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October 13, 2017 By Fausta

Honoring murderous racist Che

2017: Fifty years after he left being in charge of Cuba’s firing squads and heading to Bolivia, where he was killed while still wearing his Rolex, communist Che Guevara was honored in India and Cuba this week.

Ireland issued a commemorative stamp.

The design for the stamp was approved by the Dublin government back in 2015.

They should have gone with this instead,

Four years ago, in 2013: The murderous racist was honored by UNESCO
.

Cuba held a ceremony on Friday to celebrate UNESCO’s despicable decision to include “The Life and Works of Ernesto Che Guevara” among 54 new additions to the Memory of the World Register, approved on June 18 by UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova.

Spanish news agency EFE has the most information on the ceremony, with quotes from Che’s family members who attended the event. Here is the official UNESCO page documenting the inclusion of 431 manuscripts by Che and 567 documents about Che or related to him

Would they find this quote?,

“The Negro is indolent and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized and intelligent… We’re going to do for blacks exactly what blacks did for the Cuban revolution. By which I mean: nothing!”

Returning to this week’s news,

Anyone at all still questioning today’s decision to leave UNESCO? https://t.co/g9MgVaLN5t

— Mike Gonzalez (@Gundisalvus) October 12, 2017

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June 13, 2016 By Fausta

Brazil regrets its UNESCO vote

Brazil Regrets Voting for UNESCO Measure Denying Jewish Ties to Jerusalem Holy Sites

The  text  of the resolution passed at the 199th session of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, or UNESCO, does not recognize a Jewish connection to the Western Wall and the Temple Mount and calls Israel an “occupying power.” It was approved with 33 votes in favor, including Brazil’s. There were 17 abstentions. France also reportedly has decided to change its vote.

“In practical terms, it (the resolution) was more a pretext for the Arab world to disseminate hatred against Israel,” read a  statement  from the Brazilian Israelite Confederation, the country’s umbrella Jewish organization.

In other news, Brazil Has Nearly 60,000 Murders, And It May Relax Gun Laws

“Brazil doesn’t have a gun problem. It has a problem of illegal guns in the hands of criminals, especially drug traffickers,” he [Congressman Edson Moreira] says

As mentioned earlier, Historically it is state failure which drives civilian armament and not the other way around

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July 23, 2013 By Fausta

UNESCO self-ridicules UPDATED

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is going to include “The Life and Works of Ernesto Che Guevara” in this year’s additions to the Memory of the World Register. They ought to dedicate the exhibit to Che Guevara’s forgotten victims.

UNESCO Once Again Makes a Mockery of its Own Ideals by Glorifying Mass Murderer Che Guevara, Says Ros-Lehtinen

UPDATE:
Maradona would fit right in at UNESCO:

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July 22, 2013 By Fausta

The Cuban sugar missiles Carnival of Latin America and the Caribbean

The week’s big story is the North Korean ship loaded with antique Cuban armaments that was stopped at the Panama Canal. Alberto de la Cruz has named it The Cuban Sugar Missile Crisis. There are a lot of unanswered questions for which we may never know the answers. If we do, it sure won’t be because of the legacy media, which, with the exception of the Miami Herald and the Wall Street Journal, have completely ignored the story.

Not that they’re alone: South Korean officials complained earlier this year that North Korea was smuggling cargo through the Panama Canal, but the complaint was dismissed.

ARGENTINA
US considers legal position on Argentina’s debt

Ingredion Hurt by Brazil, Argentina
Ingredion, a U.S.-based maker of starches and sweeteners, warned Monday that the recent slide in profits from Brazil and Argentina would likely continue through the rest of the year

BRAZIL
The Pope Takes His Message to Brazil’s Poor
In his first trip outside Italy as pontiff, Francis hopes to reconnect with region indispensable to the Catholic church

Brazil develops ‘superfoods’ to combat hidden hunger
Eight biofortified foods are being developed to combat nutrient deficiencies that can cause blindness and anaemia

World Cup ticket costs revealed
Ticket prices for international fans attending the football World Cup in Brazil will start at $90 (£59, 69 euros) for initial group matches.

