Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 27, 2008	How Russia Clobbered Georgia and Lost the War
(Prof. Piotr Dutkiewicz for RIA Novosti) - Some critics have pointed to the conflict in Georgia as another example of botched Bush administration foreign policy, but in fact America's real strategy was brilliantly executed and it achieved exactly the intended outcome. Unfortunately it's not an...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Aug 13, 2008	Cannon fodder for the market
Reflections of Fidel: PERHAPS some governments are unaware of the concrete facts, and so for that reason Raúl’s message setting Cuba’s position seemed to us to be very timely. I shall be generous in the aspects that cannot be dealt with in a brief and precise official statement. ...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 27, 2008	The two Koreas - Part II
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL: ON October 19, 1950, more than 400,000 voluntary Chinese combatants, on orders from Mao Zedong, crossed the Yalu and waylaid the US troops that were advancing towards the Chinese border. The US units, surprised by the vigorous response of the country that they had...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 16, 2008	THE POWERLESS POWERS
Reflections of Fidel: THIS is a serious subject. The summit meeting of leaders of the eight most highly industrialized powers on the planet took place July 7-9 at a mountain retreat on the banks of the Toyako, a lake formed inside a volcanic crater located in the north of the island of...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 6, 2008	The McCain Tour and the Manifest Destiny of the U. S. Fourth Fleet
REFLECTIONS BY FIDEL: While I was preparing a reflection about McCain's relationship with the anti-Cuban terrorist mafia in Miami and other related subjects of historical interest, fresh news was flowing about this character that is being projected by the empire’s hawks as Bush’s...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jul 1, 2008	Salvador Allende: His Example Lives On
Reflections of Fidel: HE was born one hundred years ago in Valparaiso, in southern Chile, on June 26, 1908. His father, a middle-class lawyer and notary, was a member of Chile’s Radical Party. When I was born, Allende was already 18 years old. He was pursuing secondary studies in high...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 29, 2008	The United States, Europe and Human Rights
Reflections of Fidel: The discredited way in which the European Union suspended its sanctions on Cuba on June 19 has been reported in 16 international press dispatches. It has absolutely no economic effect on our country. On the contrary, the United States' extraterritorial laws and, thus,...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 28, 2008	Truth and Diatribes
Reflections of Fidel: We know that people living in industrialized and wealthy countries spend, on average, 25% of their income on food. Those who live in nations which were condemned to economic underdevelopment by the former devote up to 80% of their income to this end. Many go...... [view]

Posted By:  CFR Posted On:  Jun 23, 2008	Morning Update: Energy Policy
Hoping to ease high gas prices, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) on Sunday announced a plan to crack down on “excessive energy speculation.” The plan includes a measure to fully close the so-called “Enron Loophole,” which the Obama camp says prevents the Commodity Futures...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 19, 2008	The Elephant and The Ant
REFLECTIONS OF FIDEL: IT would seem there's no topic worthy of addressing that would not bore our patient readers, after the “Round Table” program of June 12, which dealt with the new edition of a book published in Bolivia 15 years ago, featuring now a prologue I wrote. During this...... [view]

Posted By:  zephyr Posted On:  Jun 15, 2008	CHE IN 1959
• From 1959, the heroic guerrilla became one of the central leaders of the revolutionary process as a result of his proven determination, versatility and abilities and because of the dynamic of the tremendous events resulting from the aggression against Cuba • Héctor Rodríguez Lompart...... [view]

Submitted By:   juanignacius Event Date:  Feb 11, 2008 Event Location:  Palacio de Convenciones [view]

6º Congreso internacional de Educación Superior "Universidad 2008"