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FBIS3-10143_1 | * Russian Scientists Contracted for High-Tech Research | the selections," said Wanderley de Souza, the molecular biologist who is rector of UENF. He recalled that, with budget appropriations continuing to shrink, "working conditions for Russian scientists in most technological fields are very bad, maybe worse than in Brazil." Boris and Irina, like other married foreign scien... |
FBIS3-10143_2 | * Russian Scientists Contracted for High-Tech Research | Alexander Kineo, also contracted by the university, the couple will bring to Brazil advanced techniques for production of reagents to be used in faster and more efficient diagnosis of illnesses like toxoplasmosis, a disease transmitted by a protozoan that attacks the central nervous system and the eyes. The new diagnos... |
FBIS3-10152_3 | Finance Minister Discusses Economic Issues | we could spend 450 million [currency not specified] on anything we wanted, while the remaining funds available to us would be held in reserve, because we need to have a certain amount for a Brady Plan down payment, which we hope to have by the end of the year. [Vargas] Now it is Augusto Alvarez Rodrich's turn on "Satur... |
FBIS3-10168_0 | Chamber of Commerce Head Denounces U.S. Unions | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Tegucigalpa -- Eduardo Facusse, president of the Tegucigalpa Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIT), denounced yesterday U.S. labor organizations for financing campaigns to destabilize Honduras. Facusse made the disclosure during a speech at the CCIT's ordinary assembly, durin... |
FBIS3-10180_0 | National Airline Purchases 8 New Planes | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Through Aviaco, the Spanish national airlines, Cuba has purchased eight planes, two of which are already in the country and soon to be put into service. These are turbo-propelled, twin-engine planes with a functional capacity of between 44 and 48 passengers. The objective is to... |
FBIS3-10188_1 | Editorial Examines NATO Downing of Serbian Planes | United Nations are backed by the force of weapons and the will to use them. The incident served to demonstrate that NATO will not hesitate to use its operational superiority to maintain the exclusion zones established by the UN peace forces free from air strikes. In other words, the determination of one of the parties ... |
FBIS3-10196_0 | Mining Ministers React to Oil Sales To Cuba | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Video report by Raul Gutierrez from the "24 Hours" newscast; passages within quotation marks recorded] [Text] [Gutierrez] While Miami is attempting to boycott Colombian products in retaliation for selling Colombian oil to Cuba, here, the government's decision is considered to be bad ... |
FBIS3-10197_0 | Arrested Cali Cartel Leader Has Heart Attack | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "NTC Newscast"] [Text] Alleged drug trafficker Jaime Orjuela Caballero of the Cali Cartel was taken to Shaio Clinic in Bogota following a heart attack. Orjuela was being held at DIJIN [Judicial Police and Investigations Directorate] headquarters after he was arrested during ... |
FBIS3-10232_0 | Privatization Successes, Future Plans Viewed Where Privatization Now Stands Banks Sold | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [Article by Jaime Mejia Mazuera and Clara Ines Rueda of EL TIEMPO's economic staff] [Text] In recent days two of the biggest privatizations ever reported in Colombia have been finalized. The Banco de Colombia [Bank of Colombia] has been transferred to a group of Cali businessmen, and ... |
FBIS3-10248_0 | Finance Minister Views Change in `Economic Mentality' | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 2 Mar (EFE) -- Cuban Finance Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez said today people should not talk about economic recovery yet, rather, that it is a year during which we will change our economic mentality, because "we have gone from an economic certitude to the management of u... |
FBIS3-10250_0 | UN Diplomat Circulates `Secret' U.S. Document | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] In Geneva, Cuba distributed a secret document dictated by the U.S. Interests Section in Havana. The report shows the dishonesty of the allegations made by the so-called human rights organizations on the island. Signed by Joseph Gerald Sullivan, the head of the U.S. Interests Se... |
FBIS3-10252_0 | Counterrevolutionary Group Threatens Pastors for Peace | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Morning Information Review" newscast] [Text] Alpha 66, the Miami-based counterrevolutionary group, has threatened to carry out terrorist actions against the group Pastors for Peace, which has organized the Cuba-U.S. Friendship Caravan, if the group continues to travel throu... |
