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| Fidel Castro.. Foto privada. La fotografía original ha sido manipulada para preservar la identidad de una persona que no es una personalidad política y no tiene ninguna relación con el Comandante Fidel Castro. Cualquier parecido con otra persona natural es casual. Todos los derechos reservados. Prohibida la reproducción en Facebook, Yahoo o cualquier portal estadounidense. copyrigth: codondesastre.blogspot.com Con autorización del Comandante Fidel Castro. Para cualquier duda, comunicarse en alinaquevedo@yahoo.com Se denunciará antes las autoridades cubanas el uso malicioso del presente contenido. Hay que respetar los derechos de autor en la red. Comandante: le deseo lo mejor en el aniversario de la voladura de "La Coubre". Gracias. Alina clandestina desde un lugar de Europa. Hasta la victoria siempre. |
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Fidel y un güiri anónimo
martes, 27 de marzo de 2012
Un futuro muy incierto, según Fidel Castro
This Reflection could be written today, tomorrow or any other day without the risk of being mistaken. Our species faces new problems.
When 20 years ago I stated at the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro that a species was in danger of extinction, I had fewer reasons than today for warning about a danger that I was seeing perhaps 100 years away. At that time, a handful of leaders of the most powerful countries were in charge of the world. They applauded my words as a matter of mere courtesy and placidly continued to dig for the burial of our species.
It seemed that on our planet, common sense and order reigned. For a while, economic development, backed by technology and science appeared to be the Alpha and Omega of human society.
Today, everything is much clearer. Profound truths have been surfacing. Almost 200 States, supposedly independent, constitute the political organization which in theory has the job of governing the destiny of the world.
25, 000 nuclear weapons needed to defend the changing order ?
Approximately 25,000 nuclear weapons in the hands of allied or enemy forces ready to defend the changing World order, by interest or necessity, virtually reduce to zero the rights of billions of people.
I shall not commit the naïveté of assigning the blame to Russia or China for the development of that kind of weaponry, after the monstrous massacre at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ordered by Truman in August 1945 after Roosevelt’s death [April 1945].
Nor shall I fall prey to the error of denying the Holocaust that signified the deaths of millions of children and adults, men or women, mainly Jews, gypsies, Russians or other nationalities, who were victims of Nazism. For that reason the odious policy of those who deny the Palestinian people their right to exist is repugnant.
Does anyone by chance think that the United States will be capable of acting with the independence that will keep it from the inevitable disaster awaiting it?
In a few weeks, the 40 million dollars President Obama promised to collect for his electoral campaign will only serve to show that the currency of his country has lost its value, and that the US, with its unusual growing public debt drawing close to 20 quadrillion, is living on the money it prints up and not on the money it produces. The rest of the world pays for what they waste.
Nor does anyone believe that the Democratic candidate would be any better or worse than his Republican foes: whether they are called Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum. Light years separate these three characters from Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King.
It is really unheard-of to observe such a technologically powerful nation and a government so bereft of both ideas and moral values.
Iran has no nuclear weapons. It is being accused of producing enriched uranium that serves as fuel energy or components for medical uses. Whatever one can say, its possession or production is not equivalent to the production of nuclear weapons. Dozens of countries use enriched uranium as an energy source, but this cannot be used in the manufacture of a nuclear weapon without a prior complicated purification process.
However, Israel, with the aid and cooperation of the United States, has manufactured nuclear weaponry without informing or accounting for their actions to anybody. Not admitting their possession of these weapons, they have hundreds of them. To prevent the development of research in neighbouring Arab countries, they attacked and destroyed reactors in Iraq and Syria. They have also declared their objective of attacking and destroying the production centres for nuclear fuel in Iran.
International politics have been revolving around that crucial topic in that complex and dangerous part of the world, where most of the fuel that moves the world economy is produced and supplied.
The selective elimination of Iran’s most eminent scientists by Israel and their NATO allies has become a practice that motivates hatred and feelings of revenge.
The Israeli government has openly stated its objective to attack the plant manufacturing Iran’s enriched uranium, and the government of the United States has invested billions of dollars to manufacture a bomb for that purpose.
On March 16, 2012, Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham published an article revealing that “A top US Air Force General has described the largest conventional bomb – the re-invented bunkers of 13.6 tons – as ‘fantastic’ for a military attack on Iran.
“Such an eloquent comment on the massive killer-artefact took place in the same week that President Barack Obama appeared to warn against ‘easy words’ on the Persian Gulf War.”
“...Herbert Carlisle, deputy chief of staff for US Air Force operations [...] added that probably the bomb would be used in any attack on Iran ordered by Washington.
“The MOP, also referred to as ‘The Mother of All Bombs’, is designed to drill through 60 metres of concrete before it detonates its massive bomb. It is believed to be the largest conventional weapon, non-nuclear, in the US arsenal.”
“The Pentagon is planning a process of wide destruction of Iran’s infrastructure and massive civilian victims through the combined use of tactical nuclear bombs and monstrous conventional bombs with mushroom-shaped clouds, including the MOABs and the larger GBU-57A/B or Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) that exceeds the MOAB in destructive capacity.
“The MOP is described as ‘a powerful new bomb that aims straight at subterranean Iranian and North Korean nuclear facilities. The giant bomb –longer than 11 persons shoulder to shoulder, or more than 6 metres from end to end’.”
The Mother of all Bombs (MOAB)
I ask the reader to excuse me for this complicated military jargon.
As one can see, such calculations arise from the hypothesis that the Iranian combatants, numbering millions of men and women well-known for their religious zeal and their fighting traditions, surrender without firing a shot.
In recent days, the Iranians have seen how US soldiers occupying Afghanistan, in just three weeks, urinated on the corpses of killed Afghans, burned copies of the Koran and murdered more than 15 defenceless citizens.
Let us imagine US forces launching monstrous bombs on industrial institutions, capable of penetrating through 60 metres of concrete. Never has such an undertaking ever been conceived [and carried out].
Not one word more is needed to understand the gravity of such a policy. In that way, our species will be inexorably led towards disaster.
If we do not learn how to understand, we shall never learn how to survive.
Fidel Castro Rúz
Artículo publicado también en Global Research
(Please support Global Research
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It seemed that on our planet, common sense and order reigned. For a while, economic development, backed by technology and science appeared to be the Alpha and Omega of human society.
Today, everything is much clearer. Profound truths have been surfacing. Almost 200 States, supposedly independent, constitute the political organization which in theory has the job of governing the destiny of the world.
25, 000 nuclear weapons needed to defend the changing order ?
Approximately 25,000 nuclear weapons in the hands of allied or enemy forces ready to defend the changing World order, by interest or necessity, virtually reduce to zero the rights of billions of people.
I shall not commit the naïveté of assigning the blame to Russia or China for the development of that kind of weaponry, after the monstrous massacre at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ordered by Truman in August 1945 after Roosevelt’s death [April 1945].
Nor shall I fall prey to the error of denying the Holocaust that signified the deaths of millions of children and adults, men or women, mainly Jews, gypsies, Russians or other nationalities, who were victims of Nazism. For that reason the odious policy of those who deny the Palestinian people their right to exist is repugnant.
Does anyone by chance think that the United States will be capable of acting with the independence that will keep it from the inevitable disaster awaiting it?
In a few weeks, the 40 million dollars President Obama promised to collect for his electoral campaign will only serve to show that the currency of his country has lost its value, and that the US, with its unusual growing public debt drawing close to 20 quadrillion, is living on the money it prints up and not on the money it produces. The rest of the world pays for what they waste.
Nor does anyone believe that the Democratic candidate would be any better or worse than his Republican foes: whether they are called Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum. Light years separate these three characters from Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King.
It is really unheard-of to observe such a technologically powerful nation and a government so bereft of both ideas and moral values.
Iran has no nuclear weapons. It is being accused of producing enriched uranium that serves as fuel energy or components for medical uses. Whatever one can say, its possession or production is not equivalent to the production of nuclear weapons. Dozens of countries use enriched uranium as an energy source, but this cannot be used in the manufacture of a nuclear weapon without a prior complicated purification process.
