El misterio de la Santísima Trinidad  7/12/2010 Kaos en la Red: de Esteban Morales 

Esteban Morales at meeting on racism in Havana: En la Cofradía de la Negritud, Elsie Carbó, 22/7/10

Esteban Morales expelled from the Communist Party for his article on corruption, 6/29/10   A compendium of articles. Few Cuban sources have commented on the fact that while many have criticized the corruption in Cuba, it is only the leading researcher on race in Cuba who is singled out for punishment. They refer to him as a specialist on US affairs.

Esteban Morales Booted from Cuba’s Communist Party  6/28/2010 Havana Times: "Esteban Morales, PhD., has been “separated from the ranks” of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) for his publication of an article denouncing what he considers the counter-revolutionary corruption and bureaucracy that exists in the country. The Playa Municipal Committee of the PCC communicated its decision to the grassroots level of the Party."

Corruption: The true counter-revolution?  4/21/2010 Progreso: "Without a doubt, it is becoming evident that there are people in positions of government and state who are girding themselves financially for when the Revolution falls, and others may have everything almost ready to transfer state-owned assets to private hands, as happened in the old USSR." Morales is a specialist on the US and the author of many texts on race in Cuba.

Corrupción: ¿la verdadera contrarrevolución?  4/15/2010 Desde la Habana: de Esteban Morales, specialista en temas sobre política exterior de Estados Unidos y autor de numerosos textos sobre la problemática racial en Cuba. Publicado en el sitio de la UNEAC.

CUBA: Replica Slave Ship Drops Anchor amidst Debate on Racism  3/24/2010 IPS: "The issue is gaining visibility, which gives us hope that progress will continue to be made," Norberto Mesa, founder of the Cofradía de la Negritud (CONEG), a "brotherhood" or association of black people aimed at raising awareness about the problem, told IPS. According to CONEG, racial inequality is a growing problem in Cuba, where the latest census, from 2002, indicates that of a total population of 11.18 million, 7.2 million were white, 1.13 million black, and 2.78 mixed-race, based on self-identification. However, scholars estimate that the Cuban population is actually around 60 to 70 percent black or mixed-race.

Día Internacional contra la Discriminación Racial: Cofradía de la Negritud, la Habana, 3/21/10

See our Haiti News page for news of the earthquake and the rescue efforts, including those of MEDICC, which supports the Cuban medical effort in Haiti.

Haitians, international generosity and respect can rebuild the Haitian economy and society, 1/30/2010 Willie Mack Thompson

Race and Class in Cuba - Part 1 and 2, by Gayle McGarrity, 1/2010, Jamaica Observer with a response: Here we go again! 2/1/10 by Tony Menelik van der Meer

El Pentágono está en Haití  1/22/2010 Cuba Debate: "Los militares estadounidenses ordenaron ayer el desalojo inmediato de todos los periodistas internacionales de la zona de acampada dentro del aeropuerto donde los reporteros compartían espacio con los cooperantes. El miércoles a las cinco de la tarde, hora haitiana, un soldado se acercó tienda por tienda a comunicar a los medios de comunicación que a las cinco de la mañana del día siguiente todo el mundo tenía que estar fuera… El secretario de Estado para Iberoamérica, Juan Pablo de Laiglesia, visitó por la noche el campamento español para comunicarles que el Gobierno haitiano había dejado el control del aeropuerto a EEUU y que la Armada estadounidense necesitaba todas las instalaciones… El edificio de la televisión de Haití también fue tomado por un grupo de soldados estadounidenses. Además, la presencia de los soldados con sus enormes vehículos militares ha empeorado aún más el tráfico. Circular 200 metros en coche en algunos tramos puede llevar más de una hora. Ayer, en una de las glorietas de la ciudad, la policía haitiana, cascos azules de Naciones Unidas, soldados de EEUU y un ciudadano occidental con la estética de miembro de Blackwater daban direcciones contradictorias entre sí a los desesperados conductores… Al margen del despliegue militar, Unicef denunció ayer el “descontrol absoluto” en la salida de 140 menores del país después del terremoto. Julie Bergeron, jefa de protección de Unicef, afirmó a Público que han enviado personal al aeropuerto para impedir la salida de niños sin papeles."

