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FBIS3-32638_2 | Rosales del Toro Tours Holguin Province | of 1 ton an hour. Likewise, the charcoal producing area is able to produce 3 tons a day by consuming approximately 10 tons of bagasse briquettes. The importance of the experiment is clear to everyone because sugarcane bagasse is a renewable energy resource which yields hundreds of thousands of tons a year. The trick li... |
FBIS3-32639_0 | Assembly Discusses Budget Deficit Reduction Measures | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Delegates to Havana City's Provincial Assembly of the People's Government have analyzed and approved measures aimed at reducing the province's current budget deficit of 193 million pesos. Delegates at the forum discussed the actions aimed at increasing income and reducing expen... |
FBIS3-32661_0 | Roundup of Reportage on Economic Activities | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on economic activities in Argentina through 10 February: The cost of living rose 0.1 percent in January, bringing the inflation rate for the last 12 months to 6.6 percent, the National Institute of Statistics and Census reported on 3 February... |
FBIS3-32675_0 | Ombudsman Requests Information on Crescencio Diaz Case | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From "The Newscast"] [Text] Human Rights Ombudsman Carlos Mauricio Molina Fonseca has said that even though the UN rapporteur on Human Rights (Pedro Micken) never visited the country, he had to study the Salvadoran human rights situation very closely. It seems that poor coordination ... |
FBIS3-32677_0 | Relatives To Request Compensation | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Relatives of a bodyguard murdered by a U.S. officer have demanded compensation from the U.S. Embassy in El Salvador to help them through the hard economic situation they are experiencing. The widow, who appeared on television for the first time since her husband's death, said t... |
FBIS3-32685_0 | Foreign Minister on Diplomatic Agenda | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [All quotations marks as published] [Text] Foreign Relations Minister Gladys Maritza Ruiz Vielman stated yesterday that what was previously described by the government as a human rights "diplomatic offensive," was called off because it was unnecessary and represented an expensive inve... |
FBIS3-32686_0 | Suit Filed Against U.S. Before GATT on Tobacco Imports | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] The suit filed before the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade against the United States by Guatemala and other nations for restrictions imposed by U.S. import regulations on tobacco was confirmed yesterday by Agriculture Minister Luis Arturo del Valle and Foreign Trade Mi... |
FBIS3-32694_1 | Government `Victory' in Congress on Social Fund Analyzed | it will be difficult to balance the budget if salaries of public servants and military men are not frozen at 93 levels (in real-terms, of course) -- the Law on Budget Guidelines [LDO] lifts the requirement to withhold 20 percent of education-related salaries -- and at the same time approves housing expenditures three t... |
FBIS3-32706_0 | Cuba's Lage Discusses Bilateral Investment Agreements | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Mariangela Velasquez] [Excerpt] Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage yesterday met with Venezuelan Investment Fund [FIV] Minister Abdon Vivas Teran to discuss the possibility of establishing bilateral investment agreements in tourism and to obtain information about the guidelin... |
FBIS3-32710_0 | Editorial Accepts Criticisms | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "The U.S. Government May Report About Paraguay, But..."] [Text] The periodic U.S. State Department human rights reports on Paraguay are part of an analysis of the situation in all of Latin America. Only First World countries are exempt from this report because the United S... |
FBIS3-32710_1 | Editorial Accepts Criticisms | feels comfortable with such reports; they constitute U.S. Government interference in the domestic affairs of sovereign countries. Moreover, their use is not always restricted to moral sanctions. Sometimes they become the basis for economic restrictions and other kinds of pressures that indirectly undermine universal pr... |
FBIS3-32711_0 | More Objective Report Requested | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Editorial: "The United States Should not be Judge and Jury"] [Text] The U.S. Government periodically issues a document on the human rights situation in the world's countries. In an overall way it should be an objective evaluation due to the status of who formulates opinions on a topi... |
