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FBIS4-10365_1 | Commentary Sees Limited Coup Possibilities | Referring to the current scenario, Diego Abente Brun says: "Civilian and political freedom will presumably be maintained and expanded, but the contest to guarantee that the election results will not endanger the hegemony of the military and/or the governing party will be limited. This scenario of continuous and gradual... |
FBIS4-10368_0 | Foreign Minister Discusses Trade With Malaysia | BFN [Text] When he returns from Malaysia, Peruvian Foreign Minister Efrain Goldenberg will convey that government's interest in signing with Peru an agreement for mutual promotion and protection in their capacity as member countries of multilateral Pacific organizations. According to information disclosed by the Foreig... |
FBIS4-10373_1 | Study Questions Cuba's Ability To Pay for Oil | gained access, the banks are not interested in backing Cuban debts. In fact, countries such as Iran and Libya suspended their supply of crude because of a lack of financial guarantees. Although the situation improved somewhat after Russia resumed the commercial exchange of oil with Cuba in January 1994, Cuba still is n... |
FBIS4-10388_0 | Outside Pressure on Sandinist Youth Discussed | CSO [Commentary by Larry Astorga] [Text] Nicaraguan youth and Sandinist youth: I believe it is my responsibility to tell the truth and get to the heart of the matter concerning the internal crisis now afflicting the JS19J [19 July Sandinist Youth] organization. I hereby state my political position. I think we need to t... |
FBIS4-10402_0 | Paper Views Effect of Colosio Death on Exchange | BFN [Report by Roberto Gonzalez Amador] [Text] The political atmosphere and a significant increase in the U.S. interest rate in the last six days of financial activities led to the transfer of $3 billion of Mexican deposits to foreign markets. According to the Mexican Association of Currency Exchange Agents (AMCC) [Aso... |
FBIS4-10409_0 | Cavallo Details Guidelines for Economic Policy | BFN [Text] The restriction of consumerism and an increase in public and private savings will be the guidelines for the economic policy from now on. This was announced by Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo in an address to some 60 businessmen during a meeting organized by Foro, an organization that is headed by Maria Teza... |
FBIS4-10420_1 | Article Sees `Objectivity' in U.S. Drug Report | and there was broad evidence of its efforts begun in mid-1989 which curbed drug trafficking." Later, on 12 April 1993, a NOTIMEX wire dispatch reported: "A U.S. State Department report published earlier this month recognizes Cuba's cooperation in controlling drug trafficking in 1992." "The Cuban Government continues to... |
FBIS4-10423_0 | Robaina Sees Uruguay Visit as `Very Positive' | BFN [Text] Montevideo, 7 [no month as received] (PL) -- Cuban Foreign Relations Minister Roberto Robaina today described his official visit to Uruguay as very positive. One of the trip's main objectives was to renegotiate Cuba's $33-million debt with Uruguay. Robaina believes that his contacts with the highest-ranking ... |
FBIS4-10426_0 | Article Views Solutions to Economic Troubles | BFN ["Exclusive" article by Raimundo Lopez: "The Atypical Path Toward the Solution of Economic Difficulties"] [Text] Havana -- Faced with the worst ever economic situation, the Cuban Government chose a somewhat unusual road to solve its woes. It simply placed the matter in the hands of those whom it usually affects the... |
FBIS4-10426_1 | Article Views Solutions to Economic Troubles | presentations about the solutions that should be implemented to enhance the domestic economy and clean up the financial system." He added that another aspect, deemed to be highly positive, was the response to the summons. The meetings had an average of over 86-percent attendance of all union members. The first study to... |
FBIS4-10427_0 | First Quarter Agricultural Subsidies Reduced | BFN [Text] Havana, 7 Apr (PL) -- Cuba reduced state subsidies to the agricultural sector by 50 percent from January to March this year, union leader Pedro Ross announced today when he read the decisions recently made by the Cuban Government. The country spent 2.700 billion pesos, equal to the dollar, to subsidize this ... |
FBIS4-10432_1 | U.S. UN Envoy Discusses NATO Weapons Embargo | cause of the discrimination against our country concerning military materiel. London so far maintains its ability to exert pressure on its partners in the Atlantic alliance nearly intact. Proof of this are the countless obstacles the Argentine Air Force has had to overcome to purchase the old Skyhawk planes. It is stil... |