GAY COUPLE FOUNDS EVANGELICAL CHURCH IN BRAZIL [You can watch it below the ad at the end of this post since it starts right away.]

Pope Francis sets off for Brazil
Head of Catholic Church to attend international youth festival in Rio on his first foreign trip as pontiff.

CARIBBEAN
Coast Guard intercepts large cocaine shipment in central Caribbean waters

COLOMBIA
6 Colombians Indicted in U.S. Drug Agent’s Death

Colombia’s Farc offers to release ‘US veteran’

U.S. Demands Rebels Release Citizen
The U.S. Embassy in Bogota demanded the immediate release of a U.S. citizen kidnapped in Colombia by the country’s main rebel group, one day after the guerrillas said they captured a former U.S. Navy veteran.

CHILE
Weakened Chile conservatives pick woman to take on Bachelet

CUBA
UNESCO’s Grotesque Embrace of Che Guevara

And when didn’t it? Cuba’s economy
Money starts to talk
And eventually, perhaps, in one currency, as the tempo of reform accelerates

For Cuba, a torch of freedom

JAMAICA
Jamaica tackles child abductions
The Jamaican government announces it will set up electronic billboards to help identify and rescue missing children.

MEXICO
Crime in Mexico
Zeta zeroed
A big arrest vindicates a low-key approach to security

By Hook, Crook, or Comic Book
Mexico continues to encourage its citizens to migrate to the U.S., even though it doesn’t need to
.

PANAMA
Ex-CIA Milan chief held in Panama over abduction of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar
A former CIA station chief convicted by an Italian court of kidnapping a terror suspect has been detained in Panama, Italian officials say.
And later, Convicted Ex-CIA Chief Returns to U.S.
A former Central Intelligence Agency station chief convicted in Italy of kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim cleric and detained in Panama this week was headed back to the U.S., a State Department spokeswoman said Friday.

A Caution Before Moving To Panama

PERU
Seattle perpetrator of $30 million Peru scam pleads guilty
Flashy former bank employee Jose Nino de Guzman pleaded guilty Friday to fraud and money-laundering charges over approximately $30 million he raised for ostensible real-estate developments in Peru.
Keep this in mind when you hear about the Nicaraguan Canal.

PUERTO RICO
Puerto Rico Police Agreement Helps Troubled Department In Long Run: Experts

Bill Clinton to push clean energy in Puerto Rico

VENEZUELA
Maduro’s not loving Samantha Power: Venezuela ‘ends’ bid for US ties
Venezuela says it has “ended” steps towards restoring diplomatic ties with the US, after comments by the putative next US envoy to the UN.

Passport gridlock

The week’s posts and podcast:
Panama Canal: Was the FARC the intended recipient of the Cuban weapons?

The Cuban missile roundup

Cuba: Brown Sugar weapon

Mexico: Zeta leader captured

Panama: North Korean ship with Cuban ‘military cargo’ held at the Canal

Argentina: Kiss your bucks good-bye

Podcast:
Mexico and other US Latin America stories.


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September 30, 2009 By Fausta

Tango is part of world’s ‘cultural heritage’ says UN

Tango is part of world’s ‘cultural heritage’ says UN
The tango dance steps of Argentina and Uruguay are part of the world’s “intangible cultural heritage”, the United Nations has declared.

UNESCO, the United Nations cultural organisation, is holding a meeting of 400 experts in the Gulf state of Abu Dhabi to agree on a list of world arts and traditions that should be safeguarded for humanity.

Developed in working class city dancehalls in the cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, tango is a deep-rooted tradition of dance, poetry and singing that is seen worldwide as the symbol of Latin romantic passion.

Argentina and Uruguay jointly submitted the “symbolic universe” of tango for addition to UNESCO’s list of cultural treasures. It was the first of 76 submissions examined and approved by the Abu Dhabi meeting.

The BBC and AP are also carrying the story.

The Press Association version is a great deal more exaggerated, though: Unesco saves Tango for humanity, as if Unesco had any kind of power to save anything by edict.

It’s the tangueros who are saving tango for humanity – and for themselves.

The Tango Notebook has a great post on tango and passion you must read.

Don’t miss tonight’s tango YouTube – and it has to do with Princeton, too.

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