However, Israel, with the aid and cooperation of the United States, has manufactured nuclear weaponry without informing or accounting for their actions to anybody. Not admitting their possession of these weapons, they have hundreds of them. To prevent the development of research in neighbouring Arab countries, they attacked and destroyed reactors in Iraq and Syria. They have also declared their objective of attacking and destroying the production centres for nuclear fuel in Iran.
International politics have been revolving around that crucial topic in that complex and dangerous part of the world, where most of the fuel that moves the world economy is produced and supplied.
The selective elimination of Iran’s most eminent scientists by Israel and their NATO allies has become a practice that motivates hatred and feelings of revenge.
The Israeli government has openly stated its objective to attack the plant manufacturing Iran’s enriched uranium, and the government of the United States has invested billions of dollars to manufacture a bomb for that purpose.
On March 16, 2012, Michel Chossudovsky and Finian Cunningham published an article revealing that “A top US Air Force General has described the largest conventional bomb – the re-invented bunkers of 13.6 tons – as ‘fantastic’ for a military attack on Iran.
“Such an eloquent comment on the massive killer-artefact took place in the same week that President Barack Obama appeared to warn against ‘easy words’ on the Persian Gulf War.”
“...Herbert Carlisle, deputy chief of staff for US Air Force operations [...] added that probably the bomb would be used in any attack on Iran ordered by Washington.
“The MOP, also referred to as ‘The Mother of All Bombs’, is designed to drill through 60 metres of concrete before it detonates its massive bomb. It is believed to be the largest conventional weapon, non-nuclear, in the US arsenal.”
“The Pentagon is planning a process of wide destruction of Iran’s infrastructure and massive civilian victims through the combined use of tactical nuclear bombs and monstrous conventional bombs with mushroom-shaped clouds, including the MOABs and the larger GBU-57A/B or Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) that exceeds the MOAB in destructive capacity.
“The MOP is described as ‘a powerful new bomb that aims straight at subterranean Iranian and North Korean nuclear facilities. The giant bomb –longer than 11 persons shoulder to shoulder, or more than 6 metres from end to end’.”
The Mother of all Bombs (MOAB)
I ask the reader to excuse me for this complicated military jargon.
As one can see, such calculations arise from the hypothesis that the Iranian combatants, numbering millions of men and women well-known for their religious zeal and their fighting traditions, surrender without firing a shot.
In recent days, the Iranians have seen how US soldiers occupying Afghanistan, in just three weeks, urinated on the corpses of killed Afghans, burned copies of the Koran and murdered more than 15 defenceless citizens.
Let us imagine US forces launching monstrous bombs on industrial institutions, capable of penetrating through 60 metres of concrete. Never has such an undertaking ever been conceived [and carried out].
Not one word more is needed to understand the gravity of such a policy. In that way, our species will be inexorably led towards disaster.
If we do not learn how to understand, we shall never learn how to survive.
Fidel Castro Rúz
Artículo publicado también en Global Research
(Please support Global Research
Global Research relies on the financial support of its readers.)
domingo, 5 de febrero de 2012
Fidel Castro vivito y coleando
Fidel Castro es cualquier cosa menos un desmemoriado. Digan lo que les de la gana pero ya querrían muchos politicos y/o estadistas de tres al cuarto poseer el culturón enciclopédico de un abuelo y bisabuelo que para bien y mal ha marcado la historia de por lo menos América Latina. A él le preocupaba si la Historia (esa entelequia con mayúscula) lo absolvería o no. La cosa no es demasiado complicada: depende de quien la escriba.
Hace unos días leí unas declaraciones de los dos cabestros que aspiran a representar al Tea Party y demás escoria comentando que ellos "eran de los que celebrarían la esperada (y deseada) muerte de Castro". Con su nivel intelectual incluso formularon hipótesis sobre que Fidel iría al infierno.
Esperemos que sus vaticinios no se cumplan porque entonces, con semejante aliado, no habrá quien pare al Comandante. Veremos a Lucifer vestido de verde olivo.
Pues eso Comandante, donde sea, para lo que sea, y como sea, yo firme haciéndole la pelota. Con tal de incordiar al personal.
jueves, 12 de enero de 2012
The Havana-Irán lovers
El presidente de Irán se encuentra de visita en Cuba. Ha sido agasajado por el presidente Raúl Castro en las impecables salas de recepción del Palacio de la Revolución. A un lado de la foto que publica "Granma Internacional", se reconocen los helechos gigantes. Del otro la guardia de honor. La verdad es que Raúl Castro va como un pincel: reluciente, marcial, muy digno. El presidente iraní parece estar reñido con la corbata. Y así va con barba hirsuta, medio descamisado y con gesto chulo, como que tiene petróleo. Por cierto:en su ausencia se han cargado a otro científico de la industria nuclear (por lo "limpio" de tan sucio trabajo debió ser el Mossad, que no presume ni anda dando la cara, que no se anuncia en paginitas web monas, en fin).
Ojalá (quiera Alá) que los viejos guerrilleros cubanos le enseñen a bailar el cha-cha-cha al iraní. Que respete los derechos de las mujeres. Que en una guerra nuclear no hay ganadores.Y si hay petróleo para Kuba, pues que se fastidien quienes yo sé.
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| Mahmud Amadinejad. presidente de Irán |
Ojalá (quiera Alá) que los viejos guerrilleros cubanos le enseñen a bailar el cha-cha-cha al iraní. Que respete los derechos de las mujeres. Que en una guerra nuclear no hay ganadores.Y si hay petróleo para Kuba, pues que se fastidien quienes yo sé.
viernes, 6 de enero de 2012
Apocalipsis según Fidel Castro
Es que no pueden vivir sin él. Pasan algunas semanas y comienzan los rumores. La red se calienta y algún memo tuitea: "Castro ha muerto". Acto seguido comienza la ridícula conga. O el obsceno reggeton. Con la crisis que menea al euro. El número de desempleados como bandera, los casos de corrupción de los que no sé porqué me parece que todos somos ligeramente cómplices. Bueno:podeis respirar tranquilos:Fidel Castro Ruz todavía no ha muerto. Y de regalo de reyes se ha marcado unas "Reflexiones" como le gustan al personal. Saldrán a decir que es como una Casandra tropical envejecida. Que si devaría.Bueno sus primeras reflexiones de 2012 van del calentamiento global, las fuentes de contaminación del agua y los peligros asociados a las armas nucleares.Leerlas si les da la gana en Cubadebate.Fidel pone las cosas negrísimas. Pero si quitamos el tinte exaltado, el clamor épico del que no se ha desprendido nunca, tengan en cuenta que los problemas a los que alude son materia de trabajo de distintos equipos científicos y militares.
Digan lo que quieran. Me gustarían unas reflexiones suyas sobre las nuevas tecnologías para las guerras del futuro. Comandante, complázcame antes que no sea demasiado tarde.
lunes, 2 de enero de 2012
Carlos A. Montaner insulta a los mayores
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| Colografía Celia Álverez |
Pero no es de las fuentes de tráfico de lo que quiero hablar, ni del caso Urdangarín, que personalmente me produce pena, ya que sencillamente el marido de Doña Cristina hizo oidos sordos a las tempranas advertencias de Don Juan Carlos, al que al menos debió respetar como Jefe de Estado.
Me voy a atrever a comentar un post de uno de los periodistas más leidos del mundo. Algo así como el Oráculo de Delfos. Un electrón, (no, mejor un fotón) que oscila entre Miami y Madrid. Habla de todo. Sabe de todo. Todos le consultan. Se mueve Urbi et orbi. A los lectores alemanes y rusos les diré que se trata de Don Herr Mr. Carlos A. Montaner (o tal vez Charles A. Montaner).En Berlín y en Mockva no es nadie. Pero en Miami se lo rifan en los saraos.
Pues bien, el insigne vate, formado mayormente en Langley en diferentes habilidades, comienza el año con un articulillo que titula "Cuba 2012". No voy a hacer mención a su maníaco psicótica fijación con Fidel Castro Ruz, con el que jamás ha cruzado una palabra, pero del que ha perpetrado varias biografías, a golpe de interrogatorios a presuntos importantes personeros del régimen huidos, que disfrutan de su instante de gloria compartiendo sus experiencias de insiders con el ínclito caballero.