FBIS3-10255_0 | Students Clash With Police; 7 Injured | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Santo Domingo, 3 Mar (NOTIMEX) -- Today, authorities reported that university students threw rocks at police during a demonstration against academic reforms, and as a result, seven youths were injured. The police reported that during the demonstration some 2,000 students of the... |
FBIS3-10261_2 | EZLN Lists Demands; Government Replies | to elevate the quality of public education in the area. [EZLN] That the dialects of all ethnic groups be made official languages and that their teaching be compulsory in all schools. [Government] The topic of bilingual education in the Indian communities will be included in the general law of Indian community rights. [... |
FBIS3-10271_0 | Roundup of Electoral Developments | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on developments related to the Salvadoran elections, scheduled for 20 March. Unity Movement presidential candidate Jorge Martinez has advocated the promotion of a moral market economy based on "the ethical values of man that serve as the root... |
FBIS3-10272_0 | Government, URNG Begin Peace Talks in Mexico City | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Mexico City, 3 Mar (NOTIMEX) -- Guatemalan Government and guerrilla representatives agreed that the human rights issue is the first and foremost point in the peace negotiations which began in Mexico City today. Hector Rosada, chairman of the government's Peace Commission, said ... |
FBIS3-10273_0 | French Official Says France Supports Peace Process | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by David Flores Castillo; quotation marks as published] [Text] In an analysis of her visit to Guatemala, Lucette Michaux-Chevry, French minister delegate of humanitarian action and human rights, noted that her country supports the pacification process that is being advanced he... |
FBIS3-10274_0 | Human Rights Associations Denounce Army's Forced Recruitment | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Guatemala City, 2 Mar (NOTIMEX) -- Human rights associations today denounced the Guatemalan Army's reinstating in the past days "the capture or hunting of youths" as part of obligatory military recruitment. The National Commission of Guatemalan Widows [Conavigua] said Army troo... |
FBIS3-10276_1 | Congress President Views Currency Devaluation | any further currency devaluation. The only thing devaluation causes is negative collateral effects. For example, it generates more inflation. As we have already stated, inflation is one of the most vulgar taxes we can impose on the Honduran people. In this respect, what should prevail is a willingness to seek different... |
FBIS3-10286_0 | Roundup of Economic Reports | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on economic activities in Argentina monitored through 3 March. Argentina registered a record production of gold and silver in 1993 with the exploitation of the Agua de Dionisio reserves in Catamarca Province. A total of 605 kg of gold and 6,8... |
FBIS3-10291_25 | Wasmosy Gives State of Nation Address | be summarized in the following strategy: On the one hand, state reform, which by doing away with the privileges and concessions that characterized past policies, will enable efficiency and the solution of our social problems. On the other hand, the privatization of the economy will grant the private sector an increasin... |
FBIS3-10291_29 | Wasmosy Gives State of Nation Address | is in the under 20 age bracket; 26,000 children and teenagers are working on the streets of Asuncion and in the metropolitan area; and 2 percent of the children living in Asuncion are in a high risk situation. Eighty five percent of these children attend school irregularly, while the remaining 15 percent do not attend ... |
FBIS3-10291_36 | Wasmosy Gives State of Nation Address | which in turn will be instrumental in making the first turbine -- which will operate at an elevation of 76 meters above sea level -- operational in September this year, once we resolve aspects that have to do with the necessary expropriations and resettlement. [passage omitted] The Corpus Christi [hydroelectric dam] pr... |
FBIS3-10306_2 | Journalists on Human Rights `Fallacy' | the visa request process keeps encountering dubious cases mostly provoked by economics. I believe we must comment on this because that is the way it is. [Rodriguez] That is very interesting because the international campaign the United States wages against Cuba is precisely that the emigration of a significant number o... |
FBIS3-10307_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 25 February and 4 March. Cuba Vision Network at 0100 GMT on 26 February reports that the Baracoa Cacao Experimental Station has produced 2.5... |
