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FBIS3-50615_0 | Colombian Health Minister Comments on Visit | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Colombian Public Health Minister Juan Luis Londono de la Cuesta is currently visiting Cuba. The minister and the delegation accompanying him will visit approximately eight health and research centers. Minister Londono today met with the Cuban Public Health Ministry directorate ... |
FBIS3-50629_0 | Officials React to Febres-Cordero's Statements | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From "The Voz Andes" newscast] [Text] The U.S. Government denied an alleged summons to Ecuadoran Foreign Minister Diego Paredes 12 days ago for him to appear before the State Department in Washington. A communique from the U.S. Embassy in Quito stated the meeting held by Undersecreta... |
FBIS3-50636_0 | Defense Secretariat Communique | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text of communique issued by the Mexican National Defense Secretariat, SDN, on 4 January; place not given; from the "Good Afternoon From Mexico" newscast] [Text] The clashes between the transgressors of the law and Mexican Army troops continue. On 3 January the aggressor groups tried... |
FBIS3-50661_0 | Says Removal `Illegal' | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Francisco Valeriano Giron] [Text] Tegucigalpa -- According to President Rafael Leonardo Callejas, General Luis Alonso Discua, head of the Armed Forces, is concerned about the results of the Human Rights Commission report. President Callejas met yesterday with Discua, with ... |
FBIS3-50680_1 | New Foreign Policy Seeks `Cooperation' With U.S., Chile | affect the traditional way Bolivia has faced and carried out the nation's foreign affairs. This is one of the new Foreign Ministry conclusions provoked by the realization that "the world is going through a process of a general reorganization of relations between countries, regions, continents, and hemispheres." The doc... |
FBIS3-50713_0 | Spokesman, Human Rights Ombudsman Discuss Events | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Juan Carlos Santoyo] [Text] We arrived in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas State, after a long journey, as has been the case in the past days. We learned that Eloy Cantu Segovia, the federal government's official spokesman in San Cristobal de las Casas, will give a news ... |
FBIS3-50719_0 | Electric Generators Being Repaired | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Workers of the Electric Plants Maintenance Enterprise are repairing two broken generators, one at the Antonio Maceo Plant in Santiago de Cuba and the other at the Maximo Gomez Plant in Mariel. A NATIONAL NEWS AGENCY dispatch adds that the work being conducted in the boiler room... |
FBIS3-50723_0 | Vice President's Remarks on U.S. Ties Supported | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Commenting on the News" feature by Miguel de la Guardia for the "Evening Information Review" program] [Text] Frequently, it has been said that secret or diplomatic contacts have been made to improve relations between Cuba and the United States, which have been historically ... |
FBIS3-50723_1 | Vice President's Remarks on U.S. Ties Supported | since the victory of the socialist revolution in Cuba 35 years ago. Apparently there were some secret contacts during the administration of President James Carter, according to Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, vice president of the Council of Ministers of Cuba, who revealed this in a recent interview. Interviewed by GRANMA, th... |
FBIS3-50724_2 | Opposition at Home, Abroad Viewed | world. I believe that everything should be seem from this perspective, which is a very broad vision, a vision that has to be flexible because it is subjected one way or another to the demands of a reality that changes very frequently and is at present very hostile. Cuba, of course, has to have the flexibility required ... |
FBIS3-50743_1 | Official Clarifies Falklands Fishing Accord | or in the ones previously agreed upon; Great Britain cannot surpass the aforementioned amount, and therefore the establishment of the FOCZ will not cause any "damage." Moreover, it could well benefit Argentine fishing, because every ship the islanders send to the new zone will help reduce the number of ships operating ... |
FBIS3-50744_1 | * Good, Bad Aspects of Cavallo Plan Viewed * Zorraquin Group | undertakings. What it has not yet succeeded in doing is to gain control of a debt that totals about $150 million. Now it has tacked the "For Sale" sign on the door of another of the firms it controls--the Saiar metallurgical company. This firm is the leader in the thermotank and heating-system market. It holds the lice... |
