None of the accounts we’ve read of Fidel Castro’s two-hour May Day speech in Havana’s Courtesy of the public relations office at the Cuban Mission to the United Nations in New <\/P> In this type of war the entire arsenal of a hegemonic superpower is superfluous. This <\/P> Castro also underscored the violations of human rights by U.S. military authorities who None of the accounts we’ve read of Fidel Castro’s two-hour May Day speech in Havana’s Revolution Square — variously reported in The Kansas City Star, which had the most interesting account, the Financial Times, and Channel News Asia — mentioned the Cuban president’s personal remarks about the war in Iraq. Courtesy of the public relations office […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-aH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRevolution Square — variously reported in
\naccount, the
\nTimes<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>, and
\npresident’s personal remarks about the war in Iraq.<\/P>
\n
\nYork, which transmitted the written text of the speech, here’s what Castro had to say about
\nthat:<\/P>
\n
\nThe Iraq war brings to many people memories of the Vietnam War. To me, it
\nbrings back memories of the Algerian war of liberation, when French military might shattered
\nagainst the resistance of a people with a very different culture, language and religion, in a country
\nwhich in places is just as desert-like as many regions of Iraq, a people that managed to defeat the
\nFrench troops and all their technology, which was fairly advanced for its time. The French had
\npreviously sustained defeat in Dien Bien Phu, where Bush’s predecessors were on the point of
\nusing nuclear weapons.
\n
\n
\nsuperpower can conquer a country with its enormous power but it is impossible to administer and
\ngovern that country if its population battles resolutely against the
\noccupiers.<\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n
\n
\nare holding prisoners indefinitely at the Guantanamo naval base on the eastern tip of
\nCuba. Such violations are a matter of real concern for Americans and others. But
\nCastro’s sentiments are rather suspect coming from someone with his record on
\nhuman rights.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"