FBIS3-10309_0 | Russian Association Chairman on Cooperation | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Lev (Mogilevskiy), chairman of the Russian-Cuban International Economic Commercial Association, said his association will essentially be the strategic group for cooperation between Russia and the largest island in the Antilles. In an interview with the Russian news agency ITAR-... |
FBIS3-10324_0 | Central Bank Denies Plans To Devalue Colon | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "Up to Date" newscast] [Excerpt] Central Reserve Bank President Jose Roberto Orellana Milla has denied the colon will be devalued after the 20 March elections, as has been speculated in the past days. He said there is enough foreign currency in the market to make the currenc... |
FBIS3-10326_0 | Bodies Agree Human Rights Violations Increasing | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Nelda Alvaragenga; from the "Facing the Moment" newscast] [Text] Human rights organizations concurred on Friday with UN expert Pedro Nikken that human rights violations have increased in the country. Reynaldo Blanco, of the Salvadoran Human Rights Commission [CDHES], has af... |
FBIS3-10327_1 | Editorial Views Illegal Entry Into U.S. | for a job so they can stay. This of course is until immigration authorities uncover, arrest, and deport them. Previously, it was mostly the Central Americans who struggled to get on the other side, overcoming the risks in Mexican territory. Now, however, the Asians have also joined in; these are the ones who pay the tr... |
FBIS3-10340_0 | Communications Director Clarifies Devaluation | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Statement by Carlos Calderon, presidency communications director, in Tegucigalpa; from the "Morning Paper" newscast--live] [Text] I only wanted to refer briefly to Jose Andino's statements following an interview with the president. He has said a devaluation was being announced. I bel... |
FBIS3-10342_5 | Views Future of Peace Negotiations | entire column, the one between San Cristobal and Rancho Nuevo, and it also disorganized the one between Altamirano and San Cristobal. I repeat that we did not know very well what was going on. The quick manner in which we went from the armed confrontation to the table in San Cristobal took us by surprise. We had alread... |
FBIS3-10349_1 | Canadian Foreign Minister Continues Visit Lifting of Cuban Embargo Urged | road of negotiations already started." At the conclusion of the meeting -- which included five members of the Canadian Cabinet, as well as Carlos Hank Gonzalez and Emilio Gamboa Patron, secretaries of agriculture and hydraulic resources and of communications and transportation, respectively -- Canadian Prime Minister J... |
FBIS3-10359_2 | Cardoso Views Minimum Wages, Privatization | rate. Nevertheless, he announced that the government might reduce import tariffs as a way of preventing excessive increases. The minister cautioned that it is not easy to negotiate with oligopolies "in Brazil or the United States." Minimum Wages Despite the fact that the government has formed a commission to study a wa... |
FBIS3-10369_0 | Roundup of Economic Reports | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on economic activities in Brazil monitored through 3 March. On 24 February, the Industry, Commerce, and Tourism Ministry reported that record Brazilian imports last year valued at $25.1 billion included capital goods, raw materials, and inter... |
FBIS3-10370_0 | Supreme Court Orders Brazilian Citizen's Release | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Tania Maria Cordeiro, a Brazilian citizen, was notified this morning of her release from prison, after having been held in custody for nearly a year. Soon after 1000 local time [1600 GMT], Cordeiro was taken from Rengua Penitentiary to Rancagua Courthouse, where she was officia... |
FBIS3-10380_0 | `Diplomatic Offensive' To Sign IMF Agreement | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Roberto Larios] [Text] Presidency Minister Antonio Lacayo and Economy Minister Pablo Pereira revealed yesterday that the Public Investments Program, which the government considers "the other pillar" of its Economic Reactivation Plan, could collapse if the agreement with the... |
FBIS3-10412_0 | Record Import Level in 1993 | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [By Jorge Figueroa] [Text] Montevideo, 26 Feb (EFE) -- Favored by a "cheap dollar" and low import duties, the Uruguayan public purchased during 1993 a record figure of imported cars, food, drinks, electric appliances, and clothes. The trend leading Uruguayan companies to purchase impo... |
FBIS3-10433_0 | Concern Expressed Over Thatcher Visit to Falklands | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Ovidio Bellando] [Text] Although Margaret Thatcher's upcoming visit to Chile was not on the agenda of two-day talks in Santiago between Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Fernando Petrella and his Chilean counterpart, Rodrigo Jesus Diaz Albonico, the quasi-official treatment ... |
