From: John Clancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 09:04:54 -0800
Radio Havana Radio Jan 12. Cuba Survival -New US Admin
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Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 12 January 2001
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*CUBAN DOCTORS TO REMAIN IN GUATEMALA DESPITE DEATH THREATS
*CUBA'S PEACE MOVEMENT CONDEMNS NATO'S USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM
WEAPONS
*VIETNAMESE DELEGATION TO ATTEND 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF OSPAAAL
*CUBAN JOINT VENTURES INCREASE, DESPITE WASHINGTON'S ECONOMIC
BLOCKADE
*CUBA AND FINLAND TO STRENGTHEN BILATERAL RELATIONS
*CUBAN, AMERICAN YOUTHS PAINT UNITY MURAL
Viewpoint:
*CUBA PREPARED TO SURVIVE YET ANOTHER U.S. ADMINISTRATION
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*CUBAN DOCTORS TO REMAIN IN GUATEMALA DESPITE DEATH THREATS
Havana, January (RHC)-- Cuban doctors offering medical services free-
of- charge in Guatemala will continue their mission, despite death
threats, according to Dr. Rosa Lemus, head of the Cuban medical
brigade in that Central American nation.
On Thursday before leaving for Guatemala, Dr. Lemus said in Havana
that the Cuban health professionals, who are working in the country's
most remote areas, have re-opened 337 health posts and rural
hospitals that had been closed before their arrival.
The head of the medical contingent told Prensa Latina news agency
that the 476 Cuban health professionals have reduced infant mortality
of children under a year old by up to 50 per cent.
Cuban President Fidel Castro recently sent a letter to the Cuban
doctors in Guatemala praising their willingness to stay on working in
the face of death threats, as an example of the nobleness of their
profession and of their country.
*CUBA'S PEACE MOVEMENT CONDEMNS NATO'S USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM
WEAPONS
Havana, January 12 (RHC)--Cuba's Peace Movement has strongly
condemned the use of NATO ammunitions containing depleted uranium
used during the war in Kosovo and charges that the effects continue
to plague the population.
In a statement issued on Thursday in Havana the Peace Movement
criticized NATO's political committee, especially the United States'
rejection of an Italian request to evaluate the consequences of the
ammunition.
The Cuban Peace Movement has denounced the U.S.'s war policy which
they charge was responsible for the use of ammunition containing
depleted uranium. The organization has asked peace organizations to
call for a peaceful and just world.
*VIETNAMESE DELEGATION TO ATTEND 35TH ANNIVERSARY OF OSPAAAL
Havana, January 12 (RHC)--A delegation from Vietnam's Communist Party
will participate in Havana in activities for the 35th anniversary of
the Organization in Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia and
Latin America, OSPAAAL.
The Vietnamese group is headed by the Vice- President of the Asian
country's Foreign Relations Department, Phaan Van Truong.
When OSPAAAL celebrated its first Tri Continental Congress in Havana
in 1966, the international solidarity movement was working strongly
to support the resistance of the Vietnamese people against U.S.
aggression against their country.
*CUBAN JOINT VENTURES INCREASE, DESPITE WASHINGTON'S ECONOMIC
BLOCKADE
Havana, January 12 (RHC)--There are currently 392 joint ventures from
46 countries operating in Cuba, despite Washington's economic
blockade against the island, according to Ernesto Sentic, First
Deputy Foreign Investment and Economic Cooperation Minister.
Speaking at a year-end Ministry evaluation meeting in eastern
Guantanamo province, Sentic explained that foreign investment in Cuba
is only permitted as a complement to development in sectors which
lack resources to develop on their own.
He added that in addition to joint ventures, a number of
cooperative production and management contracts have also been
established in Cuba constituting a new way to attract foreign
capital.
*CUBA AND FINLAND TO STRENGTHEN BILATERAL RELATIONS
Havana, January 12 (RHC)--Cuba and Finland have expressed an interest
in strengthening bilateral relations. In a meeting on Thursday in
Havana, Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Angel Dalmau and the President
of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Finnish Parliament Lisa
Yoakonasaari examined ways to expand relations.
The Finnish Parliamentary leader arrived on Wednesday in Havana
accompanied by 8 lawmakers on the invitation of Cuba's National
Assembly. The group from Finland met with the President of the Cuban
Parliament, Ricarado Alarcon and will visit a UNICEF project in the
Cuban capital.
*CUBAN, AMERICAN YOUTHS PAINT UNITY MURAL
Havana, January 12 (RHC)--Cuban and American youths painted a mural
in the central province of Sancti Spiritus as an example of unity and
comprehension between the peoples of both countries.
The US brigade, made up of 17 youngsters, mainly from New York City,
spent 11 days in Sancti Spiritus doing voluntary work in agriculture
and construction.
The group is part of a project of the New York-based Center for
Cuban Studies and is hosted on the island by the Cuban Institute of
Friendship with the People's, ICAP.
Viewpoint:
*CUBA PREPARED TO SURVIVE YET ANOTHER U.S. ADMINISTRATION
When European socialism collapsed in l990, few political experts
thought that the Cuban Revolution would survive. Right-wing Cuban
Americans began packing their bags for a triumphant return to Cuba to
claim what they had left behind more than 30 years before. For years
Cuba's enemies had been claiming that the island was nothing more
than a satellite of the then powerful Soviet Union. the truth is that
they had been misinformed by the torrents of negative propaganda put
out by the United States around the world in its campaign to
discredit Cuba internationally.
None of Cuba's enemies had taken into account the political, economic
and social achievements of the Cuban Revolution in its first three
decades. That was also a mistake made by 9 successive U.S.
governments which maintained an irrational economic and political
battle against the island which has lasted 40 years.
The explanation of this historic resistance is that Cuba and its
people are consistently underestimated by the powers that be. In a
few days, the next U.S. government will be sworn in. And it appears
that it will continue to allow the country to be manipulated by a
small, but powerful anti-Cuba mafia based in the state of Florida
which was decisive in giving the election to Republican candidate,
George W. Bush.
Cuba is prepared to meet any new aggressions and difficulties that
are placed in its path. It is important to remember that the Cuba of
today is not the Cuba of l959, or even that of the days of the
collapse of socialism in Europe. The Cuban people, shamelessly
blockaded, accosted and defamed by their powerful enemies, today have
more international prestige than their powerful northern neighbor
which has been isolated by its antiquated anti-Cuba policies in the
United Nations General Assembly and most international organizations
and even by the American people themselves.
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