Trudeau Trump Venezuela Cuba

While the Trudeau blackface/brownface racial incident are still getting considerable Canadian and international mainstream media attention, those same media continue to ignore the profound, centuries-long racism ingrained in both the Liberal and Conservative parties as well as the Canadian state that they administer.

For example, Trudeau’s recent condescending rebuttal and forcible removal of an Indigenous person, for bringing the life-threatening mercury poisoning of the Grassy Narrows territory in Ontario to the Prime Minster’s attention, is but a reflection of the still lingering bipartisan colonialist approach toward the First Nations. However, these vestiges of colonialism are also visible today in the international arena, as Canada’s imperial foreign policy remains aligned with the notoriously racist, white-supremacist Trump administration and is responsible for the deaths of brown and black people.

Setting aside, for the moment, Canada’s bipartisan support for the arming of the Saudi Arabian army with light-armoured vehicles (LAVs) that according to credible reports kill and maim brown people of Yemen, let us focus our attention on Latin America.

The Trudeau government is entirely complicit with the U.S. attempt to overthrow the Maduro government. Trudeau has aligned himself with Donald Trump against the Venezuelan people. Venezuelans, as Don Kovalik writes in his book which will be launched next Friday, are “70% Mestizo, that is, a nation composed of people with mixed blood from Indian and African descent. On the other hand, Kovalik writes, we read [in establishment media] that at the 2019 Guaidó opposition rallies, the crowds are almost entirely white.” Kovalik is right.

As Kovalik says, the issue in Venezuela is as much about race as it is about class. I did not notice it that much on my initial visits to Venezuela, but during my recent stay in July, after reading the Kovalik book, I did begin to further observe the social and racial composition of the Bolivarian Revolution. Maduro himself is Mestizo. Kovalik is right.

Thus, on one side you have white-supremacist Washington and its wealthy coup allies; on the other the Venezuelans, the majority of them people of color with modest incomes.

The U.S.-imposed economic sanctions against Venezuelans, fully supported and cheered on by the Trudeau government, have resulted in the deaths of 40,000 Venezuelan citizens. This mass punishment has disproportionately hit the poorer/ Mestizo segments of the population. Yet, out of political expediency, the corporate media and the Conservative Party reserve their criticism of Trudeau’s racism for his ridiculing of black and brown people, while his death-provoking policies in Latin America get a free pass.

As part of my presentation on Friday, I will offer up this aspect of Canadian foreign policy on Venezuela for debate. In particular, I want to take a close look at Canadian policy on Cuba as it relates to Venezuela.

Have you had a chance to read the public statements made by Trudeau and his Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on the US-Venezuela-Cuba triangle? I have been following them since the beginning. At the meeting, I want to deconstruct these statements with an eye to how they fundamentally reflect Canada’s imperialist stance toward both these countries of the global South. I will argue that the North’s contemptuous words and deeds continually smack of Eurocentric racial bias. While you may or may not agree with me, we should at least give this matter a public airing.

As to Canada’s foreign policy with respect to the U.S. blockade of Cuba, it may look at first sight to be above reproach. However, on Friday, allow me to walk you through the Trudeau government’s spineless attitude toward Trump on the issue of the Helms-Burton Act, the enabling of its Title III, and the continual tightening of the blockade.

How many opportunities have Trudeau and Freeland passed up, in Canada and on the international stage, to publicly call out Trump on Title III and the genocidal blockade against Cuba, which is being ratcheted up virtually every day? We will review Canada’s statements, with particular emphasis on the stark contrast between Trudeau’s and Freeland’s polite, inoffensive and spineless comments to the Trump administration on the blockade against Cuba, on the one hand, and the Canadian government’s brutal and aggressive pro-Trump stance toward the Maduro government, on the other.

Can Canadians afford to sweep this under the rug, or should we raise it loud and clear in order to put maximum pressure on the current Canadian government and the one that will take power after October 21

The annual United General Assembly Canadian vote against the Blockade (next one in November) with the entire world community except the US will of course very positive. However, shouldn’t we urge the government to adopt a far more critical, ongoing face-to-face Ottawa versus Washington attitude toward Trump’s attempts to starve the Cuban people into submission, as we Canadian do across the country on a regular basis?  Just in the past year, the blockade has cost the Cuban people 4.3 billion dollars! Why should we go along with Trump’s punishment of Cubans for its unconditional support of the Bolivarian Revolution and Venezuela’s legitimate, constitutionally elected President Nicolas Maduro?

