Cuba is the Second Haiti, Norman Girvan

<p style="text-align: justify;">Haiti was the first Cuba-actually, Cuba is the second Haiti. Haiti was isolated at birth - ostracised and denied access to world trade, finance,and institutional development. Thus was Haiti punished by France,with the support of the other Western slave-owning nations. The French lifted their embargo after 21 years, extorting a massive Independence debt? for the loss of their "property"-which included members of the Haitian Cabinet. The US withheld recognition from Haiti for 58 years. Cuba has gone 48 years under the US embargo... Read More

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REUTERS: Exclusive: Gross'case and USA's behavior

<p style="text-align: justify;">The Jewish community in Cuba has a website:http://www.chcuba.org/inicio.htm complete with email contacts so I am assuming that they have adequate Internet access. By Dana Lubow, My questions:&nbsp; 1. How is it possible that Gross went to Cuba five times "to help Havana's Jewish community" and no one from the main Jewish center in Havana or the nationwide Jewish association had ever heard of him? Read More

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