>Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 23:49:29 -0500 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Radio Havana Cuba-10 November 2000 > >Radio Havana Cuba-10 November 2000 > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > >Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 10 November 2000 > > . > >*SECOND WORLD SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE GETS UNDERWAY IN HAVANA > >*CUBAN PRESIDENT MEETS WITH PARENTS OF MEDICAL STUDENTS > >*CUBAN COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL KICKS OFF THIS WEEK > >*CUBAN SUGAR INDUSTRY OPENS UP TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT > >*HAVANA CELEBRATES ITS 481st BIRTHDAY WITH REFURBISHED BUILDINGS > >*THREE DAYS AFTER US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, WINNER STILL UNKNOWN > > . > >*SECOND WORLD SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE GETS UNDERWAY IN HAVANA > >Havana, November 10 (RHC) -- The Second World Solidarity With Cuba >Conference got underway today in Havana, with the participation of almost >four thousand activists from 115 countries. The conference was inaugurated >by Sergio Corrieri, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the >Peoples. > >After greeting participants, Corrieri said that in the six years since the >first such gathering the solidarity with Cuba movement has grown more than >three-fold. Since then, he said, Cuba solidarity activists worldwide have >held 167 national encounters in 40 countries, 16 regional gatherings in 36 >nations and 9 continental meetings with the participation of 81 countries. > >The president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples stated >that the movement gained strength as Washington's blockade of the island >intensified. He said this international struggle is taking place amid the >precarious economic situations of many countries, the selfish >anti-solidarity promoted by free market policies and the on-going >disinformation campaigns with respect to Cuba. > >Corrieri expressed Cuba's deep-felt appreciation for the role of Cuba >solidarity movements in the battle for the return of Elian Gonzalez, >particularly the work of U.S. activists -- the largest delegation at the >event. Later in the day, Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage and National >Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon are expected to address the delegates. > >Cuban vice-president Carlos Lage afterwards took the podium to announce that >the island's economy would show a growth of 5% by the end of the year. In >fact, he said, he hoped it would go beyond that. Although not very high the >figure is a good one, added Lage, and is higher than the Latin American >average. > >In the afternoon, the President of Cuba's parliament, Ricardo Alarcon, spoke >to the delegates about the enormous sums of money the United States >continues to spend in its ongoing attempt to subvert the island's >government. Between 1996 through the end of this year $9 million has been >spent on anti-Cuban groups based in Florida. The money is channeled through >the United State's Agency for International Development or US AID. Another >$5 million has been earmarked for use in 2001, Alarcon added. > >All of the activists to the conference have paid their own way so as not to >put an additional burden on the Cuban economy. The Second Solidarity With >Cuba Conference will wind up next Tuesday. > > >*CUBAN PRESIDENT MEETS WITH PARENTS OF MEDICAL STUDENTS > >Havana, November 10 (RHC)-Cuban President Fidel Castro met Thursday with >participants in the first meeting of associations of parents and relatives >of students taking courses in Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine. >During the last session of the event, President Castro recalled that the >institution came about as the result of hurricanes Georges and Mitch because >it was created as part of the island's Comprehensive Health Program to train >new doctors in order to give continuity to current medical cooperation >efforts by Cuban internationalist workers in the area. > >Fidel Castro pointed out that the school's philosophy is to offer the >region's youth the possibility of studying medicine together to create a >spirit of solidarity rather than profit. > >The Cuban leader said that Haitian medical students take courses in the >eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, others from the rest of the Caribbean >attend medical schools in the central city of Cienfuegos. In the case of >African students, the program includes the creation of faculties in the >countries in which Cuban doctors are offering their services. > >Referring to Cuba's Comprehensive Health Program, the Cuban President >pointed out that the island's medical personnel have assisted millions of >persons and that they are well respected by the local population. President >Castro mentioned the consequences of the current brain drain in Latin >America. He said that Cuba also suffered from that situation during the >first years of the Revolution when half of the island's doctors left for the >United States. However some 30,000 new doctors have graduated in Cuba over >the past decade which is to a great extent Cuba's response to Washington's >economic blockade against Cuba. > >The Cuban President expressed the hope that some day rich and developed >countries will decide to contribute at least