Foreign minister flogs 'imperial diplomacy' Speaking at the 20th Ibero-American Summit in Mar del Plata, Argentina, Cuban Foreign Minister *Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla *said [image: (brp)]<http://miamiherald.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b26169e20147e060b785970b-pi>that "the latest and scandalous revelations in the secret American documents [...] strip naked the imperial diplomacy. They are full of arrogance, of judgments about our nations and leaders, of contempt for international law, of cynicism and hypocrisy. [...] They mistake diplomacy for intelligence operations and subversion and political influence, with heavy-handed intervention in our internal affairs."
Rodríguez read from "a very interesting [cable] from 27 February 2009 that acknowledges and demonstrates that Cuba is one of the safest places in the world for American citizens, where it is physically impossible to organize terrorist or hostile acts against the United States." The cable, disclosed Tuesday by Wikileaks, was from the U.S. Interests Section in Havana to the U.S. State Department. It said in part that "Cuba does [...] have well-trained, professional paramilitary forces who would be utilized to protect USINT assets should a crisis warrant their deployment." It also said that the Intelligence and Counterintelligence directorates of the Interior Ministry "are professional and capable services [...] highly effective at penetrating networks on the island and actively pursuing individuals they believe to be terrorists." The USINT's praiseful acknowledgment "is, curiously, a document from the same government that includes Cuba in a spurious list of states that sponsor international terrorism while it protects the terrorist [Luis] Posada Carriles," Rodríguez pointed out. *And he added: "Behind the courteous smiles and words of the current president of the United States there has been no real change in politics or ethics and no 'new beginning' has occurred."* (For the full text of the speech, in Spanish, click here<http://america.cubaminrex.cu/Actualidad/2010/Diciembre/DISCURSO.html> .) Renato Pérez Pizarro. Read more: http://miamiherald.typepad.com/cuban_colada/#ixzz17LjLUl8m [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