Further info on the Friday September 27meeting in Toronto:

https://www.facebook.com/events/827211654346807/

Twitter Blocks Key Cuban Journalists

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Statement of the CUBAN UNION OF JOURNALISTS (UPEC):

Twitter massively censors journalists and media in Cuba

Twitter blocks Cuban journalists en masse

On Wednesday afternoon, dozens of Twitter accounts of Cuban journalists and media were blocked by the platform, a few minutes before the television appearance of President Miguel Diaz Canel and other top Cuban government officials began. For an hour and a half, they exhaustively presented exceptional economic measures in response to the intensification of U.S. economic warfare against our country.

As soon as the live broadcast of the program Roundtable began at 6:30 p.m. (local time) and was expected by millions of Cubans, dozens of professionals denounced through Facebook, Whatsapp and other social channels that their Twitter accounts had been suspended. They could access their timeline, but had the options ” like”, “retweet” and comment were blocked.

Among the media blocked “for violating Twitter rules” are @Cubadebate with almost 300,000 followers and @Granma_Digital with about 167,000 followers, in addition to @MesaRedondaCuba, @RadioRebelde, @DominioCuba, @Cubaperiodistas, @CanalCaribe, among other users, which include active journalists.

Several professionals also warned on Facebook the closure of their channels on Twitter. They suspended, for example, all the accounts of Cubadebate’s journalists and directors, without exception, as well as those of Leticia Martínez (@leticiadecuba ) and Angélica Paredes (@aparedesrebelde), of the President’s press team; that of the First Vice President of the Union of Cuban Journalists, Rosa Miriam Elizalde (@elizalderosa), and of Granma’s journalist, Enrique Moreno Gimeranez (@GimeranezEm), among others.

“It seems to be a concerted operation of false denunciations for abusive use and violation of platform policies. It surprises the political bias, the selectivity of the affected users and the opportunism: when President Díaz Canel speaks,” Elizalde wrote.

In addition, the institutional account of the Ministry of Communications (@MINCOMCuba) and that of government officials, such as Yaira Jiménez Roig (@yairajr), director of Communication and Image of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, were also blocked. Also, the director of the National Center for Sexual Education, Mariela Castro Espín (@CastroEspinM).

This is not the first time that Cuban Twitter users report problems logging into their accounts and receive messages that their accounts have been blocked and they should follow the procedure to recover them. What is new is the massiveness of this obviously planned act of cyber warfare, which seeks to limit the freedom of expression of Cuban institutions and citizens, and to silence the leaders of the Revolution.

The State Department’s Internet Task Force for Cuba last June issued its recommendations to use the network as a subversion highway in Cuba. It has proposed giving more funds to open digital sites, generate “attractive content” on the net, provide scholarships and finance a cybermilitance trained in harassment, lies and political assassination, which is not usually affected by this type of Twitter actions.

The Cuban Union of Journalists strongly denounces the disappearance of these spaces for the expression of ideas, in an act of massive censorship of journalists, editors and media. We demand the immediate re-establishment of the blocked accounts that, in no case, have violated Twitter policies, while the platform flagrantly tramples on the rights of communicators, prevents them from carrying out their work and tries to muzzle a first-rate news event in our country.

National Presidency of the Union of Journalists of Cuba.