FBIS3-10434_0 | Officials, Businessmen React to Economic Plan | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by LA NACION special correspondent Eduardo De Simone from Madrid] [Text] The Argentine Administration hopes that Brazil's recent economic plan will help shorten the deadlines for integration within the framework of the Common Market of the South [Mercosur]. Many people believe... |
FBIS3-10441_1 | `Secret' U.S. Document Disproves Rights Groups | responding to a report by Carl Johan Groth, special rapporteur of the Cuban Human Rights Committee (CDH). After revealing ties between the CIA and such organizations, Sullivan called for greater cooperation between the CIA and the Interests Section in Havana because of the CIA's interest in the campaign against Cuba, w... |
FBIS3-10444_0 | U.S. Handling of Human Rights Issue Viewed | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [By Carlos Fazio] [Text] [No dateline as received] -- A method used by the United States over and over again is to make use accustomed to de facto situations. A typical and current example is the "Strong Roads 94" operation throughout Latin America. Using the excuse of building school... |
FBIS3-10446_0 | Minister Discusses Reorganizing Economic Policy | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [By Zenaida Ferrer Martinez] [Text] Havana, 3 Mar (PL) -- Cuba is reorganizing its domestic and foreign economic policy to cope with the adverse economic and financial situation and to advance in the search for real development that will allow the country's reinsertion into the world ... |
FBIS3-10446_2 | Minister Discusses Reorganizing Economic Policy | We had to link man directly with his work by creating basic cooperative productive units, which are socialist formulas that allow peasants to feel like co-owners of the land. We have reached the conclusion that certain unproductive factories cannot continue to operate, that we must review the payrolls, and that we must... |
FBIS3-10447_0 | Official Predicts Economic Improvement | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 4 Mar (PL) -- Osvaldo Martinez, the president of the Parliament's economic commission, anticipates that the Cuban economy will improve during the second half of 1994 because of the influence of structural changes in the agricultural sector and the positive reaction by s... |
FBIS3-10454_0 | Magazine Concerned Over Voting Predictions | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by David Carrizales] [Text] Monterrey, Nuevo Leon State, 1 Mar -- Federico Reyes Heroles, director of ESTE PAIS magazine, said today when commenting on a poll by this magazine that it is a matter of utmost seriousness for the country's politics when 40 percent of Mexicans beli... |
FBIS3-10462_1 | Article Defines Social Security, Subsidies | State Committee for Finance, said that subsidies to cover losses in which the consequences of the adverse economic situation are factors--by creating substantial declines in efficiency and productivity--have risen more than projected, reaching 4.6 billion pesos in 1993, 73 percent more than in 1989. This impacts heavil... |
FBIS3-10462_2 | Article Defines Social Security, Subsidies | the consequences of the adverse economic situation are factors--by creating substantial declines in efficiency and productivity--have risen more than projected, reaching 4.6 billion pesos in 1993, 73 percent more than in 1989. This impacts heavily on the budget which has a deficit, that is, an imbalance between income ... |
FBIS3-10463_2 | Jewish Culture, Israeli Trade Reported in Havana | it is convenient. "What worries me," said the Communist party's official responsible for religions, Caridad Diego, "is that with all the foreign aid to the Jewish community, a privileged class may be created here." We talked in the meeting hall filled with gifts from heads of states and party leaders from all over the ... |
FBIS3-10464_0 | Concern Expressed Over Thatcher Visit to Falklands | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Ovidio Bellando] [Text] Although Margaret Thatcher's upcoming visit to Chile was not on the agenda of two-day talks in Santiago between Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Fernando Petrella and his Chilean counterpart, Rodrigo Jesus Diaz Albonico, the quasi-official treatment ... |
FBIS3-10465_0 | Officials, Businessmen React to Economic Plan | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by LA NACION special correspondent Eduardo De Simone from Madrid] [Text] The Argentine Administration hopes that Brazil's recent economic plan will help shorten the deadlines for integration within the framework of the Common Market of the South [Mercosur]. Many people believe... |