FBIS3-50773_0 | Antonio Maceo Plant Increases Production | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] The Antonio Maceo Thermoelectric Plant in Santiago de Cuba yesterday produced 250 megawatts per hour. This represents the highest production figure in the past few years. This record production is proof that the Santiago de Cuba thermoelectric plant can produce more than it has... |
FBIS3-50780_0 | Fighting in Ocosingo; `Tense Calm' in Other Towns | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Vector 21" newscast] [Excerpts] The Mexican Army today [6 January] launched a new air assault on some sites in the town of Corralito, where it has been reported that rebels have taken refuge. Shooting continues between Mexican Army troops and snipers of the Zapatist Nationa... |
FBIS3-50781_0 | Communique Outlines Casualties in Fighting | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Mexico City, 6 Jan (NOTIMEX) -- The Defense Secretariat reported today that during the five days of clashes between the Army and an armed group in southeast Mexico, 46 suspects have been arrested and 100 people have died. A communique from the Mexican military organization reve... |
FBIS3-50790_0 | Roundup of Economic Reports Through 6 Jan | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on economic activities in Argentina monitored through 6 January. The National Institute of Statistics and Census, INDEC, reported that the unemployment rate increased to 9.3 percent in October. Unemployment affects 1.078 million of the 11.6 m... |
FBIS3-50806_1 | President Callejas Remarks on Various Issues | $60 million to install a 25-megawatt power plant. [Callejas] "I am concerned sometimes about radical positions that U.S. foreign policy sometimes adopts. One of the largest U.S. telecommunications companies, Motorola, was granted the day before yesterday a contract to install cellular phones, and it will invest more th... |
FBIS3-50807_1 | President-Elect Supports Investigation of Disappearances | on Valladares' report. A Judicial Branch plenum resolved that Honduran judges in charge of criminal cases in places where both citizens and foreigners have reportedly suffered forced disappearances must begin or continue trials to punish the culprits. The Supreme Court also formed a special commission of prosecutors to... |
FBIS3-50811_1 | Former UNO Parties on Returning to National Assembly | same strategy used in 1993, and that active participation in the National Assembly is necessary to keep the electoral pledge it made to the people of Nicaragua." "We regret that the partisan and personal interests of some parties within UNO wish to ignore the 1990 mandate of the people and call for the election of a co... |
FBIS3-50817_11 | * Villarzu Interviewed on Economic Philosophy | the period from 1985 to 1989. And, simultaneously, notable progress has been made on social matters, such as reducing the number of the poor to about 1.3 million. Among the poor about 800,000 are destitute. Between 1985 and 1989 minimum salaries fell by 2.7 percent in real terms. During 1993 they will grow by about 10 ... |
FBIS3-50825_4 | Finance Minister Discusses Mercosur | above are not too different in Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and the gap can, therefore, be closed. But Brazil, with a 30 percent monthly inflation rate, correlative devaluations, and protectionist tariff policies in general, is too far out and will have difficulties in closing the gap. This country must establish ... |
FBIS3-50826_0 | Compensation From Argentina Over Pilcomayo River Considered | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Paraguayan President Juan Carlos Wasmosy yesterday did not rule out the possibility that Paraguay might request indemnification or compensation from Argentina for the damage caused to our country as a consequence of the diversion of the Pilcomayo River. That is what he said at ... |
FBIS3-50828_1 | Expert Assesses MRTA, Shining Path Status | fulling engaged in drug trafficking. The Huallaga SL regional committee broke away from the SL leadership in February 1990, when [Abimael] Guzman was still free. Imagine now that their leader is behind bars. It is more than likely that the remaining SL members throughout the country receive no economic aid from this zo... |
FBIS3-50838_0 | `Slight' Increase From Mariel Power Plant Expected | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] A slight increase in electric generation is expected in 1994 at the Maximo Gomez Electric Plant in Mariel -- a plant that helps ameliorate the energy deficit of Havana and the national electric system -- according to Agustin Jimenez Saranda, the director of this plant operated ... |
FBIS3-50839_0 | Lage: New Difficulties Will Affect Electricity | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 8 Jan (NOTIMEX) -- Carlos Lage, secretary of the Council of Minister's Executive Committee, announced today that the Cuban Government will face new difficulties this year in guaranteeing electricity and transportation to the population. "The tobacco harvest, the food pr... |
