Comments on: ¡Cuba! Art and History from 1868 to Today in Montreal http://artculture.com/international/%c2%a1cuba-art-and-history-from-1868-to-today-in-montreal Contemporary Art, Innovation and Design Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:24:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Walter Lippmann http://artculture.com/international/%c2%a1cuba-art-and-history-from-1868-to-today-in-montreal#comment-544 Walter Lippmann Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:42:09 +0000 http://www.ArtCulture.com/events/%c2%a1cuba-art-and-history-from-1868-to-today-in-montreal#comment-544 Thanks for this article. I wish I lived in Montreal or were even somewhere near there. Hope you can post some kind of video report to the web about this exhibition. One note of caution: Fidel Castro has NOT resigned from any of his positions. He stated clearly that he is not standing for office again as President of the Council of State nor will he accept nomination as Commander-in-Chief. He makes no declaration regarding his position as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, (PCC). As of TODAY, he continues to hold every one of the positions he has held until now, except that, by a formal proclamation he made over a year and a half ago, on July 31, 2006, he provisionally assigned most of his responsibilities to others. There has been no change in those assignments which were made by Fidel himself. It's reasonable and appropriate to assume that the incoming session of the National Assembly of People's Power will take up assignments and make further decisions. Cuba is a blockaded country, but it has a constitution and a legislative process. So far that is what has been taking place. Thanks again for this report, which I've forwarded out to many friends via a free Yahoo news group on Cuba which I have had for the last eight years. Sincerely yours, Walter Lippmann Thanks for this article. I wish I lived in Montreal or were even somewhere near there. Hope you can post some kind of video report to the web about this exhibition.

One note of caution: Fidel Castro has NOT resigned from any of his positions.

He stated clearly that he is not standing for office again as President of the Council of State nor will he accept nomination as Commander-in-Chief. He makes no declaration regarding his position as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, (PCC).

As of TODAY, he continues to hold every one of the positions he has held until now, except that, by a formal proclamation he made over a year and a half ago, on July 31, 2006, he provisionally assigned most of his responsibilities to others. There has been no change in those assignments which were made by Fidel himself.
It’s reasonable and appropriate to assume that the incoming session of the National Assembly of People’s Power will take up assignments and make further decisions. Cuba is a blockaded country, but it has a constitution and a legislative process. So far that is what has been taking place.

Thanks again for this report, which I’ve forwarded out to many friends via a free Yahoo news group on Cuba which I have had for the last eight years.

Sincerely yours,

Walter Lippmann

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