> > "CubaNews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >From: "Walter Lippmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >MIME-Version: 1.0 > >September 26, 2000 >An act which compensates with death >http://www.granma.cu/ingles/sept4/40ley-i.html >BY MARELYS VALENCIA (Granma International staff writer) > >AROUND 300,000 Havanans marched on the U.S. Interests Section >Monday, September 25, to expose to the world the real face of the >Cuban >Adjustment Act, passed in 1966 to incite Cubans to abandon the island. >In its service, hundreds of hours of weekly broadcasts are transmitted >to Cuba from U.S. territory. > >The "special" treatment that legislation dispenses to the inhabitants >of this island, plus the U.S. government's insistence on maintaining >it, incite many people to take to sea without thinking of the >consequences. > >Nobody knows how many lives have been lost during these three >decades to that legislation, which privileges Cubans on the island >with the worst of sentences. > >During the 90-minute demonstration, President Fidel Castro stood >beside the youth and Communist Party leaders who headed the massive >rally of Havana residents at the Jos� Mart� Anti-Imperialist Tribunal. >Four groups of young orators spoke, including the principal and a >student from the junior high school that was attended by Erick >Iglesias, who was dragged off to the United States by his parents last >week in a hijacked aircraft that fell into the sea. > >The various speeches charged U.S. administrations with failing to >comply with the existing migratory agreements and, on the other hand, >with stimulating illegal exits and person smuggling for the financial >gain of certain speedboat owners in that country, who charge up to >$12,000 USD for a crossing "to hell," as one young person put it. >However, the speakers noted, in that ostentatious consumer society to >which Cubans are being lured, more money has been invested in prisons >than in universities since 1996. > >At the Cuban athletes' rally in Sydney against the Cuban Adjustment >Act, Legna Verdecia spoke on behalf of the 432 members of the Olympic >delegation, and her words were broadcast at the Havana demonstration. >The judoka, winner of Cuba's first Olympic gold this year, affirmed >that in spite of the distance, the people's battles are inspiring and >raising the morale of the athletes, who are closely following all >national events. > >Ainel Alvarez, president of the University of Havana's Federation of >University Students, ironically commented that the Cuban Adjustment >Act could be an attempt to alleviate the labors of officials at the >U.S. Interests Section, bent on other activities at a far remove from >processing visas in Havana. > >Also attacked was the fact that anyone who reaches the Florida >coast in an illegal manner while endangering the lives of other >persons, including children, is called a refugee, without fulfilling >the >requirements. "Kick out the wet-foot law," affirmed Havana's young >people in their speeches. > >Hassan P�rez, president of the Federation of University Students, >noted that something else that the imperialists should adjust is "the >neoliberal world that we contemplate with sadness." > > > > >-------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> >Special Offer-Earn 300 Points from MyPoints.com for trying @Backup >Get automatic protection and access to your important computer files. >Install today: >http://click.egroups.com/1/6347/15/_/_/_/970050888/ >---------------------------------------------------------------------_-> > >Post comments to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Send an email to subscribe: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To unsubscribe from this CubaNews group, send an email to: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________