FBIS4-10455_0 | Congress Probes Cocaine-Prostitute Exchange | BFN [Text] Brasilia, 7 Apr (EFE) -- Congressional sources today told EFE that the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies is investigating reports on the exchange of young prostitutes for cocaine on the Brazilian border with Bolivia. A delegation of three deputies today went to investigate the charges raised by residents of Braz... |
FBIS4-10465_2 | PRI Concedes State Faces Economic Problems | financial rescue of the Salinas government and the announcement of Mexico's membership in the OECD correspond to Washington's basic interests of national security rather than to the efficient results of the economic policy, although, for the current government, they constitute a fundamental step in regaining foreign in... |
FBIS4-10467_0 | Roundup of Economic Developments | BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Mexican economic developments monitored through 12 April. The employment situation in Mexico is worsening. In 1993, unemployment or partial employment adversely affected 23 percent of the economically active population of 33.7 million. A report from th... |
FBIS4-10469_2 | President Speaks on Public Security | have been limited abroad under the argument that the current government does not respect these human rights. That is obviously not true because we are frequently accused of being extremely tolerant and of not taking the severe actions that some would like. To return to the central part of my message, which is the decis... |
FBIS4-10475_1 | Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility Examined | on the families of the dismissed state workers, businesses that will see their sales reduced, and even maids, who will lose their jobs after their employers get fired. Although there are very few exemptions on indirect taxes, the government is determined to eliminate such exemptions, while adopting a mechanism to incre... |
FBIS4-10486_0 | Brazilian Drugs, Arms Trafficking Ties Probed | BFN [Excerpt] Interior Minister Carlos Podesta on 9 April announced that the government is going to investigate the local connection with an international network that deals in narcotics and arms trafficking and money laundering. He confirmed that "numbers game kingpin" Miro Garcia had been seen several times in the ca... |
FBIS4-10500_0 | Police Said Respecting Human Rights of Traffickers | BFN [Text] Respect for the human rights of those arrested on drug trafficking charges in the Upper Huallaga zone is no longer a cold guideline given by the military and police commands. It is now a conscientious action taken by all members of the Army and the National Police operating in that part of the Peruvian jungl... |
FBIS4-10505_0 | Article Views Effects of Financial Crisis | BFN [Article by Manuel Lopez Calo] [Text] The financial crisis had a very high price for the country, reaching 10 percent of GDP. Credit assistance reached 363.058 billion bolivares (6 percent of GDP) and there was capital flight worth $2.65 billion during the first quarter of the year. The collapse of important banks ... |
FBIS4-10512_1 | U.S. `Authoritarianism' in GATT Talks Criticized | But it is necessary to clearly admit that most countries had limited participation. We are actually in a submissive position, and recognition of this situation will make it possible for the Brazilian economy to find its appropriate place in international commerce. The Uruguay Round began with the revolutionary proposal... |
FBIS4-10515_0 | Survey Examines Pros, Cons of Joining Mercosur | BFN [Text] Santiago, 11 Apr (EFE) -- Chile will lose $295 million per year if it does not establish some sort of relationship with Mercosur [Common Market of the South], according to a survey the Chilean Foreign Ministry asked a private consulting firm to carry out. The firm recommended a rapprochement with this group ... |
FBIS4-10521_0 | Power Cuts Explained; Situation To Improve | BFN [Text] The cuts in the electric power supply currently occurring in Cuba are caused, basically, by difficulties in the nation's thermoelectric plants' generating capacity. Over half of the nation's 3,132 megawatts of generating capacity is produced by thermoelectric plants of Soviet or Czechoslovak manufacture. The... |
FBIS4-10522_1 | Commentary Notes Struggle To Combat Power Cuts | 600 megawatts, suffered damages and had to be removed from the national network. Other plants throughout the country have also been damaged by Cuba's heavy oil, which can cause serious damage if it is not adequately treated or if adjustments are not made to the industrial equipment in which it is used. Cuba has been fo... |
FBIS4-10534_3 | Presidential Candidate Cardenas Interviewed | of his own party; he says: "No, much less from within my party." Cardenas is asked what he would do to resolve extreme poverty, especially among Indians throughout the country. He says: "We must spend more funds for this purpose and realize the problem of poverty is affecting more than 50 percent of the country's popul... |
