Tag: Fidel Castro

• Friday, June 20th 2014 - 06:19 UTC

  Mujica delivers Obama message to Castro: 'let's talk about lifting the trade embargo”

  

  Uruguay's president Jose Mujica delivered a message from Barak Obama to Cuba's Raul Castro proposing the opening of dialogue to discuss the blockade, reported the Montevideo media on Thursday. The occasion was the recent G77 summit held in Bolivia.

• Tuesday, January 28th 2014 - 04:36 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez has lunch with Fidel Castro and blasts banks' “speculative practices”

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández used her personal Twitter account to blast figures in the banking and financial industries, which according to the head of state used speculative practices to send Argentina into default in 2001.

• Saturday, July 27th 2013 - 20:16 UTC

  Raul Castro promises ‘gradual and orderly’ transfer of power to new generations

  

  The Cuban Revolution remains a movement of young people, President Raul Castro said on Friday during an event to mark the 60th anniversary of an attack on a military barracks which is considered the starting point of the uprising that brought it to power in 1959.

• Friday, July 26th 2013 - 06:11 UTC

  Mujica praises Fidel Castro as a brilliant man promoter of ideas

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica currently in Havana said he had an enlightening conversation with the leader of the Cuban revolution Fidel Castro whom he described as “a wise old man who continues to be brilliant” and a ‘promoter of ideas”.

• Wednesday, July 24th 2013 - 07:15 UTC

  Mujica flies to Havana to meet the Castro brothers and celebrate 60 years of Cuba’s revolution

  

  Uruguayan president and former guerrilla Jose Mujica left Tuesday night for Cuba where he is scheduled to hold meetings with President Raul Castro, the revolution leader Fidel Castro and attend the celebrations of the sixtieth anniversary of the assault on the Moncada military fort.

• Tuesday, March 12th 2013 - 00:04 UTC

  Chavez, the best friend of the Cuban people in their history, says Fidel Castro

  

  Cuba's Fidel Castro praised the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez as a champion of the poor and said Cubans had lost their best friend ever, in his first comments on the death last week of his socialist ally. Castro said the news, although not unexpected, had been a hard blow.

• Thursday, March 7th 2013 - 23:29 UTC

  Back in 1994 when Chavez visited Uruguay, “the current ruling coalition did not take him seriously”

  

  Uruguayan former president Jorge Batlle recalled in his Facebook column that when a still unknown Hugo Chavez visited Uruguay back in 1994, the now left-leaning ruling coalition didn’t take him seriously and the leader of the movement at the time General Liber Seregni did not receive him.

• Friday, March 1st 2013 - 00:17 UTC

  Relations with Cristina Fernandez are “an impossible mission”, admits Mujica

  

  Uruguayan president Jose Mujica admits that relations between Uruguay and Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez can be “an impossible mission”, but at the same time praised Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez “as the most generous head of state he has ever met”.

• Wednesday, January 16th 2013 - 06:45 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez has hand-written copies of Chavez political testament, says Bocaranda

  

  Argentine president Cristina Fernandez in her recent visit to Cuba declined to see the ailing Hugo Chavez but surprised her hosts, the Castro brothers, when she revealed having received two letters from the Venezuelan leader which she considered to be his political testament.

• Monday, October 22nd 2012 - 04:10 UTC

  “Fidel is alive and well”, says Venezuelan politician who allegedly met with him

  

  Cuban leader Fidel Castro is alive and well, according to Elias Jaua, a former Venezuelan vice president who says he met with Castro over the weekend.