Exclusivamente quiero señalar su falta de respeto con las personas mayores. La indecencia de mencionar como demenciados a dos hermanos de Castro. Y de paso recordarle que Castro tendrá 85 y posiblemente haya incurrido en múltiples y profundos errores, pero que casi todas las personas de esa avanzada edad realizan lo que según el señor Montaner afirma que hace Castro: ver la tele, leer, estar con sus hijos, con su gente.
Señor, diría usted que el Papa está demenciado. ¿Se atrevería a insultar así a un anciano culto, exquisitamente culto?, ¿No tiene usted padres ancianos?, ¿Ha descubierto usted en el insulto la fuente de la eterna juventud?. ¿También eso se aprende en Langley, Virginia?.
lunes, 26 de diciembre de 2011
Fidel Castro sobrevive a 638 atentados
Fidel Castro Ruz, apartado del poder por enfermedad desde 2006
Los medios empleados contra el Comandante son dignos de cualquier película de James Bond: puros inyectados con toxinas, pelotas de baseball conteniendo explosivos.
Incluso lo trataron de liquidar aprovechando su gusto por los batidos (de chocolate). Le entregaron al empleado de un hotel donde se alojaba el Comandante una ampolla con veneno. Y efectivamente, el hombre estuvo a punto de depositarlo en la batidora, pero la ampolla se había congelado, el hombre se aterrorizo y el Comandante salió indemne.
En varios casos bien documentados por el Ministerio de Interior cubano los intentos se han efectuado durante sus viajes al extranjero: cuando estuvo de visita en Chile durante la campaña electoral de Salvador Allende, corrió un serio peligro: tuvo un arma apuntándole dentro de lo que suponía ser una cámara de televisión, pero un agente cubano de un cuerpo de élite frustró el ataque.
Los motivos por los cuales el líder cubano ha sobrevivido con éxito a tan abultado número de intentos para mandarlo al otro barrio, no tienen que ver unicamente con su indudable carisma, ni con circunstancias fortuitas.
Fidel Castro es un hombre muy inteligente dotado de una notable ventaja a la hora de anticiparse a los acontecimientos. Es irremisiblemente desconfiado. Durante su etapa en la guerrilla sabía "oler" a los posibles traidores.Y encima descendiente directo de gallegos, que son bien conocidos por su cautela y porque nunca se sabe si van o vienen.
Fidel suscita a su alrededor tanto lealtades sin fisuras, como odios insondables. Los hombres y mujeres que forman su círculo más cercano sienten verdadero aprecio por su jefe, e intentan cumplir con su trabajo con entrega.
Su escolta, su gente de confianza, aquellos que en diferentes tareas traspasan el muro que impone su notable ego, han sido determinantes a la hora de frustrar esos 638 amagos de atentados que reconoce el Guinnes.
Pero posiblemente esa sea una cifra insuficiente: para matar a Fidel Castro hubiera hecho falta alguien tan imbecil como para estar dispuesto a morir en el intento.
Al parecer ninguna de las organizaciones que todavía lo quieren muerto y enterrado ha conseguido su ángel exterminador.
Fidel se morirá cuando le toque. No es eterno pero sí muy duro de pelar.
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| Fidel Castro Ruz |
no deja de ser noticia.
Ha entrado en el "Libro Guinnes" de los records por ser la persona que ha sobrevivido a mayor número de atentados: 638 que se sepan, según informa Cubadebate.
Ha entrado en el "Libro Guinnes" de los records por ser la persona que ha sobrevivido a mayor número de atentados: 638 que se sepan, según informa Cubadebate.
Los medios empleados contra el Comandante son dignos de cualquier película de James Bond: puros inyectados con toxinas, pelotas de baseball conteniendo explosivos.
Incluso lo trataron de liquidar aprovechando su gusto por los batidos (de chocolate). Le entregaron al empleado de un hotel donde se alojaba el Comandante una ampolla con veneno. Y efectivamente, el hombre estuvo a punto de depositarlo en la batidora, pero la ampolla se había congelado, el hombre se aterrorizo y el Comandante salió indemne.
En varios casos bien documentados por el Ministerio de Interior cubano los intentos se han efectuado durante sus viajes al extranjero: cuando estuvo de visita en Chile durante la campaña electoral de Salvador Allende, corrió un serio peligro: tuvo un arma apuntándole dentro de lo que suponía ser una cámara de televisión, pero un agente cubano de un cuerpo de élite frustró el ataque.
Los motivos por los cuales el líder cubano ha sobrevivido con éxito a tan abultado número de intentos para mandarlo al otro barrio, no tienen que ver unicamente con su indudable carisma, ni con circunstancias fortuitas.
Fidel Castro es un hombre muy inteligente dotado de una notable ventaja a la hora de anticiparse a los acontecimientos. Es irremisiblemente desconfiado. Durante su etapa en la guerrilla sabía "oler" a los posibles traidores.Y encima descendiente directo de gallegos, que son bien conocidos por su cautela y porque nunca se sabe si van o vienen.
Fidel suscita a su alrededor tanto lealtades sin fisuras, como odios insondables. Los hombres y mujeres que forman su círculo más cercano sienten verdadero aprecio por su jefe, e intentan cumplir con su trabajo con entrega.
Su escolta, su gente de confianza, aquellos que en diferentes tareas traspasan el muro que impone su notable ego, han sido determinantes a la hora de frustrar esos 638 amagos de atentados que reconoce el Guinnes.
Pero posiblemente esa sea una cifra insuficiente: para matar a Fidel Castro hubiera hecho falta alguien tan imbecil como para estar dispuesto a morir en el intento.
Al parecer ninguna de las organizaciones que todavía lo quieren muerto y enterrado ha conseguido su ángel exterminador.
Fidel se morirá cuando le toque. No es eterno pero sí muy duro de pelar.
martes, 20 de septiembre de 2011
Fidel Castro resucita
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En la presente ocasión ha sido un presunto derrame cerebral.
Pues no. De eso nada. Primero salió a desmentirlo, de forma extra oficial su sobrina, hija de Raul y Vilma, quien no se cortó un pelo para afirmar que el ex presidente estaba "vivito y coleando", lo cual a los 85 años resulta una excelente noticia.
Para reforzar lo dicho por la sobrina Castro Espín, Fidel le concedió una entrevista a un canal de televisión venezolano: como que no hay nada mejor que una imágen para deshacer rumores.
Allí estaba Fidel, comodo en su atuendo informal, como le da la gana, que para eso se encontraba en su casa. De buen color. Y rodeado de papeles, como siempre.
Ahora dos testimonios más: el de Hugo Chávez, que viajó de nuevo a Cuba para seguir tratamiento. Chávez, que encuentra gran apoyo en Fidel más allá de lo político, comentó que el Comandante estaba "trabajando duro, investigando".
La materia investigada por Fidel la precisó Evo Morales, quien viajó junto con Chávez a La Habana.
Morales explicó que Fidel había dejado a un lado sus "Reflexiones" para realizar investigaciones "científicas" sobre la "agricultura cubana".
Cuando leí eso me sentí preocupada. Si al Comandante le da por incursionar de forma práctica en la frágil agricultura de la isla, cualquier cosa puede pasar. ¿Querrá introducir cepas transgénicas?, ¿Promover la siembra de cafetos en los parques habaneros?, ¿Introducir variedades de caña con el doble de sacarosa? ¿Cítricos en zonas de montaña? ¿Tubérculos en macetas?.
Qué daría yo por conocer de primera mano de qué van sus "investigaciones".
Supongo que no hay que alarmarse: el presidente Raul siente notable urticaria por lo "verde", como no sea el verde oliva del ejército. Raul estuvo pasando revista a unas obras en Mariel, que nada tienen que ver con siembras y cultivos.
Desgraciadamente tendré que esperar a que Evo Morales suelte prenda. Porque resulta que el Comandante le tuvo entretenido con sus actuales asuntos agrarios la friolera de tres horas.
No se conoce cómo quedó Evo Morales después de semejante paliza verbal. Todo sea por el Honoris Causa. ¿O no?.
Las "Reflexiones" me entretenían mucho. Más de una tenían la consistencia de quien sabe mucho de muchas cosas, se siente por encima de casi todo, y pone a caer de un burro a cualquiera.
