Odds and ends
- Man of Two Havanas, the film about Max Lesnik by his daughter Vivian Lesnik Weisman, will screen in Miami this week. Herald story here, my note on the film here.
- Cuban Vice President Machado Ventura is in New York, heading the Cuban delegation to the UN General Assembly. Cuban preview here (ACN), Herald coverage of a Harlem rally here.
- The Cupet-PDVSA joint venture considers reactivating the pipeline from the Cienfuegos refinery to the Matanzas supertanker terminal, Oil & Gas Journal reports.
- This column by Deroy Murdock is about the U.S. economy, a little off topic, but it makes you think that when it comes to building socialism, maybe we have more in common with Cuba than we thought. And while I’m at it, there’s this comment from Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, in an AFP roundup of Latin American opinion of the U.S. financial crisis; Lula said he sees “with sadness that important banks that came by giving opinions, saying what we should or should not do, measuring country risk, recommending to investors whether Brazil was trustworthy or not, are calling their creditors…[what these banks determined] was not the free movement of capital, generating jobs and wealth, but rather speculation…they turned some sectors of the financial system into a casino and they lost at the roulette wheel…”
Chavez called Bush "comrade Bush" the other day because of his socialist moves...
ReplyDeleteMore from Lula - who is the right messenger at the right time:
"The euphoria of speculators has spawned the anguish of entire peoples, in the wake of successive financial disasters that threaten the world's economy...
Many of the ones who preach the free capital flows obstruct the free people flows. With nationalist and many times fascist arguments...
Today's structure has been frozen for six decades and does not relate to the challenges of today's world. Its distorted form of representation stands between us and the multilateral world to which we aspire."