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This article reports on Fidel Castro and the many times that he has been thought dead. The United States has been trying to work the Cuban people into a frenzy about their government, especially during Castro's surgery in the summer of 2006. But on the Cuban front, things have largely remained quiet, and unchanged.

Focuses on the Cuban Revolution of the 1970s. Background on the nation's attempt to construct socialism in the 1960s; Economic development realized by the country during the revolution; Profile on Cuban President Fidel Castro; Castro's popularity; Reforms instituted; People's response to Castro's call for economic development.

Presents several editorials which discuss different subjects. "Anti-Disinformation Business," which discussed focuses on the socio-political situation in Cuba; "Spiro T. Lance," which discussed a speech given by Bert Lance; "Who Let Them Down?" which discussed reflections by former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on the war in Indochina.

On the eve of the eighth anniversary of the 26 July Movement, in 1952, on which Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro attacked Batista's Moncado, Barracks, the heroic struggle of the Cuban people for independence has reached its worst crisis. Oil and sugar are the gremlins in a revolution that otherwise has operated with surprising smoothness. Oil, Cuba's only fuel, sugar, its major crop and major foreign-exchange earner. Through these two products, the U.S. is delivering its greatest blows so far in the diplomatic, economic and propaganda offensive which it launched against the Castro regime soon after Batista fell.

The article focuses on the Cuban politics and post-war conditions. President Gerardo Machado has fled. But not before his ruthlessness exacted a further toll in the massacre of twenty-one persons prematurely cheering reports of his resignation. Moreover, the chief criminal goes scot-free to enjoy the spoils of his dictatorship, while in two thousand Cuban homes there is mourning for the death at his hands of a husband, father, son, or brother. And beyond these individual tragedies, the damage which his eight years' tyranny wrought on the political, economic, social, and spiritual fabric of Cuba is incalculable. Machado's removal was the prerequisite to any new deal for Cuba and the working out of a new and better relationship between the two neighbor nations.

Pre-revolutionary Cuba's favorite slogan was "sin azucar no hay pais" --a free translation is "sugar equals survival." This bare equation was held as an article of faith by Cuba's ex-rulers and time and again thwarted plans for agricultural diversification. When Fidel Castro assumed power in 1959, the slogan came under sharp attack: Sugar went hand in hand with economic stagnation; sugar meant monoculture and economic dependence on the U.S. sugar was condemned for guilt by association with the island's old governing classes. These themes have figured in the political speeches of Cuba's new leaders, in key revolutionary legislation, and in countless newspaper and magazine articles appearing during the past four years, and have helped to create what can only be described as an anti-sugar mentality on the part of planners and alike.

The article presents information about the present day Cuba. The author attended the National Congress of the Union of Secondary School Students (UES). Because the regime's emphasis on education is so intense, a description of the UES meetings is probably the best introduction to the mood and the direction of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro's revolution midway through its fourth year. With idealism, pride, patriotism, propaganda, self-interest, and Castro's compelling personality all pulling in one direction, there is small wonder that these young people were fanatically fide-lista.

This article focuses on the political conditions of Cuba. The Cubans believe they have already won much. The failure of the April invasion, they allege, revealed the `bankruptcy of a policy, of brute force and has shaken confidence that gold can rule all. This, they say, has forced the U.S. to seek a "pseudo collective," aggression against the island by attempting to convert the Organization of American States (OAS) into a dutiful instrument of the U.S. policy. The effort to destroy the Cuban revolution, Cubans believe, represented an attempt by the U.S. to maintain its military, political and financial hegemony over the entire New World.

This article focuses on socio-political conditions of the world. The chief defect in the Cuban Constitution, according to its critic, is that it permits an excessive centralization of power in the hands of the President and Congress. Little more than a year has passed since extravagant fears regarding the possible decline of her coal supremacy were expressed in England. In the U.S. correspondingly high anticipations of the future were being entertained. Several things have combined within the past few months to bring forward the servant problem in the U.S. with renewed force.