FBIS3-32714_1 | Editorial Supports Entry | allowed us to conclude that there is a constant argument being mentioned to avoid the presence of U.S. troops. As for the series of conditions imposed by the Foreign Ministry, they seem to be both confusing and contradictory. The presence of U.S. troops is related to the "Unitas" operations carried out previously in ou... |
FBIS3-32719_1 | FSLN Leader Arce Discusses Situation With Diplomats | a working breakfast with Commander Bayardo Arce, and they discussed various topics regarding the Nicaraguan situation. [Marcos Nunez, member of the Association of Diplomatic Officials] Personally, and not speaking for my embassy, I want to tell you the discussion was very good. I sensed a clear and sincere willingness ... |
FBIS3-32724_0 | Foreign Minister Protests U.S. Official's Statements | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Carmen Elida Contreras] [Text] Yesterday, Panamanian Foreign Minister Jose Raul Mulino rejected statements made in Washington by Robert Gelbard, U.S. assistant deputy secretary for Inter-American Affairs. Gelbard warned the United States could reduce its aid to countries, ... |
FBIS3-32725_0 | Ministers Reject U.S. Questioning | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Manuel Alvarez Cedeno and Orlando Mendieta C.] [Text] Planning Minister Delia Cardenas has said the U.S. State Department official who said Panama is not making enough effort to fight drug trafficking and money laundering "does not know the Panamanian situation or what the... |
FBIS3-32762_3 | Deputy Foreign Minister Views Immigration | (Petrella stands up and moves his hands). But we were talking about people who could support themselves. Argentina is one of the few countries in the world that still offers this possibility. [Korin] Which other countries do? [Petrella] Australia, New Zealand, Canada -- but to an increasingly smaller degree. To a certa... |
FBIS3-32762_4 | Deputy Foreign Minister Views Immigration | to create a common border alround Europe and thus limit the number of possible immigrants. Some even say this agreement harms the asylum right that was so traditional in countries such as Spain and France. The United States is strict but has signed agreements and, in general, is a very generous country. [Korin] But not... |
FBIS3-32766_0 | Five Policemen, 20 Students Injured in Street Clashes | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Quito, 9 Feb (AFP) -- The police have reported that five policemen and 20 civilians were seriously injured today as a result of street riots by students and workers in this capital. Students and factory workers who were protesting the 71.2-percent increase in the price of a gal... |
FBIS3-32767_3 | Disagreements With U.S. on Industrial Property Viewed | through imports without the obligation of manufacturing the product patented in the country. Another disagreement refers to parallel imports: The United States wants the patent holder to have the right to block parallel imports, in other words, those imports that are made without the authorization of the patent holder.... |
FBIS3-32776_1 | `Party Officials' Explain Situation to Visa Seekers | analysis of the incidents, JUVENTUD REBELDE points out that on 10 February, rumors began to spread through the city of Havana to the effect that the Cuban security guards had been withdrawn from the U.S. Interests Section, and that people going to the Section's offices were expeditiously being awarded visas. During tha... |
FBIS3-32778_1 | Easing Restrictions Viewed as Ploy to Infiltrate Society | prohibiting visits to other countries, in this case Cuba. As is well known, measures adopted by the U.S. Government to exert pressure and cause economic damage to the Cuban economy include the enforcement of severe sanctions on U.S. citizens who travel to Cuba in defiance of these restrictions. Obviously, the reported ... |
FBIS3-32780_0 | Havana Cites Reports Faulting U.S. Human Rights Record | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] The U.S. Government, which every year publishes a voluminous report detailing human rights violations in the rest of the world's countries, in several areas itself fails to come up to international norms as regards human rights. A recent report from the Human Rights Watch and t... |
FBIS3-32786_1 | Carlos Lage Grants Interview Upon Return to Havana | for us. We had the occasion to explain our situation, what we are doing, the measures we are adopting, and the importance of the struggle against the U.S. blockade under current conditions. "We met not only with the presidents of those countries, but also with other officials, with ministers and businessmen. I think th... |
FBIS3-32794_0 | Roundup of Economic Activity | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on economic developments in Cuba carried on Havana radio and television in Spanish between 8 and 11 February. Radio Rebelde at 1255 GMT on 8 February reports that a miscellaneous crops plenum was held in Cienfuegos Province at whic... |