FBIS3-50840_0 | Cuban Workers Will Discuss National Economy | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Over the next few weeks, the Cuban workers movement will meet to discuss Cuba's main financial problems. This was announced by Pedro Ross Leal, secretary general of the Cuban Workers Federation [CTC], in an appearance this morning on Radio Progreso's "First Thing" program. [Beg... |
FBIS3-50877_0 | Human Rights Commission Asks for Shelters | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "24 Hours" newscast] [Text] The armed clashes continue in Chiapas. Indians and peasants arriving in San Cristobal are being placed in a relief shelter called Don Bosco. The National Human Rights Commission has asked the San Cristobal Municipal Government and the state and fe... |
FBIS3-50879_0 | Attorney General Investigates Possible Executions | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "24 Hours" newscast] [Text] The Attorney General's Office [PGR] reported today it has started a preliminary investigation into the possibility that some of those who have died in Chiapas were executed and received a coup de grace. Referring to the investigation, the PGR said... |
FBIS3-50887_0 | EZLN Using Hostages as `Human Shields' | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Mexico City, 8 Jan (EFE) -- Mexican newspapers today reported that the Zapatist National Liberation Army [EZLN] is using more than 100 people as "human shields," including former Chiapas Governor Absalon Castellanos Dominguez, whom it is holding hostage in the hamlet of Guadalu... |
FBIS3-50894_0 | Mayors Report People Leaving Towns To Join Rebels | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Miguel Angel Velasquez] [Text] Larrainzar, 7 Jan (NOTIMEX) -- People woke up warmer this Friday, and the huge mess that appears to be a quarrel, armed conflict, or war is beginning to clear up to the disbelief of some and the astonishment of others. In San Andres -- accordi... |
FBIS3-50905_0 | Havana Notes Chinese Reaction to U.S. Trade Reduction | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] China highlighted its problems with the United States for the alleged illegal sale of textiles to that country, which should be solved through negotiations, and warned that it could be forced to give a sharp answer to U.S. reprisals. These statements were made by a spokesman of... |
FBIS3-50914_0 | President Cristiani Gives Message to Nation | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN ["Message" to the nation by Salvadoran President Alfredo Cristiani; place not given; from a "Special Program" presented by the National Communications Secretariat -- live] [Text] Beloved fellow Salvadorans, now that we have begun a new year I would like to take advantage of this occas... |
FBIS3-50925_1 | Report on International Human Rights, Democracy Conference | participating in the International Conference on Humanism and Democracy for the 21st Century [Conferencia Internacional Sobre Humanismo y Democracia Para el Siglo XXI] issued a document today in which they state that the knot of the relationship between ethics and politics lies in the promotion and defense of human rig... |
FBIS3-50934_0 | Drug Producing, Trafficking Spreads Throughout Country | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Lima, 7 Jan (EFE) -- Drug trafficking is spreading throughout Peru. Today there was a report on the discovery of pits for soaking coca leaves and making basic cocaine paste in areas of the country previously untouched by drug trafficking. According to newspaper reports, four so... |
FBIS3-50937_0 | * Regional Fund Grants Development Loans | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Text] At the Eighth Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Andean Development Corporation (CAF), two loans to the Venezuelan energy sector totaling $62 million were approved. Enrique Garcia, the president of this regional financial body, explained that one of the loans, in the amou... |
FBIS3-50943_0 | Increase Expected in Matanzas Oil Production | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Wilfred Alayon from Matanzas for the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] Petroleum production in the country during 1993 amounted to 1.1 million tons, 70 percent of which came from the oil fields in Matanzas Province. The total amount produced in Matanzas was 814,... |
FBIS3-50944_0 | Social Security System Expenses Increased in 1993 | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] According to estimates, in 1993 the Cuban Government paid 1.371 billion pesos in retirement and pension benefits and approximately 250 million pesos in maternity, accident, and sickness benefits. More than 1.271 million people received social security benefits in 1993, 53,000 m... |
