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March 4, 2020
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Asela de los Santos Tamayo, Radio Guáimaro

 

* SIX LEGACIES
* BOLIVIA
* ISRAEL
* URUGUAY
* DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
* SOUTH AFRICA
* PALESTINE
* SWEDEN
* MALAYSIA

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Six Legacies

(xxxxxx note: Next week we will include an appreciation of Puerto
Rican independentista Rafael Cancel Miranda, who died on March 2.)

ASELA DE LOS SANTOS TAMAYO, A PROMINENT CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY AND
PEDAGOGUE, DIED ON JANUARY 23, AT THE AGE OF 90.

Redacción Canal Caribe (Cuba) [Translation by xxxxxx. Read the
original _HERE
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Compañera Asela de los Santos was born on September 10, 1929 in the
city of Santiago de Cuba. From a very young age she joined student
struggles at the University of the East, where she graduated as a
Doctor of Pedagogy. There she met compañera Vilma Espín, with whom
she maintained a close friendship.

At the time of the coup d'état of 10 March 1952, she was arrested
with other women comrades when they were caught distributing
revolutionary proclamations.

She collaborated in the search for ways to help the survivors of the
attack on the Moncada Barracks. Together with Frank País and under
his orders she was part of the initial core of the 26th of July
Movement. She took part in the November 30, 1956 uprising in Santiago
de Cuba.

During the insurrectional period she carried out various missions,
including the transfer of comrades who were part of the first
reinforcement to the Sierra Maestra and, together with other
clandestine combatants, moved arms for the struggle, from the United
States.

In August 1958 she joined the Rebel Army in the Frank País Second
Eastern Front, whose Chief, then Commander Raúl Castro Ruz, appointed
her to head the Department of Education, where she participated in the
establishment of more than 400 schools for children, and the formation
of literacy groups for combatants.

The success of the Revolution was a credit to her work with Vilma
Espín in the creation of the Federation of Cuban Women, where he was
a member of the National Committee and later occupied the
responsibility of Secretary General.

In 1966 she joined the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces as
Chief of the Camilo Cienfuegos Directorate of Education and Military
Schools. In 1969 she was promoted to the rank of captain.

Later, in 1970 she was appointed Director-General of Teacher Training
at the Ministry of Education, where she went through different
responsibilities and was promoted to Minister in 1979.

Asela was a founder of the Communist Party of Cuba and a member of its
Central Committee for three terms. She was also a member of the
national leadership of the Cuban Revolutionary Fighters Association.

Ideals and love united her until the last moments of her life to the
Hero of the Republic of Cuba, José Ramón Fernández. Asela will be
remembered for her modesty, firmness, commitment to social justice and
loyalty to Fidel, Raul, Vilma and the Cuban Revolution.

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Ernesto Cardenal
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Poetry Foundation (Chicago)

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Olof Palme,
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[[link removed]] _Daniel
Suhonen_ / Tribune (London)

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Camilo Torres Restrepo
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Colombia  _Zoe PC_ / Peoples Dispatch (New Delhi)

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Faiz Ahmed Faiz
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India  _A.G. Noorani_ / Frontline (Mumbai)

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Berta Carceres,
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Honduras  _Vijay Prashad_ / MR Online (New York)

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Regrouping the Bolivian Left
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_Pablo Stefanoni _/ Jacobin (New York)

Bolivia is still reeling from the coup that unseated Evo Morales last
November. Amid repression and intimidation from a fortified Right now
in power, the Left is preparing itself for new presidential elections.

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Israel: Joint List Rises
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_Edo Konrad_ / 972+ (Tel Aviv)

As Netanyahu's win threatens to consolidate a far right coalition
government, the Joint List may be a new rallying point for a battered
left in Israel.

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Uruguay: Tabaré Vázquez
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Presidency
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_Denis Bedoya_ / InfoSurHoy (Botswana)

Vázquez, one of the main leaders of the Uruguayan left, headed the
first presidency of the Frente Amplio. In addition, he was mayor of
Montevideo in 1989 and has been one of those responsible for the
growth of the left in the South American country.

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Dominican Republic: Protesters Speak
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_Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo_ / Remezcla (Brooklyn)

Dominicans and allies have flooded the streets—both in the mainland
and the diaspora (including New York, Philadelphia, Madrid, Miami and
more)—to raise a collective voice for democracy. A democracy which
they see as being under siege after the electoral failure that
sloppily unfolded on February 16.

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COSATU’s Green New Deal
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_Carilee Osborne _/ Africa is a Country (New York)

South Africa's largest trade union federation has a plan to
simultaneously tackle climate change and unemployment.

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Tal’at: A Feminist Movement Reimagining Palestine
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_Hala Marshood and Riya Alsanah_ / Mondoweiss (Detroit)

_Tal’at_ means stepping out in Arabic. The street movement
opposes gender-based violence in all its manifestations: femicide,
domestic violence, embedded sexism and exploitation, asserting that
the path to true liberation must embody the emancipation of each and
every Palestinian, including women. 

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Indigenous Rights in Sweden
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_Jenni Laiti and Florian Carl_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)

The Indigenous Saami reindeer-herding community, Girjas, won a
significant legal battle against the Swedish state. Indigenous
governance of lands and biodiversity are key measures that can help
address the climate crisis.

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Malaysia Socialist Party on Government Crisis
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_Peter Boyle_ / Green Left (Sydney)

The two-year-old government is in chaos. PSM deputy chairperson
Arul highlighted the need for the empowerment of working-class
politics to battle the “opportunistic and avaricious” elite
politics currently shamelessly on display.

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