Sentir Bolivariano Adan Sánchez Frías

 

Sentir Bolivariano

Adán Chávez Frías

Fotos INTERNET Y Alberto Roque AFP/ Getty

HAVANA, CUBA: Cuban President Fidel Castro (front) participates beside Venezuelan Ambassador to Havana Adan Chavez -brother of Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez- in a political meeting commemorating the second anniversary of Chavez’s return to power after a failed coup, 13 April, 2004 in Havana. AFP PHOTO/Adalberto ROQUE (Photo credit should read ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP/Getty Images)

 

@Adan_Coromoto

Resistir y Vencer

En contra del pueblo venezolano, al igual que ocurre con Cuba y Nicaragua, el imperionorteamericano y sus aliados arrecian sus ataques. Debemos estar muy alertas y preparados para seguir resistiendo y venciendo. La clave, como hasta ahora, está en la unidad de las fuerzas de la Patria,que con firmeza y optimismo, conscientes del rolhistórico que nos ha correspondido desempeñar, seguiremos en la lucha diaria, acumulando victoriasen la batalla permanente por nuestra construcción socialista.

El imperio no cesa en sus pretensiones de dominarnos, como lo demuestra la historia reciente de nuestro continente. Tratando de evitar el avance de los procesos progresistas y democráticos en la región ha implementado golpes de estado de todo tipo, desde los más tradicionales como en el caso de Venezuela contra el Comandante Chávez en 2002 y el Presidente Nicolás Maduro el pasado 30 de abril, hasta los llamados golpes parlamentarios y la judicialización de la política. Los juiciosamañados contras líderes y lideresas progresistas de Nuestra América forman parte de ese guión; tal es el caso del proceso donde se condenó injustamente al ex Presidente Lula en Brasil, evitando que fuese candidato a la Presidencia de la República y, seguramente, electo nuevamente como primer mandatario de ese país. Es lo que pretenden hacer también con Cristina Fernández en Argentina y Rafael Correa en Ecuador.

En Venezuela, solo en la última década, el imperio norteamericano en complicidad con sus aliados internos y externos nos ha sometido a un criminal golpe de estado continuado, conformado, según el prestigioso intelectual Ignacio Ramonet, por cuatroguerras: la insurreccional, la mediática, la diplomática y la económica; a las que yo agregaría una quinta: la “institucional”. Su plan es provocar un estallido social y quebrar nuestra unión cívico militar, legado del Comandante Eterno.

Ante esto, trabajar por la unidad en la diversidad sigue siendo el gran reto histórico que tenemos por delante, para retomar la senda libertaria que demandan los pueblos de la Patria Grande que cambió para siempre, en un mundo cada vez másmulticéntrico y pluripolar, como tan acertadamente lo vislumbrara el Comandante Chávez. Es nuestro deber, como patriotas, seguir arando ese camino hasta la concreción definitiva de nuestra independencia.

Nosotros, las y los revolucionarios, queremos transitar ese camino en paz. En por ello, que enarbolamos la proclama aprobada durante la II Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños (CELAC), celebrada en enero de 2014 en La Habana, que define a la América Latina y el Caribe como zona de paz; loque supone “…el estricto cumplimiento de la obligación de no intervenir, directa o indirectamente, con los asuntos internos de cualquier otro Estado…”, resolver las diferencias que pudieran existir de forma pacífica; y “…respetar plenamente el derecho inalienable de todo Estado a elegir su sistema político, económico, social y cultural”.

Nuestro pueblo ha elegido mayoritariamente el camino de la Independencia, de la Soberanía, de la Justicia Social y de la Paz, y hemos demostrado que si se puede, que siempre se podrá resistir para vencer, porque como sentenciara José Félix Ribas “no podemos optar entre vencer o morir, necesario es vencer”. Es lo que hemos hecho y seguiremos haciendo.

¡Con Bolívar y Chávez, Venceremos!

La Habana, 14 de julio de 2019.

CUBA 60 aniversario CUBA INGLATERRA

Bienvenidos a todos.

 Instituto Cubano de                           Centre for Research on Cuba

Investigación Cultural Juan Marinello

Foro de Investigación sobre Cuba

XXII Congreso Anual

10-11 de abril 2019

60 años de la Revolución: Reflexiones y miradas interdisciplinarias a su sociedad y su cultura

9:00 – 9:30     Inauguracion


9:30 – 10:30   Panel: Sesenta años de la cultura como escudo de la

                                  Revolución.

                      Coordinador: Arnold August 60 m

Arnold August: La cultura política de la resistencia ideológica.
Rafael Acosta de Arriba (ICIC): La cultura cubana en los sesenta, un verdadero campo de batalla.                                                                
Rodrigo Espina Prieto (ICIC): Cultura, cultura popular y resistencia.
Luis Toledo Sande: ¿Qué significa la cultura como escudo de la nación?