Haiti: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux  1/18/2010 Op Ed News: by Cynthia McKinney - "Therefore, we note here the writings of Ms. Marguerite Laurent, whom I met in her capacity as attorney for ousted President of Haiti Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Ms. Laurent reminds us of Haiti's offshore oil and other mineral riches and recent revivial of an old idea to use Haiti and an oil refinery to be built there as a transshipment terminal for U.S. supertankers. Ms. Laurent, also known as Ezili Danto of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network (HLLN), writes: "There is evidence that the United States found oil in Haiti decades ago and due to the geopolitical circumstances and big business interests of that era made the decision to keep Haitian oil in reserve for when Middle Eastern oil had dried up. This is detailed by Dr. Georges Michel in an article dated March 27, 2004 outlining the history of oil explorations and oil reserves in Haiti and in the research of Dr. Ginette and Daniel Mathurin."

Obama authorizes covert economic war against Venezuela  1/18/2010 Wayne Madsen Report on Milfuegos: "WMR's intelligence sources have reported that the Obama administration has authorized an economic war against Venezuela in order to destabilize the government of President Hugo Chavez. After a successful coup against Chavez ally, President Manuel Zelaya of Honduras, and the very thin 51-49 percent electorial win by Chile's billionaire right-winger Sebastian Pinera on January 17, a buoyed Obama White House has given a green light for political operatives in Venezuela, many of whom operate under the cover of non-governmental organizations (NGOs), to set the stage for massive street demonstrations to protest Chavez's devaluation of the bolivar, Venezuela's currency… The Obama administration's assault is two-fold: economic and political. Pressure is being applied against the gasoline chain Citgo, which is owned by the Venezuelan state oil company, PDVSA, and Venezuelan investment favorability ratings. Politically, the U.S. is overtly and covertly funneling money to anti-Chavez groups through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and groups affiliated with George Soros."

CARICOM BLOCKED ...as US takes control of airport  1/17/2010 T&T Express: "THE CARIBBEAN Community’s emergency aid mission to Haiti, comprising Heads of Government and leading technical officials, failed to secure permission Friday to land at that devastated country’s airport, now under the control of the United States." In Katrina, as in any other disaster, FEMA doctrine's top priority is to establish control.

Malcolm X and Fidel: 1990 Symposium in Havana  1/17/2010 brothermalcolm.net: With audio and video tracks. Includes presentations by Nancy Morejon, Kwame Toure, Rogelio Martinez Fure, Osvaldo Cardenas, and many others as well as a video of Fidel talking to the delegates. Photogallery of Fidel - Malcom X meeting in 1960.

Shades of Katrina: No help for Haitians who need it most  1/16/2010 SF Bay View: "According to CNN tonight (Jan. 15), “for security reasons,” the U.N. required all doctors and nurses to leave one small Port-au-Prince hospital, full of badly wounded Haitians, some today post-surgery. And CNN showed the doctors and nurses in trucks being driven away abandoning patients to … no care at all. No U.N. security left to guard the desperately ill or, better yet, guarding the hospital with doctors and nurses inside helping their patients. What in hell might have been the security threat that 3,000 (seemingly absent in helping dig buried people out) U.N. soldiers stationed in Port-au-Prince couldn’t handle? “Security” is the U.N. Haiti mandate, after all. Fear of poor Black people … so sadly reminiscent of the response to Katrina, and so lacking in actual evidence."

USAID's DIA Contractor arrested for distributing telecom, computer gear in Cuba, 12/09

Lima apologizes to AfroPeruvians for abuses, 11/28/09, AP

Honduras' General Romeo Vásquez Velásquez and the Narcotraffickers, 11/1/09

Sin el negro, Cuba no sería Cuba, 10/20/09, Heriberto Feraudy Espino, UNEAC

Carta a Granma, 21/10/09, Cofradia de la Negritud: "Estamos una vez más, compañero Barredo, frente a uno de los puntos problémicos heredado por una de las revoluciones -- la  cubana de 1959 -- que más lejos llevó en América la demolición social del capitalismo neocolonizador y dependiente y que, sin embargo, hasta hoy, no ha podido independizarse  de un canon patriótico eurocéntrico, en el que sólo los antiguos liberticidas, los señores de la propiedad y la riqueza o los entendidos en los valores librescos europeos pueden ser recordados como protagonistas de los actos libertarios y de la dignidad cívica."

