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Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarcón praised on Monday the increasing worldwide solidarity with five Cuban antiterrorist fighters unjustly imprisoned in the United States.
110 meter hurdles Olympic champion and world record holder Dayron Robles toured several areas of the eastern Baracoa municipality that were affected by the passing of Hurricane Ike Robles, along eastern Guantanamo province authorities, visited the Nibujon district, virtually erased by the hurricane, as well as the seafront area, hit twice this year by strong waves, that caused hundreds of houses to collapse.
Cuban First Vice President Jose Ramon Machado Ventura paid tribute on Sunday to Cuban National Hero Jose Marti and to Venezuelan Simon Bolivar at New York’s Central Park.
Cuban President Raul Castro said people should feel the need to work more. He was speaking in a meeting with local residents of the municipality of La Palma, Pinar del Rio, one of the areas most affected by hurricanes Gustav and Ike. He assured those in attendance that they will recover everything they had.
Cuban cinema has lost one of its most complete and dedicated artists. Humberto Solas passed away on Wednesday in Havana at the age of 66 from cancer.
We can rightly say that it was the cradle of South African liberation; but one day it will also be considered the cradle of African dignity. And it’s not that Africa has not fought, or that Africa has not carried out thousands and tens of thousands of heroic deeds but this was the most painful stronghold of a system of slavery and injustice...
Speech at the Hector Peterson Memorial in Soweto. Soweto, South Africa. September 5, 1998
"The “Henry Reeve” Brigade has been created, and whatever tasks you undertake in any part of the world or our own homeland, you shall always bear the glorious distinction of having responded to the call to assistance our brothers and sisters in the United States, and that nation’s humblest children especially, with courage and dignity."
HAVANA, Cuba, Sept 3 (acn) American lawyer Leonard Weinglass, a member of the defense team of five Cubans unfairly imprisoned in the US, will talk on Wednesday about the case with the president of Chile's Chamber of Deputies, Francisco Encina, and other deputies.
What has Cuba done that deserves condemnation? What have our people done to have deserved the Declaration of Costa Rica? Our people have done nothing else but to break off its shackles! (APPLAUSE) Our people have done nothing else but to struggle for a better future, without harming any other people or taking away anything from any other people. Our people have wished for nothing else but to be free.
Speech delivered by Fidel at the great popular rally staged by the Cuban people at the Square of the Republic on September 2, 1960
“The Revolution had to win, first and foremost, the workers’ consciousness, and these were won for the Revolution just as long as the Revolution became, more and more, the Revolution of the workers; just as long as the Revolution deepened and as long as the class struggle broke out with all its might.”
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