Me gustó especialmente una en la que versaba sobre el invierno nuclear, una idea que por supuesto no es precisamente de Fidel, pero que éste rescató con acierto para el presente.
Tuvo su gracia cuando tildo a Obama de "cínico", por aceptar un Nobel de la Paz, con varios frentes bélicos muy activos.
Fidel seguirá haciendo de las suyas. Pésele al que le pese. Reune dos características difíciles de combatir: es viejo y muy diablo. Y encima gallego, que nunca se sabe si van o vienen.
Pues eso, vivito y coleando el Comandante.
viernes, 12 de agosto de 2011
Cumpleaños de Fidel Castro
La cuenta atrás, sábado 13 de agosto, para el 85 cumpleaños de Fidel Castro Rúz ya ha empezado. Los gais, lesbianas, transexuales y demás van a celebrar la ocasión con una unión notarial, la primera en la isla, que es de una homofobia espeluznante.
Con seguridad el Comandante Fidel lo celebrará en medio de su numerosa familia. El número exacto de descendientes biológicos de Fidel Castro es objeto de serio estudio. Me refiero exclusivamente a los hijos del ex presidente cubano que residen en la actualidad en Cuba.
Algún día, como a todos, le llegará su momento de dejar éste mundo: lo han querido matar tantas y de tan variadas maneras que hasta sobre ello hay muchas dudas. Mejor pasar página en una ocasión festiva.
Creo que desde antes de nacer he estado "expuesta", a la influencia de un hombre de esos que marcan, para bien o mal, la vida de millones de personas.
Varios excelentes biógrafos han querido atrapar, una personalidad compleja.
Por una decisión muy particular, yo he escogido en quedarme con el jefe del ataque al Moncada, o el líder de la guerilla en Sierra Maestra. Con la locura peligrosa del político cabreado como una mona, cuando, al borde de un conflicto de proporciones planetarias, le afeó a los soviets que se llevaran sus ojivas nucleares. Aquellas bonitas armas atómicas que apuntaban directamente a Florida, como si tal cosa. Da miedo pensarlo.
Prefiero recordar a Fidel y sus iniciativas disparatadas un tanto demenciales. Fidel y los planes "especiales" muy bien pensados pero irrealizables. Fidel apareciendo acompañado de Chomi Miyar en la universidad para conversar con los estudiantes. Se subía a la parte trasera de un jeep ruso y montaba un meeting.
Llámenlo como les de la gana: el one, el caballo, el jefe, el coma-andante, tirano, dictador, visionario, dirigente máximo.
Yo prefiero sencillamente expresarle un feliz "cumple" Comandante.
Y siga dándole caña al mono con sus reflexiones. Pa´lante y palante hasta que el body aguante.
martes, 5 de abril de 2011
Lo que no dicen los medios sobre las guerras/The bitter truth of today wars
Libya's "Operation Odyssey Dawn": Kosovo Revisited
By William Bowles
No doubt much self-flagellation is currently taking place amongst the Western 'left', or at least it should be given their atrocious reading of the Libyan 'revolution'.
Right from the very beginning of 'Operation Odyssey Dawn' something just didn't smell right about the Libyan 'revolution'. From the outset this was no peaceful, civilian insurrection such as those taking place elsewhere in the region. In other words it started life as a civil war heavily disguised - with Western help - as a 'peoples' revolution', but one armed and dangerous.
"Diplomatic observers were shocked by the sweeping resolution passed by the Security Council, which allows "all necessary measures" to be used against Libya. The United Nations Charter strictly limits Chapter 7 military actions to threats to international peace and security, which Libya has never represented, but rules out interference in internal affairs of member states. The pretext cited in this case was the protection of defenseless civilians, but it is clear that the rebels constitute an armed military force in their own right. Since no state can be an aggressor on its own territory, the Security Council resolution stands in flagrant violation of the UN Charter. Russia, China, Brazil, Germany, and India abstained. The resolution contains an arms embargo against Libya which the US is already violating by arming the rebels through Egypt." -- Obama's Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
Conned again
All the while many on the Western 'left' were waxing lyrical about the Libyan 'revolution' it was at the same time joining the imperial chorus calling for Western military intervention on 'humanitarian' grounds and all the while the Empire was plotting to get rid of another 'troublesome' puppet, partition Libya right down the middle, West and East, with the East (where most of the oil is located) led by the 'revolutionaries', mostly ex-Gaddafi hacks and CIA 'assets'. So much for the Western 'left's' understanding of the workings of the Empire.
SAS has been operating in Libya for weeks -- Daily Mirror, 21 March 2011
Actually, 'Operation Odyssey Dawn' as it is officially called, serves multiple functions:
1. It acts as yet another diversion/delusion from other more pressing events (timing is always critical);
2. It attempts to put the Empire on the 'side of the angels' following its embarrassment over its funding and (continued) support of a gaggle of murderous military dictatorships;
3. It gives the Empire yet another bridgehead in Africa;
4. And of course it guarantees the largest source of oil in Africa.
Job done.
Amongst those who abstained over Resolution 1973 were Russia, China, Brazil, Germany, and India. Aren't they embarrassed by their collective display of at the very least ignorance and at the most, indifference? Had Russia or China used their veto, this illegal invasion could at least have been delayed. Damn all politicians!
In the UK only thirteen MPs voted against the Libya operation after the invasion had already been launched! So much for democracy (what would have happened if by some miracle the Commons had voted it down? Could the British government unkill the people it has already murdered in Libya?).
The degree to which politicians use propaganda is illustrated by the following quote from a British MP, John Woodcock:
"Any path we choose is fraught with difficulty and innocent lives will be lost, but Colonel Gadaffi is likely to kill many thousands more civilians if we chose to pull out of enforcing a no-fly zone." -- 'Cumbrian MPs support UN action against Libyan forces', Northwest Evening Mail, 22 March 2011
More pre-emptive rationalization! On this basis anybody, anywhere is likely to be attacked based upon what they might do. It's outrageous that allegedly civilized people can agree (post-humously) to rain death and destruction down on the Libyan people based on nothing more than an opinion! It's based simply on the fact that the rebels faced defeat in Benghazi and the assumption that Gaddafi's forces would then go on the rampage raping and slaughtering the inhabitants of Benghazi.
So instead Gaddafi doing it, it's being done by the combined forces of the most powerful military machine on the planet that acts with impunity even excusing the inevitable 'collateral damage' based simply what he thinks the numbers of dead will be on either side! There speaks the voice of Empire, "Any path we choose" indeed spells it out, the God-given right to interfere anywhere they choose to.
It started life with well-placed atrocity rumours, created by ex-Gaddafi sidekicks that got the whole ball rolling. A classic Kosovo move: plant fake stories of ethnic cleansing and genocide by the Serbians (all the while arming the fascist Kosovo Liberation Army, who had been committing atrocities and funding their operations from the heroin trade), then send in NATO and bomb the shit out of the natives.
Isn't it about time that the Western 'left' stopped passing judgment on the workings of other countries (I suppose I should be thankful that's all it has) but words that essentially reflect the imperial mindset? The 'we know best' attitude, something I have come across all too often in my travels around the planet and one heavily imbued with racism, albeit of the patronizing kind (actually possibly the worst kind, the 'Robert Fisk' kind of liberal racism).
Fidel may be long in the tooth and very much out of the 'old school' way of thinking but he knows how the Empire operates, it's also very much 'old school' too.
"The NATO countries are drawing up a contingency plan taking as its model the flight exclusion zones established over the Balkans in the 1990s, in the event that the international community decides to impose an air embargo over Libya, diplomats said." -- 'NATO's Inevitable War: The Flood of Lies regarding Libya' By Fidel Castro, 4 March 2011
Note when Fidel wrote this, on 4 March, nearly three weeks ago, accurately predicting that the invasion was already a 'done deal'. But it needed a pretext, a 'Gulf of Benghazi' kinda thing, thus the video of a jet going down over Benghazi was offered as proof of Gaddafi's evil intentions. The problem was that is was a rebel jet, shot down no doubt by Gaddafi's forces.
As with everything else about the Libyan 'revolution' (I wish), nothing is what it appears to be, all is illusion faithfully peddled by a complicit MSM. Thus the chance for the Libyan people to really take charge of their own future has been aborted .
