Unión Europea y Cuba restablecen la cooperación
http://www.ain.cu/2008/octubre/23ascooperacion.htm,

EU and Cuba pen cooperation accord, restoring ties
- HAVANA (AFP) — Cuba and the European Union formally restored ties Thursday, signing a cooperation agreement that put an end to five years of chilly relations, officials said.The agreement was signed in Havana by Cuban Foreign Minster Felipe Perez Roque and EU Development Commissioner Louis Michel.The agreement also approves an emergency humanitarian aid package of two million euros (2.5 million dollars), available immediately for reconstruction efforts for damage caused by hurricanes Gustav and Ike in September.A further 25 million to 30 million euros (32 million to 38.5 million dollars) will be made available starting in 2009, officials said.The agreement followed an EU decision in June to lift sanctions imposed against Havana in 2003 for the imprisonment of more than 70 dissidents, and for the execution of three men convicted of hijacking a passenger ferry and demanding it be taken to the United States."I think the elements that unite Cuba and the European Union are more numerous than those that divide us," said Michel, adding that the partnership "will have positive results for both parties."Michel also announced the possibility of joint Cuba-EU cooperation on a variety of issues, including environmental protection, health, education and agriculture.Roque said the agreement "opens a new phase (between the parties) that moves beyond past conflicts."The decision, Roque said, is "consistent with the interests of the people of the European Union and Cuba."The EU decision to restore ties represents a setback for the United States, which failed to convince eastern European allies in the 27-nation bloc to try to block the move.EU officials have said they will review the human rights situation in Cuba every year.Normalization of European ties with Havana was championed by Spain, which restored its relations with Cuba in 2007.Cuban dissidents have also criticized the European Union's move, arguing that human rights in Cuba have not improved.

Declaración sobre la reanudación de la cooperación entre la Comisión Europea y la República de Cuba
Texto íntegro del documento rubricado por la Comisión Europea y Cuba
http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2008-10-24/declaracion-sobre-la-reanudacion-de-la-cooperacion-entre-la-comision-europea-y-la-republica-de-cuba/,

Comisario europeo satisfecho por diálogo con Cuba
http://www.ain.cu/2008/octubre/23edcomisario.htm,

Cuba, EU re-establish cooperative ties
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/24/content_10243033.htm,

Reúnese Cabrisas con comisario europeo Louis Michel
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/10/24/nacional/artic08.html,

EU ends stand-off with Cuba, sends millions in aid
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/523348,

Europa reanuda tras cinco años de vacío la cooperación con Cuba
La UE envía dos millones para ayudar a las víctimas de los huracanes http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Europa/reanuda/anos/vacio/cooperacion/Cuba/elpepuint/20081024elpepiint_8/Tes,

CUBA-UE: La cooperación, un paso más de acercamiento
http://cubaalamano.net/sitio/client/report.php?id=906,

EU Commissioner Signals Turning Point in EU-Cuban Relations
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3735933,00.html,

Cuba Denounces US’s Radio and TV Aggression
http://www.cubanews.ain.cu/2008/1023cubadenuncia.htm,

Procura ONU 30 millones de dólares para ayudar a Cuba
http://www.prensalatina.com.mx/Article.asp?ID=%7B76003AAA-A939-4FDD-95B0-BA7BA82F7228%7D&language=ES,

US blockades Cuba today
Richard Scott
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2008/oct/24/jfk-cuba-blockade,

How Cuba's Oil Find Could Change the US Embargo
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1853252,00.html,

Entrevista a Felipe Pérez Roque, ministro de Exteriores de Cuba
"El FMI imponía programas de ajuste a los países en desarrollo por las políticas que llamaba irresponsables y ahora no dice nada por la irresponsabilidad de Estados Unidos"
http://www3.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=74821,

Cuba and Other Countries Condemn US Rhetoric at WTO
(acn) US rhetoric with regard to violations of agreements adopted by the World Trade Organization (WTO) was condemned by Cuba, another eight nations and the bloc of 27 making up the European Union (EU). In this regard, the Prensa Latina news agency reports that there was a repetition of the same issue of Section 211 of the 1998 Law of Budgetary Allocations, which has facilitated the misappropriation of the famous Cuban Havana Club rum brand by the Bacardi Company in the US market. Before the WTO’s Organ for the Settlement of Differences (OSD), the counselor of Cuba’s Mission to the international organizations in Geneva, Jorge Ferrer, denounced that the document presented by Washington was a mockery. Ferrer expressed that the document had no sense and stressed that month after month, for more than six years, the representatives of the White House had repeated exactly the same words, without the least of intentions of approaching the truth. He claimed that Section 211 is still in force and that the legislative projects aimed at abolishing it have not prospered. The Cuban official recalled that intellectual property rights are private, the main beneficiaries of which are companies from the United States and other developed countries, for being the owners of the overwhelming majority of brands and patents. The assertion of the US media -amid the financial crisis- that the protection of intellectual property rights is key, was characterized as pure rhetoric by the Cuban diplomat . European Community delegations -representing the 27 members of the EU- and representatives from India, Brazil, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Venezuela, also criticized Washington’s practices.

Poverty and inequality in Cuba today: The policy challenge
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/93790,

entrevista
Salim Lamrani: «El futuro de la isla de Cuba pasa por el fortalecimiento de un socialismo más justo»
Manoel Santos
http://www.cubadebate.cu/index.php?tpl=design/especiales.tpl.html&newsid_obj_id=12894, http://www3.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=74810,

Respuesta a un colega que estuvo cinco años en Cuba y no vivió en ella
Soluciones desde la inopia
Carlos Tena http://www3.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=74852,

Cuba se plantea legalizar las uniones homosexuales
http://www.kaosenlared.net/noticia/cuba-plantea-legalizar-uniones-homosexuales,

Aniversario 50 del triunfo de la Revolución
Realizará juventud cubana jornada de esfuerzo decisivo
http://www.juventudrebelde.cu/cuba/2008-10-24/realizara-juventud-cubana-jornada-de-esfuerzo-decisivo/,

Tres ilusiones antropológicas fatales del Socialismo del Siglo XX
Heinz Dieterich
http://www3.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=74822,

Tocando fondo : las falsedades de “The Guardian”
La guerra psicológica contra el gobierno sandinista continúa con apoyo internacional de los medios
http://www.tortillaconsal.com/es_carroll_response.html,

El Parlamento Europeo condena las inhabilitaciones del gobierno de Chávez
Caracas ha afirmado que la resolución de la UE es una "inaceptable injerencia" http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internacional/Parlamento/Europeo/condena/inhabilitaciones/gobierno/Chavez/elpepuintlat/20081023elpepuint_14/Tes,

EE.UU. retira a Bolivia beneficios comerciales
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/2008/10/24/interna/artic09.html,

Nobel de economía: cumbre de la crisis debería ser en la ONU
http://www.ain.cu/2008/octubre/octubre23iggnobel.htm,