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Radio Havana Cuba Weekend - News Update - 27/28 January 2001
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*UNDER BUSH, CUBA COULD BECOME TARGET OF MOST REACTIONARY US SECTORS
*CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTRY DETAILS REASONS FOR ARREST OF TWO CZECHS
*YOUTH MARCH ON 148TH ANNIVERSARY OF JOSE MARTI'S BIRTHDAY
*DELEGATION FROM DJIBOUTI BEGINS FIVE-DAY OFFICIAL VISIT
*SOUTH AMERICAN SOLIDARITY BRIGADE PAYS TRIBUTE TO ERNESTO CHE
GUEVARA
*UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAM CONGRATULATES CUBAN GOVERNMENT
*FOURTH ANNUAL TERRY FOX RACE TAKES PLACE ON SUNDAY
*INDIGENOUS ECUADORANS MARCH ON QUITO, PROMISE NOT TO OVERTHROW
GOVERNMENT
*PROTESTERS MANAGE TO GET THROUGH STRICT DAVOS SECURITY
*MIAMI MAFIA URGES BUSH TO REPEAL US-CUBA MIGRATORY ACCORDS
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*UNDER BUSH, CUBA COULD BECOME TARGET OF MOST REACTIONARY US SECTORS
Havana, January 27 (RHC) -- Cuban President Fidel Castro has asserted
that with the advent of the U.S.'s George Bush administration, Cuba
could become the target of the most extremist and reactionary sectors
currently celebrating the arrival of a new government in Washington.
Speaking before some 300 thousand people from Havana and Havana City
Provinces, on the occasion of the 148th anniversary of Cuban National
Hero Jose Marti's birth, Fidel Castro recalled that in Bush's
questionable victory, the terrorist Cuban-American mafia in Miami
played a decisive role.
The Cuban leader said the past actions and current ideas of the
principle members of the Bush administration have generated an
atmosphere of doubt, suspicion and fear within international public
opinion, almost without exception. He went on to say that,
nevertheless, Cuba will not be caught by surprise or unprepared.
President Castro said Cuba is not the inexperienced, unarmed and
almost illiterate country that it was in 1959. He said Cuba can look
to the future with serenity and confidence because the Cuban people
have confronted with honor and heroically resisted 42 years of
hostility, aggressions and an economic war.
Fidel Castro said the Cuban people have learned to fight and win in
the most inconceivable circumstances. No other people, said the Cuban
leader, is better prepared and less dependent on trade and commerce
with the planet's most powerful nation.
He said humanity has entered one of the most complex periods of its
history, with an unchallenged imperialist power, in which
considerable resources have been squandered, the environment has been
damaged, and in which there is an irrational pattern of consumption
that is out of reach for the vast majority of the planet's
inhabitants.
Humanity's political achievements, said the Cuban leader -- its
achievements in social justice and peaceful cohabitation -- have
fallen far behind scientific achievements. He said the current world
order will not be able to create a dignified life on this planet, but
that Cuba -- free to expound its truths and defend the rights of
Third World peoples in the international arena -- has been able to
contribute its grain of sand to the struggle for a world that is more
just, more rational and more imbued with the spirit of solidarity.
*CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTRY DETAILS REASONS FOR ARREST OF TWO CZECHS
Havana, January 27 (RHC) -- Cuba's Foreign Ministry has reiterated
the reasons for the justifiable arrest of two Czech citizens involved
in counterrevolutionary activities on the island. In an extensive
note published in the Saturday edition of the official Cuban news
daily Granma, the Cuban Foreign Ministry stated that in light of the
Czech Republic's on-going campaign to denounce the arrests -- and in
light of other nations that are echoing this campaign -- the
government of Cuba finds it necessary to state the facts.
Czech citizens Ivan Pilip and Jan Bubenik were arrested after
holding conspiratorial meetings with small groups of
counterrevolutionary elements in the central Ciego de Avila Province.
Both were recruited and financed by the U.S.'s ultra-right wing
Freedom House and the U.S. Agency for International Development,
which in 1997 began to promote subversion in Cuba under section 109
of the anti-Cuba Helms-Burton Law.
The USAID publicly admitted in June, 2000 that Freedom House
organized a visit to Cuba of 4 anti-socialist journalists, 4
legislators, 2 economists and an academic from Eastern Europe
financed by the U.S. government. The Cuban Foreign Ministry stated
that these types of visits, to finance small groups in Cuba in favor
of doing away with the Cuban Revolution, began more than 10 years ago
-- and that the Czech Republic is the former socialist country that
has played the most active role in Washington's anti-Cuba campaign.
The Foreign Ministry note recalled that in 1990, the first post-
socialist government in Prague went to the extreme of giving a warm
welcome to the late Cuban-American Jorge Mas Canosa, then-leader of
Miami's ultra-right wing and terrorist Cuban-American National
Foundation. The extensive note named numerous Czech diplomats in
Havana over the past 10 years who have had close ties to the U.S.