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By William Bowles
No doubt much self-flagellation is currently taking place amongst the Western 'left', or at least it should be given their atrocious reading of the Libyan 'revolution'.
Right from the very beginning of 'Operation Odyssey Dawn' something just didn't smell right about the Libyan 'revolution'. From the outset this was no peaceful, civilian insurrection such as those taking place elsewhere in the region. In other words it started life as a civil war heavily disguised - with Western help - as a 'peoples' revolution', but one armed and dangerous.
"Diplomatic observers were shocked by the sweeping resolution passed by the Security Council, which allows "all necessary measures" to be used against Libya. The United Nations Charter strictly limits Chapter 7 military actions to threats to international peace and security, which Libya has never represented, but rules out interference in internal affairs of member states. The pretext cited in this case was the protection of defenseless civilians, but it is clear that the rebels constitute an armed military force in their own right. Since no state can be an aggressor on its own territory, the Security Council resolution stands in flagrant violation of the UN Charter. Russia, China, Brazil, Germany, and India abstained. The resolution contains an arms embargo against Libya which the US is already violating by arming the rebels through Egypt." -- Obama's Bay of Pigs in Libya: Imperialist Aggression Shreds UN Charter By Dr. Webster G. Tarpley
Conned again
All the while many on the Western 'left' were waxing lyrical about the Libyan 'revolution' it was at the same time joining the imperial chorus calling for Western military intervention on 'humanitarian' grounds and all the while the Empire was plotting to get rid of another 'troublesome' puppet, partition Libya right down the middle, West and East, with the East (where most of the oil is located) led by the 'revolutionaries', mostly ex-Gaddafi hacks and CIA 'assets'. So much for the Western 'left's' understanding of the workings of the Empire.
SAS has been operating in Libya for weeks -- Daily Mirror, 21 March 2011
Actually, 'Operation Odyssey Dawn' as it is officially called, serves multiple functions:
1. It acts as yet another diversion/delusion from other more pressing events (timing is always critical);
2. It attempts to put the Empire on the 'side of the angels' following its embarrassment over its funding and (continued) support of a gaggle of murderous military dictatorships;
3. It gives the Empire yet another bridgehead in Africa;
4. And of course it guarantees the largest source of oil in Africa.
Job done.
Amongst those who abstained over Resolution 1973 were Russia, China, Brazil, Germany, and India. Aren't they embarrassed by their collective display of at the very least ignorance and at the most, indifference? Had Russia or China used their veto, this illegal invasion could at least have been delayed. Damn all politicians!
In the UK only thirteen MPs voted against the Libya operation after the invasion had already been launched! So much for democracy (what would have happened if by some miracle the Commons had voted it down? Could the British government unkill the people it has already murdered in Libya?).
The degree to which politicians use propaganda is illustrated by the following quote from a British MP, John Woodcock:
"Any path we choose is fraught with difficulty and innocent lives will be lost, but Colonel Gadaffi is likely to kill many thousands more civilians if we chose to pull out of enforcing a no-fly zone." -- 'Cumbrian MPs support UN action against Libyan forces', Northwest Evening Mail, 22 March 2011
More pre-emptive rationalization! On this basis anybody, anywhere is likely to be attacked based upon what they might do. It's outrageous that allegedly civilized people can agree (post-humously) to rain death and destruction down on the Libyan people based on nothing more than an opinion! It's based simply on the fact that the rebels faced defeat in Benghazi and the assumption that Gaddafi's forces would then go on the rampage raping and slaughtering the inhabitants of Benghazi.
So instead Gaddafi doing it, it's being done by the combined forces of the most powerful military machine on the planet that acts with impunity even excusing the inevitable 'collateral damage' based simply what he thinks the numbers of dead will be on either side! There speaks the voice of Empire, "Any path we choose" indeed spells it out, the God-given right to interfere anywhere they choose to.
It started life with well-placed atrocity rumours, created by ex-Gaddafi sidekicks that got the whole ball rolling. A classic Kosovo move: plant fake stories of ethnic cleansing and genocide by the Serbians (all the while arming the fascist Kosovo Liberation Army, who had been committing atrocities and funding their operations from the heroin trade), then send in NATO and bomb the shit out of the natives.
Isn't it about time that the Western 'left' stopped passing judgment on the workings of other countries (I suppose I should be thankful that's all it has) but words that essentially reflect the imperial mindset? The 'we know best' attitude, something I have come across all too often in my travels around the planet and one heavily imbued with racism, albeit of the patronizing kind (actually possibly the worst kind, the 'Robert Fisk' kind of liberal racism).
Fidel may be long in the tooth and very much out of the 'old school' way of thinking but he knows how the Empire operates, it's also very much 'old school' too.
"The NATO countries are drawing up a contingency plan taking as its model the flight exclusion zones established over the Balkans in the 1990s, in the event that the international community decides to impose an air embargo over Libya, diplomats said." -- 'NATO's Inevitable War: The Flood of Lies regarding Libya' By Fidel Castro, 4 March 2011
Note when Fidel wrote this, on 4 March, nearly three weeks ago, accurately predicting that the invasion was already a 'done deal'. But it needed a pretext, a 'Gulf of Benghazi' kinda thing, thus the video of a jet going down over Benghazi was offered as proof of Gaddafi's evil intentions. The problem was that is was a rebel jet, shot down no doubt by Gaddafi's forces.
As with everything else about the Libyan 'revolution' (I wish), nothing is what it appears to be, all is illusion faithfully peddled by a complicit MSM. Thus the chance for the Libyan people to really take charge of their own future has been aborted .
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Centre for Research on Globalization. The contents of this article are of sole responsibility of the author(s). The Centre for Research on Globalization will not be responsible or liable for any inaccurate or incorrect statements contained in this article.
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martes, 22 de marzo de 2011
An Alliance of Equals: Fidel Castro reflections
R e f l e c t i o n s o f F i d e l C a s t r o
Havana. March 21, 2011
An Alliance of Equals
On the evening of Saturday the 19th, after a sumptuous banquet, NATO leaders ordered the attack on Libya.
Of course, nothing could happen without the United States reclaiming its obligatory role as supreme leader. From this institution’s command post in Europe, a high-level official announced that Odyssey Dawn was being initiated.
World public opinion was moved by the tragedy in Japan. The number of victims of the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear accident is still growing. There are already tens of thousands of people dead, missing or exposed to radiation. Opposition to the use of nuclear power will also increase.
The world is suffering, at the same time, the consequences of climate change; shortages and the high cost of food; military spending, the squandering of natural and human resources, continues to increase. A war was the last thing that should have occurred at this time.
Obama’s tour of Latin America has moved to the background, practically no one is addressing the issue. In Brazil, contradictions between the interests of the United States and this sister country have become evident.
It cannot be forgotten that Río de Janeiro competed with Chicago for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Obama wanted to ingratiate himself with the South American giant. He spoke of the "extraordinary rise of Brazil," which has captured international attention, and praised its economy as one of the most rapidly growing in the world. He did not, however, in any way pledge to support Brazil as a privileged permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
The Brazilian President did not hesitate to express her disagreement with the protectionist policies which the United States is implementing in Brazil, with tariffs and subsidies that constitute a major obstacle for the country’s economy.
The Argentine writer Atilio Boron affirmed that what most interests Obama "in his role as administrator of the empire is moving forward in controlling the Amazon Basin. The principal requirement of this project is hindering – stopping is no longer possible – the ever-increasing political and economic coordination and integration underway in the region which was so important in the defeat of the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) in 2005 and in frustrating the secessionist coup plots in Bolivia (2008) and Ecuador (2010). He also needs to try and sow discord among the more radical governments in the region (Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador) and the progressives – principally Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay..."
"For the most audacious U.S. strategists, the Amazon Basin, like Antarctica, is a freely accessible area, in which national sovereignties are not recognized..."
Tomorrow, Obama will travel to Chile. He arrives preceded by an interview in the daily newspaper El Mercurio, published on Sunday, in which he asserts that his speech "to all of Latin America" – as he called it – is founded on an "a partnership of equals" with Latin America, which practically takes our breath away remembering the "Alliance for Progress" which proceeded the mercenary Playa Girón [Bay of Pigs] expedition.
