Recent events in the Middle East, characterized by the popular revolts in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Libya and Syria, with the greater or lesser participation of the Special Services of the Western world infiltrating provocateurs, weapons, media and money, a lot of money, in each country, have encouraged the hopes of U.S. policy makers with respect to Venezuela and Cuba.
Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez and his Bolivian counterpart, Evo Morales, landed in Cuba this Saturday after holding a ministers meeting in the presidential Palace Miraflores, in Caracas.
The historic revolutionary moment of January 1, 1959, when General Fulgencia Batista escaped Cuba, came on the heels of another, lesser known revolutionary moment just a year earlier. On January 23, 1958, General Marcos Pérez Jiménez fled the capital of Venezuela, as a multi-class opposition ended a long era of military rule.
In a move that will see yet greater funding applied to essential public services, the Venezuelan government announced a series of initiatives last week intended to strengthen the Caribbean nation’s growing health care infrastructure and expand access to residents in the state of Aragua.
Opposition legislators of the Venezuelan National Assembly recently argued that Venezuelan Vice President Elias Jaua should replace Chavez as president, after emergency medical surgery forced Chavez to extend his stay in Cuba. The opposition was especially angered on Wednesday after Chavez enacted a law from the carribbean nation.
Cuban-American Attorney Jose Pertierra spoke with Cuban and foreign journalists on Thursday at the office of the Cuban Journalists Association (UPEC) in Havana about his experiences in El Paso, Texas, during the trial against terrorist Luis Posada Carriles.
President Chávez lauded the achievements of the Cuban people who, in the space of 60 hours, were able to organise and defeat the military invasion; funded by the C.I.A and led by Cuban exiles, who eventually surrendered at Playa Giron on April 19th, 1961.
On Wednesday, Cuba’s Deputy Foreign Minister Ana Teresita Gonzalez and her Venezuelan counterpart for Latin America and the Caribbean, Jacqueline Mendoza, highlighted the achievements in bilateral cooperation despite ongoing media smear campaigns against the two nations, Prensa Latina news agency reports.
Cuban Computer Science and Communications Minister Medardo Diaz said the undersea cable that arrived on Cuba’s eastern coast on Tuesday after a 19-day voyage from Venezuela, “opens a breach in the (economic) blockade” that the United States has imposed on the island and bolsters “national sovereignty” in telecommunications