FBIS3-32794_3 | Roundup of Economic Activity | lowering costs, and of course, there is an improvement in income." Del Risco notes that working for profit seems to motivate workers. Radio Rebelde at 1800 GMT on 11 February reports that at the end of an extensive tour of San Cristobal Municipality cane-growing areas, Fidel Ramos, first secretary of the Communist Part... |
FBIS3-32823_0 | * Monetary Board President Discusses Economic Plans | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Interview with Ana Lucia Armijos, president of the Monetary Board, by Roberto Peralta Cardenas; place and date not given] [Text] The first step included in the plans for the new year is the reduction of expenditures in the public sector, Monetary Board President Ana Lucia Armijos has... |
FBIS3-32823_2 | * Monetary Board President Discusses Economic Plans | within the first two months of the year. Our interview with the head of the body that directs the economy follows. [Cardenas] How do you assess the economic activity in 1993, as 1994 begins? What is the legacy left for the new year? [Armijos] In the year just ended, it was possible to reduce inflation to 31 percent--a ... |
FBIS3-32824_5 | President Reina News Conference | already agreed to increase the electricity rates, tolls, and other services? Is there any truth in the rumors circulating this morning? [Reina] The arrival of the IMF representatives must be taken as it is, and not as a ghost that comes to threaten or impose on us. We are a sovereign country, but 40 percent of our budg... |
FBIS3-32824_6 | President Reina News Conference | benefit, for their own well-being. Honduran boards of trustees are organizations that have not functioned too well. They become sectarian, fight each other, neutralize each other. We have to have neighborhood residents improve their own living conditions with government and international aid. This approach has yielded ... |
FBIS3-32852_0 | Defense Secretariat Bulletin 29 on Chiapas | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Bulletin No. 29 issued by the Defense Secretariat in Mexico City on 11 February; from the "24 Hours" newscast] [Text] Several news media have reported the exodus of the indigenous population toward larger cities and townships because of the armed conflict in the state of Chiapas. Alt... |
FBIS3-32853_0 | Remains of 3 Persons Discovered in Chiapas | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] San Cristobal de las Casas, Mexico, 11 Feb (AFP) -- The remains of three people who had been arrested by the Mexican Army were found today in Chiapas by members of the nongovernment organizations (ONG) that work to defend human rights. Martin Faz from the National Network of Ci... |
FBIS3-32859_0 | U.S. `Fully Responsible' for Incidents at Interests Section | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Unattributed "Our Opinion" commentary] [Text] Encouraged by the United States, many Cubans want to emigrate to that northern country. Why has the United States sponsored an incident involving the Interests Section in Havana? What has hurt the United States? Could it be that after 35 ... |
FBIS3-32878_1 | Vice President Lage: `Blockade Increasingly Isolates U.S.' | met with President Itamar Franco, Foreign Minister Celso Amorim, Finance Minister Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and Health Minister Henrique Santillo. Shortly before ending his visit, Lage said he found, in the aforementioned officials, a great understanding and a firm attitude against unilateral measures, like the blocka... |
FBIS3-32881_0 | Update on Lage's Official Visit to Brazil | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Brasilia, 4 Feb (PL) -- Today, JORNAL DO BRASILIA newspaper divulged that Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim has criticized the U.S. embargo against Cuba during a meeting with Cuban Vice President Carlos Lage, who is in Brazil on an official visit. According to the newspap... |
FBIS3-32884_0 | Possible Lifting of U.S. Travel Ban Analyzed | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 5 Feb (PL) -- The possible lifting of restrictions on U.S. citizens traveling to Cuba is being classified by local analysts as something which the blockade prohibits and as a minor alleviation to the systematic violation of the constitutional rights of all U.S. citizens... |
FBIS3-32888_0 | Workers Propose Measures To Help Resolve Economic Situation | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Silvio J. Mendiandua: "Workers Contribute Ideas To Improve Economic Situation"] [Text] Havana, 3 Feb (PL) -- Cuban workers are proposing various measures and multiplying their initiatives in assemblies held in their workplaces to identify their productive reserves and help ... |