FBIS3-50949_1 | * Book Reports Black Market Language, Statistics | examples of self-denial and hard work in extreme poverty: mothers who worked as laundresses, fathers who held multiple jobs, all of which they undertook to support their family. Not anymore. Making good bread used to mean just what the words said, and was a badge of pride if applied to a creator of bakery delicacies. N... |
FBIS3-50950_1 | * Equality, Changes in Pay Scales Viewed * Economy Requires Changes | ideal of humanism; it must also be a condition for economic development. If, today, Cuba can successfully meet the challenge of moving its economy into the changed world we are living in, this will largely be due to the fact that equality of access to education, health care, and work have, during all these years, creat... |
FBIS3-50951_0 | * Equality, Changes in Pay Scales Viewed * Material Incentives' Support | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Editorial: "Revitalizing Wages and Other Forms of Material Incentives"] [Text] What motivates a person to work in socialism? What balance should be established between material and moral incentives? Does a material incentive inevitably create uncontrollable trends toward mercantilism... |
FBIS3-50966_0 | Poverty in Chiapas Seen as Major Source of Strife | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Juan Manuel Pereyra and Marisa Lopez from the "Good Morning From Mexico" newscast] [Excerpts] [Pereyra] Mexico's 32 departments register different poverty levels. Experts feel that poverty is ancestral since its origins date back 500 years. Oaxaca State has a poverty level ... |
FBIS3-50970_1 | Rejects Government Dialogue Conditions | pages and sent to TIEMPO newspaper in San Cristobal, Chiapas State. The guerrilla members demand "recognition of the EZLN as a belligerent force," a "cease-fire by both parties throughout the territory involved in the conflict," and the "withdrawal of federal troops from all the communities, with full respect for human... |
FBIS3-51010_2 | Cuban Foreign Minister Interviewed | one can have any doubt that it is the single most important cause of all our difficulties. But to say that the blockade is the only cause of our problems would be untrue. The blockade is relative to the new situation, because with the resources we now have it is much more difficult to achieve what we would like to achi... |
FBIS3-51015_0 | Workers Movement Begins Economic Restructuring | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Last night, the workers movement of Pinar del Rio Province began the analysis process for restructuring of the national economy. The meeting was held at La Primavera preserves factory in the provincial capital. The assembly was chaired by Politburo member Pedro Ross Leal, secre... |
FBIS3-51016_0 | Roundup of Economic Developments Through 11 Jan | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Cuban economic developments monitored through 11 January 1994. Source is cited in parentheses following item. The tourism sector, considered one of the keys to changing the current Cuban crisis, grossed approximately $700 million in revenu... |
FBIS3-51019_1 | GRANMA Presents `Precise Data' on AIDS | are well monitored; it is therefore not possible in Cuba to catch the disease of the century through blood transfusions. Practically the only way to contract the virus in our environment is therefore through sex, which makes it dependent on an individual's sense of responsibility and conduct in selecting a partner and ... |
FBIS3-51020_5 | More on Alarcon 10 Jan Interview | There was a period in which, to a certain measure -- I do not want to generalize, it was not the same everywhere -- it was an occasion for the voters to make their suggestions, to express their complaints to the delegate and then wait for an answer from that delegate. On more than one occasion, when ones analyses a goo... |
FBIS3-51035_1 | Criticism From Argentine Minister Examined | only has consequences for the performance of some companies, but has become the greatest political adventure the two countries between them have ever tried. The economy minister's verbal lack of self-restraint does not contribute to a greater harmonization of relations, which fortunately are good and apparently gossip-... |
FBIS3-51043_0 | Roundup of Economic Reports Through 6 Jan | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on economic activities in Argentina monitored through 6 January. The Argentine Government has privatized Hidroelectrica Norpatagonica Inc. with the sale of the Piedra de Aguila hydroelectric plant to the Hidroneuquen investor group. The compa... |
FBIS3-51045_2 | Cuban Envoy Condemns `Apocalyptic' CIA Reports, U.S. Policy | lives and material damage estimated at $1 billion. Despite such adverse circumstances Cubans have maintained their organized society with solidarity, showing -- according to ECLA [Economic Commission for Latin America] -- the world's best income distribution. Without beggars or homeless people, with schools and hospita... |
