>Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 01:22:02 -0500 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Radio Havana Cuba-28 November 2000 > >Radio Havana Cuba-28 November 2000 > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > >Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 28 November 2000 > > . > >*PANAMA: POSADA'S GANG PLANNED TO BLOW UP UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM TO KILL FIDEL > >*BRAZIL'S WORKERS PARTY CONDEMNS TERRORISM, ASSASSINATION PLOTS AGAINST CUBA > >*CUBAN AND US PEDIATRICIANS MEET IN HAVANA > >*HONDURAN PRESIDENT PRAISES WORK OF CUBAN DOCTORS > >*ALARCON RETURNS HOME AFTER WORKING TOUR OF RUSSIA, JAPAN AND FRANCE > >*HORIZONTES ELEGUEA HOTEL AND SPA A POPULAR VACATION SPOT > >Viewpoint: > >*EXTREMIST CANF BECOMING A LIABILITY FOR WASHINGTON > > . > >*PANAMA: POSADA'S GANG PLANNED TO BLOW UP UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM TO KILL FIDEL > >Panama City, November 28 (RHC)-- Terrorists planned to kill Cuban President >Fidel Castro during a visit by the Cuban leader to the University of Panama. >According to Panamanian television TVN Channel Two, police investigations >have revealed that Luis Posada Carriles and his commando decided to carry >out their assassination attempt on Saturday, November 18th, by planting more >than 34 pounds of C-4 plastic explosives on the stage of the auditorium >where Fidel Castro was scheduled to speak. > >The special report, broadcast by Channel 2 as part of the popular Panamanian >TV program "Primer Plano" - "Front Page" - stated that the university event >drew more than 2000 students and professors. Police estimate that the >explosives - had they been detonated - would have been powerful enough to >kill everyone within 500 meters of the blast. > >The television news report also revealed that the terrorist commando had >remote control equipment designed to detonate the C-4 explosives from miles >away. Images of a suitcase filled with the explosives and timing devices >were shown, as TV commentators pointed out that the terrorists who smuggled >the materiel into the country were arrested just hours before the Cuban >leader reached the University of Panama. > >Upon his arrival for the 10th Ibero-American Summit and the day before he >planned to tour Panama's largest university to speak with students and >faculty members, Fidel Castro revealed the assassination plot during a news >conference. Luis Posada Carriles and three other terrorists were taken into >custody by Panamanian authorities two hours later, based on information >provided by Cuban intelligence and security agents. > > >*BRAZIL'S WORKERS PARTY CONDEMNS TERRORISM, ASSASSINATION PLOTS AGAINST CUBA > >Havana, November 28 (RHC)--The head of Brazil's Workers Party, Luis Inacio >Lula Da Silva, Tuesday reiterated in Havana his party's solidarity with Cuba >and condemned the terrorist acts and assassination attempts against Cuban >President Fidel Castro. > >Da Silva is leading a party delegation that includes 200 representatives. >Lula termed as regrettable that what Washington understands as democracy is >not true democracy, which is the will of each nation and its people. He >stressed his deep respect for the Cuban Revolution and its principles and >reiterated the Brazilian Worker's Party's solidarity with the Cuban people >and condemnation of Washington's blockade against island. > > >*CUBAN AND US PEDIATRICIANS MEET IN HAVANA > >Havana, November 28 (RHC)--The President of the American Pediatrics Academy, >Steve Berman has asserted that the meeting between US and Cuban >pediatricians in Havana is only the beginning of more intense and >significant future exchanges. > >Dr. Berman is heading a delegation of US pediatricians who held various >workshops with their Cuban counterparts. They also visited pediatric >hospitals in Havana City. > >Allergies and immunology, maternal and child health care and special health >care were some of the issues discussed at the workshops. The President of >the Cuban Pediatrics Society, Enzo Duenas, spoke of the importance of the >high level scientific meeting between the US and Cuban pediatricians. > > >*HONDURAN PRESIDENT PRAISES WORK OF CUBAN DOCTORS > >Havana, November 28 (RHC)--Honduran President Roberto Flores has reiterated >his satisfaction with the work of the Cuban doctors in his country. He made >the statement during a press conference in the Honduran capital, >Tegucigalpa, at the Continental Summit on the Development of Communities and >the Afro American population. The Honduran President added that Cuba's >solidarity is of great help, especially during the outbreak of dengue in >that country. He added that he takes every opportunity to thank the Cuban >government for the free medical aid. > >Meanwhile, the President of the Summit's organizing committee, Celeo Alvarez >Casildo, pointed out that none of the communities of African origin in >Honduras have a hospital to go to, but that due to the Cuban doctors this >community is able to receive medical attention free of charge. > > >*ALARCON RETURNS HOME AFTER WORKING TOUR OF RUSSIA, JAPAN AND FRANCE > >Havana, November 28 (RHC)--The President of the Cuban Parliament, Ricardo >Alarcon, Tuesday returned to Havana after an intense working tour that took >him to Russia, Japan and France. > >After arriving at Jose Marti International Airport, the Cuban official said >that he met with different political organizations, parliamentary leaders, >government representatives and business executives from those countries. > >He added that during his visit to Russia, Japan and France he discussed >bilateral relations as well as the current state of relations between Cuba >and the United States. > >He said that the trip helped clear any doubts concerning Washington's >alleged easing of sanctions against Cuba, and that he made it clear that the >U.S. blockade against the island remains intact. > > >*HORIZONTES ELEGUEA HOTEL AND SPA A POPULAR VACATION SPOT > >Havana, November 28 (RHC)--The Horizontes Eleguea Hotel and Spa has developed >into an ideal place for recovering from physical and health problems because >of its excellent mineral-medicinal waters. This is part of Cuba's health >program directed at tourists interested in enjoying their vacations on the >island in addition to receiving medical treatment. > >According to the hotel management, Spas or thermal waters, one of humanity's >oldest therapeutic resources, have re-emerged on the island, opening new >opportunities for health tourism. > >According to Alejandro Morejon, Director of Public Relations, this hotel and >spa is popular with senior citizens and has a good level of repeat visits. > > >Viewpoint: > >*EXTREMIST CANF BECOMING A LIABILITY FOR WASHINGTON > >The 40 year partnership between the United States government and the ultra >right wing Cuban American National Foundation, is increasingly interpreted >as a liability for Washington. What Cuba calls the Miami mafia didn't >spontaneously appear. It was deliberately created as a weapon to destroy the >Cuban Revolution, which had managed, for the first time in the island's >history, to end the neo-colonial regime that had ruled Cuba since the >beginning of the century. > >For 6 decades, true political power, rather than coming from the pseudo >Republic's Presidential Palace, was concentrated in the U.S. Embassy in >Havana. The United States took advantage of that position to create >important commercial and financial interests. > >That period also gave rise to many social ills which are rampant today >throughout the Third World and in marginalized areas of rich countries. >There was a 30% illiteracy rate, three hundred thousand unemployed, children >without schools, schools without teachers, scarce medical care concentrated >in the cities, women marginalized from society and the nation without >independence or sovereignty. > >The inevitable occurred: Cubans finally lost their patience and rose up >against their oppressors, taking destiny into their own hands. > >Those Cubans either in complicity with or servile to their oppressors fled >to Florida. In the heat of the Cold War they managed to carve out a >political latitude for themselves within the upper echelons of the circles >of power in Washington. But now the Cuban American National Foundation and >similar organizations are running against the tide of U.S. public opinion - >to the point where Miami is now widely being referred to as a banana >republic. > >(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-11.29.00-01:21:31-31737 > _______________________________________________________ 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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