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Subject: [CubaNews] Thousands of foreigners to join Havana rally on Tuesday
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Monday November 13 12:33 PM ET (via yahoo)
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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