FBIS3-51046_0 | Criticism From Argentina's Cavallo Causes `Displeasure' | Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Article by Luiz Orlando Carneiro; from the "Diplomatic Report" column] [Text] Brazilian-Argentine relations were affected last week by Argentine Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo's remarks criticizing the quality of Brazilian export products. The Brazilian Foreign Ministry consider... |
FBIS3-51055_0 | Envoy to Brazil Rejects U.S. Reports About Cuba | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Rio de Janeiro, 4 Jan (PL) -- Telling the whole truth about Cuba now is tantamount to protecting Latin America's independence and sovereignty, it was stated today by Jorge Bolanos, Cuban ambassador to Brazil, in an article published by JORNAL DO BRASIL. In the article, entitled... |
FBIS3-51065_0 | Editorial Urges Workers To Launch Offensive Against Crisis | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 10 Jan (PL) -- The Cuban revolution has issued an appeal to its most important social base, the workers, urging them to assume a leading role in the epic struggle being waged by the country, and to launch an overall offensive given the crisis that currently prevails in ... |
FBIS3-51067_0 | Churchmen Analyze Underlying Cause of Revolt | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Unattributed article: "Foreign Ministry on Chiapas Situation"] [Text] Rome, 2 Jan (ANSA) -- The Italian Foreign Ministry Foreign Office crisis committee, which has been following developments after native Mexican rebels of the Emilio Zapata Liberation Front occupied five towns in the... |
FBIS3-51097_0 | Roundup of Economic Activity Reported 5 to 11 Jan | 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 5 and 11 January. Radio Rebelde at 1000 GMT on 5 January reports that Holguin Province has begun 1994 with water levels in its reservoirs of... |
FBIS3-51132_0 | Workers To Analyze National Economy | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 8 Jan (PL) -- Pedro Ross, secretary general of the Cuban Workers Federation (CTC) announced today that the federation will analyze the country's main financial problems this month. Ross reported that, in the first stage, approximately 485,000 union leaders will discuss ... |
FBIS3-51133_0 | Economist Recommends Adoption of New Economic Model | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Moises Perez Mok] [Text] Havana, 5 Jan (PL) -- Cuba requires today the adoption of a new economic model, which existing circumstances are already causing to emerge, said here Pedro Monreal, investigator at the nongovernmental Center for Studies on America (CEA). The country... |
FBIS3-51134_0 | Tourism Considered Solution to Country's Economic Crisis | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Moises Perez Mok] [Text] Havana, 4 Jan (PL) -- Cuban tourism, the only sector to achieve a sustained annual growth in excess of 25 percent during the 1990's, is currently expected to play a leading role in helping to reverse the economic crisis in which the island finds its... |
FBIS3-51135_0 | Unions Seek To Influence Economic Changes | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Raimundo Lopez] [Text] Havana, 10 Jan (PL) -- The Cuban labor unions today announced a broad consultation process to influence the economic changes that are being studied to improve the country's internal finances that are characterized by a high fiscal deficit and excess c... |
FBIS3-51137_0 | Analyst Examines Need to Form New Political Consensus | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 6 Jan (PL) -- Faced with the most critical and complex situation of the past 34 years, Cuban society faces the challenge of reexamining and reformulating the foundation for national political consensus, according to an analyst at the American Studies Center. Any process... |
FBIS3-51137_2 | Analyst Examines Need to Form New Political Consensus | based on the implementation of measures to redistribute income and power and got off the ground through a system of extensive participation in national defense and the revolutionary program in the face of U.S. hostility. Later, the fate of Cuban socialism was linked to the progress of the countries of the Council for M... |
FBIS3-51138_0 | Raul Castro Details FAR Efforts to Economize | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 7 Jan (PL) -- The Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) of Cuba is focusing on resource savings and economic efficiency, according to reports issued and opinions expressed by FAR command staff. Our military chiefs must manage economic information. They must know the price of... |
FBIS3-51139_1 | Top Party Official Confident Situation To Improve in 1994 | to confront the problems that arise, and we have become better organized in facing the special period. I believe all of this will work in our favor, he underlined. The Special Period in Times of Peace is the name given to the measures Cuba has had to adopt to confront the consequences prompted by the collapse of social... |