He said: "[...] our vision for the hemisphere is founded on the idea of an alliance of equals which I have pursued since assuming the Presidency of the United States."
"I will also emphasize concrete actions in which we can work together, such as economic growth, energy, security and human rights…
This vision, he said, has as its objective improving "common security, expanding economic opportunity, assuring a clean energy future and supporting the democratic values we share…
"Promoting a safe, stable and prosperous hemisphere, in which the U.S. and our allies share responsibilities in key issues on a regional and global level."
Everything, as can be seen, marvelously beautiful, worthy of a burial befitting Reagan’s secrets, to be revealed in 200 years. The problem is that, as the DPA news agency reported, according to a survey conducted by the daily newspaper
"La Tercera "... in 2006 43% of the Chilean population opposed nuclear power plants."
"Two years later, opposition had risen to 52% and in 2010 it reached 74%." Now, after what has happened in Japan, opposition has risen to"... 86% among all Chileans..."
Only one question remains for Obama. Taking into account that one of his illustrious predecessors, Richard Nixon, promoted the coup d’état and the heroic death of Salvador Allende, the torture and assassination of thousands of people, will Mr. Obama ask the people of Chile for forgiveness?
Fidel Castro Ruz
March 20, 2011
Translated by Granma International
Editor-in-chief: Lázaro Barredo Medina / Editor: Oscar Sánchez Serra.
© Copyright. 1996-2011. All rights reserved. GRANMA INTERNATIONAL/ONLINE EDITION. Cuba.
Havana. March 21, 2011
An Alliance of Equals
On the evening of Saturday the 19th, after a sumptuous banquet, NATO leaders ordered the attack on Libya.
Of course, nothing could happen without the United States reclaiming its obligatory role as supreme leader. From this institution’s command post in Europe, a high-level official announced that Odyssey Dawn was being initiated.
World public opinion was moved by the tragedy in Japan. The number of victims of the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear accident is still growing. There are already tens of thousands of people dead, missing or exposed to radiation. Opposition to the use of nuclear power will also increase.
The world is suffering, at the same time, the consequences of climate change; shortages and the high cost of food; military spending, the squandering of natural and human resources, continues to increase. A war was the last thing that should have occurred at this time.
Obama’s tour of Latin America has moved to the background, practically no one is addressing the issue. In Brazil, contradictions between the interests of the United States and this sister country have become evident.
It cannot be forgotten that Río de Janeiro competed with Chicago for the 2016 Olympic Games.
Obama wanted to ingratiate himself with the South American giant. He spoke of the "extraordinary rise of Brazil," which has captured international attention, and praised its economy as one of the most rapidly growing in the world. He did not, however, in any way pledge to support Brazil as a privileged permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.
The Brazilian President did not hesitate to express her disagreement with the protectionist policies which the United States is implementing in Brazil, with tariffs and subsidies that constitute a major obstacle for the country’s economy.
The Argentine writer Atilio Boron affirmed that what most interests Obama "in his role as administrator of the empire is moving forward in controlling the Amazon Basin. The principal requirement of this project is hindering – stopping is no longer possible – the ever-increasing political and economic coordination and integration underway in the region which was so important in the defeat of the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas) in 2005 and in frustrating the secessionist coup plots in Bolivia (2008) and Ecuador (2010). He also needs to try and sow discord among the more radical governments in the region (Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador) and the progressives – principally Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay..."
"For the most audacious U.S. strategists, the Amazon Basin, like Antarctica, is a freely accessible area, in which national sovereignties are not recognized..."
Tomorrow, Obama will travel to Chile. He arrives preceded by an interview in the daily newspaper El Mercurio, published on Sunday, in which he asserts that his speech "to all of Latin America" – as he called it – is founded on an "a partnership of equals" with Latin America, which practically takes our breath away remembering the "Alliance for Progress" which proceeded the mercenary Playa Girón [Bay of Pigs] expedition.
He said: "[...] our vision for the hemisphere is founded on the idea of an alliance of equals which I have pursued since assuming the Presidency of the United States."
"I will also emphasize concrete actions in which we can work together, such as economic growth, energy, security and human rights…
This vision, he said, has as its objective improving "common security, expanding economic opportunity, assuring a clean energy future and supporting the democratic values we share…
"Promoting a safe, stable and prosperous hemisphere, in which the U.S. and our allies share responsibilities in key issues on a regional and global level."
Everything, as can be seen, marvelously beautiful, worthy of a burial befitting Reagan’s secrets, to be revealed in 200 years. The problem is that, as the DPA news agency reported, according to a survey conducted by the daily newspaper
"La Tercera "... in 2006 43% of the Chilean population opposed nuclear power plants."
"Two years later, opposition had risen to 52% and in 2010 it reached 74%." Now, after what has happened in Japan, opposition has risen to"... 86% among all Chileans..."
Only one question remains for Obama. Taking into account that one of his illustrious predecessors, Richard Nixon, promoted the coup d’état and the heroic death of Salvador Allende, the torture and assassination of thousands of people, will Mr. Obama ask the people of Chile for forgiveness?
Fidel Castro Ruz
March 20, 2011
Translated by Granma International
Editor-in-chief: Lázaro Barredo Medina / Editor: Oscar Sánchez Serra.
© Copyright. 1996-2011. All rights reserved. GRANMA INTERNATIONAL/ONLINE EDITION. Cuba.
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lunes, 7 de marzo de 2011
Fidel Castro: Reflexiones sobre la situación en Libia
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© Copyright Fidel Castro Ruz, Global Research, 2011
NATO’s Inevitable War: The flood of lies regarding Libya
By Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz.
In contrast with what is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies the first spot on the Human Development Index for Africa and it has the highest life expectancy on the continent. Education and health receive special attention from the State. The cultural level of its population is without a doubt the highest. Its problems are of a different sort. The population wasn’t lacking food and essential social services. The country needed an abundant foreign labour force to carry out ambitious plans for production and social development.
For that reason, it provided jobs for hundreds of thousands of workers from Egypt, Tunisia, China and other countries. It had enormous incomes and reserves in convertible currencies deposited in the banks of the wealthy countries from which they acquired consumer goods and even sophisticated weapons that were supplied exactly by the same countries that today want to invade it in the name of human rights.
Colossal campaing
The colossal campaign of lies, unleashed by the mass media, resulted in great confusion in world public opinion. Some time will go by before we can reconstruct what has really happened in Libya, and we can separate the true facts from the false ones that have been spread.
Serious and prestigious broadcasting companies such as Telesur, saw themselves with the obligation to send reporters and cameramen to the activities of one group and those on the opposing side, so that they could inform about what was really happening.
Communications were blocked, honest diplomatic officials were risking their lives going through neighbourhoods and observing activities, day and night, in order to inform about what was going on. The empire and its main allies used the most sophisticated media to divulge information about the events, among which one had to deduce the shreds of the truth.
Without any doubt, the faces of the young people who were protesting in Benghazi, men, and women wearing the veil or without the veil, were expressing genuine indignation.
One is able to see the influence that the tribal component still exercises on that Arab country, despite the Muslim faith that 95% of its population sincerely shares.
NATO
Imperialism and NATO – seriously concerned by the revolutionary wave unleashed in the Arab world, where a large part of the oil is generated that sustains the consumer economy of the developed and rich countries – could not help but take advantage of the internal conflict arising in Libya so that they could promote military intervention. The statements made by the United States administration right from the first instant were categorical in that sense.
The circumstances could not be more propitious. In the November elections, the Republican right-wing struck a resounding blow on President Obama, an expert in rhetoric.
The fascist “mission accomplished” group, now backed ideologically by the extremists of the Tea Party, reduced the possibilities of the current president to a merely decorative role in which even his health program and the dubious economic recovery were in danger as a result of the budget deficit and the uncontrollable growth of the public debt which were breaking all historical records.
In spite of the flood of lies and the confusion that was created, the US could not drag China and the Russian Federation to the approval by the Security Council for a military intervention in Libya, even though it managed to obtain however, in the Human Rights Council, approval of the objectives it was seeking at that moment. In regards to a military intervention, the Secretary of State stated in words that admit not the slightest doubt: “no option is being ruled out”.