10:30 – 10:50   Debate

10:50 – 11:05   Tony Kapcia (Univ. Nottingham): La evolución del socialismo

​​     cubano a partir del 1959 y su relacióncon el nacionalismo.    

                                               

11:05 – 11:20    Francisca López Civeira (UH): La estrategia discursiva de

                          Fidel en enero de 1959 y los referentes históricos.  

11:20 – 11:40     Debate  

11:40 – 12:55    Panel: La crítica literaria en la Revolución: una vez más a

                          debate.

                          Coordinadora: Dra. Marta Lesmes Albis (Instituto de Literatura

                          y Lingüística)

Marta Lesmes Albis: La crítica literaria hoy: una fundamentación necesaria.
Arianna Rodríguez (ILL): Miradas a la crítica cubana: el lapso de 1980 a 2000.
Raiza Rodríguez Domínguez (ILL): Crítica literaria contemporánea y perspectiva de género en Cuba (década del 90 hasta 2012).
Denise Ocampo Álvarez (ILL): La crítica de literatura infantil y juvenil en la Revolución.
Ileana Mendoza (ILL): La crítica revolucionaria: miradas al ensayo teatral.

12:55 –1:15   Debate

1:15 – 2:00    Almuerzo

2:00 – 2:15    James Clifford Kent (Royal Holloway, London): A lo cubano: Fotografía

                     documental cubana contemporánea

2:15 2:40    Isabel Story (Nottingham) y Anna Clayfield (University of Chester):

                     Olive green graphics: tracing revolutionary change through

                     magazine cover art.  

2:40 – 2:55    Guy Baron (Aberystwth University, Wales, UK): La cultura

                     cubana de los ochenta: Hacia un renacer

2:55 – 3:15     Debate

3:15 – 4:00    Panel: La Revolución cubana a través del cine. Entre un  

                      mundo real y un mundo posible. (UH)  

                      Coordinador: Yordan Palomo Molina

Kenia Herrera Izquierdo
Luis Boffill del Pino.  

4:004:20    Debate    

Jueves 11

9:00 10:30     Panel: Hacer y pensar la revolución cubana 60 años

                        después. (ICIC, Cátedra Gramsci).

                        Coordinadora: Caridad Massón Sena

Caridad Massón Sena: Perspectivas de lucha del Movimiento 26 de Julio.
Rosario Alfonso Parodi: Presupuestos ideológicos, objetivos políticos y contradicciones de las organizaciones insurreccionales.
Alejandro Gumá Ruiz: La desmesura de la pretensión. En torno al Departamento de Filosofía.
Fernando Rojas: Ruta crítica del sindicalismo cubano: hacia una nueva CTC.
Guillermo López Lezcano: Pensamiento crítico. Expresión de la joven intelectualidad revolucionaria.
Luis Emilio Aybar Toledo: Las relaciones laborales en el Ministerio de Industrias de Cuba.

10:30 – 10:50   Debate

10:50 – 12:20    Panel: Sociedad Cubana

                        Coordinadora: Elaine Morales Chuco(ICIC)

Par Kumaraswami (Univ. Reading): Moralidad y mercado: cultura y bienestar a lo largo de la Revolución Cubana.
Mildred de la Torre Molina (Inst. Historia) y Ana Vera Estrada (ICIC): Las políticas culturales como políticas sociales en los sesenta: casa, familia, educación.
Lauren Collins (Univ. Nottingham): Cuba and Climate Change:

Sixty years of preparation?

Denise Ocampo Álvarez (ILL): Literatura infantil y prioridad sociopolítica. Educación y cultura para el hombre nuevo.
Ealine morales Chuco: Identidades y percepciones de exclusión en jóvenes habaneros.
Rosi Smith (Univ. Nottingham): Percepciones de la educación superior de estudiantes de universidades comunitarias en Cuba y el Reino Unido.

12:20 – 1:00    Debate

1:00 – 2:00       Almuerzo

2:00 – 3:30       Mesa Redonda: La municipalización de la universidad cubana

                                                 y su legado comunitario.