FBIS4-10546_0 | Statistics Report Shows Trade Deficit Increase | BFN [Text] Buenos Aires, 12 Apr (EFE) -- Official sources reported today that the deficit in the Argentine trade balance increased by 328.6 percent during January of this year as compared to January of 1993. In January imports added up to $1.5321 billion while exports exceeded $946 million. The figures released by the ... |
FBIS4-10550_1 | Ricupero on Adoption of Real | entire month of April and part of May, because it is an immense universe. We are now drawing up the decree on public contracts. We should allow private contracts to adjust themselves. Negotiations between the industrial and commercial sectors are in some areas much slower than in others. In areas like that of meat, neg... |
FBIS4-10550_8 | Ricupero on Adoption of Real | with the plan, we have a difficult journey ahead of us. If the economic plan did not exist, I believe the problems that would have accumulated by the end of the year would not have allowed the maintenance of such routine policy. To speak the truth, there was no choice. If we did not have this plan, we would probably ha... |
FBIS4-10550_12 | Ricupero on Adoption of Real | some moment, I do not mean now, we will have to make the other government branches responsible for their actions. This situation in which you have power and not responsibility is one of the reasons for which we are the only country on the American continent that has not defeated inflation. Nowadays even Russia is curbi... |
FBIS4-10555_0 | Venezuelan Border Air Strike Called Legitimate | BFN [Report by Vera Lima from Manaus, Amazonas State] [Text] The Amazonia Military Command [CMA] is monitoring a Venezuelan operation against gold prospectors at the Venezuelan-Brazilian border. The operation seeks to destroy clandestine airfields. In an official communique, the CMA reports that it was informed in adva... |
FBIS4-10570_3 | Attorney General on De Greiff, Drug Efforts | and, fortunately for the country, there has been progress. There is a consensus on the need to review certain points of the penal code and the code on penal procedures. The penal code brings together a series of legal provisions which, as I mentioned, are dispersed in more than 50 or 60 regulations. We need to review s... |
FBIS4-10583_9 | Lacalle Discusses Miami Summit, Domestic Issues | ballast, the lead weight on the fishing line, the problem that sometimes we did not even want to look at. Problems in Latin America have been gradually ironed out. This is the message I took to Washington. [EL PAIS] The "Americas Society" held an important meeting in Punta del Este recently. Within the framework of our... |
FBIS4-10590_1 | New Regional Foreign Policy Objectives Viewed | now will engage in broad negotiations to integrate the Amazonas (to the north) and the River Plate (to the south) basins. The objective is to create a regional free market that will be, nonetheless, open to promoting relations with the emerging political-economic blocs in North America, Europe, and Asia. The representa... |
FBIS4-10590_3 | New Regional Foreign Policy Objectives Viewed | might be leading Washington to adopt a new political position toward Brazil. The appearance of irritation in the economic competition with Europe and Japan already had led the United States to modify the foundations of its foreign policy, Brazilian diplomats said. Now, since Mexico joined NAFTA, Washington has decided ... |
FBIS4-10603_2 | UCR Leader Comments on Elections Results | risking their stability. We paid a very high price for our efforts to consolidate the political peace, and consequently, democracy in Argentina. We not only had internal problems, but all other parties turned against us, seeking to win more votes. What really hurt me was the attempt to find hidden intentions in a posit... |
FBIS4-10610_0 | Atomic Energy Agency's Privatization Viewed | BFN [Interview with Energy Secretary Carlos Bastos by unidentified reporter; place and date not given] [Text] [CLARIN] Will the CNEA [National Commission for Atomic Energy] be privatized? [Bastos] Let us begin with something more basic. Let us discuss the prospects for nuclear energy. When organizing the field, the sta... |
FBIS4-10627_20 | Vice Presidential Hopefuls on Endara Video | asked for when we demanded a change. The fact this video has been presented by the president, who also belongs to the Arnulfist Party, makes us think. [Escalona] These are everyone's opinions and speculations. You have every right to express an opinion and make speculations. May I reiterate this could be the purpose of... |