FBIS3-32889_2 | Article Comments on Workers Assemblies | 80,000 work centers through 15 March. The principles that serve as the basis for this measure, which has no precedent anywhere in the world according to official Cuban sources, are participative democracy and the enormous potential of the multiple intelligences involved. The Cuban economy entered a period of harsh diff... |
FBIS3-32890_0 | Roundup of Economic Developments | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Cuban economic developments monitored through 8 February. According to the Secretariat for Foreign Cooperation, Havana received more than $4 million in international donations and contributions in 1993. Cuba received aid from more than 300... |
FBIS3-32906_0 | Finance Committee Official on Deficit Reduction Efforts | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Susana del Calvo; from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] The Havana workers' parliament has just been held and we will now speak with Jose Luis Rodriguez, minister president of the State Committee for Finance, who refers to the budget deficit. [Begin Rodrigu... |
FBIS3-32907_0 | Workers Engage in Discussion of Economic Issues | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN ["Report" by Roberto Morejon; from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] Given a situation where shortages are widespread and increasing the level of efficiency in all economic sectors is urgent, Cubans support the immediate implementation of measures agreed upon in each w... |
FBIS3-32908_0 | Roundup of Economic Activity | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on economic developments in Cuba carried on Havana radio and television in Spanish between 12 and 15 February. Radio Rebelde at 1000 GMT on 12 February reports that the Cienfuegos spring sugarcane plan calls for planting 66 caballe... |
FBIS3-32909_0 | Roundup of Economic Developments | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Cuban economic developments monitored through 15 February. Sergio Corrieri, the president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship With the People, has announced that Cuba has received approximately $50 million in donations through his organiz... |
FBIS3-32910_0 | Roundup of Economic Developments | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Honduran economic developments monitored through 15 February. The Honduran Government announced a new lempira devaluation today, two weeks after President Carlos Roberto Reina's inauguration. Finance Minister Juan Ferrera disclosed the off... |
FBIS3-32936_3 | * Industrialist on Export Growth, Job Creation | that a third is needed to make them viable. It is becoming harder and harder every day to obtain credit, not only for small and midsized business but for big business as well. This mechanism makes financing exports more expensive, because no exporter buys raw materials for just one month's shipments. [EL COMERCIO] What... |
FBIS3-32945_0 | * Sintura Aide Allegedly Accepted Bribes * Editorial Views Incident | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Editorial: "If the Salt Loses Its Flavor...."] [Text] Corruption and crime have existed from time immemorial. Ever since man set foot on this earth, homo sapiens has had to be watched over and punished. Not only are the Ten Commandments a guide, but also a form of prevention and a wa... |
FBIS3-32964_2 | Commentary Foresees `Tough' Trade Talks With U.S. | back to the time of the gunboats, and dollar diplomacy. The U.S. administration must tell the U.S. Congress whether U.S. commercial interests are being respected in Brazil, while the Brazilian foreign minister will seek to persuade his U.S. counterparts that the Brazilian Government has adopted a foreign policy that in... |
FBIS3-32965_5 | Foreign Ministry Note Cites Antidrug Efforts | transfer of drugs; regulates surveillance procedures during drug deliveries and covert operations; and creates two district attorney's offices specialized in drug related crimes, with authority and jurisdiction throughout the country. 12. The actions carried out by government authorities in charge of preventing drug re... |
FBIS3-32992_0 | Government Calls Meeting With Cuban Community Abroad | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Javier Rodriguez] [Text] Havana, 11 Feb (PL) -- The government took an important step toward normalizing relations with immigrants and strengthening its national identity by calling a meeting with representatives of the Cuban community abroad. The conference will be held du... |
FBIS3-32992_1 | Government Calls Meeting With Cuban Community Abroad | abroad in the country's public and economic spheres, the weekly GRANMA INTERNACIONAL has just announced. Observers and political analysts of the Cuban situation cannot but notice the importance of an event of this nature if they take into account the large number of Cuban immigrants residing in other countries due to e... |