FBIS3-51150_0 | 2 Die in `Violent' Protests Against Transport Price Hike in Barcelona | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Barcelona, Venezuela, 13 Jan (AFP) -- Reporters have confirmed that two persons were killed and many were arrested during violent disturbances on Thursday following a massive protest against the increase in transportation rates in Barcelona, 200 km east of Caracas. This is the ... |
FBIS3-51160_0 | Castro Rejects Spain's Economic Crisis Proposal | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Madrid, 13 Jan (AFP) -- The newspaper EL MUNDO reported today that Cuban leader Fidel Castro has categorically rejected Spain's political-economic reform proposal, arguing that it seeks to impose pluralism and democracy on Cuba. According to EL MUNDO and as can be deduced from ... |
FBIS3-51161_0 | Havana on U.S. New NATO Position, Nuclear Agreements | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN ["Our Opinion" commentary by Eduardo Dimas] [Text] Every period in history has its own signs that differentiate it from former periods, and it seems to me that the signs of this particular period that has befallen us are already more than perceptible. After having won World War III wi... |
FBIS3-51193_1 | Church Issues Document; Creates Commission | with optimism because of Camacho Solis' great virtues as a mediator. Monsignor Godines Florez noted that the NAFTA text must be reviewed because it was negotiated behind the backs of the peasants and Indians, who know nothing about it. He said such a situation could result in more problems in the long run. With regard ... |
FBIS3-51194_0 | Defense Secretariat Reports `Complete Calm' | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Jesus Cazasola; from the "Vector 21" newscast] [Text] The National Defense Secretariat reported that in compliance with presidential orders, troops operating in upper Chiapas State to counter action by law breakers have concentrated in the villages or towns of Rancho Nuevo,... |
FBIS3-51196_0 | Armed Forces Senior Council Communique Endorses Discua | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN ["Official communique" issued by the Honduran Armed Forces Senior Council in Tegucigalpa on 10 January] [Text] The Armed Forces Senior Council during its special session 01-94 analyzed the circumstances derived from the "Preliminary Report on Missing Persons" presented to the public b... |
FBIS3-51203_0 | Minister Says U.S. Withholding 1993 Aid Over Human Rights | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Lima, 13 Jan (EFE) -- Peruvian Economy Minister Jorge Camet today confirmed that the United States is withholding a large economic contribution offered for 1993. This is a result of pressure from the U.S. Senate over the human rights situation apparently linked to arrests based... |
FBIS3-51215_1 | Convergence Presidential Hopeful on Ex-Secret Service | Army's Intelligence Battalion must also be investigated in this regard, as the former Secret Police, or the Army's former secret intelligence, has practically become the Intelligence Battalion. Those are the places where I think we should, or the Armed Forces themselves should, investigate to eliminate all of the perso... |
FBIS3-51229_4 | Alphandery on Economic Policy, 1994 Prospects | recovery. [Robin] The French people have only recently rediscovered the market economy and its cyclical fluctuations, which are well-known facts in the United States. What are you saying to them to make them accept that such developments are normal and are better than the rigid and interventionist economic system which... |
FBIS3-51247_0 | CELA Discloses Results of Latest Presidential Poll | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Manuel Alvarez Cedeno] [Text] According to a CELA [Center for Latin American Studies] poll, 75.4 percent of Panamanians expressed their intention to vote during the next elections. At the same time, Ernesto Perez [Balladares], PRD [Revolutionary Democratic Party] candidate,... |
FBIS3-51274_2 | Police Commissioner Interviewed on New Disciplinary Code | as they have been identified as in the same genre of the military administration and the military forces, the way of acting and the work of police have been deformed. [sentence as published] It would be ideal if the police could walk the streets without carrying weapons. [EL TIEMPO] What do you mean by "the way of acti... |
FBIS3-51278_1 | * Survey Shows Industry Optimism on Economy | of roads, ports, and airports hurts the ability of Colombian produdcts to penetrate foreign markets. Cheap Credit However, there are also positive factors that have helped exports. The increase in the volume of foreign sales is the result of the lowering of trade barriers by purchaser countries. One example is trade wi... |