FBIS4-10632_0 | Roundup of Economic Reports | BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on economic activities in Paraguay through 14 April. According to the Central Bank, BCP, the drop in March's inflation rate, which stood at 1.9 percent, shows that inflation will continue its downward rate. The BCP believes the measures it adopted, namely... |
FBIS4-10637_4 | Political Violence Statistics for Jan-Feb 94 | streets are closed to traffic. The regional committee of the center was in second place with six incidents (19 percent). One of these was carried out by what remains of the MRTA [Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement] in Chanchamayo. Shining Path also had two confrontations with security forces in the same province. The r... |
FBIS4-10638_0 | Editorial Examines Cuba's Attempt To Blame U.S. | BFN [Editorial: "The Cuban Foreign Minister's Surprising Remarks"] [Text] During the brief visit he made to our country, Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina disclosed to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Deputies some of the unusual concepts used by Castro's regime in its assessment of international re... |
FBIS4-10664_0 | New Plan Reportedly Bans Free Sale of Medicines | BFN [By Alfredo Munoz-Unsain] [Text] Havana, 14 Apr (AFP) -- The free sale of medicines, with the sole exception of oral contraceptives, will be banned in Cuba, according to a drastic plan drafted by the Public Health Ministry which AFP managed to read. A document entitled "Plan for the Improvement of the National Medi... |
FBIS4-10666_3 | Roundup of Economic Activity 8-12 Apr | the planting program is vital to meeting the needs of the people. Radio Rebelde also reports that in San Cristobal Municipality in Pinar del Rio, the 93-94 sugar harvest is experiencing difficulties. A provincial expert adds that measures had to be taken to overcome delays, such as activating the Jose Marti Mill to hel... |
FBIS4-10667_0 | Roundup of Economic Activity 12-14 Apr | BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on economic developments carried on Havana radio and television in Spanish between 12 and 14 April. Radio Reloj at 1945 GMT on 12 April reports that the goal of Havana Province's Agro-94 is to harvest 1.5 million quintals of tubers and vegetabl... |
FBIS4-10668_1 | Reporters Discuss Improving Economy | might have on our technological development, on our social and economic infrastructure, et cetera. Now, independent of some details concerning the blackouts you mentioned, we must insist on some ideas that can somehow explain the current situation. I am one of those who have always expressed -- and last year when the s... |
FBIS4-10668_4 | Reporters Discuss Improving Economy | us the possibility of obtaining currency at levels higher than last year when the harvest was affected by the Storm of the Century and by other adverse weather conditions. [Rodriguez] We have to clarify that the profits from this tobacco, which still needs to be processed, will be seen by the end of 1995 or perhaps the... |
FBIS4-10668_8 | Reporters Discuss Improving Economy | enduring the worst limitations so long as they save the Revolution and the fatherland. However, the people have to be kept well informed. They need to receive all the details and information so they are able to understand and better resist. [Rodriguez] I believe that you have expressed the irritation of the people. If ... |
FBIS4-10669_0 | Thermoelectric Plants To Receive Spare Parts | BFN [Text] The Cuban Electric Union reported yesterday that the continuous and lengthy power cuts in the country are caused by serious generation problems. Officials from the electric union last night reported that from a total generation capacity of 3,132 mw throughout the country, more than half is produced by thermo... |
FBIS4-10670_3 | State Licensed Taxi Drivers Interviewed | for this type of work. [Santana] How do you think this situation can be resolved -- by lowering the fares of the taxis? [Third taxi driver] We believe the state must take measures regarding this situation. What kind of measures? Not by fining Cuban pesos because after making the conversion, if they are fined 100 pesos,... |
FBIS4-10679_0 | Says Havana Seeks Foreign Investment | BFN [From the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina said in Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, that in response to the severe economic blockade imposed by the United States, his country is in need of an economic model characterized by openness to trade and foreign investme... |
FBIS4-10681_0 | Concludes `Unofficial' Visit | BFN [Text] On the last day of his unofficial visit to Paraguay, Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina met with former President Andres Rodriguez and members of the Commerce, Industry and Production Federation, the largest [words indistinct] of that South American country. Robaina gave former President Rodriguez a mess... |