                       Coordinadora: Rosi Smith (Univ. Nottingham)

Jorge Nuñez Jover (GUCID)
Ariamnis Quiñones (GUCID)
Rita González Delgado (UH)
Leticia de las M.García Rosabal (CUM Bartolomé Masó, Granma).
Norge Imerio Pérez Ramírez (CUM Bartolomé Masó, Granma).

3:30 – 4:00     Debate  

4:00                Clausura (Tony y Elena)


 Instituto Cubano de                           Centre for Research on Cuba

Investigación Cultural

     Juan Marinello

Foro de Investigación sobre Cuba

XXII Congreso Anual

 10-11 de abril 2019

60 años de la Revolución: Reflexiones y miradas interdisciplinarias a su sociedad y su cultura

9:00 – 9:30     Inauguracion

9:30 – 10:30   Panel: Sesenta años de la cultura como escudo de la

                                  Revolución.

                      Coordinador: Arnold August 60 m

Arnold August: La cultura política de la resistencia ideológica.
Rafael Acosta de Arriba (ICIC): La cultura cubana en los sesenta, un verdadero campo de batalla.                                                                
Rodrigo Espina Prieto (ICIC): Cultura, cultura popular y resistencia.
Luis Toledo Sande: ¿Qué significa la cultura como escudo de la nación?

10:30 – 10:50   Debate

10:50 – 11:05   Tony Kapcia (Univ. Nottingham): La evolución del socialismo

​​     cubano a partir del 1959 y su relacióncon el nacionalismo.    

                                               

11:05 – 11:20    Francisca López Civeira (UH): La estrategia discursiva de

                          Fidel en enero de 1959 y los referentes históricos.  

11:20 – 11:40     Debate  

11:40 – 12:55    Panel: La crítica literaria en la Revolución: una vez más a

                          debate.

                          Coordinadora: Dra. Marta Lesmes Albis (Instituto de Literatura

                          y Lingüística)

Marta Lesmes Albis: La crítica literaria hoy: una fundamentación necesaria.
Arianna Rodríguez (ILL): Miradas a la crítica cubana: el lapso de 1980 a 2000.
Raiza Rodríguez Domínguez (ILL): Crítica literaria contemporánea y perspectiva de género en Cuba (década del 90 hasta 2012).
Denise Ocampo Álvarez (ILL): La crítica de literatura infantil y juvenil en la Revolución.
Ileana Mendoza (ILL): La crítica revolucionaria: miradas al ensayo teatral.

12:55 –1:15   Debate

1:15 – 2:00    Almuerzo

2:00 – 2:15    James Clifford Kent (Royal Holloway, London): A lo cubano: Fotografía

                     documental cubana contemporánea

2:15 2:40    Isabel Story (Nottingham) y Anna Clayfield (University of Chester):

                     Olive green graphics: tracing revolutionary change through

                     magazine cover art.  

2:40 – 2:55    Guy Baron (Aberystwth University, Wales, UK): La cultura

                     cubana de los ochenta: Hacia un renacer

2:55 – 3:15     Debate

3:15 – 4:00    Panel: La Revolución cubana a través del cine. Entre un  

                      mundo real y un mundo posible. (UH)  

                      Coordinador: Yordan Palomo Molina

Kenia Herrera Izquierdo
Luis Boffill del Pino.  

4:004:20    Debate    

Jueves 11

9:00 10:30     Panel: Hacer y pensar la revolución cubana 60 años

                        después. (ICIC, Cátedra Gramsci).

                        Coordinadora: Caridad Massón Sena

Caridad Massón Sena: Perspectivas de lucha del Movimiento 26 de Julio.
Rosario Alfonso Parodi: Presupuestos ideológicos, objetivos políticos y contradicciones de las organizaciones insurreccionales.
Alejandro Gumá Ruiz: La desmesura de la pretensión. En torno al Departamento de Filosofía.
Fernando Rojas: Ruta crítica del sindicalismo cubano: hacia una nueva CTC.
Guillermo López Lezcano: Pensamiento crítico. Expresión de la joven intelectualidad revolucionaria.
Luis Emilio Aybar Toledo: Las relaciones laborales en el Ministerio de Industrias de Cuba.

