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Saul Landau One of my friends mocks the drug war and sneers at President Clinton’s request that Congress fund a new $1.2…
Saul Landau
Saul Landau(January 15, 1936 - September 9, 2013) , Professor Emeritus at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, an internationally-known filmmaker, scholar, author, commentator and Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies. His film trilogy on Cuba includes FIDEL, a portrait of Cuba's leader (1968), CUBA AND FIDEL, in which Castro talks of democracy and institutionalizing the revolution (1974) and the UNCOMPROMISING REVOLUTION, as Fidel worries about impending Soviet collapse (1988). His trilogy of films on Mexico are THE SIXTH SUN: MAYAN UPRISING IN CHIAPAS (1997), MAQUILA: A TALE OF TWO MEXICOS (2000), and WE DON'T PLAY GOLF HERE AND OTHER STORIES OF GLOBALIZATION, (2007). His Middle East trilogy includes REPORT FROM BEIRUT (1982), IRAQ: VOICES FROM THE STREET (2002) SYRIA: BETWEEN IRAQ AND A HARD PLACE (2004). He has also written hundreds of articles on Cuba for learned journals, newspapers and magazines, done scores of radio shows on the subject and has taught classes on the Cuban revolution at major universities.
Saul Landau July 26, 1953. Fidel Castro leads 158 men to attack Fort Moncada, in Santiago de Cuba, the island’s second largest…
Saul Landau US pundits and government figures gush over Vicente Fox’s victory last Week as if Mexicans had elected Abraham Lincoln’s reincarnation…
Saul Landau The Santiago Appeals Court apparently voted 13-9 to revoke General Augusto Pinochet’s parliamentary immunity. This makes Pinochet vulnerable to prosecution…
Saul Landau I found the May 15 NPR news very even-handed – as always. The host interviewed Seymour Hersh, who wrote for…
Saul Landau History repeats itself, wrote Marx, first as tragedy and then again as farce. First time: Chile, November, 1970. In one…
Saul Landau Since last December, Elián Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban refugee boy, has become for those who love gossip about the living…
Saul Landau Explain US-Cuba policy, my friends ask. Last week’s prison riot occurred in Louisiana where Cuban prisoners had served their sentences,…
Robin Hahnel After declining to sign a "better deal" last April, the Clinton Administration has signed off on conditions for permitting China…
After declining to sign a ‘better deal’ last April, the Clinton Administration has signed off on conditions for permitting China to…