FBIS4-10684_3 | `Change' in U.S. Refugee Policy Discussed | for the condition of political refugee. On many occasions it has been pointed out that this difference in treatment between Cubans and Haitians, in addition to having political overtones, has aspects of racial discrimination. This is not surprising if one considers the results of a recent survey, which was published to... |
FBIS4-10690_0 | Government Marks Funds for Power Plant Parts | BFN [Text] The Cuban Government has earmarked $13 million for the purchase of components, spare parts, and other resources abroad for the repair and maintenance of a number of thermoelectric plants in the country. The tremendous efforts being made by personnel of the electricity sector and other areas, in addition to t... |
FBIS4-10693_0 | Oil Production Reaches 305,000 Tons | BFN [Text] Havana, 14 Apr (DPA) -- Cuba announced today that it produced 305,000 tons of oil during the first quarter of 1994, surpassing by 112 percent the goal set for that period. The state-owned National Radio Newscast (NNR) revealed that the island plans to extract 1.2 million tons of crude oil this year, 100,000 ... |
FBIS4-10724_0 | Forensic Chief Ordered Silent on U.S. Case | BFN [Text] First Criminal Judge Luis Antonio Villeda today instructed Forensic Institute Director Dr. Juan Mateu Llort to refrain from making any statements on the death of U.S. adviser Julio Ramon Rivera, particularly regarding the toxicological test which showed the U.S. officer was on drugs. With several journalists... |
FBIS4-10737_17 | Presidential Candidates Hold Debate | of thinking the Colon free port proposal is very appropriate for the area of Colon and its idiosyncrasy because Colon is located at one of the Canal's terminal ports. I sincerely do not believe this is applicable to other provinces of the Republic, which have a vocation for agriculture, self-production." Arias says tha... |
FBIS4-10737_19 | Presidential Candidates Hold Debate | public sectors. I think that Panamanian women will have great opportunities in the future. We have respected their status and will continue to give them opportunities and responsibilities." Journalist Miller points out that the citizens are constantly complaining about the high rates of utilities, such as electricity. ... |
FBIS4-10752_1 | Cuban Foreign Minister Robaina Interviewed | the essence of many things is maintained. Those are the things Lage defends, with all clarity. About the modifications, I expressed myself in one way, and Lage in another. But it is clear that we are not talking about a model that is identical to the one we had before, because substantial differences already exist. [Ur... |
FBIS4-10752_4 | Cuban Foreign Minister Robaina Interviewed | congresses that the wise voice of the people, which will convey to our country's leadership the need to introduce new transformations, will be raised. These transformations, for example, include putting domestic finances on a sound footing so that sectors like that of the scientists will not in some way be harmed after... |
FBIS4-10752_7 | Cuban Foreign Minister Robaina Interviewed | at odds with the current situation? [Robaina] The situation is, first, not only no longer the same as that which prevailed many years ago, but it is also no longer that which prevailed a few months ago, either. The ability to enter or leave our country currently does not depend on Cuba's having more or fewer regulation... |
FBIS4-10769_2 | Finance Minister Addresses Nation | with the salary of March, the first one that was corrected. Today many products and services have two prices: one in real cruzeiros, which continues to be readjusted, and another in URV's, which remains stable and is also the measure of the value of your salary. The result is that commerce has increased its sales and p... |
FBIS4-10771_8 | Strategic Affairs Secretary Interviewed | represents a vacuum of power, of human presence, a disorder that must come under control. We are heading toward a new world in which borders are losing their traditional values. In order to control the Amazon region, Brazil must learn to use it. To use it implies controlling it. The most spoken about part of this proje... |
FBIS4-10772_1 | Editorial Criticizes Church Election Document | the PT [Workers Party] appeared on the national political scene. This election year, The Responsible Vote does not conceal its position. The religious men who sign it define themselves politically. The document distinguishes three threats to the informed vote: the resistance to voting, the lack of knowledge of what is ... |
FBIS4-10777_1 | Commentator Views Article by Foreign Minister | correspondent reporting a change in the attitude toward Brazil from some of the most influential U.S. policy makers [two preceding words in English]. They are people who were removed from their universe of reflection that fed on negative, mistaken perceptions of Brazil, perceptions that concealed the efforts Brazil has... |
