On
the occasion of the 64th anniversary of 26 July 1953, the attack on the Moncada Barracks in
Santiago de Cuba, around 25 people braved the cold and gathered at the Cuban Sculpture in Latin American Plaza, Canberra.
Amigos de Cuba en Canberra
Monday 7 August 2017
Wednesday 19 July 2017
SOUTHERN CROSS BRIGADE TO CUBA 2017-18
The 35th annual Southern Cross Brigade to Cuba from 28 December 2017
to 17 January 2018 has been announced. This three week trip gives Australians
and New Zealanders the chance to understand Cuba’s unique, yet often
misunderstood, political history and to participate in Cuba’s rich cultural
heritage. As the Cuban Revolution celebrates its 58th Anniversary this coming
January, there is no better time to join the brigade and to find out what life
is like in socialist Cuba!
Details are contained in the
following website: https://cubabrigade.wordpress.com
Alternatively you can access Facebook by typing:
southern cross brigade / brigida
cruz del sur
MOTION CONDEMNING PRESIDENT TRUMP
The
Australia Cuba Friendship Society (ACFS) was first established in Australia
almost 40 years ago with the purpose of maintaining a conduit of communication
and friendship between the people of Australia and Cuba.
The membership
of the Canberra branch of the ACFS at its AGM held last 3rd July,
unanimously passed the following motion:
“The ACFS firmly condemns the potentially detrimental intervention of
President Donald Trump in the process of reconciliation between the people of
the USA and Cuba initiated by President Barack Obama. The people of the two
countries have voted with their feet and have welcomed enthusiastically
President Obama’s initiative.
From Canberra, Australia, we call
on President Trump to help the reconciliation process initiated by presidents
Barack Obama and Raul Castro and to stop damaging the growing relationship and friendship
of the people of those two countries”
Australia
Cuba Friendship Society (Canberra Branch)
Canberra
3rd July 2017
Wednesday 28 June 2017
Milestones
Fidel Castro passed away last November and
we have the 50th anniversary of Che Guevara’s death coming up on the
9th of October. However a very significant anniversary has gone
unheralded. The 6th of October 2016 was the 40th
anniversary of the downing of Cubana Flight 455 in the Caribbean. The flight
was on its way from Barbados to Jamaica. 73 persons lost their lives when two
bombs exploded on board. 57 Cubans were on board. Among the dead were all 24
members of the 1975 national Cuban fencing team that had just won all the gold
medals in the Central American and Caribbean championships; many were
teenagers.
The tragedy is on a list of 37 terrorist
attacks on planes on Wikipedia. It may well now be one of many but it is not forgotten
in Cuba. School children re-enact the crash for foreign visitors and once you
see that re-enactment you understand why it is seared into the national
consciousness. Cuba is convinced that the explosions were CIA sponsored.
The Wikipedia entry on the incident makes
interesting reading. CIA operatives are clearly implicated in the article. From
the Bay of Pigs to the many attempts on Fidel Castro’s life, Cubans are
familiar with the ways of the CIA. It’s hard to believe that a country that has
been under such consistent attack from the CIA will now change its ways and
fall into step with the capitalist world. Why would it? As Fidel said: They talk about the failure of socialism but where is
the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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