FBIS3-32995_0 | Chamber of Commerce Promotes Boosting Trade Relations | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 11 Feb (PL) -- Today, Cuban businessmen stressed the need to reinforce commercial information, both to and from the island, because it is a decisive factor in knowing what business possibilities exist. The Cuban Chamber of Commerce members studied their 1994 projections... |
FBIS3-32998_0 | Armed Forces To Support Agriculture Sector | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 11 Feb (PL) -- The Cuban Armed Forces are engaged in an operation to support the local agriculture sector by assuming the task of maintaining thousands pieces of agriculture equipment. Approximately 22,000 tractors and light trucks, as well as other work equipment used ... |
FBIS3-32999_0 | Weekly Views Workers' Need To Accomplish Efficiency | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 14 Feb (PL) -- Today's editorial of the weekly TRABAJADORES stressed Cuban workers have to accomplish efficiency, economy, and effectiveness to be able to improve the country's economic situation, The publication of the Cuban Workers Federation writes the country's main... |
FBIS3-33000_0 | GRANMA Cited on Subsidies, Losses in National Enterprises | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 12 Feb (PL) -- The Cuban State urgently needs to reduce expenses and increase income, GRANMA, the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party, asserts today. In an article, the newspaper reports that the subsidies given to national firms that have losses are the main con... |
FBIS3-33002_1 | OAS Asserts Development Must Be Decided by Each State | an attempt to reach "agreements on strategies and systems that will further the achievement of integrated development, the struggle against extreme poverty, and the improvement of the basic levels of social and economic well-being in the hemisphere." The document emphasizes that "it is first necessary to strengthen the... |
FBIS3-33007_1 | Claes' Aide: NATO Enlargement No Guarantee for Stability | cultural organization, which means that only the latter reason is valid. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Strobe Talbott assumes that stability in Europe will de determined by developments in Russia. I believe he is right in his assumption. We must take full account of Moscow. We must know what the Russians are thinki... |
FBIS3-33012_3 | * Minister Defends Treatment of Captured Guerrillas | that the prisoners were taken so that the minister of defense could have the audacity to say that the borders are well defended. The ambush did not take place in the interior of Ecuador, but on the banks of a border river. Credit cannot be denied the Armed Forces so arbitrarily, as Mr. Ponce so impudently does, while c... |
FBIS3-33016_1 | Exile Community Conference Invitations | is, since the first years of the Revolution, there has been a migratory chain of relatives. This has been one of the causes of a continuous emigration over the past years. The Revolution has tried to resolve this problem of distance and separation of family members. Everyone must remember that this was attempted in 197... |
FBIS3-33020_0 | Roundup of Criminal, Judicial Action | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on criminal activity and related judicial actions in Cuba carried on Havana radio and television in Spanish between 7 and 16 February. Radio Progreso at 1200 GMT on 7 February reports that after two senior citizens were killed on 3... |
FBIS3-33049_4 | * Vivas Teran Previews Caldera Economic Policies | the appropriate courts. According to a report from the Hacienda Publica Nacional [National Treasury] for 1992, the cumulative total of all of the potential receipts by the Treasury under this heading amounted to 400 billion bolivares. The most worrisome aspect of this situation is that there has been no will to collect... |
FBIS3-33070_3 | * Sale of Bank, Licenses Boost State Earnings | climb too high. On the contrary, they may just lower the rates to attract more customers. A more valid criticism may be that if all bidding is done through auctions from now on, only those with the most money will be able to participate: the same old handful of companies, which could lead to a greater concentration of ... |
FBIS3-33099_1 | Newspapers Advertise `Foreign Partners Wanted' | began being published in Havana in January, the wanted partner must have funds to invest in the island or a market abroad where Cuban products can be sold. The request for partners comes from very diverse as well as unexpected prospects in a country that continues to declare itself Communist and that practically elimin... |
FBIS3-33102_0 | Roundup of Economic Activity | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on economic developments in Cuba carried on Havana radio and television in Spanish on 16 and 17 February. Radio Reloj at 2209 GMT on 16 February reports that the Ministry of the Sugar Industry is planning to organize in Matanzas, t... |