Interests Section in the Cuban capital and to terrorist groups in
Miami.
One of the most infamous, Petr Mikyska, traveled to Miami on 20
occasions during his more than 4 year stay in Havana in the early to
mid-1990s, and had close ties to Jose Francisco Hernandez Calvo, of
the CANF's Board of Directors. Hernandez Calvo was implicated in the
1997 assassination plot against Cuban President Fidel Castro during
the Iberoamerican Summit at Venezuela's Margarita Island.
Despite the fact that one of the two 50 caliber rifles with
infrared Telescopes confiscated from the hit-team was registered in
his name, Hernandez Calvo wasn't even charged. The Cuban Foreign
Ministry provided a long list of undiplomatic actions carried out by
the Czech embassy in Havana, including its activities as liaison for
Washington and Miami in the supply of money and equipment to small
counterrevolutionary groups and outright espionage.
Cuba's Foreign Ministry said that despite the condition of House
Deputy of one of the Czech citizens arrested, both came on tourist
visas and, therefore, under international law have no immunity. No
country that respects itself, say's the Foreign Ministry note, can
accept actions that tarnish its sovereignty, violate its laws, and
threaten its security, integrity and independence.
*YOUTH MARCH ON 148TH ANNIVERSARY OF JOSE MARTI'S BIRTHDAY
Havana, January 27 (RHC) -- Millions of Cuban children and students
will participate in the traditional annual marches on Saturday and
Sunday, January 27th and 28th, to commemorate the 148th anniversary
of Cuban National Hero Jose Marti's birth.
In addition, a wide variety of sports and cultural activities will
also take place on Sunday in all the provinces of the country. In
Havana, some 22,000 thousand young students from the Centro Habana,
Cerro and Plaza municipalities will march in the Jose Marti
Revolution Square along with hundreds of teachers who participated in
the national Literacy Campaign in the early '60s.
*DELEGATION FROM DJIBOUTI BEGINS FIVE-DAY OFFICIAL VISIT
Havana, January 27 (RHC) -- A delegation from the Republic of
Djibouti, headed by Foreign Minister Ali Abdi Farah, arrived Thursday
in the Cuban capital for a five-day official visit.
On Thursday, during official talks held between Abdi Farah and his
Cuban counterpart Felipe Perez Roque, the Cuban Foreign Minister
thanked him for his country's support of Cuba's struggle against the
US blockade.
The African delegation, which includes high-ranking officials from
the health, sports and tourism sectors, met Thursday with the Cuban
Ministers of Public Health, Foreign Investments and Cooperation,
Foreign Trade, Sports and Tourism.
On Monday, the Foreign Minister of Djibouti and his Cuban counterpart
will sign a document that will include the objectives achieved during
the official talks between the two delegations. The agenda also
includes visits to places of cultural and scientific interest.
*SOUTH AMERICAN SOLIDARITY BRIGADE PAYS TRIBUTE TO ERNESTO CHE
GUEVARA
Havana, January 27 (RHC) -- More than 300 members of the 8th South
American brigade in solidarity with Cuba visited Thursday the Ernesto
Che Guevara Memorial in Villa Clara province and paid tribute to the
revolutionary leader.
The solidarity brigade, that arrived in Cuba on January 15th and
departs on the 28th, includes activists from Argentina, Uruguay,
Chile, Paraguay, Brazil and Bolivia.
During their stay on the island, the South American visitors have
carried out agricultural voluntary work in Caimito, Havana province,
and participated with the people of the Cuban capital in the January
19th march in front of the US Interests Section in Havana to protest
the Cuban Adjustment Act and other anti-Cuba US legislation.
*UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAM CONGRATULATES CUBAN GOVERNMENT
Havana, January 27 (RHC) --The representative of the UN World Food
Program in Cuba, German Valdir, praised the cooperation of the
island's government in the implementation of several projects in the
eastern part of the country.
During the year 2000, the UNWFP implemented a program in the
eastern province of Granma with an investment of some six million
dollars. According to Valdir, the Cuban government contributed to
this project with more than 4 million dollars for the creation of the
necessary economic and social infrastructure.
The UNWFP representative said that some 3.600 tons of different
products were delivered to the Cuban people last year with a value of
3.120.000 dollars. The donations came mainly from Finland, Norway,
Japan and Switzerland.
*FOURTH ANNUAL TERRY FOX RACE TAKES PLACE ON SUNDAY
Havana, January 27 (RHC) -- The fourth Terry Fox-Struggle against
Cancer Race will take place in Havana Sunday, January 28th.
This event, organized every year by more than 50 countries, is part
of a worldwide effort to create a consciousness in the people about
cancer and the ways to prevent it and, at the same time, raise funds
to help finance scientific research into this disease.