Asaltado el hospital Garífuna por elementos de la Fuerza Armada, 10/7/09

Sobre Color Cubano, 10/3/09, Gisela Arandia. Color de Cuba, un espacio de encuentros sobre la problemática racial, ha desaparecido y se ha creado una Comisión orgánica de la UNEAC. Resumen de logros y problemas. Color de Cuba, a set of UNEAC working groups on race & identity in Cuba, has been replaced by a UNEAC commission. Summary of accomplishments and issues.

Cartas desde Tegucigalpa, 9/29/09 "Mataron a un número indeterminado de compañeros de la primera barricada al final del Puente Guancaste."

Venezuela: La Cumbre Africa-Suramerica, 9/23/09-9/27/09

Juan Almeida Bosque joins the ancestor, 9/11/09:  Yo quiero que triunfe la Revolución para que sea el pueblo el que dé las órdenes, Marta Rojas, 14/9/09

Hospital Garifuna de Ciriboya, una colaboracion de Cuba y la EE-UU, amenazado por los golpistas. Coup regime threatens Garifuna Hospital in Ciriboya, a collaboration between Cuba and America, 9/09

Honduran Garifuna Culture Threatened by Coup  9/4/2009 New American Media: by Willie Thompson - "The Honduran de facto coup government under Roberto Micheletti plans to eliminate the Honduran Garifuna people and culture. Micheletti has rescinded the Manuel Zelaya authorization to teach in the Garifuna language in school and to teach the language itself. All scholarships to Garifuna students have been eliminated. Now, Micheletti, with no opposition from the U.S. State Department, has set Sept. 1, 2009, to take over the Garifuna built and operated hospital and fire its Latin American Medical School (ELAM) trained Garifuna physicians, including Dr. Luther Castillo Harry, its founder. Dr. Castillo Harry has been targeted for assassination in order to decapitate the Garifuna leadership. 

Preocupa discriminación racial en Cuba - Activan Cofradía de la Negritud (CONEG) para crear conciencia, IPS, 9/2/09 Racism in Cuba & the Black Fellowship, 9/2/09 Havana Times interviews Tato Quinoñes on the revival of the Black Fellowship, CONEG. See also the text of the 1998 Carta de Presentación introducing CONEG.

HOSPITAL GARIFUNA: Cuba y Estados Unidos trabajan juntos en Honduras  8/29/2009 Dick Emanuelsson: "Entrevista a John Garamendi, Vicegobernador del Estado de California en Estados Unidos durante la inauguración de una clínica en Ciraboya."

General Romeo Vasquez Velasquez and the Gobierno del Reino: Theocracy in Honduras?, 8/12/09

See our new Central America News section to follow the coup in Honduras and the resistance to it, 7/09.  Honduras has 8.3 million people, 99% are of Indian or African descent, including the Garifuna and folks from the West Indies. The army, at 9000, and the police, at 14,000 and notoriously corrupt, are dwarfed by the number of people in the streets. The golpistas, many of them ibero-spanish, have taken to wearing white as a demonstration of their backing for the coup.

Operation Pedro Pan: A horribly black mark on (U.S.) history  5/21/2009  Progresso Weekly: "Years before his death, in Miami Beach in the presence of my mother, my sister Maria, her husband and me, he told us that he was one of the persons responsible for redacting the fake law that caused the “removal of parental rights” hysteria. It is why I know, without a shadow of a doubt, that Operation Pedro Pan was a sinister immorality play designed and dreamt up by the CIA before the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion."