FBIS3-10472_1 | `Secret' U.S. Document Disproves Rights Groups | responding to a report by Carl Johan Groth, special rapporteur of the Cuban Human Rights Committee (CDH). After revealing ties between the CIA and such organizations, Sullivan called for greater cooperation between the CIA and the Interests Section in Havana because of the CIA's interest in the campaign against Cuba, w... |
FBIS3-10475_0 | U.S. Handling of Human Rights Issue Viewed | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [By Carlos Fazio] [Text] [No dateline as received] -- A method used by the United States over and over again is to make use accustomed to de facto situations. A typical and current example is the "Strong Roads 94" operation throughout Latin America. Using the excuse of building school... |
FBIS3-10477_0 | Minister Discusses Reorganizing Economic Policy | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [By Zenaida Ferrer Martinez] [Text] Havana, 3 Mar (PL) -- Cuba is reorganizing its domestic and foreign economic policy to cope with the adverse economic and financial situation and to advance in the search for real development that will allow the country's reinsertion into the world ... |
FBIS3-10477_2 | Minister Discusses Reorganizing Economic Policy | We had to link man directly with his work by creating basic cooperative productive units, which are socialist formulas that allow peasants to feel like co-owners of the land. We have reached the conclusion that certain unproductive factories cannot continue to operate, that we must review the payrolls, and that we must... |
FBIS3-10478_0 | Official Predicts Economic Improvement | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 4 Mar (PL) -- Osvaldo Martinez, the president of the Parliament's economic commission, anticipates that the Cuban economy will improve during the second half of 1994 because of the influence of structural changes in the agricultural sector and the positive reaction by s... |
FBIS3-10486_0 | Menem Views Political, Economic Situation | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Interview with President Carlos Menem by Jose Olmo y Losada in Buenos Aires; date not given] [Excerpts] [passage omitted] [Olmo] Are you concerned about the image of yourself and your government which may exist in Spain? [Menem] I do not know what image of myself or my government may... |
FBIS3-10486_2 | Menem Views Political, Economic Situation | of Santiago del Estero -- but measures have been adopted and this is under investigation. But there is no subversion in the Argentine Republic; it does not exist, and it is absolutely impossible for what happened in Chiapas to happen here. The Mexican Government itself has acknowledged the extreme poverty in which thos... |
FBIS3-10488_0 | Opposes Oil Sales to Cuba | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Santa Fe de Bogota, 7 Mar (EFE) -- Conservative presidential hopeful Andres Pastrana today criticized the government's decision to establish commercial relations with Cuba without first demanding a pronouncement by Cuban President Fidel Castro condemning the Colombian guerrilla... |
FBIS3-10493_2 | Daily Views New U.S. Interest, Kantor's Actions | some ancient obstacles. The political stabilization program, the political implications of the IMF's support or rejection of the anti-inflationary program, and the increasingly tight deadlines for the signing of an agreement by Brazil with the creditor banks will force the Treasury to make decisions as of this week. An... |
FBIS3-10494_2 | Editorial Views Short-Term Effects of Super 301 | the government in Tokyo to give up a type of protectionism that goes against international law. We recently observed an example of Japanese behavior when the Japanese Government opened the borders to foreign rice. No one in the country bought the imported rice even though it was cheaper, thus demonstrating the Japanese... |
FBIS3-10505_28 | Castro Comments on Radio Rebelde History | the April strike was imposed on us. Of course, we accepted it and were equally responsible for the April strike. But we did not yet have sufficient military forces with which to support a general strike. There was a meeting of the movement, and the movement's board said: Well, we were up in the mountains and could not ... |
FBIS3-10507_6 | Pastrana Discusses Economic, Narcotics Policy | that drug traffickers may end up with ridiculously small penalties is of great concern to the United States. They demand that the punishment be proportional to the crime. Do you think that fear is reasonable? [Pastrana] Why do they not apply that approach in their country? Carlos Lehder was sentenced to life in prison ... |
FBIS3-10511_1 | Weekly Publishes, Views U.S. `Secret' Document | their lives to the ideas in which they believe neither persecute or imprison because of those ideas, as the CIA and the U.S. Interests Section have done. Those who believe in principles respect those principles. Those who fight for the dignity and honor of men will never be their executioners but will be their most fai... |
