THE story of subversion of the UNCTAD itself by GATT that later morphed into WTO, enveloping within itself subjects like investments, intellectual property rights and a plethora of non-trade issues, is the story of continuing poverty of nations and backwardness of their development.

The current EU-Latin America summit might afford the EU an opportunity to make a stand against the Bush administration’s ideologically driven anti-Castro strategy.

THE use of biotechnological products in cancer therapy was analyzed by close to 50 experts and officials from scientific institutions in Cuba and central and provincial bodies in China at a recent seminar in Beijing organized by the Biotech Pharmaceutical joint venture and the Cuban embassy in China.

Last Valentine’s Day, the Federal Court of Appeals heard oral arguments concerning one of the greatest injustices in the history of U.S. jurisprudence.

Préval said that Cuban doctors, of whom there are now some 500 in Haiti, would soon be stationed in every Haitian county. Fifty-five Haitian counties – called communes – presently don’t have Cuban medical personnel,

"They have come here to take away the dignity the Revolution has given back to black men and women; we fight to preserve for all that supreme dignity essential to human beings. They have come to take away from our workers their new jobs; we fight for a liberated Cuba with employment for every working man and woman."

"The case of the[Cuban] Five began when our compatriots were arrested on September 12, 1998, through to today April 12, 2006." On mastermind terrorist Posada Carriles being in the U.S.: " Nobody speaks of deporting him, of punishing him"

Although the AIDS rate prevalence in Cuba is the lowest of the American continent, health authorities implement a strong prevention system and ensure comprehensive medical care for all seropositive and sick people, while they search for vaccines with a therapeutic effect.

CUBAN scientists, whose field studies of therapeutic vaccines for the treatment of cancer have demonstrated encouraging results, have begun to work toward applying these therapies in the early stages of the disease.

Her greatest joy is to share with young people the conviction that those trying to return Cuba to the situation before 1959, with invasions or with a Bush style transitions, will be defeated.

Why can’t the US put our obsolete cold war animosities behind us and embrace what’s remarkable and good about our nearest neighbor – a neighbor that seems to have solved, even in its poverty, social problems that continue to plague us?

The equal civil and political rights for which the founding fathers of Cuban independence fought are still a dream for millions of people around the world, said Ricardo Alarcon de Quesada, President of the Cuban Parliament on Friday.

...Cuban President Fidel Castro has revealed details of the large Cuban military participation in the war against South African troops in southern Angola in 1987-88. Some 55,000 Cuban troops aided the Angolan counter-offensive, that drove South Africans back to the Namibian border and to the negotiation table.

The island closes 2005 on an upbeat with a spectacular 11.8 percent GDP growth. Higher salaries and pensions, new education, public health, social security and power generation programs, and the pride of Cubans to be able to offer growing assistance to nations on several continents are part of the general optimism.

The Cuban economy grew by a stunning 11.8 percent in 2005, the greatest increase in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) since the triumph of the Revolution, said the Minister of Economy and Planning, Jose Luis Rodriguez on Thursday.

On December 10, [Michael]Parmly invited several "dissidents" on the US payroll to his residence in Havana, delivering a speech full of lies and offenses against the Cuban Revolution...The diplomat launched into a series of insults, among them some aimed at university and other students and questioned the access of all Cubans to free health care services.

The exercises incorporate the population in every territory, testing the capacity to move in case of an attack and the state and functioning of shelters...These military exercises aim to prevent invasion or occupation by the organized, practiced, and permanent resistance of the population.

The Bush administration was shocked this past week by the unanimous adoption of a resolution denouncing the US blockade of Cuba at the Ibero-American summit in Salamanca, Spain.

The travel ban is a failed, outdated, Cold-War era policy. The current policy succeeds only in restricting the rights of U.S. citizens and hurting the Cuban people; it responds to the interests of a small group of hardliners in the Cuban-American community. It is time to create a forward-looking U.S. policy toward Cuba based on sensible foreign policy objectives.

"I am 73 and I have been in many countries. I feel as if I am a little tired. My heart wants to go on, but my bones are not letting it...I was fortunate enough that Fidel attended my concert in 1978 and I have always boasted about that. He is a star on my chariot. Who wouldn’t be excited about singing to Fidel?"