The genesis of African and Indian cooperation in colonial North America: An Interview with Helen Hornbeck Tanner. Ethnohistory Quarterly, (Spring, 2009) American Society for Ethnohistory by Ivor Miller  (PDF, 1.14 MB)

BIENVENIDO AL INFIERNO  5/1/2009 El Blog de Manolin, el Medico de la Salsa: "Todas estas cosas las escribo por responsabilidad, para que los de Cuba tengan conocimiento de la verdad y para que los de Miami rectifiquen, pues no tiene jutificacion ninguna. En mi corazon no hay rencor ni nada feo, soy una de las personas mas felices de este mundo, la vida ha sido muy generosa conmigo, pero no todo es color de rosas en esta vida y las cosas feas que me han pasado, curiosamente, me sucedieron en Miami." Nice job exposing the Estebans.

Tracking the success of the Movimiento Nacional Afrocolombiano, 4/09

Some Quick Comments on Carlos Moore's PICHÓN by Walterio Lord Garnés and David González López  2/15/2009 Walter Lipmann: "Walterio Lord Garnés and David González López are collaborators attached to the Centro de Estudios de África y Medio Oriente in Havana and to the University of Havana’s Cátedra “Amílcar Cabral” de Estudios Africanos. They have written dissertations at home and abroad and published works about African and Afro-Cuban cultures in Cuban and foreign publications. 

The Discourse on Racism in Anti-Castro Publications, 2008-2009; The Obama Factor

Carlos Moore letter to Raúl Castro, 12/17/08  James Early: Carlos Moore's Outcast Vision and Dangerous Deceit  12/28/2009 AfroCubaWeb

Asociación Cultural Yoruba de Cuba En Francia: Llamamiento contra el Bloqueo, 12/08

Entrevista a Jesus Chucho Garcia. Desde Angola, 11/24/08

Afro-Latinos in Latin America and Considerations for U.S. Policy  11/21/08 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON DC CONGRESSIONAL RESEARCH SERVICE

Fifty Years of African Impact on Cuba: By David González López, Amílcar Cabral Chair. University of Havana. From Temas no. 56: 29-37, octubre-diciembre de 2008. 

Coverage of US elections and the ever present vote fraud at Black Voter Net, includes Vote Fraud News. Voter suppression and vote fraud were overwhelmed by the outpouring of voter support for Obama but were very much in evidence this time around.

Spritual Warfare: Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witchhunter  9/16/2008 London Times: "The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells."[Mama Jane is a diviner who had to leave town as a result, though some accused witches in Kenya are burned.]

Our Russia News page tracks news about Cuba's former patron,  who the neocons have embroiled in numerous disputes.

Classifieds in Cuba: Cuba's Craig's List, 9/08

Death Squad attacks Obong Palace, Cross River State, Nigeria 8/25/08 The Obong, traditional ruler of the Efik, escapes unhurt, many are wounded.  Efik Ékpè lodges are ancestral to the Cuban Abakuá. Extensive photo journal of the initial attack: help identify the hoodlums, 8/25/08

Before Calabar Burns, 8/8/2008 Press Release from the Etubom Traditional Council of the Efik Nation on the murder and mayhem committed by Cross River State government backed militias, with photos of some victims. The Cuban Abakuá are Efik in origin.

Ekpo Ekeng, youth leader of Cobham Town and member of Calabar Mgbe (Ékpè), is interviewed on the recent events in Calabar, 8/08

Constitution of the Calabar Mgbe, 7/08 This Cross River, Nigeria, organization has as goal reunion with all Ekpe, including those in Cuba (Abakuá).

Gov Liyel Imoke sacked, 7/15/08, Vanguard: Cross River State Governor Imoke was hostile to the Obong of Calabar, who has a history of working with his fellow Ekpe members from Cuba.

Ekpo Ekeng, youth leader of Cobham Town, Calabar, and a member of Calabar Mgbè, on the Paris Cuba-Ekpe Encounter, 5/08

Traces of the Trade: story of the Rhode Island based DeWolf family, the largest slave traders in the history of the US, produced by their descendants, 6/08

Caminos magazine devotes its last issue to the ever controversial race question in Cuba, Cuba Now, 5/26/06  Features discussion of the Commission on the Centenary of the Founding of the Independents of Color.

