>Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 00:44:50 -0400 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Radio Havana Cuba-10 October 2000 > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > >Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 10 October 2000 > > . > >*CUBA DENIES OFFERING MEDICAL SERVICES IN EXCHANGE FOR VENEZUELAN OIL > >*FOREIGN MINISTER FELIPE PEREZ ROQUE ON OFFICIAL VISIT TO PERU > >*CUBAN MEDICAL SPECIALIST IN EL SALVADOR DIES IN CAR ACCIDENT > >*TABLOID CARRYING FIDEL'S SEPT 28 SPEECH AVAILABLE ON NEWSSTANDS ISLAND-WIDE > >*RUSSIAN TRADE MISSION BEGINS TALKS WITH CUBAN BUSINESS EXECUTIVES > >*4th CUBAN-UKRANIAN MIXED COMMISSION TO BEGIN SESSIONS IN HAVANA > >*CUBAN LABOR MINISTER ARRIVES IN BOLIVIA > >*SECOND COURSE BEGINS IN SCHOOL DONATED BY CUBA TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC > >*132nd ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST ARMED UPRISING AGAINST SPANISH COLONIALISM > > . > >*CUBA DENIES OFFERING MEDICAL SERVICES IN EXCHANGE FOR VENEZUELAN OIL > >Havana, October 10 (RHC)-- An official note from the Cuban Foreign Ministry, >released Monday evening in Havana, affirms that Cuba is not offering medical >services to Venezuela to pay for oil or any other product from that sister >Latin American country. The MINREX note adds that the Cuban government has >never offered such services to any other country in lieu of financial >payments. > >Cuba's medical assistance is given absolutely free-of-charge, according to >the Foreign Ministry statement, noting that the salaries and other expenses >are totally covered by Havana. The official note mentions that recent >statements to the contrary -- made by Venezuelan medical professionals -- >have produced confusion. The Cuban Foreign Ministry states that Venezuela >has excellent and well-qualified medical personnel and that, in no way, >should Cuba's commitment to offer health care assistance be seen as a threat >to their prestige or interests. > > >*FOREIGN MINISTER FELIPE PEREZ ROQUE ON OFFICIAL VISIT TO PERU > >Lima, October 10 (RHC)-- Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque is in >Peru on an official visit. Cuba's top diplomat met on Monday with his >Peruvian counterpart, Fernando de Trazegnies - and also held talks with >Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori. > >Perez Roque expressed Havana's appreciation of what he called "Peru's strong >support" of an end to the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba, noting that >representatives of the Latin American nation have consistently voted at the >United Nations against Washington's hostile policies toward Havana. > >The Cuban foreign minister also announced that a bilateral accord on the >promotion and protection of investments will be signed during his official >visit to Lima. He said that the agreement will have a positive effect on >future commercial trade between the two countries, which has doubled over >the past three years. > >The visiting Cuban foreign minister, questioned by reporters about Havana's >view of the current political situation in Peru, stated that Cuba is >confident that the Peruvian people will find the appropriate road to take in >order to get out of the political crisis. Felipe Perez Roque added that the >Cuban government hopes that this political process in Peru will be carried >out without obstacles. > > >*CUBAN MEDICAL SPECIALIST IN EL SALVADOR DIES IN CAR ACCIDENT > >Havana, October 10 (RHC)-- Tuesday's edition of the Cuban newspaper Granma >published an official note, lamenting the accidental death in El Salvador of >a young Cuban doctor, Eduber Comendador Gorrita. According to the article, >the 24-year-old died last Sunday, October 8th, when he was hit by a car on >the streets of San Salvador. > >In the Salvadoran capital, authorities expressed their regret over the >accident, which occurred just two weeks after Comendador Gorrita arrived in >the country. The Cuban medical specialist was offering his services to the >Salvadoran people, free-of-charge -- along with a brigade of 40 Cuban >medical personnel working to help fight a dengue epidemic in that Central >American country. > >The body of the young Cuban volunteer was flown back to Havana on Monday, >accompanied by Salvadoran authorities. Upon their arrival in the Cuban >capital, the officials expressed their condolences to the family and thanked >the Cuban government and people for their selfless assistance in the field >of health care. > > >*TABLOID CARRYING FIDEL'S SEPT 28 SPEECH AVAILABLE ON NEWSSTANDS ISLAND-WIDE > >Havana, October 10 (RHC)-- A special news tabloid containing the full text >of Cuban President Fidel Castro's speech last September 28th on the occasion >of the 40th anniversary of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution >(CDR) is now available on newsstands islandwide. > >Publication of the speech was in response to the great interest it sparked >among Cubans given the important political and social issues addressed by >the Cuban president. > > >*RUSSIAN TRADE MISSION FEDERATION BEGINS TALKS WITH CUBAN BUSINESS *EXECUTIVES > >Havana, October 10 (RHC)-- A visiting trade commission from the Russia >region of the Urales began official talks with Cuban business executives on >Tuesday, aimed at reviving bilateral exchange. > >The Russian delegation is headed by the President of the Chamber of Commerce >and Industry, Matushkin Yuri Petrovieb, and is made up of 18 business >executives from sectors such as mining, energy and steel as well as a >financial group. > >Felix Loaces, of the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Trade, briefed the visitors >on the situation the Cuban economy. The two sides are also discussing >possibilities for a future trade