Cubadebate opens its new Web page in English

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With versions of Fidel Castro's Reflections, El Paso Diary of José Pertierra, exclusive materials from Cuba's Reasons series and news articles about various national and international themes, Cubadebate opens today its Web page in English that you can find here.

Of course, it will be always updated with information about the Cuban Five that are in jail in the United States, and the world wide solidarity for the freedom of these fighters against terrorism, that already have more than 12 years in prison after a judgment marred of irregularities and injustices in Miami.

This is the first of a series of blogs in many languages, at least 8, which we will publish in the next days, as beginning of the redesign of our Web site, public on the Internet since august 5th, 2009.

Although it is not a mimetic mirror of the Web site in Spanish, the English version of Cubadebate reproduces some of our most popular sections and the services for the Web 2.0, with its own channels on Facebook and Twitter, also it will keep opened its pages for the visitor's opinions.

• Fidel's Reflections
• El Paso Diary
• Cuba's Reasons 
• The Cuban Five

Also 

• Twitter
• Facebook

Documentary Denounces U.S.’s Cyberwar against the Caribbean Nation

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"Cuba is the target of permanent media warfare"

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The U.S. Government’s plans to subvert the Cuban Revolution were again denounced on Monday in the documentary ‘Cyberwar’, aired by Cuban television as part of a series of programs called ‘Cuba’s Reasons’, which reveal Washington’s ongoing efforts to destabilize the Cuban society, now resorting to the new communication technologies.
 
“The US Government earmarks huge sums of money every year to cyber warfare,” said American-Venezuelan lawyer Eva Golinger.
 
She added that, for 2010 alone, Washington approved a budget of more than 90 billion dollars to finance the United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM).

Carlos del Porto, Engineering Director of the National Office for Informatization of the Cuban Ministry of Informatics and Communication, commented that diverse studies show that the US Government has almost 90,000 people working in cyber-warfare-related activities.

The editor of CubaDebate Rosa Miriam Elizalde, noted that most of these ‘digital wage-earners’ are hired as cyber-dissidents, who are not only used by the United States against Cuba but also against many other countries around the world.

“Cuba is the target of a permanent media warfare promoted by a group of people who —in the island and abroad— are paid to lie and defame,” said Enrique Ubieta, director of the newspaper ‘La Calle del Medio’.
 
Young Cuban blogger Elaine Diaz Rodriguez, a professor at the School of Communication of the University of Havana, pointed out that there are currently hundreds of personal blogs in Cuba, which are updated from any corner of the country.

These blogs show “a plural, diverse and multiple Cuba, of which each author presents his life experiences,” she concluded.

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Solidarity with Cuban Website Cubadebate

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Several media outlets have echoed the condemnation of Youtube decision to close the Cuban website Cubadebate account.

Immediately following the move by Youttube, which is owned by Google, several alternative sites offered spaces to host Cubadebate, impeding the attempt to silence the Cuban site, Cubadebate’s editor in chief Rosa Miriam Elizalde told Prensa Latina.

The first ones to come out were www.cubadebate.cu and Cubadebate 1, which are already posting reports by Cubadebate and distributing them through Youtube.

In Facebook, a group under the name “NO+CENSURA EN YOUTUBE (No more censorship in Youtube)” expressed its support of the Cuban website, along with the Bariloche Solidarity with Cuba Group in Argentina.

Elizalde said that the closing of the account is questionable since their justification is based on a video posted by Cubadebate that has been posted in numerous other websites inside and outside the network including CNN.

Luis Posada Carriles

who is currently on trial in El Paso

The famous video about the Legal Fund set up to support renowned terrorist Luis Posada Carriles —who is currently on trial in El Paso, Texas— includes a list of the fund’s main contributors. Among them are Republican Representative Ileana Ros Lehtinen; Senator Marcos Rubio, who supports the use of violent actions against Cuba; and other political figures from the state of Florida.

Youtube’s action against Cubadebate for publishing a six-minute extract of the video and not several US outlets that have stolen exclusive materials from that site without crediting the source suggests that the move is politically motivated, said Elizalde.

Rosa Miriam Elizalde explained that in order to make a complaint Youtube requires personal information that could run the risk of being handed over to the terrorist group headed by Posada Carriles.

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Posada Carriles’ Trial to Include Evidences of Terrorism against Cuba

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The evidence collected by Cuban authorities and the FBI on Luis Posada Carriles’s role in the bomb attacks carried out in Havana will be included in the next trial of this terrorist, reports ACN.

According to Cubadebate, it will be the first time that a recorded interview with Posada and a journalist from The New York Times, in which he admits that he planned the attacks of 1997 to hotels in Havana, will be presented before a jury.

Cubadebate adds that at the trial, which is scheduled for January 10, 2011, in El Paso, Texas, the intention is not to demonstrate he is a terrorist but a liar, who committed fraud to the US migratory authorities when he entered the country.

According to some information published in the New Herald, this terrorist arrived in the United States five years ago, and during this time he has been tried for minor crimes so as to delay his extradition to Venezuela.

Fighting terrorism and war

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Since 2005 Venezuela demanded his extradition for the blowing-up of a civil Cuban airplane in which 73 people died.

On the Texas trial, Posada is accused of lying in a routine interview with the US migratory authorities who questioned him about his role on the attacks in Havana that killed Italian tourist Fabio di Celmo.

Judge Kathleen Cardone affirmed that she decided to allow the presentation of the five-hour recordings by journalist Ann Louise Bardach because she was trustworthy taking into account she testified on a closed-door hearing on November 15, on her interview with the accused and on the management of the tapes with The New York Times.

As said by The New Herald, attorneys from the Justice Department are planning to present in the trial more than 3 500 pages of official documents from Cuba and Guatemala related to the attacks.

The prosecution said that these documents detail the attacks in Havana, those who planned them and the explosive devices used. The documents focus on the arrests, the suspects, the witnesses and the fake Guatemalan passport which was allegedly used by Posada.

The attorneys from the Justice Department will also use evidence from the FBI, which were revised by a federal instruction jury in New Jersey.

FBI agents collected documents showing money transferences of nearly 19 000 US dollars from New Jersey to Posada in El Salvador and Guatemala between October 1996 and January 1998. The FBI assumes that the money was used to finance the attacks.

However, the judged blocked hundreds of documents on the links between Posada and the CIA for more than 25 years, as requested by the prosecution. 

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Summary of major acts of terrorism against Cuba

1959 - 1997 - 1990 - 2000

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