FBIS3-33102_1 | Roundup of Economic Activity | announced that Chile is going to begin a field test in March with meningitis vaccines from Cuba and Norway." The test will study the vaccinated persons' response to the different vaccines. "The test will be supervised by the Pan American Health Organization, a Cuban physician, and international experts." In the same ne... |
FBIS3-33106_0 | * Falconbridge Tax Payments Drop 74.3 Percent | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Article by Jose Mercedes Feliz: "Production Is Limited by World Prices"] [Text] During the first 10 months of 1993, the steady decline in nickel prices on the international market caused government revenue from Falconbridge Dominicana to register a 74.3-percent drop compared with the... |
FBIS3-33120_0 | FSLN Directorate Member Presents Program Proposal | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Jorge Katin] [Text] Bayardo Arce, a member of the Sandinist National Liberation Front [FSLN] National Directorate, has presented to the public the FSLN Program Commission's official proposal, which will be discussed in May during the extraordinary meeting of the FSLN Congr... |
FBIS3-33135_0 | * Bolivia: Guarani `Slavery' Found in Chaco | Article Type:CSO [Editorial Report] In response to a request by the Guarani People's Assembly, PRESENCIA, a Catholic Church-owned, center-left daily led an investigative team into the Chaco region for a week in December to look into charges that approximately 10,000 Guarani Indians are held in virtual slavery on large ... |
FBIS3-33166_0 | Baena Asks OAS Members for New Commitment To Fight Poverty | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Paloma Boves from the "ACIR Radio News" newscast] [Text] Latin America's problems of democracy and extreme poverty have once again come to the fore. During the inauguration of the 20th extraordinary period of sessions of the Inter-American Cooperation for Development Genera... |
FBIS3-33173_0 | Ministry: Blockade Damaging National Health Care System | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] On 21 February, the newspaper TRABAJADORES features an article by journalist Nicanor Leon Cotayo regarding the effects of the blockade on health services entitled: "If It Comes From the United States." The article is based on the research that Nicanor Leon Cotayo has been carry... |
FBIS3-33174_1 | New U.S. Immigration Policy Part of `Negative' Campaign | are other considerations. Not all immigrants to the United States are unwanted, and political refugee status is granted to some with extraordinary ease. One example is those Cubans who dare cross the Florida channel in dilapidated sea vessels and by the most unusual and risky methods. This a politically oriented measur... |
FBIS3-33181_0 | Biogas Usage in Ciego de Avila Province Detailed | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] In 1993, more than 100 tons of fuel-oil were saved by the biogas plants in Ciego de Avila Province in response to the instructions given of taking advantage of renewable energy sources. At the closing of 1993, Ciego de Avila Province had 12 biogas units in use and it is expecte... |
FBIS3-33188_0 | Four Generators Installed in Hoguin; Two in Guantanamo | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] The Sugar Industry Ministry has concluded the installation of four turbogenerators in four different power plants in Holguin Province, seeking to increase energy production and to contribute to the national electricity supply system. Two of these generators are already in opera... |
FBIS3-33189_5 | Controls on Self-Employed Viewed | I an certain that in times of absolute shortage, of scarcity, it is possible that some people would be helping others to sell things, to use illegal resources. But there are other aspects as well. We must look at this activity in a realistic manner. To the extent that our economy is reactivated, as production increases... |
FBIS3-33211_0 | Commentary Refutes U.S. Officials' Views on Country | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "As of Today" column] [Text] There is a constant in Panamanian-U.S. relations, perhaps as a result of the superficial visits to which U.S. congressmen are so addicted and the prejudices that abound in the State Department, the Pentagon, the CIA, the DEA, and all the apparent... |
FBIS3-33213_0 | Santamaria on Possible Withholding of U.S. Aid | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Mirna Lozano; from the "Notivision" newscast] [Text] Brian Atwood, special envoy of the U.S. Secretary of State, has said his country's economic aid to El Salvador may be made contingent upon the investigation of illegal armed groups by the Joint Group. Commenting on the ma... |
