Subject: [CubaNews] CubaNews summary 9-26-2001 CubaNews summary 9-26-2001 ========================= BOOKMARK THIS USEFUL WEB PAGE The Washington Post conveniently locates many of its published articles on Cuba on a single page. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/americas/caribbean/cuba/ ======================================== RESTORING THE PEACE GRANMA, September 25, 2001 Restoring the peace (Economic Society of Friends of the Country) THE diabolical attack on civilian targets in the United States has struck hard at the sensibility of men and women throughout the world. The Cuban people, subjected to absurd aggression for 42 long years, including acts of terrorism that resulted in thousands of dead and wounded, have been particularly distressed by this horrific tragedy. We have witnessed with deep concern how acts of terrorism are multiplying and becoming more acute, from the indiscriminate bombing of the Serbian population to the attack on the World Trade Center in New York. Everything would seem to indicate that the cold war and the potential confrontation between "capitalist" and "communist" countries has been followed by an escalation of armed attacks in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and now the United States. Adding together the effect of those conflicts from the end of World War II to date, they are in fact barely different from the results of a veritable world conflagration. However, one characteristic that stands out in this tragedy is its illegal character, at a far remove from the international order established with such hope at the end of World War II. These terrible episodes have been eroding the system of international institutions that emerged as a result of the last great war, gradually converting them into obsolete instruments able to resolve very little or nothing in the economic, political or social fields. And they are being heeded less and less. In the eyes of a serene and impartial observer, that process of violent and tragic acts leading to the loss of human life is increasingly taking on a definitively terrorist nature, given their bloody nature and unjust causes, in which it is impossible to define who is in the right or wrong. Without awaiting a final outcome as was the case at the end of the two world wars, nobody can ignore the dimensions of the terrible butchery that these terrorist campaigns are producing, especially in terms of civilian, female and child victims. When a catastrophe occurs such as the recent disasters in New York and Washington, all efforts are mustered into organizing rescue operations. However, I believe that this latest terrorist episode, which cannot be simply disconnected from preceding ones, has marked the moment when we should concentrate all the forces of reason and will on a priority objective: restoring the peace. It could be said that, like the ozone layer, peace is disappearing from the face of the earth. Smart bombs, cruise missiles, fighter planes or soldiers (who will also die) cannot liquidate terrorism. Only a heightened respect for justice and international order can guarantee peace. And, above all, a respect for other people's rights, as the esteemed Mexican patriot Benito Ju�rez once said. If a nation or a group of individuals violate these principles, the inevitable retribution will come sooner or later. It is worrisome to hear that nowadays in the United States - a nation profoundly affected by the harsh blow it has received - individuals, political leaders and the press have all referred exultingly to Pearl Harbor. Such jingoistic slogans, which have nothing to do with the current situation, were heard in 1898 (when the United States took control of Cuba from the Spanish) in relation to the USS Maine. And they always have preceded serious armed conflicts. In an educated and serene manner, the U.S. people should currently reflect on another slogan: "Remember Viet Nam." Havana, September 16, 2001 ======================================== CUBA LAUNCHES NEW CULTURAL TV STATION Cuban government television launches new TV station Associated Press September 25, 2001, 2:39 PM EDT HAVANA -- Communist Cuba will invest $3.7 million to launch a new television channel that will focus exclusively on cultural programming, leader Fidel Castro announced. Castro said in a televised address to teachers late Monday that the channel will be broadcast in the capital of Havana and surrounding Havana province beginning in six weeks. Plans are under way for another cultural channel to begin broadcasting in Cuba's second largest city, Santiago, on the island's east end, in January, Castro said. Government-controlled Cuban television currently has only two national channels, which provide news and political programs, along with some children's offerings such as cartoons. American-made action movies dubbed in Spanish are shown regularly on Saturday nights. Copyright � 2001, South Florida Sun-Sentinel ======================================== NEGROPONTE WINS U.N. SEAT UNANIMOUSLY. Granma provides a detailed discussion of: "How an obsessive anti-communist, associate of the terrorist CANF, a Machiavellian war strategist, godfather of Honduras' most sinister death squad, and conspirator in the Iran-Contra scandal reached the UN as U.S. ambassador... thanks to the anti-terrorist wave unleashed by the most spectacular attack in history." This obsessive anti-communist, a partner of the terrorist Cuban-American National Foundation, Machiavellian strategist of the Viet Nam war, sponsor of the sinister Honduran death squad, conspirator in the Iran-Contra scandal, has now reached the UN as U.S. ambassador thanks to the anti-terrorist wave fuelled by the most spectacular attack in history. At a time when the U.S. public's attention is concentrated on images of the incredible destruction of the New York twin towers, and the Senate is carried away by a generalized sentiment of patriotic solidarity, John Dimitri Negroponte has calmly been able to assume his new post, by unanimous vote. I can't wait to hear him giving lessons to the world on the subject of human rights! http://www.granma.cu/ingles/septiem4/39despues-i.html MY INTERVIEW WITH NEGROPONTE: http://www.granma.cu/ingles/agosto3/34jdn-i.html =================================== A VOTE FOR JANET RENO [letter to Sun-Sentinel] A vote for Reno Julia V. Fernandez MIAMI September 26, 2001 I am a Cuban (old) lady who lives in Miami-Dade County and I will vote for Janet Reno. It would be interesting and very healthy for Florida if we could have a governor who does what is necessary to do regardless of political sympathies and criticisms. She said: "I just became concerned about the direction Florida is going." Me too. Copyright � 2001, South Florida Sun-Sentinel ________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki Phone +358-40-7177941 Fax +358-9-7591081 http://www.kominf.pp.fi General class struggle news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe mails to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geopolitical news: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________
