>Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 04:09:20 -0500 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Radio Havana Cuba-30 November 2000 > >Radio Havana Cuba-30 November 2000 > >Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit > >Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 30 November 2000 > > . > >*TV ROUNDTABLE: CUBA WILL NOT BOW TO FOREIGN INTIMIDATION > >*HAVANA FORMALLY REQUESTS EXTRADITION OF TERRORISTS IN PANAMA > >*COFFEE PLANTATIONS IN SANTIAGO NAMED UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE > >*VILMA ESPIN RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTORATE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES > >*FIRST VENEZUELAN PATIENTS ARRIVE > >*CUBA AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF EQUAL RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION: LULA > >*VIETNAM AND CUBA CELEBRATE 40 YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS > >*IBERO-AMERICAN CULTURAL & SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION CREATED IN MADRID > >*Viewpoint: GROWING SPANISH INFLUENCE IN THE AMERICAS > > . > >*TV ROUNDTABLE: CUBA WILL NOT BOW TO FOREIGN INTIMIDATION > >Havana, November 30 (RHC)-- Cuba will never bow to threats and intimidations >from other countries or governments. During a special roundtable discussion >Wednesday evening, broadcast live on Cuban radio and television, journalists >and experts in international affairs examined the anti-terrorist resolution >presented at the recent Ibero-American Summit in Panama. > >Panelists noted that Salvadoran President Francisco Flores had visited Spain >just before the regional meeting was held in Panama. Spanish authorities >apparently asked Flores to present the resolution condemning ETA terrorism, >offering several million dollars in exchange for his cooperation. > >It was pointed out during the roundtable discussion that Spanish President >Jose Maria Aznar is no friend of the Cuban Revolution -- with a long history >of ties to extremist, right-wing terrorists. Even before Aznar became >president, he regularly met with members of the Cuban-American National >Foundation -- or, as one member of the panel called the Miami-based >organization: The Gusano-American National Foundation. > >Cuban journalists roundly condemned terrorist actions in which innocent >civilians are killed -- including actions carried out by the >Basque-separatist group ETA. But Madrid's sponsorship of the anti- terrorist >resolution only condemned ETA and made no mention of State- sponsored >terrorism -- such as those activities organized against the Cuban >Revolution. As Cuban television commentator Eduardo Dimas emphasized, the >resolution presented by San Salvador at the Ibero-American Summit, with >Spain's blessing, was designed to purposefully isolate Cuba at the regional >meeting. > >Participants during the roundtable discussion noted that the Spanish media >are spreading lies about Cuba's position. Journalists stated that radio and >television reports from Madrid have not carried Havana's response and the >media continues to wage a dirty campaign against Cuba and its leader, >President Fidel Castro. The special roundtable discussion was broadcast live >on Cuban radio and television, as well as the international short wave >frequencies of Radio Havana Cuba. > > >*HAVANA FORMALLY REQUESTS EXTRADITION OF TERRORISTS IN PANAMA > >Havana, November 30 (RHC)-- Cuba has formally requested the extradition of >Luis Posada Carriles and three other terrorists, currently being held in >Panama. Thursday's edition of the Cuban news daily Granma reports that >Havana presented all of the necessary documents, according to Panamanian >law. > >At the time of their arrest on November 18th -- charged with planning to >assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro during the 10th Ibero-American >Summit -- Cuban authorities asked that Panama hold the terrorists until a >formal extradition request could be filed. > >In addition to the mastermind of the terrorist plan -- Luis Posada Carriles >-- Cuba has requested the extradition of the other members of the commando: >Pedro Remon Rodriguez, Guillermo Novo Sompoll and Gaspar Jimenez Escobedo. > >Also on Wednesday, Panamanian authorities officially charged the four-member >terrorist commando with illegal possession of explosives, criminal >association and plotting against the internal security of Panama. They are >currently being held without bail in Panama City. > > >*COFFEE PLANTATIONS IN SANTIAGO NAMED UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITE > >Havana, November 30 (RHC)-The United Nations Education, Science and Cultural >Organization, UNESCO, has declared the first French coffee plantations in >eastern Santiago de Cuba a World Heritage Site, because of their historic >value. > >The President of the National Council of Cuba's Cultural Heritage, Martha >Arjona, said that the French immigrants in eastern Santiago de Cuba left >behind this legacy in the late 18th century. > >These coffee plantations are the sixth World Heritage Site on the island. >Among them are Old Havana and its colonial fortresses, the historic city of >Trinidad and its Ingenios Valle, the San Pedro de la Roca Castile and the >Vinales Valley in Pinar del Rio. > > >*VILMA ESPIN RECEIVES HONORARY DOCTORATE IN SOCIAL SCIENCES > >Havana, November 30 (RHC)-Vilma Espin, president of the Federation of Cuban >Women, the FMC, Thursday received in Santiago de Cuba an Honorary Doctorate >in Social Sciences for her contribution to the rights of women and children. > >During a ceremony at the College of Social Sciences and Humanities, the Dean >of the University of Oriente, Maria Julia Jimenez, outlined the role played >by Vilma Espin in the fight for women's rights. > >Jimenez