RHC Weekend-07 July 2001
Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit
Radio Havana Cuba - Late Night News Update - 07 July 2001
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*FIDEL ANNOUNCES JULY 26 EVENTS AT SATURDAY'S DEMONSTRATION
*POPE JOHN PAUL II CONDEMNS US BLOCKADE ON CUBA
*US CARAVANISTAS VISIT VILLA CLARA PROVINCE
*BELIZE OFFICIAL VISITS EXHIBITION OF BELIZEAN ART IN HAVANA
*FACED WITH ISRAELI STALL, ARAFAT CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE ON SHARON
*PERU'S CONGRESS TO CHARGE FUJIMORI WITH CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS
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*FIDEL ANNOUNCES JULY 26 EVENTS AT SATURDAY'S DEMONSTRATION
Havana, July 7 (RHC)--Cuban president Fidel Castro presided over an open
tribunal held at the Havana municipality of Bejucal on Saturday, to demand
the release of five Cubans imprisoned in the United States under false
charges of espionage.
Some 20,000 people gathered at the tribunal to hear the Cuban leader say
that nobody can hide the truth or ultimately prevent justice from
prevailing. No force in the world can crush our resistance or take away our
independence, he added. In reference to recent concerns over his health,
Fidel Castro also said that the Revolution is not and never will be the work
of one person. It is, he said, the work of generations both past and present
-- the fruit of the heroism of an indomitable people.
The Cuban president took the occasion to announce that the province of
Havana had been awarded the annual honor of organizing the national
celebrations of the 26th July, which commemorates the attack on the Moncada
Barracks in Santiago de Cuba and the beginning of the Cuban Revolution.
*POPE JOHN PAUL II CONDEMNS US BLOCKADE ON CUBA
Vatican City, 7th July (RHC)--Pope John Paul II has again denounced the US
economic blockade on Cuba in a speech to Cuban bishops visiting the Vatican.
The pontiff recalled his highly successful visit to Cuba in 1998 in which he
called for the world to reach out to Cuba and for Cuba to reach out to the
world. Many things have been accomplished since that visit, said the Pope,
and much more needs to be done. He expressed concern for the fact that in
his opinion there aren't enough Catholic priests and nuns in Cuba.
Pope John Paul II criticized as "unethical and unjust" what he called
Washington's "restrictive economic measures" imposed on Cuba, and praised
the island's bishops for their efforts to revive Catholicism on the island.
*US CARAVANISTAS VISIT VILLA CLARA PROVINCE
Havana, July 7 (RHC)--Members of the 12th Pastors for Peace Friendship
Caravan toured several places of economical, social, and historical interest
in central Villa Clara province, as part of their visit program.
The Ernesto Che Guevara Memorial, the School of Art Instructors and several
Committees for the Defense of the Revolution were some of the places visited
by the caravanistas in Villa Clara. They also met with local officials and
with members of the Escambray theater group.
The 12th US/Cuba Friendship Caravan is composed of 87 US citizens from 16
states, as well as brigadistas from another 7 nations. This time their
humanitarian aid consisted of 80 tons of health and education items. Part of
the items collected by the caravanistas was confiscated by US Federal
authorities in Maine on the Canadian border. Pastors for Peace has developed
a campaign to demand the release of those items.
The US/Cuba friendshipment caravans are the result of a project fostered by
Reverend Lucius Walker, president of the Inter-Religious Foundation for
Community Organization, as a way to break Washington's blockade of Cuba.
The caravan arrived in Havana on Tuesday, and will remain on the island
until July 11.
*BELIZE OFFICIAL VISITS EXHIBITION OF BELIZEAN ART IN HAVANA
Havana, July 7 (RHC)--An exhibition called "Zero: New Belizean Art" was
inaugurated at Havana's Casa de las Americas cultural institution on Friday.
Present at the opening ceremony were Belizean Deputy Prime Minister John
Brice�o and Cuban Parliament President Ricardo Alarc�n.
Pieces by six young artists from Belize are now on display at the
institution's Latin American Gallery. The work's wide range is one of the
aspects of fragmentation that the artists all said was their style.
The exhibition, which is another example of the friendship ties existing
between Belize and Cuba, is part of a program organized for Brice�o and his
official delegation.
*FACED WITH ISRAELI STALL, ARAFAT CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE ON SHARON
Jerusalem, July 7 (RHC)--In the face of Israel's refusal to further
negotiate peace, the president of the Palestine National Authority, Yasser
Arafat, has called on seven world leaders to pressure Israel to renew the
peace process.
With Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon continuing to demand what he terms
as "absolute calm" before he will join Palestinians for talks, Palestine
Authority Planning and International Cooperation Minister, Nabil Shaat,
charged on Saturday that Sharon is not interested in returning to the
negotiating table. The talks broke down seven months ago.
In a letter, Arafat called on world leaders including U.S. president George
Bush and Russian president Vladimir Putin, to put pressure on Israel to
apply the recommendations of the Mitchell Commission to re-establish
negotiations.
Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell is said to support the
Israeli position that the Mitchell Report cannot yet be applied. According
to Radio Israel, citing diplomatic sources in Jerusalem, Powell spoke on
Friday night by telephone with Ariel Sharon and agreed with the Israeli
prime minister that the Palestinians had not yet ended what Israel calls
"violence against Israelis."
And in related news, Syria's president, Bashar al Assad, has accused Israeli
prime minister Sharon of preparing a war in the Middle East, which would
involve the entire region. In statements in Berlin to the German magazine
"Der Spiegel," Assad affirmed that his country will continue insisting on a
strategy of peace, but he added that Syrians would not hesitate if they were
obliged to go to war.
*PERU'S CONGRESS TO CHARGE FUJIMORI WITH CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATIONS
Lima, July 7 (RHC)--A Peruvian congressional committee investigating the
l992 coup perpetrated by then president Alberto Fujimori, has agreed to
charge the former president and various of his ministers with the crime of
aggravated insurrection against the state.
Commission head, Manuel Masias, said in Lima that there is proof that
Fujimori led the coup against the Congress, the judiciary and other
autonomous organizations, with the support of the armed forces.
Also discovered was evidence of the participation in the crime of the former
Foreign Minister, the Defence Minister and the Minister of the Interior. The
congressional commission implicated as well then chief of the Peruvian Armed
Forces, Nicolas Hermosa Rios, and former presidential advisor, Valdimiro
Montesinos. The heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force, the National Police
and the National Intelligence Service were also involved according to the
investigation.
If found guilty, Fujimori and his fellow conspirators could be sentenced to
between ten and twenty years in prison. Fujimori also faces a variety of
other charges committed during his term as president. The former president,
who was removed from office last November on charges of corruption,
attempted to justify his coup by claiming it was the only way to reconstruct
the country.
Fujimori is currently in Japan where he fled shortly before he was
officially removed from the presidency. He holds Japanese citizenship.
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