FBIS3-33219_0 | Grenade, Tear Gas Attacks Called Election Sabatoge | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] San Salvador, 21 Feb (NOTIMEX) -- The National Police (PN) reported today that one elderly woman was killed and seven people were injured in an attack against the Central Mortgage Bank (BCH) in downtown San Salvador. A PN spokesman explained to NOTIMEX that last night unidentif... |
FBIS3-33274_0 | Government Signs Information Agreement With Malaysia | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Malaysian Information Minister Datuk Mohamed bin Rahmat announced in Kuala Lumpur on 7 February that Chile and Malaysia have agreed to establish a joint commission to cooperate in the areas of information broadcasting and dissemination. The agreement was closed by Enrique Corre... |
FBIS3-33277_0 | De Leon Orders Investigation of Death Caused by Strike | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Telepress" newscast] [Text] President Ramiro de Leon Carpio has reported that he instructed judicial authorities to take severe legal action against Roosevelt Hospital employees and officials whose irresponsibility has cost at least one person her life. [Begin de Leon recor... |
FBIS3-33279_4 | De Leon on Talks With Rebels, Economic Goals | consolidate democracy and the state of law, fight poverty, increase production, protect the environment, and institutionalize modernization through austerity, honesty, and social participation. As for the first topic -- the consolidation of democracy and the state of law -- I can mention the modernization of institutio... |
FBIS3-33304_0 | Politicians Predict `Surprises for the Coming Hours' | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Text] More than two years after the eruption of the Haitian political crisis, the international community, led by the United States, is relaunching negotiations in favor of a solution. For two weeks, the U.S. capital has been holding discussions. In Port-au-Prince, however, some polit... |
FBIS3-33308_0 | Economist Rejects NAFTA for Argentina | Article Type:CSO [Editorial Report] Buenos Aires LA PRENSA in Spanish on 30 January publishes on page 8 a 1700-word interview with former Economy Minister Roberto Alemann by Ana Gerschenson. According to Alemann, who is an economist, membership in NAFTA would not be a good thing for Argentina. He asserts that the Unite... |
FBIS3-33310_0 | Russian Deputy Minister Offers To Help With Problems | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Panama City, 22 Feb (AFP) -- Today, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister George Mamedov favored a "peaceful solution" to the Cuban crisis, and said his country could be "very useful" in a negotiated settlement in the island. Mamedov, who arrived in Panama on Monday for an official t... |
FBIS3-33314_1 | Robaina Tours Ambassadors Through Central Provinces | the truth of our situation." In this manner, the ambassadors learned that the Armed Forces has not only reduced its expenses but it is using part of the military industry for civilian purposes in order to make some business and obtain benefits. At the "Comandante Ernesto Guevara" military enterprise in Villa Clara Prov... |
FBIS3-33322_0 | Commentary Assesses Impact of Reducing Work Force | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Roberto Morejon] [Text] The parliaments in the workplace convened by Cuban labor unions to analyze economic issues have entered their final stage. They have resulted in an abundance of reflections, suggestions, and very interesting critical assessments, all of which hav... |
FBIS3-33323_0 | Finance Officer Foresees No Production Drop in 1994 | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] This year will be marked by economic policies changes and restructuring but will not be worse than 1993, according to Jose Luis Rodriguez, minister president of the State Committee for Finances. Rodriguez gave a special address to a packed room at the Convention Center where th... |
FBIS3-33324_0 | Roundup of Economic Activity | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on economic developments in Cuba carried on Havana radio and television in Spanish between 17 and 22 February. Radio Reloj at 2034 GMT on 17 February reports that Manuel Hermoso, head of the autonomous government of the Canary Isla... |
FBIS3-33328_0 | CNDH Head Cites Chiapas Investigations | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Oscar Navarro; from the "Acir Radio News" newscast--live] [Text] [Announcer Jose Cardenas] Jorge Madrazo, National Human Rights Commission [CNDH] president, has called a press conference to present a preliminary report on the results of 52 days of investigations on the resp... |
FBIS3-33349_7 | Raul Alfonsin on Constitutional Reform, Other Issues | the same. [Argento] The inflation rate in January was just 0.1 percent. What do you think? [Alfonsin] I think it is the result of a great depression in demand, and that is not consistent. Of course, we favor stability; it can be no other way. But if you depress demand, there can be no inflation. And with real wages fal... |
