Fidel Castro speaks publicly (for the first time in a very long time)
December 14, 2009 - 7:49pm
Canadian Felipe Stuart Cournoyer reports
Cournoyer summarizes Comrade Castro's remarks. A translation may be available down the road.
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CIA Agent Captured in Cuba An employee of a CIA front organization that also funds opposition groups in Venezuela was detained in Cuba last week
Someone told me the other night that he knows of several people (Canadians) who, before they went to Cuba, were approached by the CIA and asked to observe and report. That's hardly news but it kind of struck me because I didn't expect to hear this from this particular source.
A friend in Caracas told me years ago that they were posing as Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons then. But they didn't fool the locals.
Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons wouldn't be the most inconspicuous people to pose as.
If I lived in Havana, and saw tourists wearing suits and ties going around in pairs passing out "The Watchtower" or "The Book Of Mormon", I'd be a little suspicious.
If the had coffee when I offered it, I'd call the damn block committee.
The footage in the OP is from a speech Fidel gave in 2004. Did he actually speak in person today? What I'd heard was that Hugo Chavez read out some remarks Fidel had prepared for the occasion.
I have no comment.
Are you going to be in my dreams tonight?
Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons wouldn't be the most inconspicuous people to pose as.
If I lived in Havana, and saw tourists wearing suits and ties going around in pairs passing out "The Watchtower" or "The Book Of Mormon", I'd be a little suspicious.
In Havana, sure, but my friend was speaking of Caracas then. Mormons and Jehovah's are typically white and circulating in every major city in the world, just like the CIA.
In Havana, you have all kinds of ethnics from around the world. Gringos are conspicuous where 'er they go no matter what they're wearing. Philip Agee said the CIA likes to pay dissidents in Cuba substantial sums of cash to write material for them. I imagine the DAI Inc employee was intending to do something similar in laying the groundwork for US-based "NGO's" in Havana.
Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez
What's a Cuban blogger doing in Washington? Boy, did he ever capture the mood though. He should go to Pakistan and capture the mood of the freedom loving drones smashing to bits the freedom hating brown people below.
The Contradictions of Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez
goodbye @ yahoo . ca
I'd love to see trade sanctions against Amerika for their leaders' crimes against humanity, for just one year and just by Canada alone. They'd squeel like stuck pigs.
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Restate and discuss.
While my guitar gently weeps.
N Beltov - thanks for the link. There are incredible developments happening within the ALBA block especially regarding the formation of a new currency called the Sucre that is intended to remove US control over their transactions and provide greater independance. Its first transactions start next month and it will begin as a virtual currency just as the Euro did:
http://www.venezuelanalysis.com/news/5005
This is a huge story in Latin America and the Carribean.
Unfortunately, the images of Fidel are from 5 years ago but he is still incredibly active and engaged. His "reflections" are always an interesting read.
Here's his latest on Obama's "peace" speech in Oslo and war speech at West Point:
"
The organization of the Taliban –a word meaning student—sprang up from the Afghan forces fighting the USSR; they were no enemies of the United States. An honest analysis would lead to the true story behind that war.
Today, it is not the Soviet troops but the US’s and NATO’s that are occupying that country with great violence. The policy that the new US Administration is offering the American people is the same as that of George W. Bush, who ordered the invasion of Iraq, a nation that had nothing to do with the attack on the Twin Towers.
The President of the United States is not saying a word of the hundreds of thousands of people, children and elders included, who have perished in Iraq and Afghanistan or of the millions of Iraqis and Afghans suffering from the consequences of the war, even when they had no responsibility whatsoever with the events of New York. Rather than a wish, the final phrase of his speech, “God bless America,” sounded like an order to heaven.
Why did Obama accept the Nobel Peace Prize if he had already decided to fight the war in Afghanistan to the very end? His cynical action was uncalled-for."
http://www.cuba.cu/gobierno/reflexiones/2009/ing/f091209i.html
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Restate and discuss.
While my guitar gently weeps.
Ya I'm tired. I'ev got to go doo some taping and plastering, make a hamwhich and go to beddy bye sometime this am.
Ya I'm tired. I'ev got to go doo some taping and plastering, make a hamwhich and go to beddy bye sometime this am.
I OD'd on Seroquel. 100 mg. Is Sineed around?
Here are the remarks of (the former Cuban President) Comrade Fidel Castro Ruz:
Dear Hugo:
Fifteen years ago to this day, on December 14, 1994 we met at the Main Hall of the University of Havana. The previous night I had waited for you at the steps of the plane that brought you to Cuba. ....
Not one minute in history is the same as any other; no idea or human event can be judged heedless of their own time. We both share concepts that evolved throughout millenniums but which have a lot in common with old and recent history in the sense that society's division in masters and slaves, exploiters and the exploited, oppressors and the oppressed was always unpleasant and hateful. In our times, it is the source of the deepest shame and the main cause of human suffering and unhappiness....
Oslo is close to Copenhagen, the place where the extremely important Conference on Climate Change is being held, the same that I know you and Evo are planning to attend. The most important political battle of human history is being fought there at this very moment. There one can see the scope of the damage that developed capitalism has brought on humanity, which currently needs to fight desperately not only for justice but also for human survival.
I followed attentively the proceedings of the ALBA meeting. I offer my congratulations to you all. I really enjoyed seeing so many beloved friends working out ideas and struggling together; my congratulations to all.
Ever Onward To Victory!
My best regards,
Fidel Castro Ruz
December 14, 2009
Castro's remarks in full.