Otra vez raza y racismo, Caminos, 5/08

Asesor de política exterior de John McCain - Otto Reich: "Obama no tiene ni un día de experiencia internacional"  5/25/2008 El Mercurio:  - "Aunque dice que nunca ha abandonado la vida política, lo cierto es que Otto Reich, ex jefe de la diplomacia estadounidense para América Latina, anunció su retorno con "bombos y platillos", nada menos que como asesor del candidato republicano a la Casa Blanca, John McCain."  See also our Otto Reich page for highlights of his career.

Jacuma Kambui and his alleged Assata connection, Andy Petit, 5/3/08 A pseudo radical attempts to fool us with net shenanigans.

Evidence surfaces suggesting Roland Carnaby, gunned down by Houston PD on 4/30/08, was in fact CIA. Is this part of an internal war pitting neocons against other Americans? Who is spinning Carnaby as a fraud? Hans Wolff reports.

The vicious racism that is a hallmark of US history rears its head, braying about the Rev Wright. Here is one response:  Obama's Minister Committed "Treason" But When My Father Said the Same Thing He Was a Republican Hero  3/16/2008 Huffington Post: by Frank Schaeffer.  

The Clinton Campaign Embraces the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to Launch Attacks on Obama 2/27/2008, Buzzflash: Rush Linmbaugh, the Drudge Report, Rupert Murdoch, and Richard Mellon Scaife are new Clinton allies.

The Afrovenezuelan Network and the Paramilitary Menace, 3/7/08  La Red Afrovenezolana ante la Amenaza Paramilitar, 7/3/08 Jesus "Chucho" Garcia.

Site run by the Raizales, an English speaking people of African descent on  islands claimed by Colombia off the coast of Nicaragua: www.amensd.org. The Colombian government favors its Ibero-Spanish elite in their take over of the islands. We track Raizales News.

The Black right wing’s agenda in Colombia, 2/08, Jesus “Chucho” Garcia   Y Tantos Negros Que Apoyan a Uribe, 2/19/08, Macobe Luchador   Why Afro-Colombians Oppose the Colombia Free Trade Agreement, 2/2008 by Marino Cordoba, founder of the Association of Internally Displaced Afro-Colombians (AFRODES)

New book focuses on racial issues in Cuba - its author, Esteban Morales, scrutinizes the topic of race relations in the island from colonial times to present day.  2/4/2008 Cuba Now.  See also our page on Esteban Morales.

Coverage of  Sibel Edmonds' exposé of the Turkish Russian Israeli mafia and its tentacles into the US establishment, 1/08

Centenario de la fundación del Partido Independiente de Color, 2/1/08, Cubarte, por Fernando Martínez Herredia

Hacia el centenario de los Independientes de Color, Granma, 28/12/07

International Commission formed to commemorate the founding of the Independents of Color in 1908. Se formo una Comisión Internacional para conmemorar la fundacion de los Independientes de Color en 1908. Commission International crée pour commemorer la fondation des Independants de Couleur en 1908.   12/07

Prólogo a la edición en castellano - Afrocuba: Una antología de escritos cubanos sobre raza, politica y cultura Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. 1998 Pedro Pérez Sarduy y Jean Stubbs (compiladores)

¿Qué tienen los negros en cuba? por Pedro Pérez Sarduy, 1996, Revista Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana. What Do Blacks Have in Cuba? by Pedro Pérez Sarduy, 1996, Revista Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana.

Antonio Maceo: The Bronze Titan  12/10/2007 Granma: by Fidel Castro

Republican Candidates advocate indicting the Castro brothers for 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shootdown. Backgrounder. 12/07

The Open Wound: The Scourge of Racism in Cuba from Colonialism to Communism  by Iván César Martínez, former Cuban diplomat,10/07.  Also has comments on our Eugene Godfried 1912 interview.

Interview with Eugène Godfried: Call for dialog on the 1912 Massacre, 10/5/07  Accompanied by commentary from the former head of the Caribbean Section of the Department of the Americas of the Central Committee, Osvaldo Cárdenas. Entrevista con Eugène Godfried: una llamada para el dialogo sobre la masacre de 1912, 5/10/07  Acompañado por comentarios del antiguo jefe de la Seccion del Caribe del Departamento de las Americas del Comite Central, Osvaldo Cárdenas.

