>Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:25:15 -0500
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Thousands of foreigners to join Havana rally on Tuesday
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>Thousands of foreigners to join Havana rally on Tuesday
>
>Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit
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>Monday November 13 12:33 PM ET (via yahoo)
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>Thousands To Join Cuba Embargo Rally
>
>HAVANA (AP) - Thousands of pro-Cuba foreigners in town for a solidarity
>meeting are expected to join a government protest Tuesday against the
>four-decade American trade embargo against the island, state media reported.
>
>People from 120 countries are in town for the World Encounter of Friendship
>and Solidarity with Cuba, which opened Friday and ends Tuesday. U.S.
>sanctions against Cuba have been a constant theme during the meeting.
>
>According to the Communist Party daily Granma, about 4,000 foreigners will
>participate in the morning protest, which will take place in the plaza that
>was constructed outside the U.S. Interests Section - the American mission
>here - during the fight earlier this year for the repatriation of 6-year-old
>Elian Gonzalez.
>
>The protest will demonstrate `the voices of international solidarity with
>the county and the unity among the peoples of the world,'' the newspaper
>said.
>
>Among visitors at the meeting: leftist theologian Frei Betto, of Brazil; the
>Rev. Lucius Walker of the U.S. group Pastors for Peace; Leon Robles, the
>former president of Ecuador; and Jang Zongwu, of the Chinese Communist
>Party's Central Committee.
>
>Cuba has been increasingly keen to underscore the growing opposition to the
>sanctions among foreigners - especially Americans.
>
>The communist leadership was pleased earlier this year when the fight over
>Elian drew wide attention to the embargo, and polls showed that a majority
>of Americans favored an easing of the sanctions.
>
>Numerous legislative proposals to soften the embargo were debated in U.S.
>Congress, but the only one that passed was watered down by lawmakers opposed
>to Fidel Castro's government. Although the new law allows American farmers
>to sell food to Cuba for the first time in about 40 years, it makes such
>sales extremely difficult by banning financing by the U.S. government and
>American banks.
>
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