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Why Not Learn To Fight Guerrillas From Vietnam Instead Of Cuba Or The United States? - Guerrilla warfare is not just a tactic or a strategy but a matter of mentality, and only those who are good as guerrilla fighters are capable of understanding it and mount effective counter insurgency operations.

In The Realm Of Survival, Guns, Money And Plans... - There are times when surviving may mean to hide some things even from official scrutiny.

Lula, the UN and a Trip to Cuba (I) - After secret debates in the inner circles of the Brazilian government, the decision seems to have been reached: on September 26 President Lula, after participating in a meeting of the UN, will make another trip to the island prison, this time as President of Brazil.

President Lula and the "untouchability" of communist Cuba - To judge by the words and actions of President Lula and high-ranking officials from his government, communist Cuba is benefiting with a mysterious mantle of protection and also one of "untouchability," even though the violent repression, in Stalinist style, has but grown in Cuba with the detentions of human rights activists and journalists, and the summary killing by firing squad of three people whose only sin was to try to escape from the prison-island.

The United States: Political "Guerrilla Warfare" in Latin America (I) - In Latin America the American government continues to face - perhaps without perceiving it, or, what is more probable, without wanting to recognize it publicly - what is literally a form of political "guerrilla warfare," analogous to what it faces militarily in Iraq.

Latin America: "Post-Communism" and Lessons from the European East (I) - In the Czech Republic, the "post-communists," after a long decade of systematic work in the trenches, have managed to recover power, as in the epoch of the Soviet empire.

A brief reflection on goodness - Something to think about goodness and its real face.

A brief reflection on scapegoats - Something to think about the fabrication of scapegoats.

A brief reflection on market forces - Why market forces will never shape a really free world.

Regions, Continents and Countries / Cuba / Discourses of Fidel Castro - Official versions of discourses Commander Fidel Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Comitee fo the Communist Party of Cuba, and President of the Minister Council.

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