medicines to the island's >regional Comprehensive Health Program. > >Participants in the first meeting of associations of parents and relatives >of medical students issued a final declaration recognizing, among other >aspects, Cuba's solidarity in the creation of the Latin American School of >Medicine, the only such institution of its kind in the world. > > >*CUBAN COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL KICKS OFF THIS WEEK > >Havana, November 10 (RHC)-Reaffirming the role of Cuban campesino music in >Cuban culture is the objective of the National Festival of Country Music >that begins Friday on the island. > >The event, which includes the Second National Contest of the Laud -musical >string instrument traditionally used in campesino music-is organized by >Havana's Antonio Maria Romeu Provincial Music Center. > >The music festival will be held in different venues in this city and >includes a colloquium on the decima, a Cuban campesino kind of poetry, and >on the improvisation of rhymed verses and the tradition and presence of >these two styles in Cuban popular culture. Also on the event's agenda are >performances by different country music groups as well as the launching of >an audio cassette with the most touching decimas created and sung during the >recent open tribune demonstrations staged by the Cuba people. > > >*CUBAN SUGAR INDUSTRY OPENS UP TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT > >Havana, November 10 (RHC)-The Cuban sugar industry is now in condition to >listen to and evaluate proposals involving foreign investment. > >The statement was made by Cuba's Sugar Minister Ulises Rosales del Toro in >Havana during the closing session Thursday of the Seminar on Energy in the >Sugar Cane Sector. Del Toro said that during the meeting some letters of >intent had been signed in accordance with the 1995 law 77 on foreign >investment. > >The Cuban government official explained that Cuba is ready to evaluate >construction, operational and technology transfer projects in the sugar >industry although he prefers the creation of joint ventures, concluded >Ulises Rosales del Toro. > > >*HAVANA CELEBRATES ITS 481st BIRTHDAY WITH REFURBISHED BUILDINGS > >Havana, November 10 (RHC)-In the context of celebrations for the 481st >birthday of this city next November 16, the Meson de la Flota, an old tavern >for sailors, has just been reopened with five rooms on its upper floor. City >Historian Eusebio Leal underscored the role played by construction workers >who were able to refurbish the colonial facility with its all original >characteristics in a 20-month period. > >Eusebio Leal pointed out that the Meson de la Flota is another important >building rescued from structural deterioration and that every work in the >are is aimed at social transformation and at reaching a balance between >local everyday life and tourist functions. > > >Viewpoint: > >*THREE DAYS AFTER US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, WINNER STILL UNKNOWN > >Seventy-two hours after the polls closed in U.S. general elections, it is >still impossible to determine who will be the president of the country that >has always presented itself as the very model of democracy. That the state >of Florida has become the center of this unprecedented crisis, has its roots >in the erroneous foreign policy Washington has followed with respect to its >relations with Cuba. > >It has been the activities of fanatic, anti-Cuba groups that caused the U.S. >electoral crisis in the state of Florida. And it is not the first time. The >scandalous kidnapping of little Elian Gonzalez was engineered by those >extreme right-wing groups. Now, in their desperation for George W. Bush to >win Florida's electoral votes, and thus take the presidency, extremist >Cuban-Americans have once again resorted to trickery. Terrorist >Cuban-Americans have a history of illegal activities in the United States. >We recall that in the l970's, four of them broke into Democratic Party >headquarters causing the Watergate Scandal that cost Richard Nixon the >presidency. > >The continued illegal actions of these dangerous thugs, who have made Miami >their headquarters, have managed to involve U.S. government officials in >innumerable problems and international scandals which have seriously >undermined Washington's prestige to the point that it has lost international >support for its anti-Cuba policies. That was made clear once again on >Thursday in the United Nations, when for the ninth straight year, the General >Assembly passed a resolution condemning Washington's blockade against Cuba. >This time, the vote was an overwhelming 167 in favor of the resolution >presented by Cuba, with three against and four abstentions. > >Now, with the great scandal of the U.S. presidential elections, charges are >once again being leveled at Miami's Cuban American Mafia, in various >counties where it was necessary to re-count votes and where some are calling >for the election results to be annulled. It remains unclear when and how the >accusations of fraudulent elections will be resolved in that important >southern state. It is also unclear just when U.S. federal authorities will >totally divorce themselves from the Florida anti-Cuba terrorists and >prosecute them for their illegal and disruptive activities. > > >(c) 2000 Radio Habana Cuba, NY Transfer News. 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