This race is named after a young Canadian who began in 1980 the so-
called Race of Hope running across the entire Canadian nation,
covering 43 kilometers every day, even though he had lost a leg due
to cancer. After 5.000 kilometers he had to stop since the cancer had
spread to his lungs.
*INDIGENOUS ECUADORANS MARCH ON QUITO, PROMISE NOT TO OVERTHROW
GOVERNMENT
Quito, Jan 27 (RHC)--Hundreds of indigenous activists in Ecuador
are arriving in the capital, Quito, and hundreds more are expected
this weekend -- but they've promised to refrain from overthrowing the
government of President Gustavo Noboa. In January of last year, a
similar protest movement that converged on the capital bringing
thousands of indigenous activists led to the downfall of the Jamil
Mahuad administration.
The activists, primarily from the provinces of Cotopaxi,
Chimborazo, Tungurahua, Azuay, Carchi, Imbabura and Pichincha, have
begun to install themselves in Quito's Arbolito Park -- just a few
blocks away from congressional headquarters and the embassies of
France and the United States -- where for the past week grassroots
and labor activists have been holding a protest vigil.
Antonio Vargas, head of the powerful Ecuadoran Confederation of
Indigenous Nationalities, said they will remain in Quito until Noboa
repeals the most recent price hikes in transportation, fuel and
domestic gas. He said they do no seek Noboa's downfall, but just want
the government to know that they exist.
Campesino activists are also arriving in the capital from diverse
regions that have seen numerous protests and some violent clashes
with police and soldiers. The protests have included road blockages,
which have tied up traffic on the highways leading into cities like
Latacunga, Ambato, Riobamba, Cuenca, Otavalo, Ibarra and Tulcan.
*PROTESTERS MANAGE TO GET THROUGH STRICT DAVOS SECURITY
Geneva, Jan 27 (RHC)--Police in Switzerland prevented hundreds of
anti-free market globalization activists from arriving at the
convention center in Davos that is hosting the World Economic Forum.
However, despite what is being called the largest security operation
in Switzerland in recent decades, several hundred were able to break
through the blockade -- but only arrived some 500 meters from the
convention site.
Swiss authorities declared illegal any protests at Davos, which
activists have strongly criticized as a violation of their freedom to
express themselves. Davos has been compared to a fortified citadel,
with all accesses blocked and surrounded by police, soldiers and
barbed wire.
Meanwhile, prominent activists are commenting on the fear of
institutions like the World Trade Organization and the International
Monetary Fund, which in the face of growing international opposition
to free market globalization have chose two small countries in the
Arabian Peninsula to hold their next assemblies.
The small nation of Qatar was the only country that offered to host
the next WTO encounter late this year after the fiasco in Seattle.
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund plan to hold their
assembly in 2003 in Dubai after the protests in Prague.
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*MIAMI MAFIA URGES BUSH TO REPEAL US-CUBA MIGRATORY ACCORDS
Repeal of the migratory accords between Cuba and the United States
has become one of the principle banners of the ultra-right wing,
terrorist mafia in Miami. President George Bush is going to be faced
with the dilemma of either appeasing the Cuban-Americans who helped
him to be selected, though not elected, or pay heed to numerous
experts and analysts who say a rupture of the accords could spark a
bilateral conflict that would lead to a massive exodus from Cuba and
therefore pose a threat to U.S. national security.
According to sources, right wing groups in Miami - which through
anti-Cuba TV and radio transmissions encourage Cubans in the island
to illegally travel to the U.S. by any means necessary - actually
want to spark an incident between Havana and Washington and then
pressure Bush to militarily intervene in Cuba. On at least one
occasion during the Clinton administration the Miami mafia
unsuccessfully pressured Washington to throw up a naval blockade
around Cuba.
In the face of this possibility, the Cuban government has clearly
stated that Cuba would not give any motive for the outbreak of a
crisis between the two countries. The Cuban government will comply
with its commitments in the U.S.-Cuba migratory accords, which
includes doing everything in its power to prevent illegal departures
from the island.
And Cuba will continue denouncing Washington's violations of those
accords in eh 1966 Cuban Adjustment Act granting undocumented Cubans
exclusive residency privileges despite whatever means were used to
illegally arrive in the United States. Cuba will also continue
denouncing the ever-increasing trafficking of undocumented Cubans in
speedboats leaving Florida, entering Cuban territory and returning to
Florida with their human cargo.
The immigration issue is just one of the possible arenas of
confrontation between Cuba and new U.S. administration whose advent
is being celebrated by the extremist sector of the Cuban-American
population. But as President Fidel Castro said today, on the occasion
of the 148th anniversary of Cuban National Hero Jose Marti's birth,
while intelligently avoiding any confrontation Cuba will neither be
caught by surprise or unprepared for any eventuality.
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