>Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 05:32:07 -0500 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Radio Havana Cuba-14 November 2000 > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > >Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 14 November 2000 > > . > >*WORLD SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE WINDS UP IN HAVANA > >*CUBA TAKES PART IN IBEROAMERICAN SUMMIT > >*MAYORAL MEETING IN HAVANA > >*CUBAN ARTIST CLOSES DOMINICAN GUITAR FESTIVAL > >*CONTINENTAL STUDIES FORUM ON WOMEN UNDERWAY IN HAVANA > >*PHYSICALLY DISABLED CITIZENS THANK CUBAN GOVERNMENT FOR ATTENTION > >*Viewpoint: UNITED STATES INCREASINGLY ISOLATED INTERNATIONALLY > > . > >*WORLD SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE WINDS UP IN HAVANA > >Havana, November 14 (RHC)-- After an intense exchange of experiences and >ideas, the 2nd World Meeting of Friendship and Solidarity with Cuba, wound >up on Tuesday in the Cuban capital. > >The meeting began on Friday, November 10th, with over 4000 delegates from >117 countries who focused debates on Washington's nearly 40-year economic >and financial blockade of Cuba, the distortion abroad of information on >Cuba's reality and practical solidarity work. > >The event, held in Havana's Convention Center and at the Karl Marx Theater, >was also attended by some 50 outstanding world personalities in the fields >of politics and culture. Among scheduled activities, participants had the >opportunity to talk and exchange experiences with Cubans in different Havana >neighborhoods. > >The world gathering also heard presentations on Cuban reality by Cuban Vice >President Carlos Lage, Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque and the president >of the island's parliament, Ricardo Alarcon. On Monday evening, delegates >took part in a televised round table discussion on the Solidarity with Cuba >Movement The event was attended by Cuban President Fidel Castro. On Tuesday >morning, delegates participated in a demonstration in front of the U.S. >Interests Section in Havana, at the Jose Marti International Tribune during >which they condemned Washington's hostile Cuba policy. As part of the 5-day >solidarity gathering, participants visited various places of interest. > > >*CUBA TAKES PART IN IBEROAMERICAN SUMMIT > >Havana, November 14 (RHC)-- According to the president of Cuba's Union of >Journalists, Cuba will be attending the 10th Iberoamerican Summit of Heads >of State and Government proud of its outstanding record on raising healthy, >educated children. > >Tubal Paez made the statements upon his arrival in Panama on Monday to take >part in the 7th Iberoamerican Meeting of Journalists, leading up to the >Summit. > >Paez told Prensa Latina News Agency that the island has great experience in >working with children, particularly in the fields of education and health. > >Our children are conscious of their social commitment, said the Cuban >journalist,and proof of that is the battle they participated in for the >return to the island of Elian Gonzalez. > >Referring to the Journalists' Meeting, which begins on Wednesday in Panama, >Tubal Paez underscored the importance of dealing with children's issues, due >to the extreme poverty in which most Latin American children live. > >The meeting of Iberoamerican journalists precedes the 10th Summit of Heads >of State and Government, whose central topic is the situation of the more >than 190 million children and adolescents living in Latin America, Spain and >Portugal. The topic was chosen at last year's Summit of Heads of State and >Government, by the president of this year's host country, Panamian Mireya >Moscoso. > >Media professionals will draft a final document to be submitted to the Heads >of State Summit, which will session under the slogan: "United for Childhood >and Adolescence, the basis for justice and equity in the new millennium." > > >*MAYORAL MEETING IN HAVANA > >Havana, November 14 (RHC)-- The 8th Meeting of Mayors and City Officials in >Solidarity with Havana's City Hall, begins on Wednesday in the Cuban >capital. > >Cuban city government official, Carlos Franco, told the press that some 400 >delegates from the United States, Portugal, Martinique, Ireland, Turkey and >Spain are expected to participate in the gathering. > >The Mayors and City Officials encounter, which will be held in Havana's >Convention Center, takes place in the context of celebrations for the 481 >birthday of the city of Havana and also celebrates Cuba's recent victory at >the United Nations, where an overwhelming majority of UN member nations >condemned Washington's economic and financial blockade of the island. > >City officials and mayors participating in the event arrived in Havana on >Tuesday and were welcomed by local authorities and residents of the city's >15 municipalities. The gathering is expected to draft a final declaration >condemning the US blockade of Cuba. > >The list of guests includes, Rosa Aguiar of Cordova in the Spanish province >of Andalucia, Paz Fernandez from Asturias, Edite Stlera from Sintra , >Portugal and the mayor of Mobile, Alabama in the United States. > > >*CUBAN ARTIST CLOSES DOMINICAN GUITAR FESTIVAL > >Havana, November 14 (RHC)-- Cuban artist Aldo Rodriguez closed the Dominican >Republic's 3rd Guitar Festival on Monday night in Santo Domingo. > >Among the tunes played by the Cuban guitarist were pieces composed by fellow >Cubans, Sindo Garay and Eliseo Grenet, The Cuban musician also played as >well as others made