exchange protocol between Cuba and the >Russian Federation. > > >*4th CUBAN-UKRANIAN MIXED COMMISSION TO BEGIN SESSIONS IN HAVANA > >Havana, October 10 (RHC)-- The 4th Intergovernmental Cuban-Ukrainian Mixed >Commission will begin sessions tomorrow, Wednesday, in the Cuban capital. > >The meeting is aimed at strengthening bilateral cooperation, particularly in >the economic and scientific fields. Cuban Health Minister Carlos Dotres and >his Ukrainian counterpart, Vitaly Moskalenko, will preside over the five-day >official talks in the Miramar offices of Cuba's Foreign Investment and >Economic Cooperation Ministry. > >During the meeting, the representatives will discuss a 2000-2002 bi-annual >cooperation program, as well as cooperation in sectors such as health, >education, agriculture, trade, transportation, the sugar industry, tourism, >sports, biotechnology and aeronautics. The agenda of the visiting Ukrainian >delegation includes visits to centers of economic, social and cultural >interest and meetings with other high-ranking Cuban government officials. > > >*CUBAN LABOR MINISTER ARRIVES IN BOLIVIA > >La Paz, October 10 (RHC)-- Cuban Labor Minister Alfredo Morales has arrived >in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz to participate as a special guest in the >First Meeting of Labor Ministers of MERCOSUR and Andean Community member >nations. > >During the meeting, Morales will explain Cuba's views on issues such as >globalization, regional integration and the labor market. > >The Cuban labor minister will also deliver a lecture at Santa Cruz >University. > > >*SECOND COURSE BEGINS IN SCHOOL DONATED BY CUBA TO THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC > >Santo Domingo, October 10 (RHC)-- The second course in a technical school >donated by Cuba to the Dominican Republic was officially inaugurated on >Monday in Bani, the Dominican Republic. Participating in the ceremony, was >the vice president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, >Rolando Gonzalez Tellez. The course at Maximo Gomez Technical Institute has >280 students, of which 122 are attending the school for the first time. > >Gonzalez Tellez noted that the school, located in the city of Bani, >strengthens the ties between the people of Cuba and the Dominican Republic, >which began five centuries ago when Cuban indigenous leader, Chief Hatuey, >went to the Dominican Republic to warn inhabitants of the arrival of the >Spanish Conquistadors. > >During a 1998 visit to the Dominican Republic, Cuban President Fidel Castro >announced the immediate construction of a technical school, which would bear >the name of the Dominican hero of Cuba's independence wars, Maximo Gomez. > > >*Viewpoint: 132nd ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST ARMED UPRISING AGAINST SPANISH >COLONIALISM > >October 10, l868 marked the first time the Cuban people rose up against >Spanish colonialism which, by then, had been in place for three and half >centuries. A large part of Latin America had already been liberated from >colonial rule and the spirit of nationalism was running high - although, in >reality, political power was in the hands of the European colonialists. > >Already European interests were extracting raw materials from what we today >call the Third World. Just thirty years after Cuba's first armed uprising, >U.S. imperialism appeared on the international scene. > >Cuban patriots, led by Jose Marti, first warned of the dangers of U.S. >expansionism into Latin America. The day before he died in battle, Marti, >Cuba's National Hero, wrote a letter to a Mexican friend in which he >explained the basis of the Cuban Revolution, warning that the battle would >eventually be against the United States. > >What Marti predicted in the second half of the 19th century, unfortunately, >did come to pass at the end of that century with the military intervention >by the United States into Cuba's war of independence. It was an intervention >that no one in the insurrection had requested. > >It was a totally unnecessary intervention, since Cuban liberation forces >were engaged in combat all across western Cuba and had virtually laid siege >to the colonial capital. The Spanish government, exhausted by the enormous >drain the war was causing its economy, which was supporting more than >250,000 soldiers in Cuba, decimated by yellow fever and under constant >attack by patriotic forces, was unable to change the course of the war. > >It was precisely at that moment that the United States chose to intervene, >launching a gigantic propaganda campaign to cover its true motives. >Washington's military power was immensely superior, especially on the sea, >as illustrated by the battles of Santiago, and of Cavite in the Philippines, >which also ended up under U.S. control at the end of the war. > >October 10, l868 is a sacred date for Cuba. It was the first day of open >rebellion for liberty, which was led by the man who is now known as the >"Father of Cuba" -- Carlos Manuel de Cespedes. And throughout all these >years, the Cuban people have demonstrated that they continue upholding the >tradition of struggle and sacrifice sparked by that valiant action 132 years >ago. > > >(c) 2000 Radio Habana Cuba, NY Transfer News. All rights reserved. > >================================================================= > NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems > Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us > 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 > http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >================================================================= > >nytcari-10.11.00-00:44:31-27846 > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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