FBIS3-51279_0 | * Health Minister on Social Security Reforms | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Interview with Minister of Health Juan Luis Londono by Gilda Sarmiento; place and date not given] [Text] When the bang of the gavel marked final congressional passage of the Social Security reform bill, Health Minister Juan Luis Londono leaped in the air to show he was "happy as hell... |
FBIS3-51279_1 | * Health Minister on Social Security Reforms | earmarked for subsidizing the poorest of the population. With a view to expanding coverage, 374 billion pesos in new resources is guaranteed in next year's budget, a social tax on weapons has been created, and beginning in 1997, 15 percent of the tax on Cusiana oilfield revenues will go to subsidize poor people's healt... |
FBIS3-51282_0 | Defense Secretariat Bulletin No. 17 | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Bulletin No. 17 on the events in Chiapas issued by the National Defense Secretariat on 14 January -- place not given; from the "24 Hours" newscast] [Text] At 1400 yesterday, a group of unidentified attackers fired shots at a group of Mexican Army soldiers who were performing reconnai... |
FBIS3-51306_0 | Peruvians' Deportation Not Linked to Shining Path | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] (DYN-NA) -- Amid continuing government anxiety that members of the Peruvian guerrilla organization Sendero Luminoso are infiltrating the country attracted by recent social unrest in the northern provinces, the government has strenuously denied that this fear was the cause for y... |
FBIS3-51310_0 | * Church Urges `Transparency' in Constitutional Reform | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Text] The Permanent Commission of the Episcopate yesterday urged those responsible for constitutional reform to make their intentions and procedures transparent so that the future constitution will be the product of a social pact. The bishops criticized the conditions being imposed o... |
FBIS3-51332_0 | State of Emergency Extended in Provinces | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Lima, 15 Jan (AFP) -- It was officially reported today that the Peruvian Government extended the state of emergency for 60 days beginning today in various provinces in six departments to "facilitate military operations against terrorism and drug trafficking." The special measur... |
FBIS3-51336_1 | Fujimori Expects U.S. To Fulfill Pledge to Support Group | Fujimori said during the interview that although the United States has supported the process whereby Peru was reincorporated into the international financial system--from which it had been distanced for seven years by the government of former President Alan Garcia--it has "not given the money." Fujimori added that Peru... |
FBIS3-51339_0 | Report Notes U.S. Adviser's `Intervention' in Congress | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Many deputies, particularly Unity [not further identified] faction members, have expressed their anger over alleged U.S. intervention through Political Affairs Adviser George Chester in the election of the new Congress Board of Directors. According to the report, Chester has re... |
FBIS3-51345_0 | New Antinarcotics Executive Secretary Installed | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] Retired Brigadier General Juan Ramon Rosa Rodriguez was installed this morning as the new National Antinarcotics Secretariat (Senad) executive secretary, replacing Division General Mario Escobar Anzoategui, who tendered his resignation last year. Rosa Rodriguez is a militar... |
FBIS3-51362_0 | Human Rights Leader on Death Squads' Actions | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Imelda Alvarenga; from the "Facing the Moment" newscast] [Text] The Catholic Church has reported that at least five persons, including two regional FMLN [Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front] leaders, were assassinated death-squad style last week. The information was r... |
FBIS3-51366_0 | President-Elect Reina Previews Goals of U.S. Trip | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Fasutino Ordonez B.] [Text] Yesterday, President-elect Carlos Roberto Reina guaranteed he will not return from the United States with a lot of "hard blows" against the people. Reina said that from now on "firm negotiations" will prevail during the meetings he will hold wit... |
FBIS3-51396_2 | Banking, Currency Policies Linked | launch a frontal attack and hit them from every side -- we must first change the way the bank deals with the people. That is the most important thing. The bank must begin by encouraging the people to put their money in the bank. For example, interest rates. Something must be done about this. I also believe that we must... |
FBIS3-51397_13 | Alarcon Interviewed on Economic Reform | I would like you to explain why this is not a waste of time. [Alarcon] I believe it is necessary. For example, the budget deficit: If an organization or enterprise is inefficient, in other words, it costs more money to the people than what it contributes, [words indistinct] this is very simple: Close it down. However, ... |
