{"article":{"id":9856,"heading":"CubaNews summary - Sept. 7, 2001","author":"Walter Lippmann","created":"2001-09-08 21:11:25","modified":"2005-08-15 00:38:27","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:38:27","article":"<p>CubaNews summary - September 7, 2001\r\n=================================\r\n \r\nANTI-RACISM CONFERENCE WINDING DOWN\r\nMedia coverage of the Durban conference has declined\r\nsignificantly since the well-publicized withdrawals and is\r\nnow reduced to alternative sources such as THE BLACK\r\nWORLD TODAY and DEMOCRACY NOW IN EXILE.\r\nhttp:\/\/www.tbwt.com and http:\/\/www.webactive.com and\r\nwww.kpfa.org the Berkeley Pacifica affiliate.\r\n \r\nRev. Jesse Jackson and actor-activist Danny Glover \r\nhave spoken up and out strongly demanding that the\r\nPacifica Network broadcast uncensored DN broadasts.\r\n \r\n(note: Pacifica Radio is continuing to play reruns of \r\nwonderful old programs, but is NOT running currently-\r\nproduced DN materials. Fortunately, you can now here\r\nDN IN EXILE programs through outlets such as KPFA,\r\nWBIX and Webactive.\r\n \r\nWashington's withdrawal from the Durban gathering,\r\nwas followed by that of Israel and much of the media's \r\nattention. Cuba's Granma, however, detailed the views\r\nof many Black participants from the US. Behind the US\r\nwithdrawal from Durban is not the Middle East and the\r\nZionism resolution, but rather the discussion of slavery\r\nand reparations for its victims. \r\nhttp:\/\/www.granma.cu\/ingles\/septiem1\/36repara-i.html\r\n=========================================\r\n \r\nACTIVISTS IN LA TO SUPPORT CUBAN MUSICIANS\r\nActivists, Cuban-Americans and artists in Los Angeles\r\nannounced their support for Cuban musicians who will\r\nbe attending the Latin Grammys, in a broadly-attended\r\nnews conference. Rightist exiles announced plans to\r\nprotest the Cuban musicians' visits at their own news\r\nconference.\r\n \r\nBroad support shown for Cuban Grammy nominees\r\n(photo from Thursday's news conference)\r\nhttp:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.com\/h\/p\/ap\/20010906\/en\/999814833latin_grammys_la105.html\r\n \r\nCuban-American producer Jorge Rodriquez speaks\r\non behalf of Los Munequitos de Matanzas.\r\n(photo from Thursday's news conference)\r\nhttp:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.com\/h\/p\/ap\/20010906\/en\/999814798latin_grammys_la104.html\r\n\r\n========================================\r\n \r\nCUBAN ART, PHOTOGRAPHY AND POLITICS...\r\nTwo new exhibitions about Cuban photography are\r\nreviewed and contrasted in today's New York Times.\r\nLiving in Los Angeles, I haven't seen the New York\r\nprogram at the Center for Cuba Studies. However, \r\nI can the reviewer is trying to suggest that the more \r\nmodern Cuban artists have moved away from \"heroic\" \r\nphotographic style of Korda and Salas, etc. This is \r\nactually true, as the SHIFTING TIDES exhibition \r\ndemonstrates. But there is more to this than artistic\r\ncommentary in an abstract, \"art-for-art's sake\" way...\r\n \r\nThis reviewer suggests that the \"heroic\" photos by \r\nKorda and others did more than excercise artistic\r\nchoice, but rather that the images were manipulated.\r\n \r\nKeep these in mind when reading the review. This is\r\nsuggested further in a book referenced in the review,\r\nwhich appears to be the catalog of a show of Cuban\r\nart by contemporary artists on the island. The catalog\r\nsuggests the art is politically critical, tha wasn't clear\r\nto me when I saw the program...