10:30 – 10:50   Debate

10:50 – 12:20    Panel: Sociedad Cubana

                        Coordinadora: Elaine Morales Chuco(ICIC)

Par Kumaraswami (Univ. Reading): Moralidad y mercado: cultura y bienestar a lo largo de la Revolución Cubana.
Mildred de la Torre Molina (Inst. Historia) y Ana Vera Estrada (ICIC): Las políticas culturales como políticas sociales en los sesenta: casa, familia, educación.
Lauren Collins (Univ. Nottingham): Cuba and Climate Change:

Sixty years of preparation?

Denise Ocampo Álvarez (ILL): Literatura infantil y prioridad sociopolítica. Educación y cultura para el hombre nuevo.
Ealine morales Chuco: Identidades y percepciones de exclusión en jóvenes habaneros.
Rosi Smith (Univ. Nottingham): Percepciones de la educación superior de estudiantes de universidades comunitarias en Cuba y el Reino Unido.

12:20 – 1:00    Debate

1:00 – 2:00       Almuerzo

2:00 – 3:30       Mesa Redonda: La municipalización de la universidad cubana

                                                 y su legado comunitario.

                       Coordinadora: Rosi Smith (Univ. Nottingham)

Jorge Nuñez Jover (GUCID)
Ariamnis Quiñones (GUCID)
Rita González Delgado (UH)
Leticia de las M.García Rosabal (CUM Bartolomé Masó, Granma).
Norge Imerio Pérez Ramírez (CUM Bartolomé Masó, Granma).

3:30 – 4:00     Debate  

4:00                Clausura (Tony y Elena)

One year ago today in Havana. Fidel Castro

One year ago today in Havana. While in Havana to attend the funeral for Fidel Castro I was invited, as a foreign guest, by the Association of Cuban Journalists (UPEC) to attend the special meeting of Cuban journalists to recall their respective experiences with Fidel. The following was a report from Cuba on that activity:

FIDEL Sincere Memories

Tribuna de La Habana, Saturday, December 3, 2016

by Yelena Rodríguez

Translated from the original Spanish.

It was always a dream of mine to see him up close, to shake his hand, give him a hug. When I chose journalism for a career, my aspirations grew and I started dreaming of interviewing him, listening while he talked about his childhood and the guerrilla.

While I have no stories to tell of time spent by his side, nor any photographs of me with him, I can share a “recipe” given to the press by that greatest of Cuban journalists, Fidel Castro himself, a man who skillfully strode the tortuous paths of research, discussion, and argument: “To be a journalist is a vision, a conviction, a spirit pulsing through you; it springs from the authentic feeling that one is useful to the cause.”

I harbor memories of his words and teachings, and I have had the privilege to hear, from colleagues who knew him, of his humaneness, his witticisms, his extraordinary memory, and his feats as a guerrilla and a man of letters:

-Marta Rojas, laureate, José Martí National Journalism Prize: “My first encounter was when I was a university student and I saw him standing next to a car parked by my school.

“The second time I saw him, he was getting a haircut at Adolfito’s, the storied barber shop on Neptuno Street. Fidel was vying with the barber himself to be the Orthodox Party candidate for the position of municipal assembly delegate from Cayo Hueso. The contest between them turned into an alliance, and Fidel ultimately became the delegate.”

-Lesmes La Rosa, Radio Progreso journalist: “There was an official awards ceremony over which Fidel presided, and I was covering the event. At the end, they brought me over to him to show him what I’d written. ‘You’re a journalist?’ he asked.

“He read my article carefully, and when he got to the last paragraph he said: ‘Looks great, but you’ve written here that the honorees will be presented with a “replica” of the Granma. Your readers might think you’re talking about a full-sized boat. How about specifying, “a scale-model of the Granma?”’ I realized then that he was a stickler for detail, but also a man of great simplicity. ‘Yes, that works,’ I replied, and so my article found its final form.”