FBIS4-10797_0 | Commentary Examines Effects of Oil Shortage | BFN [Commentary by Miguel Angel de la Guardia from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] There is no doubt that the shortage of oil and oil by-products is the main economic problem Cuba is currently facing. It is the main hardship of the so-called special period in the aftermath of the sudden fall of easter... |
FBIS4-10815_0 | President Comments on Freeing of Kidnapped American, Lack of | U.S. Aid PA1804223594 Guatemala City Teleonce Television in Spanish 0400 GMT 18 Apr 94 PA1804223594 Guatemala City Teleonce Television Spanish BFN [From the "Telepress" newscast] [Text] The family of Georgina Rosse Robyn, the girl who was freed last Friday after being kidnapped on 11 April, this Sunday visited the Pres... |
FBIS4-10831_0 | Workers Parliaments To Continue | BFN [Text] Havana, 9 Apr (PL) -- The Cuban Workers Federation (CTC) has announced workers will continue, beginning this month, to hold meetings to analyze measures to optimize economic efficiency. The proposals were made during the so-called Parliaments in the Workplace, a process involving approximately 80,000 assembl... |
FBIS4-10833_0 | Generation of Electricity at 50 Percent of Capacity | BFN [Text] Havana, 13 Apr (PL) -- The availability of electric generation systems in Cuba currently averages 50 percent of capacity and is not meeting the nation's demand for this vital energy source because a large number of plants are undergoing maintenance or repairs. GRANMA newspaper today says that, under normal c... |
FBIS4-10834_0 | Two-Thirds of Electric Plants Said Out of Service | BFN [Text] Havana, 13 Apr (PL) -- Basic Industry Minister Marcos Portal reported that two-thirds of Cuba's electricity plants are out of service due to damage. Portal held a news conference during which he referred to the causes for the abrupt increase in the number of power outages in Havana, where electricity was ava... |
FBIS4-10835_0 | Minister: Electricity Cuts Pose Grave Problem | BFN [Text] Havana, 15 Apr (PL) -- The electricity deficit facing Cuba has no short-term solution, Basic Industry Minister Marcos Portal announced today. He maintained that the country will only be able to generate electricity at 60 percent of its capacity by December. Speaking on television to a panel of journalists, t... |
FBIS4-10836_0 | Article Assesses Move Toward Self-Employment | BFN ["Exclusive" article by Juan Triana Cordovi, PRENSA LATINA contributor and specialist at the Center for Cuban Economic Studies: "Changes in the Cuban Economy: Self-Employment"] [Text] [no dateline as received] More than forcing the adoption of measures, cicumstances have compelled reflection and swift but cautious ... |
FBIS4-10836_7 | Article Assesses Move Toward Self-Employment | all these years, which has obliged reevaluating different types of socioeconomic methods to be able to maintain the achievements of socialism. As long as the national economy is in the process of improving its efficiency and the government sector remains preponderant, self-employed work must become not only an alternat... |
FBIS4-10857_2 | Prospects for Immigrant Scientists Examined | is varied. Galina Pugatcheva and Anatoliy Gusev, of the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), are studying the anomalies of the Brazilian magnetic field. The phenomenon creates 50 percent more lightings in our atmosphere than in any other part of the planet. Another five Russian scientists, contracted to work at the ... |
FBIS4-10866_0 | Roundup of Economic Reports | BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on economic activities in Peru through 14 April: The Overseas Economic Corporation Fund of Japan will grant $21.5 million loan to Peru to co-finance health services projects; the IDB also agreed to grant $68 million to partially finance them. (Lima EL COM... |
FBIS4-10884_1 | Cuba's Robaina Comments on Blockade, Effects | about the possibilities of investment that Cuba is opening up for all countries. As brother peoples, the two countries need integration. [NOTICIAS] How do you manage in your country, taking into account the fact that the economic blockade is still being imposed? [Robaina] We are suffering from the effects of an escalat... |
FBIS4-10888_1 | Cuba's Robaina Views Embargo, Economic Opening | a besieged stronghold. And a besieged stronghold cannot afford the luxuries it would aspire to if it lived under normal conditions. [Sopena] Has the accession of Bill Clinton to the U.S. presidency somehow changed things? [Robaina] No. Perhaps the only substantial public change is that Clinton is not as aggressive as B... |