pointed out that this recognition strengthens the women's federation >in their on-going battle for social equality between men and women. > > >*FIRST VENEZUELAN PATIENTS ARRIVE > >Havana, November 30 (RHC)-The first group of 30 Venezuelans to receive >medical treatment in Cuba free of charge will arrive on the island Thursday. > >The Venezuelan patients, all from poor families with scant economic >resources, will travel to Havana on Venezuela's Presidential airplane. > >The medical treatment is part of the recently signed Cuba-Venezuela Integral >Cooperation Project, penned by Cuban President Fidel Castro and President >Hugo Chavez during the Cuban leader's recent official visit to that country. > > >*CUBA AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF EQUAL RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION: LULA > >Havana, November 30 (RHC)-The leader of Brazil's Workers Party, Luis Inacio >Lula Da Silva, Thursday asserted in Havana that Cuba is an excellent example >of the equal distribution of its resources, in contrast with other countries >in Latin America where there is merely a distribution of poverty. He >reiterated these views in a statement to the Brazilian daily "O Estado de >Sao Paulo." > >The Brazilian leader stated that the moral force of Cuban President Fidel >Castro and the Cuban people has permitted the Revolution to survive, despite >the island's economic crisis following the collapse of the Eastern European >socialist camp and the disintegration of the former Soviet Union. Following >these events, Washington also tightened its blockade of Cuba. > > >*VIETNAM AND CUBA CELEBRATE 40 YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS > >Hanoi, November 30 (RHC)-Vietnam's Foreign Minister Nguyen Dy Nien, said on >Thursday in Hanoi that despite the changes in the international scenario, >the Cuban and Vietnamese Revolutions are strengthening bilateral >cooperation. > >During an activity commemorating the 40th anniversary of diplomatic >relations between Hanoi and Havana, the Vietnamese official said that this >has been an era of marvelous transformations. He added that both countries >have shared difficult moments, but also solidarity and mutual support in the >cause to preserve liberty, independence and socialism. > > >*IBERO-AMERICAN CULTURAL & SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATION CREATED IN MADRID > >Havana, November 30 (RHC)- The Jose Marti Ibero American Cultural and >Scientific Foundation has been created in Madrid, Spain, with the objective >of contributing to the improvement of relations between countries of the >region and to a greater integration and preservation of their cultures. > >The Former Dean of Madrid's Polytechnic University, Dr. Rafael Portaenca, >was elected president of the institution, while Armando Hart, Director of >the National Office of Jose Marti Studies in Havana, was elected vice >president. > >Among some of the honorary figures of the Foundation is Nobel Literature >Prize laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Jose >Saramago. > > >*Viewpoint: GROWING SPANISH INFLUENCE IN THE AMERICAS > >In the last ten years Spain has been gaining economic influence in Latin >America. Not only has this penetration converted Spain into the number one >investor in the region, but it has also significantly increased Madrid's >political influence in the area. > >The increase in economic ties between Spain and Latin America could be seen >as a positive side of globalization, because it eases, to a certain extent, >dependence on the North. > >It is undeniable that the United States, in its privileged condition as the >only remaining superpower, has made no bones about its obsession with >keeping the Americas for itself in a world that is dividing up into powerful >economic blocks. > >Nervous about the growing influence of the European Union, with Spain as its >leader in Latin American economies, Washington has designed an opportunistic >strategy to guarantee a secure, advantageous market for American products. > >Key in the U.S.'s plan is to create, by the year 2005, a free trade area of >the Americas, though in reality not so free, since the United States will be >the all-powerful leader thanks to the strength of its economy. However the >growth of Spain's political clout in our region is beginning to spawn signs >of arrogance in the current right-wing government in Madrid. We only have to >turn to the recently concluded 10th Ibero-American Summit in Panama. > >In the drafting of the Special Resolution on the Panama Canal, Spanish >representatives opposed the explicit mention of the United States in a >Venezuelan proposal supporting Panama's demand that the Pentagon clean up >the toxic and dangerous waste U.S. armed forces left behind in the bases >they occupied there for nearly a century. > >Many experts believe that Spain's refusal to back the proposal came as a >result of its membership in NATO, which appears to be more important to >Madrid than demonstrating solidarity with a just cause of an Ibero American >people. > >The Spanish government also opposed the suggestion that the Summit ask for >3% of Latin America's foreign debt to be forgiven, so that the money could >be used to help the region's children escape malnutrition, ignorance and >illness. > >Could it have been thinking like a creditor nation when it decided to turn >down the proposal? Fortunately for all of us, we are no longer living in >colonial times. > >(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-12.01.00-04:08:30-30258 > _______________________________________________________ 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. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for anti-imperialist news. 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