Tag: Fidel Castro

• Thursday, November 18th 2010 - 21:16 UTC

  Full blown campaign to garner support for Raúl’s Cuban model reforms

  

  The Cuban government has launched an aggressive campaign on its proposed economic reforms as it tries to whip up public opinion enthusiasm and in its own ranks ahead of a Communist Party congress to approve them in April.

• Tuesday, September 28th 2010 - 20:55 UTC

  Fidel: great victory for Chavez; the ‘empire’ is after Venezuela’s oil

  

  The leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro described last Sunday’s legislative elections in Venezuela as a clear victory for the Bolivarian Revolution and its leader, Hugo Chavez.

• Monday, September 13th 2010 - 03:47 UTC

  Goldberg ratifies Fidel: “The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore”

  

  The US journalist Jeffrey Goldberg from The Atlantic magazine ratified his version of the interview with Fidel Castro, when he confessed that the Cuban model is no longer working, not even in the island, in spite of the Cuban leader attempt to amend his words.

• Saturday, September 11th 2010 - 17:47 UTC

  Fidel Castro’s “no but yes”: comments on Cuban model were “misinterpreted”

  

  Fidel Castro said his recent comment that communist-led Cuba's economic model does not work was misunderstood, and that what he really meant was capitalism does not work.

• Wednesday, September 8th 2010 - 23:32 UTC

  “The Cuban model doesn’t ever work for us anymore”, admits Fidel Castro

  

  “The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore”, admitted Fidel Castro to Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for the Atlantic Monthly magazine who interviewed the leader and asked if Cuba's model -- Soviet-style communism -- was still worth exporting to other countries.

• Saturday, September 4th 2010 - 05:33 UTC

  Fidel returns to talk where he first stirred fellow students 60 years ago

  

  Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, wearing his green military cap and clothing like the commandant of old, made his first speech before the Cuban public since falling ill in 2006, warning of the threat of nuclear war.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 01:49 UTC

  Fidel admits ‘full responsibility’ for the ‘unjust’ persecution of gays and lesbians

  

  Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro acknowledges the persecution of gays and lesbians during the Revolution, according to an interview published Tuesday in the Mexican newspaper La Jornada.

• Monday, August 30th 2010 - 19:20 UTC

  US has “permanent military bases” in Guantanamo and Falklands, says Castro

  

  United States has permanent military bases in Guantamano (Cuba) and the Falkland Islands, but it is prepared and capable of setting up troops anywhere else in Latin America in “a matter of hours” said the ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro quoted by the official press.

• Wednesday, August 11th 2010 - 05:57 UTC

  Fidel brushes aside any remote chance of Colombia attacking Venezuela

  

  Former Cuban President Fidel Castro dismissed the possibility of a Colombian attack on Venezuela, and said he felt positive about Colombia's future under the leadership of newly sworn-in President Juan Manuel Santos.

• Sunday, August 8th 2010 - 07:34 UTC

  Fidel surprises everybody and only speaks to the Assembly for 10 minutes

  

  Fidel Castro, the former Cuban leader delivered Saturday his first speech to the national assembly since resigning over ill health four years ago. The chamber erupted into applause at the sight of Mr Castro, dressed in his familiar olive-green fatigues but without his comandante's insignia.