FBIS4-10905_3 | Roundup of Economic Developments | placed on the international markets the lowest-priced issue of bonds in the past 12 years for the amount of $250 million. Foreign investors' purchase of these bonds will inject security and stability into the Mexican economy. (Mexico City UNOMASUNO in Spanish 15 Apr 94 p 16) Mexico and New Zealand have signed an agreem... |
FBIS4-10909_2 | UCA Laments `Irregularities' in Elections | registry and identify the right table, or one who can clearly identify the destination of each part of the ballot and his party choice, as well as sign the electoral registry. In a word, the Supreme Electoral Tribunal prevented a good number of citizens from voting. But in the end, it was the political parties themselv... |
FBIS4-10921_1 | Commentary Questions U.S. Military Aid Treaty | the time that he was asked the question--he had neither considered the issue nor established any criteria for it. Hondurans grows less interested in military matters every day, so they would not miss U.S. military aid. One could predict, however, that the Washington administration would have a negative reaction toward ... |
FBIS4-10947_3 | Antonio Navarro Views Electoral Prospects | that this Colombia was for everyone. Pinacue represents the human face of this country, the silent voice of millions of Colombians, and the values that have been outlined. [Mercado] What do you think of Samper's and Pastrana's vice presidential candidates? [Navarro] That they add absolutely nothing to the ticket, becau... |
FBIS4-10960_2 | Menem Interviewed on Patents Law, NAFTA, GATT | be one. The floods, caused by the heavy rain in the capital, was another reason. This soured the people's mood. The people tend to blame the incumbent president rather than what has been going on for many years.... The scandals, prompted by reports on corruption within the PAMI [Comprehensive Medical Assistance Plan], ... |
FBIS4-10960_6 | Menem Interviewed on Patents Law, NAFTA, GATT | our export-oriented policy. Nevertheless, this issue must be handled very carefully because we may also be subjected to trade reprisals, involving increased tariffs, by the countries receiving our exports and the problem will be more complicated for us. An agreement must be reached on this issue. [CLARIN] [Economy Mini... |
FBIS4-10962_5 | Cuba's Robaina Discusses Progress, Castro | conditions continue unchanged it is impossible for my country to accomplish what other countries accomplish under normal conditions. [Reporter] Is it possible to consider a capitalist Cuba in terms of a market economy? How is Cuba facing this reality? [Robaina] No. Cuba is facing a reality in a world that up to now has... |
FBIS4-10972_3 | Foreign Minister Writes on GATT Meeting Results | unilateral measures. The reincorporation of agricultural trade into GATT, the reversal of what has so far been an increasingly strong trend to subsidize agricultural products, the reincorporation of textile trade into GATT rules, and the gains obtained in the access to markets for some Brazilian priority products open ... |
FBIS4-10979_0 | GRANMA: `Right-Wing Groups' Threaten Cuba's Ties | BFN [Text] Havana, 16 Apr (PL) -- GRANMA today reports that reactionary and right-wing groups in Miami have made threats against the Cuban people, its leaders, and those Cuban immigrants seeking to normalize ties with the island. Saturday's edition of the official paper of the Communist Party of Cuba mentions the use o... |
FBIS4-10980_0 | Article Views U.S. Military Cuts | BFN ["Exclusive" article by Division General Jesus Bermudez Cutino, military chief of the Intelligence Directorate of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba: "Numbers Don't Lie"] [Text] In this article published by PRENSA LATINA, the chief of military intelligence of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR) of Cuba analyze... |
FBIS4-10983_0 | Report Reviews Tourism Industry Potential | BFN [Article by Jose Dos Santos, PRENSA LATINA collaborator and vice president of the Union of Cuban Journalists: "Tourism in Cuba: New Era Industry"] [Text] Havana [dateline as received] -- Tourism is a popular activity in Cuba and it has increasingly become a leading factor in the transformation that Cuban society st... |
FBIS4-10984_0 | Roundup of Economic Developments | BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Cuban economic developments monitored through 19 April. Dutch diplomatic sources have reported that Cuba has authorized the opening of a Dutch bank on the island. This will be the first foreign bank to operate in Cuba. The Netherlands Caribbean Bank of... |
FBIS4-10991_1 | Commentary on Minister's Views of Energy Crisis | with Cuba and its revolution. In turn, the authorities feel obligated to inform Cubans fully and to give them all of the necessary information to inform them of the situation and the efforts being undertaken to overcome the crisis. Minister Portal referred to the poor condition of Cuban power plants, which lack require... |