Eugene Godfried Calls on Fidel Castro for Reflection and Action concerning the 1912 Massacre: YouTube Video , 9/07 Eugene Godfried Ruega a Fidel Castro Reflexion y Accion sobre 1912: Video en YouTube, 9/07

The Discourse on Racism in Anti-Castro Publications, 9/07

Anti-Cuban subversion: the race issue, 9/07 El tema racial y la subversión anticubana, 9/07 Esteban Morales

“Sociedades de Negros”  /  “Societies of Blacks”  The African Cuban Diaspora’s Cultural Shelters and their Sudden Disappearance in 1959, by Eugene Godfried, 9/2000

The 1912 Massacre, AfroCubaWeb, 9/07

Cuba: Color de la Piel, Nación, Identidad y cultura: ¿ un desafío contemporáneo? de Esteban Morales Domínguez, 6/07 [27 pages, PDF, 245kb]

U.S. blind to true colors of Cuba's problems by DeWayne Wickham, USA Today, 5/30/02  Still topical...

Time for America to Be Relevant in Cuba 4/14/2007 Washington Post: By Charles B. Rangel and Jeff Flake

Cuba: Algunos Desafios del Color, 1/07 [49 pages, PDF, 315kb ] de Esteban Morales Domínguez: interesting list of issues from an AfroCuban at Havana University who ran their Center for US Studies.

National Summit on Cuba: New Jersey, 2006 10/28/06

Katrina: they left them there to die!  Community Rally Aug 29, 2006, one year later.... Boston, MA

Reunión 8/17/06 en Madrid: la situación actual de Cuba, Federación Panafricanista, España

"Human Rights Activist J. Soffiyah Elijah Opens National Network of Grantmakers Conference", Dr. Elijah has written on Cuba's criminal justice system. 10/06

New web site on Assata at happybirthdayassata.org, 8/06

Black Voter Network is back as Black Voter Net after parties unknown seized their domain name. They have a separate page on Katrina Survivors Fight Back listing activities and groups. This site also covers news of  Global Warming,  Peak Oil, the peak and decline of oil production, and Drug Trafficking & State Terrorism, a topic well known to Florida watchers.

20 Years Agrarian & Fisheries Reform Call In Curaçao Curaçao 7/12/06 20 Aňa Reforma Agrario I Peska, Papiamentu, 7/12/06 Eugene Godfried

Venez Extols African Contribution, 5/06

Source: McKinney fiasco shakes Capitol Police, officer knew her  4/18/2006 Redding News Review: "A source said an officer, who says Rep. Cynthia McKinney struck him in the chest with a closed fist, knew who she was, and claims the incident has caused infighting among U.S. Capitol Police. The source, who is close to the ongoing grand jury investigation of the March 29 scuffle, said Paul McKenna, a third year officer in the U.S. Capitol Police, was given a picture of the congresswoman in training. "No one believes that a man with a name that similar to hers would not know who she is," the source told Redding News Review. "He clearly knew who she was and what she looked like but stopped her anyway." ...The source - who did not want to be identified in fear that they might lose their job - also said that the incident has resulted in "fighting and heated arguments between white and black officers." "This case is tearing the department apart," the source said. "The blacks say the whites were screwing with her, but the white officers are saying that she should have stopped."

Hands Off Assata petition to Chicago City Council, 9/05

Assata Shakur’s appeal attorney explains her case Lies are being manufactured to convert Assata into a terrorist to justify the $1 million bounty on her head by Evelyn A. Williams  8/10/2005 SF Bay View

IFCO's 2005 Caravan stopped at the border as US government seizes computers; Caravan continues to Mexico and Cuba without computers, 7/21/05 They have the phone numbers of State Department and other officials who are directing the harassment.

Castro Strikes a Nerve , 6/3/05: Assata, Posada, the Cuban 5, and the US criminal justice system, by Soffiyah Elijah, Deputy director of the Criminal Justice Institute at Harvard Law School.

