among them Jose Guillermo Ros-Zanet, president of the Panamanian Academy of Language— the two Cubans were admitted into the academy as corresponding members, reported the Granma newspaper on its website. Leal, a long-time investigator of the history of Cuban independence leaders and of the island’s capital, was previously presented with a host of international awards and academic degrees. Likewise, National Poetry Prize winner Fernandez Retamar, 77, has been decorated in Cuba, Latin America and Europe. In related news, the 2008 Olaguibel Prize, named after Basque architect Justo Antonio de Olaguíbel and granted by the Basque-Navarre Official Association of Architects, was granted to Leal in recognition of his work on the Master Plan for the capital revitalization of the Old Havana municipality, in the Cuban capital. The ceremony to bestow this distinction will be held in November at the Town Hall of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the capital of both the Basque Country autonomous region and Álava Province.
Gustav creeps toward Cuba as death toll rises
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/08/27/gustav.html,
Gustav deja 5 muertos y 7 heridos a su paso por Haití
El huracán se convierte en tormenta tropical al tocar tierra aunque no se descarta que vuelva a fortalecerse
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Gustav/deja/muertos/heridos/paso/Haiti/elpepuint/20080827elpepuint_6/Tes,
Cerca de 20.000 evacuaciones preventivas en Cuba por el huracán Gustav
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJxmPCHADX3R2mflDFKUNi5aLtyA,
Oil up $3 to $119 as storm Gustav threatens
http://www.forbes.com/reuters/feeds/reuters/2008/08/27/2008-08-27T133936Z_01_T46087_RTRIDST_0_MARKETS-OIL-UPDATE-3.html,
Dissident files criminal complaint against Cuba
-By WILL WEISSERT –
HAVANA (AP) — A Cuban opposition leader said Tuesday she has filed a criminal complaint against the communist government for airing on state television evidence it collected by bugging her phone, going through her garbage and secretly filming her.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gFUCVFmT5sgmejdbHOEm3lOrxoFAD92Q9UBG0,
Misery in the Name of Liberty Death by Paranoia
-By JAMES McENTEER
http://www.counterpunch.org/mcenteer08252008.html,
Siempre la “puntilla” en el ojo equivocado (Parte III y Final);
-por Graciela Guerrero Garay
http://www.insurgente.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=14505,
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