FBIS3-33401_0 | Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Inaugurates Embassy | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] The strengthening of the friendly ties between Cuba and the Ukraine was made evident today with the inauguration of a Ukrainian Embassy in Havana. Here is journalist Ismael Tantaw with the details. [Tantaw, with Ukrainian deputy foreign minister's statements in Russian audible ... |
FBIS3-33405_0 | Commentary Views Armed Forces' Bid To Conserve Resources | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Roberto Morejon from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces [FAR], which comprises naval, air, and land forces, has decided to achieve self-financing without neglecting their combat capabilities. In this regard, the initia... |
FBIS3-33406_4 | * Editorials Instruct Workers on Discussions * Neoliberal Ideas Rejected | support for it. These and other issues are debated. The fact is that the workers are fully involved in the consideration and solution of the problems that affect them the most. After four years of heroic resistance, the people of Cuba are entering a phase that is in significant ways more aggressive in the struggle to s... |
FBIS3-33407_0 | * Editorials Instruct Workers on Discussions * Straightforward Talk Urged | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Editorial: "A Packet of Measures We Should Adopt"; for related reporting on this topic see FBIS-LAT-94-016 pp. 4, 5] [Text] The Cubans, who, as we have said more than once in these editorials, possess wonderful virtues, may sometimes allow themselves to be overcome by a defect summed... |
FBIS3-33407_4 | * Editorials Instruct Workers on Discussions * Straightforward Talk Urged | into account not only limitations on raw materials, energy, and labor resources, but also major components of administrative inefficiency that we are trying to combat. It is important for workers, when discussing the first point on the agenda of the Workplace Parliament assemblies, not to allow the debate to get off tr... |
FBIS3-33444_0 | Roundup of Economic Developments | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Venezuelan economic developments through 22 February: According to a poll conducted by the Central Statistics and Data Processing Office, OCEI, 17.4 percent of the active young population is unemployed, which equals 340,677 youths. Statist... |
FBIS3-33470_1 | Foreign Minister Interviewed on Economic Stabilization | has already had a positive psychological effect. Naturally, the plan also has a monetary stage. In this stage, the inflation rate will have a more concrete and immediate decrease, although it may take two or three months for this to happen. [EL OBSERVADOR ECONOMICO] This sort of program generally brings about a stabili... |
FBIS3-33473_0 | `Serious Effort' for Solution Seen | Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Article by Paulo Sotero] [Text] Washington -- The Brazilian and U.S. governments are making a "serious effort" at the last minute to try to reach a negotiated solution on the dispute over the protection of patents and intellectual property, according to a source close to the negot... |
FBIS3-33473_1 | `Serious Effort' for Solution Seen | The Brazilian and U.S. governments are making a "serious effort" at the last minute to try to reach a negotiated solution on the dispute over the protection of patents and intellectual property, according to a source close to the negotiations. The deadline, which was unilaterally established by the U.S. Government last... |
FBIS3-33486_0 | Economy Ministry Announces Tenth IMF Loan Received | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] (DYN-NA) -- Argentina received a $230 million tranche from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday. The deposit was made under the terms of the Extended Payment Facility signed by Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo in April 1992. According to the press release from the Ec... |
FBIS3-33489_1 | Former President Paz Zamora Linked to Drug Trafficker | the Government House aides de camp; Mrs. Edith Paz Zamora; and Rosario Paz Zamora, who took him flowers; as well as by [MIR president] Oscar Eid Franco, who paid the hospital bill. He gave Edgar Fernandez [another Chavarria employee] about $25,000 to pay the hospital expenses." Oscar Eid Franco has confirmed that he pa... |
FBIS3-33493_0 | Cuban-American Entrepreneurs Call for End to U.S. Embargo | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] The second meeting of PECA -- Cuban-American Professionals and Entrepreneurs -- ended today. The businessmen had been meeting in Havana since Monday. PECA's final communique stressed the need for the U.S. Government to lift the b... |
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