FBIS3-10511_2 | Weekly Publishes, Views U.S. `Secret' Document | Delgado, the leaders of those little groups peddle written guarantees like trinkets; they perpetrate fraud; they accuse one another and violate among themselves the most fundamental human rights, in addition to biting the hands that guide and feed them. Moreover, Sullivan's document only adds further questions to the a... |
FBIS3-10533_1 | Police Investigate Drug-Weapons Trafficking Link | come through these two routes because this type of weapon or ammunition do not exist in Miami or Paraguay." The PF investigations have shown that the Russian weapons may be coming from Africa through the Middle East and Asian countries such as Afghanistan, that have overcome difficult phases of regional wars and battle... |
FBIS3-10538_5 | Roundup of Economic Developments | livestock, basic products, food, automotive, and electricity industries. Most of the investment was made in the Mexican Stock Exchange, however. He has also reported the commercial deficit will continue to steepen due to increased exports. The deficit is expected to reach $12 billion this year; in addition, exports inc... |
FBIS3-10539_0 | Government Declines U.S. Donation of Canned Foods | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] According to information supplied to LA PRENSA GRAFICA by Agriculture and Livestock Minister Antonio Cabrales, El Salvador has officially declined U.S. donations of canned foods. These donations were guaranteed under Agreement PL-480, which many Salvadoran farmers have criticiz... |
FBIS3-10540_1 | Studies on NAFTA Impact on Central America Viewed | is cheap, but also because of the proximity of the U.S. market and the advantages NAFTA offers to the investors of the three signatory nations, Canada, the United States, and Mexico. According to an analysis of NAFTA's impact in Central America, drawn up by Kathleen Horkan that in turn was distributed by the U.S. Embas... |
FBIS3-10551_1 | Falkland Oil Exploration Cooperation Sought | diplomatic channels during the time remaining before the meeting -- which must be carried out in Buenos Aires -- in order to formulate a basis for a prior agreement to guarantee some positive results at the key meeting. One of the hurdles -- beside the conflict over sovereignty that is being kept under the framework of... |
FBIS3-10573_0 | DEA `Human Rights Violations' Case Being Heard | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] The Human Rights Committee is investigating the alleged torture of people arrested on drug trafficking charges. Here is Mario Espinosa's report: [Begin recording] [Espinosa] Drug trafficking continues to be of paramount importance here in Bolivia, and particularly in Congress. ... |
FBIS3-10588_0 | Official on Failure of U.S. Anti-Cuban Proposal | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 9 Mar (DPA) -- "The United States failed today in its attempt to drag Latin American and Third World countries into voting in favor of an anti-Cuban resolution at the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva," a foreign ministry source in Havana stated in commenting on the ... |
FBIS3-10589_0 | Robaina Commends Indonesia's Work With NAM | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Today in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina stressed that Indonesia has done commendable work as president of the Nonaligned Movement [NAM]. In Indonesia Robaina began a tour through several South and Southeast Asian countries with the objecti... |
FBIS3-10595_0 | Finnish Reporter Examines Havana Food Situation | Language: Finnish Article Type:CSO [Article by Jukka Rislakki: "Food Shortage, but No Famine in Cuba"] [Text] There is an ongoing debate, both in Cuba and abroad, whether Cubans go hungry or not. However, beggars are starting to appear on the streets of Havana, and the food shortage is a common subject of discussion. A... |
FBIS3-10607_1 | Ministers Discuss Human Rights Situation | very satisfied that in Geneva, Switzerland, a conference took place in which our country was included on the agenda -- the UN agenda on human rights policy as discussed by the Human Rights Commission that meets annually in Geneva. The conference was held within this framework. The Salvadoran case was analyzed from the ... |
FBIS3-10607_3 | Ministers Discuss Human Rights Situation | all been contributing. We have a Human Rights Division, which is part of a human rights verification and promotion mechanism; we have a Human Rights Ombudsman's Office, which also verifies and promotes human rights; and we also have a presidential commissioner for human rights as part of a policy that we consistently c... |