\r\nhttp:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2001\/09\/07\/arts\/design\/07COTT.html?searchpv=nytToday&amp;pagewanted=all\r\n \r\n========================================\r\nORTEGA RUNNING STRONGLY IN NICARAGUA\r\nPolls show the FSLN's leader running ahead due to the\r\nwidespread corruption in Nicaragua since the defeat of\r\nthe FSLN in 1990. Washington's hostility to Ortega is\r\nas active as ever as it says US aid and investment will\r\ndry up if the Ortega wins the November election.\r\nhttp:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A54598-2001Sep6.html\r\n=========================================\r\n \r\nVENEZUELA &amp; CUBA - ONE TEAM: CHAVEZ\r\nFrom Reuters: \"Venezuela and Cuba, united in \r\n``one team'' by their growing cooperation ties, \r\nshould spearhead an international campaign \r\nagainst free-market capitalism, Venezuelan \r\nPresident Hugo Chavez said.\r\n \r\n\"In a speech on Wednesday night opening a \r\nbilateral cooperation meeting in Caracas, \r\nChavez heaped praise on veteran Cuban \r\nPresident Fidel Castro and his communist-ruled \r\nisland and hailed a year-old economic accord \r\nbetween the two countries.\"\r\nhttp:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.com\/htx\/nm\/20010906\/wl\/venezuela_cuba_dc_1.html\r\n \r\nVENEZUELA FURTHER LOOSENS TIES WITH US\r\nReuters reported, \"Venezuelan Defense Minister Jose \r\nVicente Rangel said Wednesday a 50-year-old bilateral \r\nmilitary cooperation accord with the United States was \r\na relic of the Cold War and was no longer viable.\r\nBut cooperation between the two countries' armed \r\nforces, which included a number of U.S. military \r\nofficers attached to Venezuelan units, was \r\nnevertheless continuing, the minister told reporters \r\non a visit to the western state of Merida.\r\nhttp:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/rf\/010905\/n05277834.html\r\n========================================\r\n \r\nSANCHEZ' LEGAL OPTIONS EVALUATED\r\nRamon Saul Sanchez and his indicted \"Democracy\r\nMovement\" associates will have a hard time proving\r\nthey were selectively prosecuted. This was what \r\nmost legal scholars suggested in today's Miami Herald.\r\nSanchez says he thought the legal stipulation he signed,\r\nacknowledging the federal government's right to limit his\r\nmovements only applied to one boat, not the others in\r\nhis mini-flotilla. Sanchez insists he had the right to enter\r\nCuban waters as a matter of \"free speech.\"\r\nhttp:\/\/www.miami.com\/herald\/content\/news\/local\/dade\/digdocs\/075797.htm\r\nhttp:\/\/www.miami.com\/herald\/content\/news\/local\/dade\/digdocs\/101905.htm\r\n===========================================\r\n \r\nSINN FEIN'S ADAMS RISKS US TIES WITH CUBA TRIP\r\nRead the full story linked below, but these two sentences\r\nstood out, \"Analysts said the trip to Cuba would probably \r\nnot damage the standing of Adams or Sinn Fein in \r\nNorthern Ireland or the Irish republic. The party's support \r\nin Ireland comes mainly from young voters who do not \r\nshare fears held over from the Cold War about contacts \r\nwith communist Cuba and its aging leader Fidel Castro.\"\r\nhttp:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.com\/htx\/nm\/20010906\/wl\/irish_cuba_adams_dc_1.html\r\n \r\n==============================================\r\n++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\r\n \r\nThis summary prepared by Walter Lippmann. \r\nRead the essay TWO MONTHS IN CUBA and \r\nother reports and commentaries on Cuba: \r\nhttp:\/\/www.blythe.org\/  \r\n\r\nRECEIVE INFORMATION LIKE THIS AND MORE:\r\nCubaNews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com  \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n<\/p>\n","contact":"walterlx@earthlink.net","link":"","address":"","phone":"323-667-3471","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"A summary of news about Cuba and the issues in which Cuba is involved. 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