Raul Castro: Cuba willing to sit down with US. HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Raul Castro said Thursday that his government is willing to mend fences with bitter Cold War foe the United States and sit down to discuss anything, as long as it is a conversation between equals. At the end of a Revolution Day ceremony marking the 59th anniversary of a failed uprising against a military barracks, Castro grabbed the microphone for apparently impromptu remarks. He echoed previous statements that no topic is off-limits, including U.S. concerns about democracy, freedom of the press and human rights on the island, as long as it is a conversation between equals.
“Any day they want, the table is set. This has already been said through diplomatic channels,” Castro said. Washington would have to be prepared to hear Cuba’s own complaints about the treatment of those issues in the United States and its European allies, he added. “We are nobody’s colony, nobody’s puppet,” Castro said. The Craziness of the Cuban Economic Blockade. The Right to Develop Vs. the Right to Strangle A Cuban official recently brought up a point that is seldom remarked in the foreign media, to wit, that the economic blockade — the centerpiece of US Cuba policy — is bad for the Cuban economy. Who could have known? During a session in Geneva of the Working Group on the Right to Development, Cuban representative Juan Antonio Quintanilla said that by a conservative estimate losses caused by the blockade as of 2010 were $104 billion. [1] He didn’t say whether the figure included damages from other sources, but Cuban courts in 1999 and 2000 assessed the United States $302.1 billion for losses both from the economic blockade and from US-sponsored raids, sabotage and invasion, as well as civil liabilities for 3,478 lives lost and 2,099 persons disabled by US attacks of all kinds. [2] The United States is delinquent in payment.
Mauricio Tamargo, one of the lawyers, views the proposed fees as fair compensation for “stolen property.” Notes. The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962: A Political Perspective After 40 Years. Www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/news/20010430/northwoods.pdf. The Perverse Cuban-American Mythology. For the past two months there scarcely has passed more than a day that Cuba hasn’t been in the news. The highly covered visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the island the last week of March drew more attention than any papal visits in the recent past. The VI Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia turned out to be an unmitigated diplomatic failure that witnessed every other nation present to disagree with president Obama and his Canadian counterpart that Cuba should be denied the right to represent itself.
Three weeks ago several Cuban academics were denied visas that would allow them to attend the LASA (Latin American Studies Association) Conference in San Francisco. Just two weeks ago, representative David Rivera (R-Fl) introduced an amendment to H.R. 2831 to modify the requirement for a Cuban national to qualify for and maintain status as a permanent resident of the US in order to restrict his/her right to visit Cuba. McGovern’s Report Miami Mythology and a Coalition of the “willing” Documents: Mexican Presidents - Our Man In Mexico by Jefferson Morley. This pages features images of Lopez Mateo and Diaz Ordaz Adolfo President Lopez Mateos (1958-1964) was LITENSOR. President Lopez Mateos regarded CIA station chief Win Scott as an “amigo,” according to this signed photo.
How do we know he was LITENSOR? Lopez Mateos traveled to Europe in March 1963, according to the New York Times. In April 1963 cable, Win reported on his recent conversations with LITENSOR: “During March Chief of station saw LITENSOR twice. Therefore, LITENSOR was Lopez Mateos Gustavo Diaz Ordaz (1964-1970) was known as LITEMPO-2 Gustavo Diaz Ordaz served as the Minister of Government under Lopez Mateos. How do we know Diaz Ordaz was LITEMPO-2? Díaz Ordaz was selected to be the candidate of Mexico’s ruling political party, the Party of Institutional Revolution (PRI), in 1964 and was elected president in 1964.
“As of end of October 1963, it was well-known that LITEMPO-2 would be the PRI candidate [in the 1964 presidential election],” Scott wrote. SPEECH CASTRO RUZ, FIRST SECRETARY OF THE KINGDOM OF THE REVOLUTION PARTY SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT PRIME MINISTER AND REVOLUTIONARY MEMORIAL IN THE ACT OF NOVEMBER 27, HELD IN THE STAIRWAY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAVANA, ON 27 NOVEMBER 1963. DISCURSO PRONUNCIADO POR EL COMANDANTE FIDEL CASTRO RUZ, PRIMER SECRETARIO DEL PARTIDO UNIDO DE LA REVOLUCION SOCIALISTA y PRIMER MINISTRO DEL GOBIERNO REVOLUCIONARIO, EN EL ACTO CONMEMORATIVO DEL 27 DE NOVIEMBRE, CELEBRADO EN LA ESCALINATA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE LA HABANA, EL 27 DE NOVIEMBRE DE 1963. Estudiantes: Días atrás, mientras realizaba una visita casi acostumbrada, cuando las oportunidades nos lo permiten, a la Universidad de La Habana, pensaba, en tanto conversaba con un grupo de estudiantes, que este 27 de Noviembre sería buena ocasión para tratar desde esta tribuna universitaria una serie de cuestiones que nos interesan mucho, interesan a nuestro país, interesan a nuestra economía, les interesan a ustedes.
Con posterioridad —precisamente ayer— por otras causas tuvimos una reunión con estudiantes de la enseñanza secundaria. En esa ocasión, algunos de los temas que nosotros habíamos pensado tratar aquí en el día de hoy, fueron planteados ante aquellos estudiantes. ¿Quién? The CIA and Castro: an Undying Obsession. By SAUL LANDAU and NELSON P. VALDES “Show me where Stalin’s buried, and I’ll show you a communist plot.”– Edgar Bergen For 53 years exiles from Miami and US officials have tried to assassinate Fidel Castro 638 times, overthrow his revolutionary government, and blamed him for numerous sins. The exiles and government officials who upbraid him have yet to thank Fidel for providing them with long-term employment. Given their levels of incompetence in carrying out bloody but unsuccessful terrorist acts, writing of inane and inaccurate reports and uttering of supercilious predictions about Cuba’s reality and its future, they appear unfit for other work — well, maybe as TSA screeners.
One Fidel beneficiary, retired CIA analyst Brian Latell (“Castro’s Secrets: The CIA And Cuba’s Intelligence Machine,” Palgrave Macmillan) condemns Castro for not informing the US government about Lee Harvey Oswald’s intentions to kill Kennedy. Latell ignores such statements.