FBIS3-10615_1 | Ambassador Protests U.S. Human Rights Criticism | and the killing of children in Brazil. Before a plenary packed with diplomats from almost 100 countries who are participating in the UN Human Rights Commission's annual meeting, U.S. representative Vivian Derryck startled Brazilian diplomats by saying that "in Brazil, street children search through litter to find food ... |
FBIS3-10617_1 | U.S. Reaction to Stabilization Program Examined | a senior Brazilian representative before the OAS -- took up Clinton's aide on that point, in order to reiterate the importance of U.S. support for the Brazilian economic program. "Whoever opposes an agreement between Brazil and the IMF will be responsible for a great harm inflicted not only upon Brazil, but upon the in... |
FBIS3-10623_2 | Creation of Latin America Trade Zone Viewed | specific agreements alone where its Mercosur partners do not have direct interests. The Brazilian Government believes its proposal will be accepted because it simply extends to other partners a practice used constantly during the GATT Uruguay Round negotiations, where Brazil upheld the principle of accepting or rejecti... |
FBIS3-10623_3 | Creation of Latin America Trade Zone Viewed | (including Mexico) already represents 25 percent of its total trade, which is equivalent to the trade with the entire European Union and more than the 20 percent trade with the United States and 16 percent with the Asian and Pacific countries. Brazil, unlike Argentina, does not intend to reveal any intention to join NA... |
FBIS3-10625_0 | National Bank Official on Impact of New Currency | Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Article by Coriolano Gatto] [Excerpt] The introduction of a new currency, the real, which is scheduled for mid-April, should cause heavy losses to the financial system because of its curbing effect on inflation. A study conducted by a large retail loans bank indicates that losses ... |
FBIS3-10629_5 | Escalona on Economy, Interparty Relations | which are contrary to what we aspire to. [Correa] You lived in countries that were under real socialism. What did you feel when the wall fell? [Escalona] A conception of the state collapsed. What was latent in my political thinking took form. I was familiar with several ex-socialist countries, and I was aware of the le... |
FBIS3-10632_0 | Ashaninkas Held Captive by Shining Path Manage Escape | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Lima, 8 Mar (EFE) -- Military sources officially reported in Lima on 8 March that over the last eight days a total of 152 natives from the Peruvian Ashaninka ethnic group have managed to escape from the control of the terrorist group Shining Path, which had been holding them ca... |
FBIS3-10633_0 | Political Violence Statistics for Dec 1993 | Language: Spanish Article Type:CSO [DESCO Special Report No 32: "Political Violence in Peru Today," issued by Peru's Center for Development Studies and Promotion (DESCO)] [Text] During the month of December, political violence generated 58 subversive attacks causing the deaths of 34 persons. The attacks increased by 22... |
FBIS3-10633_2 | Political Violence Statistics for Dec 1993 | these incidents involved assaults upon vehicles on highways, another was a confrontation, the fourth was sabotage against high voltage towers, and the last, a selective assassination. Fourth place for attacks was tied between the Jungle and Southern regions, each of which had two acts (3 percent). In the Jungle the att... |
FBIS3-10638_0 | Opening, Deregulation of Financial Markets Opposed | Article Type:CSO [Editorial Report] Buenos Aires LA PRENSA in Spanish on 24 February published on page 5 a 900-word report on the reaction of the Argentine banking sector to government decree No. 146 eliminating restrictions on foreign banks in Argentina. Declaring itself "on a war footing" over the new decree, the Ass... |
FBIS3-10662_0 | Poll Shows Workers Believe in Consultation Process | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Raimundo Lopez] [Text] Havana, 28 Feb (PL) -- Polls show that the preliminary results on the consultations with workers on measures to clean up domestic finances encourage optimism among the population on Cuba's capacity to emerge from these adverse economic moments. A comp... |
FBIS3-10669_0 | Roundup of Economic Developments | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Cuban economic developments monitored through 8 March. The country's gross income from tourism in 1993 was $720 million, 30 percent more than in 1992, according to Osmany Cienfuegos, Council of Ministers vice president. Cienfuegos has adde... |
FBIS3-10680_0 | Russian Organization Demands End of U.S. Blockade | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] A society of friendship with Cuba was recently created in Russia. One of the objectives of this society is to seek the lifting of the U.S. blockade against Cuba and the development of ties between the Russian and Cuban peoples. In remarks to PRENSA LATINA, (Anatoliy Burlov), vi... |