FBIS4-10992_0 | Eastern Army Performs for FAR Leaders | BFN [Text] Today, the extraordinary military council of the Eastern Army opened with Army General Raul Castro; Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida Bosque; Division Gen. Ulises Rosales del Toro, chief of the General Staff; and Division Gen. Ramon Espinosa Martin, head of the Eastern Army, in attendance. Council mem... |
FBIS4-10996_0 | Says South American Tour Successful | BFN [Text] Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina has returned to the country. He considered the visit to four South American countries positive; he had a chance to explain the Cuban situation and to learn something of the situation on the continent. Upon returning to Havana, Robaina told PRENSA LATINA that this tour h... |
FBIS4-11000_3 | Divorce, Marriage Statistics Reported | CIPS study, "Cuba has one of the highest divorce rates in the world. It is 3.4 per 1,000 inhabitants, exceeded only by the United States (4.8) and Puerto Rico (4.2)." Fifty percent of divorces occur within the first two years of the marriage, and in general, among young people under 30. Recently, youths between the age... |
FBIS4-11000_4 | Divorce, Marriage Statistics Reported | the highest divorce rates in the world. It is 3.4 per 1,000 inhabitants, exceeded only by the United States (4.8) and Puerto Rico (4.2)." Fifty percent of divorces occur within the first two years of the marriage, and in general, among young people under 30. Recently, youths between the ages of 15 and 20 have begun div... |
FBIS4-11044_0 | Views Savings, Investment | BFN [Report by Jorge Luis Velazquez from Boston] [Text] Domingo Cavallo has said he is convinced that the dynamism of the stability plan will end up encouraging an increase in internal savings and slowing down the growth of consumption. The minister added, however, that the Economy Ministry will "help" speed up the pro... |
FBIS4-11048_0 | Minister of Government Quiroga Interviewed | BFN [Minister of Government German Quiroga interviewed by Carlos Mesa in the "Up Close" television program in Associated Journalists Television, PAT, studios in La Paz -- live] [Excerpts] [Mesa] Good evening. Bolivia is currently experiencing difficult times. It has to prove the strength of its democratic system and sh... |
FBIS4-11064_6 | Foreign Minister Sergio Abreu Interviewed | other complementary articulations with the United States within the framework of the "4+1" Treaty, but also within the framework of a "4+3" Treaty so that NAFTA and Mercosur can negotiate bilaterally within the "4+1" scheme, which is a negotiating and consultation agenda. [EL PAIS] Will Uruguay's proposal eliminate the... |
FBIS4-11065_0 | Discusses Population Conference | BFN ["Part" of interview with Foreign Minister Sergio Abreu by Heraclio Labandera; place and date not given] [Text] [Labandera] There are documents revealing that the United States is investing millions of dollars in birth control campaigns in developing countries through private and nongovernmental organizations. In t... |
FBIS4-11065_1 | Discusses Population Conference | to seek new opportunities beyond our borders or better horizons thanks to labor qualifications with which they can obtain a comparative advantage. This obviously influences a population policy that is also conditioned by "family planning," which has its own parameters and which the country has not set at the controvers... |
FBIS4-11066_0 | Official on Trade, Investments, Interest Rates | BFN [Interview with Economy Minister Ignacio de Posadas by correspondent Oscar Vilas in Guadalajara, Mexico; date not given] [Text] [Vilas] What are the government projections for this year's trade balance? [De Posadas] Last year we forecast a decline in our trade balance deficit. We assumed imports would level off bec... |
FBIS4-11072_0 | Official Comments on Export Drive, NAFTA | BFN [Interview with International Economic Relations Under Secretary Jorge Campbell by Claudia Boragni; place and date not given] [Text] [Boragni] Was the previous Radical administration also concerned about exports? [Campbell] There has always been a need to boost exports. Argentina has a closed economy. [Boragni] How... |
FBIS4-11072_1 | Official Comments on Export Drive, NAFTA | How can this trend be turned around? [Campbell] We need a cultural change. There are very concrete cases that point to the ongoing reversal of this trend. I am referring to relations between Argentina and Brazil, in which bilateral trade rose from $1 billion yearly to $6 billion. [Boragni] Does the trade deficit consti... |
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