This article presents information on recent political developments around the world. The Cubans are reported to be delighted at the evidence of the United States rashness in connection with the Cuban Post-office under U.S. management. They can scarcely be blamed, so much have the Americans lectured and patronized them on the subject of honest administration. In 1896, the United States Democratic party nominated for President a man who was essentially a Populist and adopted a platform which was largely a restatement of Populist views as these had been expressed by the People's party in 1892.

The article presents information on the conditions prevailing in Cuba. The modest private sector that had flourished since the 1970s had become intolerable. Some Cubans were pursuing their individual enrichment and the private economy was draining the state sector of increasingly scarce resources. Meanwhile, Cuba's open economy remained as vulnerable as ever. Its annual export earnings had in the recent past provided sufficient hard currency for imports of between $1.2 billion and $1.5 billion, but in 1986 those had been reduced to some $600 million.

The article presents information on the future of Cuba without their powerful leaders. Fiedel Castro is aging and has begun to talk about plans for succession. In Miami, Jorge Mas Canosa, founder and head of the Cuban American National Foundation since 1981-the exile courted by presidential hopefuls and world leaders-is ill with Paget's disease. In contrast Cuban Miami's political future holds more promise for democratic changes. With or without Mas Canosa, the Cuban American National Foundation, the single-issue, single-perspective organization, will lose its monolithic grip on the exile community's political culture.

However well-intentioned U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Administration's Cuban policy may be, the rapid succession of events there has made plain that the State Department was inadequately prepared. It should have known, that the political, social, and economic consequences of that seven-year tyranny were not eradicated with the dictator and that their legacy would complicate Cuban affairs for years to come and that the satisfactory settlement of the Cuban problem is not a minor diplomatic task. The greatest contribution that the U.S. can make to Cuban reconstruction is to cease the obstructive interference of non-recognition and that implicit in fleet mobilization, and to appreciate that the best government in the long run for the Cubans is one which they develop for themselves.

The article provides information about various social and political issues and developments taking place around the world. The latest "news" about Cuba appearing in the New York papers is that the U.S. Administration has undergone a great change of mind about the rebellion since the President's message was written, and is now half inclined to acknowledge the belligerency of the insurgents. What has worked this conversion does not appear. Moreover, the same chronicler says that U.S. statesman Charles Sumner is disposed to support the recognition if it can be shown to him that the rebels have emancipated the slaves.

The article presents information on the recent socio-political developments in the world. The U.S. Administration took two steps, week in the carrying out of the nation's pledge to turn over the government of Cuba to its inhabitants. A significant action was the order for the further reduction of the garrison of the island by the withdrawal of the Tenth Infantry in February 1901. The Baptists of Philadelphia condemned the methods by which the friars acquired their Philippine possessions, and protested against the continuance of the relations heretofore existing between the religious orders and the U.S. Government.

The article discusses the influence of the late former Cuban prime minister and president Fidel Castro, and the implications of the election of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on the process of engagement between the two nations. Topics discussed include campaign promise of Trump to reverse the executive orders of President Barack Obama unless demands are met by Cuba like changes in their government, Cuban revolution, and giant-slayer status achieved by Castro.

The article provides information on the book "Los Gusanos," by John Sayles. Sayles's early work established him as a troubadour of the grotesque. In Los Gusanos, Sayles pulls the same sled forward and offers a salacious, insightful and emotionally provocative novel of the Cuban exile community in Miami, the ones Fidel Castro, the Cuban President, called "worms" upon their exodus, and of their lost homeland. The book's dramatis personae rivals some of the more plentiful novels of memory. To call this work a family saga belies its intricate structure and serious purpose; to call it a novel of espionage and intrigue and terrorism betrays its depth of characterization and occasional prose excellence; to call it a novel of obsession is only to begin to see it whole.

Reports on the author's letter to Cuban President Fidel Castro. Opposition to the Cuban government's policies in the Middle East; Reasons for establishing relationship with the Palestinian Labor Organization.