The real fact is that Libya is now wrapped up in a civil war, as we had foreseen, and the United Nations could do nothing to avoid it, other than its own Secretary General sprinkling the fire with a goodly dose of fuel.
The problem that perhaps the actors were not imagining is that the very leaders of the rebellion were bursting into the complicated matter declaring that they were rejecting all foreign military intervention.
Various news agencies informed that Abdelhafiz Ghoga, spokesperson for the Committee of the Revolution stated on Monday the 28th that “‘The rest of Libya shall be liberated by the Libyan people’”.
“We are counting on the army to liberate Tripoli’ assured Ghoga during the announcement of the formation of a ‘National Council’ to represent the cities of the country in the hands of the insurrection.”
“‘What we want is intelligence information, but in no case that our sovereignty is affected in the air, on land or on the seas’, he added during an encounter with journalists in this city located 1000 kilometres to the east of Tripoli.”
“The intransigence of the people responsible for the opposition on national sovereignty was reflecting the opinion being spontaneously manifested by many Libyan citizens to the international press in Benghazi”, informed a dispatch of the AFP agency this past Monday.
That same day, a political sciences professor at the University of Benghazi, Abeir Imneina, stated:
“There is very strong national feeling in Libya.”
“‘Furthermore, the example of Iraq strikes fear in the Arab world as a whole’, she underlined, in reference to the American invasion of 2003 that was supposed to bring democracy to that country and then, by contagion, to the region as a whole, a hypothesis totally belied by the facts.”
The professor goes on: “‘We know what happened in Iraq, it’s that it is fully unstable and we really don’t want to follow the same path. We don’t want the Americans to come to have to go crying to Gaddafi’, this expert continued.”
“But according to Abeir Imneina, ‘there also exists the feeling that this is our revolution, and that it is we who have to make it’.”
A few hours after this dispatch was printed, two of the main press bodies of the United States, The New York Times and The Washington Post, hastened to offer new versions on the subject; the DPA agency informs on this on the following day, March the first: “The Libyan opposition could request that the West bomb from the air strategic positions of the forces loyal to President Muamar al Gaddafi, the US press informed today.”
“The subject is being discussed inside the Libyan Revolutionary Council, ‘The New York Times’ and ‘The Washington Post’ specified in their online versions.”
“‘The New York Times’ notes that these discussions reveal the growing frustration of the rebel leaders in the face of the possibility that Gaddafi should retake power”.
“In the event that air actions are carried out within the United Nations framework, these would not imply international intervention, explained the council’s spokesperson, quoted by The New York Times”.
“The council is made up of lawyers, academics, judges and prominent members of Libyan society.”
The dispatch states:
“‘The Washington Post’ quoted rebels acknowledging that, without Western backing, combat with the forces loyal to Gaddafi could last a long time and cost many human lives.”
It is noteworthy that in that regard, not one single worker, peasant or builder is mentioned, not anyone related to material production or any young student or combatant among those who take part in the demonstrations. Why the effort to present the rebels as prominent members of society demanding bombing by the US and NATO in order to kill Libyans?
Some day we shall know the truth, through persons such as the political sciences professor from the University of Benghazi who, with such eloquence, tells of the terrible experience that killed, destroyed homes, left millions of persons in Iraq without jobs or forced them to emigrate.
Today on Wednesday, the second of March, the EFE Agency presents the well-known rebel spokesperson making statements that, in my opinion, affirm and at the same time contradict those made on Monday: “Benghazi (Libya), March 2. The rebel Libyan leadership today asked the UN Security Council to launch an air attack ‘against the mercenaries’ of the Muamar el Gaddafi regime.”
“‘Our Army cannot launch attacks against the mercenaries, due to their defensive role’, stated the spokesperson for the rebels, Abdelhafiz Ghoga, at a press conference in Benghazi.”
“‘A strategic air attack is different from a foreign intervention which we reject’, emphasized the spokesperson for the opposition forces which at all times have shown themselves to be against a foreign military intervention in the Libyan conflict”.
Which one of the many imperialist wars would this look like?
The one in Spain in 1936? Mussolini’s against Ethiopia in 1935? George W. Bush’s against Iraq in the year 2003 or any other of the dozens of wars promoted by the United States against the peoples of the Americas, from the invasion of Mexico in 1846 to the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982?
Without excluding, of course, the mercenary invasion of the Bay of Pigs, the dirty war and the blockade of our Homeland throughout 50 years, that will have another anniversary next April 16th.
In all those wars, like that of Vietnam which cost millions of lives, the most cynical justifications and measures prevailed.
For anyone harbouring any doubts, about the inevitable military intervention that shall occur in Libya, the AP news agency, which I consider to be well-informed, headlined a cable printed today which stated: “The NATO countries are drawing up a contingency plan taking as its model the flight exclusion zones established over the Balkans in the 1990s, in the event that the international community decides to impose an air embargo over Libya, diplomats said”.
Further on it concludes: “Officials, who were not able to give their names due to the delicate nature of the matter, indicated that the opinions being observed start with the flight exclusion zone that the western military alliance imposed over Bosnia in 1993 that had the mandate of the Security Council, and with the NATO bombing in Kosovo in 1999, that did not have".
To be continued tomorrow.
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NATO’s Inevitable War: The flood of lies regarding Libya
By Comandante Fidel Castro Ruz.
In contrast with what is happening in Egypt and Tunisia, Libya occupies the first spot on the Human Development Index for Africa and it has the highest life expectancy on the continent. Education and health receive special attention from the State. The cultural level of its population is without a doubt the highest. Its problems are of a different sort. The population wasn’t lacking food and essential social services. The country needed an abundant foreign labour force to carry out ambitious plans for production and social development.
For that reason, it provided jobs for hundreds of thousands of workers from Egypt, Tunisia, China and other countries. It had enormous incomes and reserves in convertible currencies deposited in the banks of the wealthy countries from which they acquired consumer goods and even sophisticated weapons that were supplied exactly by the same countries that today want to invade it in the name of human rights.
Colossal campaing
The colossal campaign of lies, unleashed by the mass media, resulted in great confusion in world public opinion. Some time will go by before we can reconstruct what has really happened in Libya, and we can separate the true facts from the false ones that have been spread.
Serious and prestigious broadcasting companies such as Telesur, saw themselves with the obligation to send reporters and cameramen to the activities of one group and those on the opposing side, so that they could inform about what was really happening.
Communications were blocked, honest diplomatic officials were risking their lives going through neighbourhoods and observing activities, day and night, in order to inform about what was going on. The empire and its main allies used the most sophisticated media to divulge information about the events, among which one had to deduce the shreds of the truth.
Without any doubt, the faces of the young people who were protesting in Benghazi, men, and women wearing the veil or without the veil, were expressing genuine indignation.
One is able to see the influence that the tribal component still exercises on that Arab country, despite the Muslim faith that 95% of its population sincerely shares.
NATO
Imperialism and NATO – seriously concerned by the revolutionary wave unleashed in the Arab world, where a large part of the oil is generated that sustains the consumer economy of the developed and rich countries – could not help but take advantage of the internal conflict arising in Libya so that they could promote military intervention. The statements made by the United States administration right from the first instant were categorical in that sense.
The circumstances could not be more propitious. In the November elections, the Republican right-wing struck a resounding blow on President Obama, an expert in rhetoric.
The fascist “mission accomplished” group, now backed ideologically by the extremists of the Tea Party, reduced the possibilities of the current president to a merely decorative role in which even his health program and the dubious economic recovery were in danger as a result of the budget deficit and the uncontrollable growth of the public debt which were breaking all historical records.
In spite of the flood of lies and the confusion that was created, the US could not drag China and the Russian Federation to the approval by the Security Council for a military intervention in Libya, even though it managed to obtain however, in the Human Rights Council, approval of the objectives it was seeking at that moment. In regards to a military intervention, the Secretary of State stated in words that admit not the slightest doubt: “no option is being ruled out”.
The real fact is that Libya is now wrapped up in a civil war, as we had foreseen, and the United Nations could do nothing to avoid it, other than its own Secretary General sprinkling the fire with a goodly dose of fuel.