-Arnold August, Canadian journalist: “I was present for every stage of the Cuban elections that took place in 1997 and 1998. Based on that experience and my reading of Cuba’s history, I wrote a book to counter the disinformation that exists in the world around democracy and elections in Cuba.

“In 2000, I was invited to one of the Cuban television roundtables along with other foreign colleagues, and there we were able to see Fidel as a Cuban like any other. After the debate, Fidel came over and told me that my work was very important because it was one way in which to convey the truth about democracy and social participation in Cuba to the capitalist countries. I will always treasure that encounter as one of the greatest moments of my life.”

Source:

http://www.tribuna.cu/especiales/evocacion-sincera

New! Cuba-U.S. Relations Toronto Book Launch: “‘Never trust imperialism – not one iota.’”

On July 8, Miguel Díaz-Canel, first vice president of the Cuba  Councils of State and Ministers, gave a speech during the ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the death of Che.

He said that Cuba will not make concessions inherent to its sovereignty and independence and will not negotiate its principles. To emphasise his point, Miguel Díaz-Canel quoted the immortal statement by Che:

“‘Never trust imperialism – not one iota.’”

You are probably looking at the next President of Cuba’s Councils of State and Ministers.

Photo: Juvenal Balán

Everyone is welcome to the Friday October 13 Toronto book launch of CUBA–U.S. RELATIONS. Among other issues, discuss this juncture in the Cuban political system and its effects on Cuba–U.S. relations. In addition to the panelists, the Consul General of the Republic of Cuba in Toronto Tania López Larroque can respond to any questions.

Full info here:

The Different Booklist event page

http://bit.ly/2kvGRti

Web site:

https://cubausrelations.com/Blog/cubausrelations-arnoldaugust-toronto/

Julio Fonseca York University: One of Panelists for Toronto Book Launch of Cuba-U.S. Relations

All are invited to the Toronto launch of Arnold August’s latest book, Cuba–U.S. Relations: Obama and Beyond.

The evening will feature a panel discussion with Arnold August, Keith Ellis, Julio Fonseca, and moderated by Elizabeth Hill (CCFA, Toronto).

Friday, October 13 at 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

A Different Booklist

777-779 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 0B7

Bathurst Station Eastbound Platform

Sponsored by Fernwood Publishing and A Different Booklist

Julio Fonseca. M.A. Applied and Theoretical Linguistics. Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics York University, Toronto Course Director, Spanish and Portuguese Section, D.L.L.L., Spanish Business Communication and Culture, Schulich School of Business, York University.

Further information: FaceBook-

https://www.facebook.com/events/110955159576979/?acontext={%22ref%22:%22106%22,%22action_history%22:%22null%22}

And web site-

https://cubausrelations.com/Blog/cuba-montreal-author-arnold-august-book-launch/

KEITH ELLIS ON PANEL FOR TORONTO BOOK LAUNCH of Cuba-US Relations

All are invited to the Toronto launch of Arnold August’s latest book, Cuba–U.S. Relations: Obama and Beyond.

The evening will feature a panel discussion with Arnold August, Keith Ellis, Julio Fonseca, and moderated by Elizabeth Hill (CCFA, Toronto).

Friday, October 13 at 6:30 PM – 9:30 PM

A Different Booklist

777-779 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 0B7

Bathurst Station Eastbound Platform

Sponsored by Fernwood Publishing and A Different Booklist

Keith Ellis. Born in Jamaica. Professor Emeritus, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto, and Professor of Merit. Doctor honoris causa from the University of Havana and the Order of Distinction from the government of Jamaica. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Author of the Foreword to Cuba–U.S. Relations: Obama and Beyond.

“Arnold August brings to the task his finest gift, his superbly developed talent as a journalist, understanding this to mean the habit of assessing different aspects and representations of reality, so that he offers an ultimate fairness to the reasonable and humane reader. August constantly exhibits a related attribute: his remarkable power of analysis. The two together make the experience of reading him an enlightening one.”

— Keith Ellis

Further information: FaceBook-

https://www.facebook.com/events/110955159576979/?acontext={%22ref%22:%22106%22,%22action_history%22:%22null%22}

And web site-

https://cubausrelations.com/Blog/cuba-montreal-author-arnold-august-book-launch/