Amilcar Cabral Address delivered to the first Tricontinental Conference of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America held in Havana in January, 1966. If any of us came to Cuba with doubts in our mind about the solidity, strength, maturity and vitality of the Cuban Revolution, these doubts have been removed by what we…
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Lenin: The Leader, the Reality, the People
Luis Toledo Sande Work by Mario Sandoval, courtesy of José Martí National Library. Photo: Granma On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of V.I. Lenin’s birth, Granma features an essay about the Russian revolutionary’s ideas in Cuba The arrival of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s ideas to Cuba has a history, inseparable from socialist ideals and the…
The “Other” Farewell Letter from Ernesto Che Guevara to Fidel Castro is Published
Javier Larraín Just a few days ago, in the city of Havana, the Ernesto Che Guevara Study Center and the publisher Ocean Sur presented Epistolario de un tiempo. Letters 1947-1967, a voluminous copy that groups and classifies dozens of letters written by Ernesto Che Guevara throughout his life; most of them known, but distributed in…
Che Guevara: A Singular Letter
María del Carmen Ariet García This article is taken from volume 8 of the journal Paradigma, Anuario Institucional del Centro de Estudios Che Guevara, dedicated to the Socialist Transition in Cuba, which will be presented soon. The letter to which reference is made appears in the book “Epistolario de un tiempo. Letters 1947-1967”. “I write…
Che and Cuban Solidarity in Africa
Tortilla Con Sal CollectiveThe most original and radical thing about the Cuban revolution has been its unconditional human and revolutionary solidarity. In the field of international relations, it was the international recognition of that commitment that frustrated the attempts of the United States and its allies to isolate Cuba from the rest of the world….
Guevara in the Reflections of Anastás Mikoyán
Ernesto Che Guevera with Anastás Mikoyán, first vice-president of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. Excerpt from the book “Anatomy of the Caribbean Crisis” by Sergo Mikoyán, Chapter XIV, “Che Guevara”. Fragments of an interview with journalist I.R. Grigulievich granted by Anastás Mikoyán, a few months before his death. You were able to meet…
Operation Carlota
Gabriel Garcia Marquez The United States first made known the presence of Cuban troops in Angola in an official statement of November 24, 1975. Three months later, during a short visit to Venezuela, Henry Kissinger remarked in private to President Carlos Andres Perez: “Our intelligence services have grown so bad that we only found out…
Fidel: End of Colonialism Would Not Have Been Possible Without the October Revolution
“Without the October Revolution … it would not have been at all possible to end colonialism and liberate dozens of peoples on all continents,” Fidel said. A century ago, world history changed forever. The Great October Socialist Revolution was one of the most important events in contemporary history of mankind. This historic event, as well…
Capitalism vs Socialism and the Absurd Logic of Political Centrism
Enrique Ubieta, editor of the journals Cuba Socialista and La Calle del medio, talked with Cubadebate about political centrism, neo-annexation, and the permanent clash between socialism and capitalism, as conflicting systems – all important issues in the ideological struggle underway around the world today. José Raúl Concepción | nacionales@granma.cu When the world had two political…
Che Guevara: El único hombre práctico
Cuba Debate 22 junio 2017 Ponencia presentada por el intelectual cubano, recientemente fallecido, Fernando Martínez Heredia en el seminario El Socialismo y el hombre en Cuba: emancipación y justicia, celebrado el 12 de marzo de 2015 y convocado por el Centro de Estudios Che Guevara con motivo del 50 aniversario de este ensayo. En las…
The Third Way or Political Centrism in Cuba: A Historical Approach
The idea of “political centrism” in today’s Cuba has been brewing for a long time, as part of U.S. strategy to overthrow the Revolution. Elier Ramírez Cañedo | internet@granma.cu For some time, the idea of “political centrism” in today’s Cuba has been brewing, essentially within digital media, as part of one of the United States’…
Aleida Guevara March: “‘I Grew Up with Extraordinary People’”
Aleida Guevara March and Ron Augustin Aleida Guevara March is the daughter of Che Guevara and Aleida March. She is a pediatrician at William Soler Children’s Hospital in Havana, and teaches at the Escuela Latina-Americana de Medicina and at a primary school for children with disabilities. As a member of the Cuban Communist Party, she often…
