Barack Obama, Hugo Chavez, the Cuban DGI and U.S. national security
Special to WorldTribune.com By Cliff Kincaid President Obama’s mind-boggling statement about Marxist Hugo Chavez of Venezuela not having “a serious national security impact” on the United States is...
View ArticleTargeting Sen. Menendez: Obama’s push to ‘normalize’ U.S.-Cuban ties made...
Special to WorldTribune.com Global Information System/Defense & Foreign Affairs The seemingly unrelenting wave of media “revelations” in the United States against one of the key strategic policy...
View ArticleStalinist Cuba, mass graves, and a U.S. president’s legacy
Special to WorldTribune.com By Frank Calzon On Jan. 8, 1959, as Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph and the dictator Fulgencio Batista fled Cuba, Raul Castro opened up a mass grave in Santiago and...
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Obama’s election year priority: Closing Guantanamo and possibly returning it...
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — President Barack Obama promised yet again to fulfill his election pledge in closing the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo,...
View ArticleHavana rejects Obama’s call for ‘change’: Cubans ’empowered themselves...
Special to WorldTribune.com Days before President Barack Obama’s trip to Cuba, the Havana government said any attempt by the U.S. leader to call for the communist island to “change” would be a waste of...
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How the U.S. handles the baddest of bad actors: ISIL, Cuba and North Korea
Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk, EastAsiaIntel.com WASHINGTON – The hype surrounding President Obama’s visit to Cuba quickly gave way to fear and loathing as the world absorbed the news of...
View ArticleCuba violently cracks down on protests days after Obama visit
Special to WorldTribune.com The lasting impression President Barack Obama made on Cuba’s communist despots lasted all of two days. On March 22, Obama addressed Cubans about the importance of human...
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WORLD MATTERS: Yes, European conservatives agree, U.S. politics and media are...
Special to WorldTribune.com By Uwe Siemon-Netto Pardon an outburst from a fervent friend of the United States: Yes, Secretary of State John Kerry is right! This year’s election campaign is indeed an...
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Iran foreign minister in Havana kicks off tour of Venezuela, Nicaragua, Chile...
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said in Havana his visit would open a new chapter in the Islamic Republic’s relations...
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Cuban government blocks text messages using words such as ‘democracy’, ‘human...
by WorldTribune Staff, September 8, 2016 “Democracy”, “human rights” and “hunger strike” are on a list of 30 keywords being blocked in text messages by Cuba’s communist government. Prominent blogger...
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Russian navy plans permanent base in Syria; eyes others in Vietnam, Cuba
Special to WorldTribune.com By Backgrounder, Geostrategy-Direct.com President Vladimir Putin is looking to expand Russia’s military power and restore Moscow’s global reach of the Soviet era. Moscow on...
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Flashback: The Castro brothers’ Stalinist Cuba, mass graves, and a U.S....
Special to WorldTribune.com By Frank Calzon Fidel Castro, 90, is dead, his brother Raul announced Friday. The following was published on Jan. 19, 2016. President Barack Obama announced his visit to...
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Fidel Castro ‘was a coward’: Miami columnist rejects ‘romantic narrative’
by WorldTribune Staff, November 27, 2016 Progressive lawmakers and the elite media were quick to heap praise on the “courageous” Marxist leader who they insist created a socialist paradise in Cuba....
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Franklin Graham compares Cuban regime to ideals preached by Democratic Party
by WorldTribune Staff, December 1, 2016 Fidel Castro, who died on Nov. 25, was a brutal dictator who “drove the entire Cuban nation into complete poverty and oppression,” Franklin Graham said. “And to...
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Adios Fidel, hola Cuba libre?
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — When Fidel Castro died at age 90, perhaps the greatest achievement of Cuba’s communist Commandante was to have defied ten American...
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Cuba festival bans film spotlighting Fidel Castro’s intolerance toward gays
by WorldTribune Staff, December 9, 2016 A film that exposes the horrendous treatment of homosexuals during Fidel Castro’s reign has been banned from a Cuban film festival. “Santa et Andres,” a film by...
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Latin American liberal tide wanes after subdued Castro funeral, Trump win
by WorldTribune Staff, December 15, 2016 Latin America’s “pink tide” of liberalism has receded with the death of Fidel Castro and the rise of Donald Trump, analysts say. “The band of union leaders,...
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Communist Cuba has a modest plan to pay off Czech Cold War debt: Rum
by WorldTribune Staff, December 20, 2016 Cash-strapped Cuba has proposed paying off a large Cold War-era debt to the Czech Republic with rum. Cuba owes some $270 million to the former Czechoslovakia,...
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Obama parting gift to Castro regime creates havoc for Cubans seeking freedom
by WorldTribune Staff, January 13, 2017 President Barack Obama on Jan. 12 repealed the “wet foot, dry foot” policy in which any Cuban who reached U.S. soil was allowed to stay while any picked up at...
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Fidel, the patron saint for the Left, had few equals in terms of sheer brutality
by WorldTribune Staff, May 2, 2017 Despite an almost unequaled cruelty and repression to his own people – “he murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during...
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