FBIS3-10683_6 | Social Ills, Economic Crime Discussed | has been gained in work with youngsters. I could enumerate, one by one, important and far-reaching projects that are being carried out in practically every province.... People Come First [Rodriguez Calderon] You, personally, in your work, see the gloomiest side of life, where people suffer, commit crimes, become alcoho... |
FBIS3-10691_1 | Roundup of Electoral Developments | law. The three parties -- MSN, National Solidarity Movement; MUN, National Unity Movement, and the MADC, Authentic Christian Democratic Movement -- have not yet obtained 1 percent of the votes, which is necessary to remain active in politics. (San Salvador Canal Doce Television in Spanish 0300 GMT 3 Mar 94) Edgardo Rod... |
FBIS3-10696_5 | Economy Minister Views Political, Economic Issues | may have my own merits, but the factor that led to Argentina's transformation is the political determination, leadership, and courage of Menem. Some people believe I say this just to please Menem. It is, however, how I feel... [Diaz] You believe there was a minor conspiracy against you... [Cavallo] No... Some people tr... |
FBIS3-10701_0 | Menem Opposes Legalization of Abortion | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] (DYN-NA) -- President Carlos Menem spoke out yesterday against the legalization of abortion during a speech in the Colon Theatre and announced plans for a campaign to combat the levels of infant mortality in the country. Echoing the view of the Roman Catholic Church towards ... |
FBIS3-10746_0 | Catholic Church Comments on Constitutional Reform | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Excerpt] (DYN-NA) -- The Catholic Church yesterday came out in favour of having future presidents swear by "God and country" when taking the oath of office without regard to his or her religion thus accepting heads of state of other religions while rejecting the possibility of having... |
FBIS3-10751_1 | EU To Grant Cooperation to Central America | the Isthmus deputy foreign ministers and EU representatives. It will be approved on 28 and 29 March during the ministerial summit to be held in Athens, Greece. According to the document, the European ministers will express satisfaction over the advances in Central American economic integration. The EU officials will re... |
FBIS3-10756_1 | Businessmen View Problems, Competitiveness | be? Peso Must Be Devalued Jorge Mazza, Manager of Vilmax, a dye manufacturing firm that exports two-thirds of its output: 1) Our company is regarded as one of the 100 innovators, but I think that it still has a long way to go. The problem lies in the lack of responsibility and efficiency of the Argentine people. I feel... |
FBIS3-10772_0 | Human Rights Official Comments on U.S. Blockade | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report on interview with Vilma Nunez, president of the Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America, by Beatric Padron; place and date not given; from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] The Commission for the Defense of Human Rights in Central America ... |
FBIS3-10774_0 | Spanish To Help Train Technicians, Teachers | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] The universities are going to train technicians in materials-efficient construction. Spanish experts in building materials-efficient housing are in Santiago de Cuba, where they will spend three days implementing a training program to turn out professionals who have mastered the... |
FBIS3-10776_0 | Editorial Views U.S. Customs Response to Caravan | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN ["Our Opinion" station editorial by Orlando Contreras] [Text] The activists of the U.S.-Cuba Friendship Caravan arrive in Havana this afternoon, after having successfully dodged more than a few difficulties during the caravan's gigantic tour, from the time it began in Canada and sever... |
FBIS3-10778_0 | }Trade Unions Leader Admits Economic Inefficiency | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 12 Mar (DPA) -- Pedro Ross, leader of the governmental Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions, CTC, admitted today that the problem of economic inefficiency aggravates the island's critical situation. "Economic efficiency is the solution to many of the Cuban problem... |
FBIS3-10778_1 | }Trade Unions Leader Admits Economic Inefficiency | on the country's economic crisis and how to cope with it. According to government sources, the results of these meetings will be considered for a special session of the National Assembly (Parliament), the date of which has not yet been set, to discuss other economic reforms. Ross confirmed both measures to improve effi... |
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