Dollar Use Suspended in Cuban Economy
by Steve Eckardt 28 October 2004 Below please find a dispatch from Prensa Latina and one from the Cuban news agency AIN concerning Cuba’s the suspension of the U.S. dollar […]
Author: Nalda Vigezzi
What You Should Know About Travel to Cuba
May 2005 (reviewed February 2006) by Steve Eckardt (Note: complete article runs 2,800 words … easier to read if you print it out.) A central component of the wall Washington […]
Conspiring with a Foreign Power Constitutes a Crime in Any Country
Statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Cuba. Published in the daily Granma, 8 November 2004. Individuals tried in 2003 were not “independent” activists but mercenaries who received […]
Dollars vs. ‘Battle of Ideas’
by Steve Eckardt 31 0ctober 2004 On October 25th Cuba announced it would be withdrawing the U.S. dollar as a medium of exchange in its economy. The move was in […]
On the UN Resolution to End the U.S. Embargo
by Felipe Pérez Roque Statement by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba, under United Nations General Assembly Agenda Item #28, “Necessity of Ending the Economic, Commercial […]
Washington’s ‘Regime Change’ Plan for Cuba
by Dr. Ricardo Alarcón de Quesada 12 October 2004 [Text and introduction by Progreso Weekly: On October 12th, the international workshop on `Democracy and the Role of Local and National […]
No Cuban Scholars Allowed
11 October 2004 On the eve of the Latin American Studies Association’s (LASA) international congress, the U.S. State Department announced that over 60 invited Cuban scholars would be denied visas […]
Riding My Father’s Motorcycle
October 9th. 2004, by Aleida Guevara Uncut version of article published in the New York Times October 9, 2004 When I read “The Motorcycle Diaries” for the first time, it […]
Interviews with Relatives of the Convicts (‘Dissidents’)
26 March 2004 After the propaganda alleging that the 76 paid U.S. agents caught and convicted in Cuba were “dissidents,” comes charges that they are being mistreated in prison. The […]
The Truth about the Trials
25 March 2004 Introduction: In Spring 2003 – as the U.S. invaded Iraq while asserting its right to attack Cuba – the Cuban government decided it was time to put […]
