Not because it was brutal or clumsy or anticipated was there any less indignation about the Yankee judge from the South Florida District denying René González, the Cuban anti-terrorist hero, the right to return to the heart of his family in Cuba after having served the unfair sentence imposed on him.… After a cruel and undeserved 13-year prison sentence, the United States government—that gave birth to monsters such as Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch who, as CIA agents had a hand in the exploding of a Cuban airliner full of passengers in mid-flight—forces René to remain in that nation, where he shall be at the mercy of unpunished murderers for three long years, under a regime described as supervised “freedom”. Still unfairly and vengefully imprisoned for long terms of confinement, are another three Cuban heroes, and another one sentenced to two life terms. That is how the empire responds to the growing world clamor for the freedom of these men.… | more |
New at Monthly Review
- Monthly Review Volume 64, Number 1 (May 2012) The Editors
- The Endless Crisis John Bellamy Foster
- The poor are no longer with us; These bills are long unpaid Marge Piercy
- Marx’s Ecology and the Understanding of Land Cover Change Ricardo Dobrovolski
- Petroleum and Propaganda John W. Farley
- Who Killed Che? James D. Cockcroft
- A Red Robin? Albert Ruben
- Monthly Review Volume 63, Number 11 (April 2012) The Editors
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- Costas Panayotakis, "Democracy Imperiled: The Greek Political Crisis" May 17, 2012
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- Thomas Sablowski, "Impoverishing Europe" May 16, 2012
- Victor Grossman, "Some Good News, and Lots of Bad News, from Germany" May 15, 2012
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- The Royal Society’s tunnel vision on population and poverty May 23, 2012
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