The problem that perhaps the actors were not imagining is that the very leaders of the rebellion were bursting into the complicated matter declaring that they were rejecting all foreign military intervention.
Various news agencies informed that Abdelhafiz Ghoga, spokesperson for the Committee of the Revolution stated on Monday the 28th that “‘The rest of Libya shall be liberated by the Libyan people’”.
“We are counting on the army to liberate Tripoli’ assured Ghoga during the announcement of the formation of a ‘National Council’ to represent the cities of the country in the hands of the insurrection.”
“‘What we want is intelligence information, but in no case that our sovereignty is affected in the air, on land or on the seas’, he added during an encounter with journalists in this city located 1000 kilometres to the east of Tripoli.”
“The intransigence of the people responsible for the opposition on national sovereignty was reflecting the opinion being spontaneously manifested by many Libyan citizens to the international press in Benghazi”, informed a dispatch of the AFP agency this past Monday.
That same day, a political sciences professor at the University of Benghazi, Abeir Imneina, stated:
“There is very strong national feeling in Libya.”
“‘Furthermore, the example of Iraq strikes fear in the Arab world as a whole’, she underlined, in reference to the American invasion of 2003 that was supposed to bring democracy to that country and then, by contagion, to the region as a whole, a hypothesis totally belied by the facts.”
The professor goes on: “‘We know what happened in Iraq, it’s that it is fully unstable and we really don’t want to follow the same path. We don’t want the Americans to come to have to go crying to Gaddafi’, this expert continued.”
“But according to Abeir Imneina, ‘there also exists the feeling that this is our revolution, and that it is we who have to make it’.”
A few hours after this dispatch was printed, two of the main press bodies of the United States, The New York Times and The Washington Post, hastened to offer new versions on the subject; the DPA agency informs on this on the following day, March the first: “The Libyan opposition could request that the West bomb from the air strategic positions of the forces loyal to President Muamar al Gaddafi, the US press informed today.”
“The subject is being discussed inside the Libyan Revolutionary Council, ‘The New York Times’ and ‘The Washington Post’ specified in their online versions.”
“‘The New York Times’ notes that these discussions reveal the growing frustration of the rebel leaders in the face of the possibility that Gaddafi should retake power”.
“In the event that air actions are carried out within the United Nations framework, these would not imply international intervention, explained the council’s spokesperson, quoted by The New York Times”.
“The council is made up of lawyers, academics, judges and prominent members of Libyan society.”
The dispatch states:
“‘The Washington Post’ quoted rebels acknowledging that, without Western backing, combat with the forces loyal to Gaddafi could last a long time and cost many human lives.”
It is noteworthy that in that regard, not one single worker, peasant or builder is mentioned, not anyone related to material production or any young student or combatant among those who take part in the demonstrations. Why the effort to present the rebels as prominent members of society demanding bombing by the US and NATO in order to kill Libyans?
Some day we shall know the truth, through persons such as the political sciences professor from the University of Benghazi who, with such eloquence, tells of the terrible experience that killed, destroyed homes, left millions of persons in Iraq without jobs or forced them to emigrate.
Today on Wednesday, the second of March, the EFE Agency presents the well-known rebel spokesperson making statements that, in my opinion, affirm and at the same time contradict those made on Monday: “Benghazi (Libya), March 2. The rebel Libyan leadership today asked the UN Security Council to launch an air attack ‘against the mercenaries’ of the Muamar el Gaddafi regime.”
“‘Our Army cannot launch attacks against the mercenaries, due to their defensive role’, stated the spokesperson for the rebels, Abdelhafiz Ghoga, at a press conference in Benghazi.”
“‘A strategic air attack is different from a foreign intervention which we reject’, emphasized the spokesperson for the opposition forces which at all times have shown themselves to be against a foreign military intervention in the Libyan conflict”.
Which one of the many imperialist wars would this look like?
The one in Spain in 1936? Mussolini’s against Ethiopia in 1935? George W. Bush’s against Iraq in the year 2003 or any other of the dozens of wars promoted by the United States against the peoples of the Americas, from the invasion of Mexico in 1846 to the invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982?
Without excluding, of course, the mercenary invasion of the Bay of Pigs, the dirty war and the blockade of our Homeland throughout 50 years, that will have another anniversary next April 16th.
In all those wars, like that of Vietnam which cost millions of lives, the most cynical justifications and measures prevailed.
For anyone harbouring any doubts, about the inevitable military intervention that shall occur in Libya, the AP news agency, which I consider to be well-informed, headlined a cable printed today which stated: “The NATO countries are drawing up a contingency plan taking as its model the flight exclusion zones established over the Balkans in the 1990s, in the event that the international community decides to impose an air embargo over Libya, diplomats said”.
Further on it concludes: “Officials, who were not able to give their names due to the delicate nature of the matter, indicated that the opinions being observed start with the flight exclusion zone that the western military alliance imposed over Bosnia in 1993 that had the mandate of the Security Council, and with the NATO bombing in Kosovo in 1999, that did not have".
To be continued tomorrow.
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lunes, 31 de enero de 2011
La revista española "Letras Libres" retrata a Kuba.
Jeffrey Goldberg, judío y estadounidense, fue invitado por Fidel Castro a visitarlo. Y como consecuencia de tal privilegio se marca en "Letras Libres" un articulillo nada desdeñable pero que tampoco va muy allá que digamos. Se desayuna el buen hombre ilustrado conque Fidel tiene un culturón que deja a cualquiera tieso parado. Que no es antisemita y que tiene cuerda intelectual para rato. Junto con dichos papeles, la misma revista le saca a un tal Patrick Symmes, estadounidense, en un experimento socioalimentario, en que este artista de la boberia se fija como meta existencial "Treinta días viviendo como un cubano". El autor se fija un exiguo presupuesto, comparable o equivalente al de un habitante regular de la isla. La pieza es machacona, falta de gracia, pero desgraciadamente cierta. El yanqui en la corte del rey Fidel, descubre que en Kuba hay que ver como se "resuelve" cada día. Juega a visitar disidentes, resalta de forma maliciosa la presencia de prostitutas, en fin, toda una joya de conocimientos. Muy bien por su pluma señor experto. Haga un donativo a Haití y déjele sus problemas a los cubanos.
Para redondear su aporte al conocimiento profundo de Cuba, como no, invitaron al super, mega, periodista Carlos A. Montaner. El eterno presidenciable, que en un largo, farragoso y prescindible discurso, resume todos los males endémicos del sistema cubano. Como nota curiosa apuntaré que dicho procer de la cubanía ausente no ha pisado la isla en más de 40 años. No obstante sabe de todo y sienta cátedra. Y sino se lo inventa a placer, como cuando desde su web Firmas Press, ubicada en la muy culta Miami, se le ocurrió involucrar a la embajada cubana con ETA criminal. Pues nada, lo dicho, que disfruten si así lo desean de un compedio de
cubanología bien sazonada.
Para redondear su aporte al conocimiento profundo de Cuba, como no, invitaron al super, mega, periodista Carlos A. Montaner. El eterno presidenciable, que en un largo, farragoso y prescindible discurso, resume todos los males endémicos del sistema cubano. Como nota curiosa apuntaré que dicho procer de la cubanía ausente no ha pisado la isla en más de 40 años. No obstante sabe de todo y sienta cátedra. Y sino se lo inventa a placer, como cuando desde su web Firmas Press, ubicada en la muy culta Miami, se le ocurrió involucrar a la embajada cubana con ETA criminal. Pues nada, lo dicho, que disfruten si así lo desean de un compedio de
cubanología bien sazonada.
martes, 11 de enero de 2011
Celia Sánchez Manduley in memoriam.
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| Instantánea de Doña Celia Sánchez Manduley (Media Luna 09/05/1920 - La Habana 11/01/1980) |
Ni mucho menos la sierra.
No voy a nombrar la guerra,
con esa luz diferente.
No voy a nombrar la frente honrada por el laurel
Voy a nombrar sólo a Celia,
Celia Sánchez Manduley.
(Para Dra. Alicia Gloria Otazo Sánchez, Dra. Elena Otazo Sánchez, Flavia Sánchez, Ana Irma, Griselda Sánchez, Ernesta, toda su familia directa.....y todos los que compartimos su presencia.)
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