FBIS3-51398_31 | Pedro Ross Interview on Open Dialogue | to reduce the age for retirement? [Ross] This is something that has existed for a long time. [Cruz] This has been around for a while. [Ross] Since we began to prepare for the 16th [CTC] Congress, this issue was discussed intensely, even in sectors such as education. In the next 25 years Cuba will see a drop in the grow... |
FBIS3-51400_0 | Government Says Solution to Crisis To Be Found in 1994 | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Francisco Ramirez Cardenas] [Text] Havana, 14 Jan (NOTIMEX) [dateline as received) -- The Cuban Government has affirmed that in 1994 there will be a solution to the current economic crisis overwhelming the country and expressed its hopes for a reactivation of a greater suga... |
FBIS3-51400_2 | Government Says Solution to Crisis To Be Found in 1994 | official report, during 1993 almost 40 percent of the disciplinary measures applied against workers were prompted by unjustified absences and an interruption of working hours, something that has been compounded by "negligence, disobedience, and borderline criminal conducts." With the state coffers almost without hard c... |
FBIS3-51402_0 | Roundup of Economic Activity Reported 12-15 Jan | 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 January. Radio Reloj at 2030 GMT on 12 January reports Cubana Airline President Heriberto Prieto Musa's statement that Cubana tran... |
FBIS3-51446_0 | * Need To Overcome Voter Apathy Seen | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Article by Carlos Murcia: "Candidates' Offensive Against Voter Apathy"] [Text] In the weeks ahead, particularly in January, presidential and congressional candidates will launch a major propaganda and proselytizing offensive aimed at penetrating the apathy that has seriously affected... |
FBIS3-51447_0 | * Social Security Reforms, Reaction Discussed * Overview of Reforms | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Text] Next year our country will launch a new health care system aimed at rapidly expanding coverage so that by the year 2000, nearly 90 percent of the population will be totally covered. Private Coverage The bill passed by Congress sets up units known as Health Promotion Agencies (E... |
FBIS3-51447_1 | * Social Security Reforms, Reaction Discussed * Overview of Reforms | family of the insured with basic health care, including common illnesses and maternity coverage. Two Systems The reform creates two major systems: the contributory system and the subsidized system. The former will cover persons with contracts, government employees, pensioners, and independent workers able to pay. The s... |
FBIS3-51448_0 | * Social Security Reforms, Reaction Discussed * Employers Fear Costs | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Text] The greatest fear of business owners and merchants concerning new obligations imposed by the Social Security Law has to do with added labor costs, the difference between the two pension systems, and the concentration of power in the hands of the Ministry of Health. Spokesmen fo... |
FBIS3-51450_0 | * Social Security Reforms, Reaction Discussed * Financial Institutions Comment | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Text] The new pension and health system was greeted with certain reservations by the Colombian financial system. In giving the reason for their reservations, the financial institutions argue that a number of inequities place private pension funds at a disadvantage compared with the S... |
FBIS3-51451_1 | * Social Security Reforms, Reaction Discussed * ANIF President on Reforms | claim that the unions or most of Colombia's economists in the academic world played a positive role in the passage of this far-reaching reform. Unfortunately, the proposal did not come out of the test intact. Obviously, not all of the modifications in the government's original version could honestly be considered as "i... |
FBIS3-51454_0 | Commentary on Worker Participation in Economic Reform | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Roberto Morejon commentary from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] At this time of necessary changes, Cuban labor unions are pushing to become the vanguard in adapting the Cuban system to the very unfavorable international context, and they are doing this by promoting ... |
FBIS3-51458_0 | Vice Foreign Minister Admits Need for Economic Reforms | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Madrid, 14 Jan (EFE) -- Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Isabel Allende admitted in Madrid today that her country needs to make changes to resolve its economic crisis, as long as there is a consensus by the people. Allende emphasized the need to safeguard Cuba's independence. She po... |
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