The article presents critical analyses of two books on political conditions in Cuba. These books are "Castro's Final Hour: The Secret Story Behind the Coming Downfall of Communist Cuba," by Andres Oppenheimer, and "Trading With the Enemy: A Yankee Through Castro's Cuba," by Tom Miller. Castro's Final Hour opens in 1989, just before the Cuban economy felt the full impact of the Soviet collapse. Using the language of a thriller, Oppenheimer re-creates the execution of Arnaldo Ochoa, Cuba's most famous combat general, who had directed Cuba's military campaigns in Africa and Nicaragua.

Presents several letters to the editor. Discussion on the political situation of Cuba; Information on the Joint Committee to aid the Herndon Defense; Availability of evidences of Anti-Semitism in Berlin, Germany.

Cuba is at this moment in a state of veritable chaos, maintained and intensified by a regime of terror. All the noble aspirations and longings for progress of the Cuban people are being checkmated by the violent imposition of a usurping government, treacherous to national sovereignty, sold out to private interest, whose disorderly administration has renewed the old practices of graft and fraud which were fought and stamped out by the revolution directing Cuba's destinies from September 10, 1933, to January 15, 1934.

The housecleaning began when the guns of Cabanas boomed out the presidential salute to Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, provisional President of the Republic of Cuba. The robust crowd sacked the lower floor of the presidential palace, tore up shrubs and trees, paraded the streets, yelling, crying, with the abandon of release after eight dreary years. Crowds sacked the houses of Machado's henchmen, throwing furniture, bedding, dishes, books, pianos, everything into the streets. The president has appointed his Cabinet. It represents all sectors of the opposition and is made up of men of honesty and a high average of ability. The chief criticism is that they are for the most part untried men, that they are without political experience.

The article discusses Cuban affairs. There will be a "plebiscite" on March 5, 1928, a "constitutional convention" will indorse the proposal to extend for several years the terms of the Cuban President, senators, representatives, mayors, and boards of education; and will authorize further extensions by the same procedure. U.S. President Calvin Coolidge's phrase that Cuba's "people are independent, free, prosperous, peaceful, and enjoying the advantages of self-government" was almost 100 per cent false.

In October 1961 fifteen Indiana University students organized the "Ad Hoc Committee To Oppose U.S. Aggression." They called for a demonstration contra U.S. Cuban policy. But they also stressed that students who consider participation in any public demonstration understand with whom they are aligning themselves. And the most effective way to deal with minorities with whom we disagree in the present kind of situation is to ignore them completely. The dean then went further, imputing ulterior motives they are endeavoring to attract attention to themselves.

This article presents information related to socio-political issues in Cuba. Ricardo Alarcón, the president of Cuba's National Assembly is one of the likeliest replacements for the Maximum Leader. His support of capitalist "reforms," including an open door to foreign multinationals, free use of the American dollar, and further developing tourism in Cuba. His opposition, despite his desire for change, of free press and elections.

The victory of politician Christian Herter at the inter-American assemblage in Costa Rica may prove to be one of the costliest ever won by the United States. A clear-cut indictment of the Castro Government of Cuba, crowed Herter, Foreign Minister Manuel Tello of Mexico, who made a brilliant defense of the right of the Cuban revolution to make its own mistakes and seek its own destiny, retorted that this was not the case. So did Venezuelan delegate, Ignacio Luis Arcaya, who previously had told the assemblage that his country rejected all coercive efforts under the pretext of combating communism.

U.S. President having signed the Cuban resolution passed by the U.S. Congress, and the Spanish government having refused to comply with the demands therein made, the two nations are now at war with each other. Some sanguine spirits in Washington think that all will be over in thirty days. To send troops to Cuba, even hardened regulars, to the island now will, simply be to subject them to frightful losses, such as must inevitably follow their exposure to the yellow fever and the other evils of the Cuban climate.