by Puerto Rican Rafael Hernandez among other outstanding >composers. > >The attendance at the Guitar Fstival, held at the Espana Cultural Center in >Santo Domingo, also enjoy the performance of Cuban guitarist Ruben Gonzalez, >who gave his concert the fist day of the festival last week. Gonzalez played >ten pieces composed by outstanding Cuban musicians such as Maestro Leo >Brower. > >Other renown participants at the festival were Spanish guitarist Jorge >Orozco and Dominican Rafael Scarfullery. > > >*CONTINENTAL STUDIES FORUM ON WOMEN UNDERWAY IN HAVANA > >Havana, November 14 (RHC)--Women researchers from Argentina, Mexico, Spain >and Chile will gather this week in Havana for the First Continental Studies >Forum on Women, scheduled for November 14th through 17th here. > >The event, organized by the Center of Studies on Women at the Cuban Women's >Federation, will gather experts from local programs and scientific centers >linked to social research on women, genre and the family and its attendance >includes a large Cuban representation. > >Activities at the event include round table discussions and panels on >methodological approaches, perspectives of study for the coming century and >multilateral cooperation in those issues. The gathering objective is to >exchange on ongoing professional knoledge and work in the social issue. > >Cuba maintains specialized departments on women at various universities, >plus 170 Family and Women's Guidance Centers, whose over-10-year experience >constitute a valuable treasure for the systematic assistance of women, >children and families. > >The implementation of these social programs at community levels is one of >the studies to be presented by Cuba at the First Continental Study Forum on >Women, co-sponsored by the UNICEF office in Havana. > > >*PHYSICALLY DISABLED CITIZENS THANK CUBAN GOVERNMENT FOR ATTENTION > >Havana, November 14 (RHC)-- Representatives of Cuban associations of >physically disabled, visually and hearing-impaired citizens thanked the >Cuban government for the special treatment given to their affilated members. > >A recent analysis by eastern Holguin provincial Government on the situation >of some 7000 disabled people proved the constant care of the Cuban state for >people needing special assistance. > >Only 64 of the disabled persons living in Holguin do not work for particular >reasons, the rest are linked to the local commercial network through crafts >and other facilities where they produce items for domestic use. Disabled >people in Holguin as well as in other Cuban territories have received >prothesis, wheelchairs and other implements on a regular basis. Many >architectual barriers limiting their free movement on streets and other >places continue to be removed. The eastern city of Holguin will be the venue >of the National Forum of the Cuban Association of the Blind from November >29th through 30th. > > >Viewpoint: > >*UNITED STATES INCREASINGLY ISOLATED INTERNATIONALLY > >Participants in the Second World Meeting of Friendship and Solidarity with >Cuba that winds up in Havana today have been talking much about two >important events: the overwhelming vote in the United Nations General >Assembly condemning Washington's blockade against Cuba and the U.S. >elections scandal in Florida. > >Those two factors have served to strengthen world public opinion in favor of >Cuba, while considerably weakening the image of its fiercest enemy, the >United States, which has spent the last 40 years attempting to discredit the >Cuban Revolution. > >The World movement of solidarity with Cuba has grown tremendously. That >growth was demonstrated recently in the record 167 votes of the 189 >countries that make up the United Nations, in support of the Cuban >resolution condemning Washington's economic blockade. Not even those >countries which traditionally have been allies of the United States >supported Washington and so the great power stood virtually alone, with only >Israel and the Marshall Islands on its side. Nor were any of the major >powers among the 4 that abstained in the historic U.N. vote. The landslide >vote against Washington's Cuba policy could be considered the United States' >most stunning diplomatic defeat in the United Nations ever. > >The successively higher votes in favor of Cuba over the past 9 years in the >United Nations General Assembly, can also be considered an important >international victory for a small, Third World country. > >The U.S. defeat coincides with the country's biggest election scandal ever. >Never has the United States been more scrutinized and less defended >internationally than at this moment. That great nation, that great world >power, has been revealed to be unable to elect a president to govern for the >next four years, because of fraudulent elections which have drawn jeers of >"banana republic" from the rest of the world. The great North American >democracy has just a few days to resolve this enormous scandal since on >January 20, the new president is to take office. At this point, no solution >will be satisfactory, because the problem is much too profound to be fixed >by a simple recount of the votes and will certainly have serious consequence >for government in the United States on the threshold of the new millennium. > > >(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-11.15.00-05:31:43-11211 > _______________________________________________________ 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. 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