Official Response to Announcement of $1 million Bounty and the Listing of ASSATA SHAKUR on Domestic Terrorist Watch List, HOA, 5/15/05

Assata and Posada: Two different colors, two different stories  5/18/2005 SF Bay View: "The generally unacknowledged factor of Posada and Bosch’s blowing up of the Cubana airliner, however, is this. If tourists to Cuba take the time to visit Havana’s Sport’s Palace, guides will inevitably take them to the memorial wall. From there, visitors will be greeted by row after row of young, mostly Black faces staring back at them – photographs of Cuba’s Olympic athletes who were returning from the Pan American Games in Venezuela and were on board the airliner Posada and Bosch likely bombed. Therefore, by putting a $1 million bounty on Sister Shakur, who, they say, is linked to the killing of one white person, while allowing Posada and Bosch remain free in the U.S. after killing at least 73 mostly Black people, the U.S. has once again exposed itself as a government that continues to capitulate to and accommodate itself to racism."

Feds offer $1 million reward for Assata Shakur 5/05  Several commentaries, including USA Today, Tom Joiner's Black America Web, and Fidel Castro

Walterio Carbonell: Vivito, coleando y con las pilas puestas, 4/22/05, Jiribilla Desde El Monte hasta La Selva, 4/13/05, Encuentro: false announcement of Carbonell's death.

Domino Sugar workers against the Fanjuls, 2/05

Quintín Banderas, glorioso mambí, 1/16/05

Reports of massive vote fraud across the US with over 300 articles since Nov 2nd:  Black Voter Network, 1/5

Assata Shakur: Flight from Justice, 11/21/04 -  another shot from the New Jersey propaganda machine.

Oakland area CBC member Rep Barbara Lee squared off with Claudia Bermudez, daughter of Col Enrique Bermudez of "Dark Alliance" Cocaine Contra fame, in 2004 Congressional elections, 8/2/03. Lee won.

Miami: A los que quieran expresar su descontento  6/18/04 AfroCubaWeb: "... su descontento por las crueles medidas tomadas contra la familia cubana, por la presente Administracion, pueden participar en los siguientes eventos que tendran lugar el sabado 19 de Junio."

Pastors for Peace/IFCO - 15th Caravan to Cuba: 6/04-7/04. Updated 6/3/04. See links for route, cities across US and the crossing to Mexico.

US Hip Hop group Bojah harassed by OFAC for attending August '03 Havana Hip Hop Festival, 6/15

More Agents Track Castro Than Bin Laden, AP, 4/29/04

Cuba: Race Problem Cannot be Solved Until it’s Acknowledged, Black America Web, 4/16/04

Current U.S. Policy Re: Entry Of Cubans Into The U.S., 2/5/04: "Since most cuban artists are compensated by the cuban government, they are rightly considered to be its employees." See also Cuban artists kept out of U.S., 3/6/04, where this is repeated as the reason for keeping out Carlos Varela, arguably one of the most independent Cuban artists.

TransAfrica in groundbreaking trip to Venezuela, 1/04

Jesus "Chucho" Garcia, of the Red AfroVenezuelana, to tour the US in April 04

U.S. Policy on Cuba Deprives Black Americans, Black AmericaWeb, 11/17: "traveling to Cuba - a majority-black nation - must remain a no-no for most of us, otherwise Miami's Cuban exiles, who are more than 90 percent white, will put a chokehold on the Bush administration's re- election bid.  But the larger issue regarding the travel ban to Cuba isn't the White House's political schemes. It's that you - Mr. and Ms. BlackAmericaWeb.com - are being deprived of an affirming and even life-changing experience. Cuba, just 90 miles to the south of Miami, is defined and dominated by African culture and heritage. And all Cubans, even the white ones, seem to know this." This site is for the US based and nationally syndicated Tom Joyner Morning Show. Thank you Tom Joyner! This article is by David Person of the Huntsville Times - he is a member of the Trotter Group of African American columnists. Thank you David Person!

Two More suggestions for action re Cuba travel bills, 11/4/03

Administrative Prosecutions of Cuba Travelers To Start, 10/29/03, OFAC runs wild!

Black Arts Mouvement founder Askia Toure launches new webs site, 11/6/03

Walker, Bush & the Nazis, 10/18/03

Campus police assaults Africana Studies professor at U Mass Boston over military recruitment, professor being tried. 11/6/03