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FBIS4-33662_0 | Government, URNG Fail To Reach Accord | BFN [Article by Elder Interiano] [Text] Hector Rosada, coordinator of the Guatemalan Government peace commission, said yesterday the government and the guerrillas for the second time have failed to reach agreement on the issue of uprooted Guatemalans, although the foundation of a subsequent agreement was laid. This is ... |
FBIS4-33690_2 | Editorial Addresses Economic Measures | already cost over $41 billion. Figures indicate that the blockade, last year alone, deprived us of 40 percent of the hard currency we could have accrued with the existing level of production and exports. We will implement this policy and the unavoidable groundwork to attain our remaining goals in the midst of the harsh... |
FBIS4-33690_4 | Editorial Addresses Economic Measures | insufficient -- amounts for medicine, raw materials, materials, and key equipment, like spare parts and components to maintain the thermoelectric plants and the distribution network, we can clearly see that it is impossible to think of having more electricity or more transportation services today. Our sugar fields woul... |
FBIS4-33691_4 | Economic Measures Justified | we will begin to understand the measures. Suppose the Cuban Revolution does not implement these measures; suppose another regime comes to rule the country tomorrow; suppose it is another person with other ideas, another social organization, another economic organization, they would solve the situation the same way. I w... |
FBIS4-33691_5 | Economic Measures Justified | necessarily called them harsh measures. [Sexto] They are the most intelligent ones. [Rodriguez] Yes, they are obviously the most intelligent ones. Nevertheless, we are here, being affected by the measures, and we consider them neither exaggerated nor weak measures. The measures are negative; the measures undeniably aff... |
FBIS4-33702_0 | Bank Announces Controls To Stabilize Currency | BFN [Text] Tegucigalpa, 9 Jun (ACAN-EFE) -- The Central Bank of Honduras [BCH] today announced strong control measures on the U.S. dollar exchange system so as to stabilize the value of the lempira, which has dropped by 13.5 percent in relation to the official exchange rate of 7.27 lempiras per dollar in the past few w... |
FBIS4-33704_0 | Officials View Trade Deficit, Solutions | BFN [Report by Daniel Naszewski] [Text] Buenos Aires, 8 Jun (NA) -- The trade deficit registered in the first four months of 1994 has really surprised analysts. They knew it would be high. Domingo Cavallo anticipated that this year's deficit would be bigger than the 1993 deficit, but when the figure -- $2.405 billion -... |
FBIS4-33706_0 | La Paz Archbishop Harshly Criticizes Government | BFN [Excerpt] The Bolivian Catholic Church, which has maintained a "protest silence" over amendments to the education system, spoke out during the Corpus Christi celebrations yesterday. In a homily against the government, it demanded that society be allowed to participate in the drafting and application of laws to chan... |
FBIS4-33715_0 | `Elite' Land Ownership Contributes to Poverty | BFN [Text] Rio de Janeiro, 7 June (AE) -- Less than 1 percent of the farms throughout the country are larger than 1,000 hectares, yet they occupy 43.73 percent of Brazilian rural territory. Paradoxically, farms of 10 hectares represent 52.83 percent of the establishments, yet occupy only 2.66 percent of rural territory... |
FBIS4-33725_1 | Roundup of Electoral Developments | demands posed by Mexico's current situation. As for the skirmish between PAN and PT militants over destruction of PT political propaganda by PAN followers in Durango, Soto noted that the PAN attitude is censurable. (Mexico City Radio ACIR Network in Spanish 0000 GMT 9 Jun 94) Also on Freedom of the Press Day, the presi... |
FBIS4-33733_1 | Journalists Discuss Lack of Controls | the state rather than to individuals. [O. Rodriguez] These enterprises have very little stolen from them because they have the best control methods. [J. Rodriguez] Of course, because they do not want to lose revenue. [O. Rodriguez] Not only that, I believe they have very good, effective control methods, so very little ... |
FBIS4-33733_5 | Journalists Discuss Lack of Controls | supply line. We mention the lack of discipline in billing and payments. I send you the detergent and that has to be accounted for by documents that we both sign. You buy the detergent and I supply the detergent. If you never pay me through the bank or by documents for my shipment however, what guarantee do I have that ... |
FBIS4-33740_5 | Zedillo Unveils Economic Growth Program | income. This is why I intend to keep inflation under control by maintaining healthy public finances. We reject demagogic positions that call for greater expenditures and reduced prices for everything. This is impossible. In the past, such policies were carried out at a high social cost that was ultimately paid by the M... |
FBIS4-33740_22 | Zedillo Unveils Economic Growth Program | economy that seek greater growth and equity. Deregulation will be extended to all sectors of economic activity, lowering barriers to the entry of new participants, eliminating exclusive advantages, and establishing clear rules to be universally implemented. The result will be lower costs for companies and more jobs for... |
FBIS4-33743_2 | Haitian Invasion Seen as `Clear Possibility' | its nefarious actions. Ever since ousted President Jean Bertrand Aristide was forced into exile, the international community has gone hoarse demanding the reinstatement of the previous status quo. At the expense of others, the Haitian regime has endured (and continues to endure) successive embargoes; humanitarian organ... |
FBIS4-33744_1 | Editorial Discusses Patents Law Situation | our country, the central issue is medicinal patents on formulas and fabrication procedures, which often are used without paying royalties. Sometimes the violation involves local production, other times it derives from the importation of medicines from nations that do not recognize those rights, even though this market ... |
FBIS4-33750_1 | PRENSA LATINA Previews Ibero-American Summit | consideration. The latter will be given seven minutes each to give a speech before they hold their first two plenary sessions on the opening day of the summit. The statesmen also will be able to express their views on proposals presented by their colleagues during the closed-door debates that will follow. According to ... |
FBIS4-33757_2 | Article Views `Unique' Ties With Mexico | an expression of a more important and profound will. The visit could represent all of this. The truth is that the visit has come as a U.S. legislator, who has the airs of a proconsul, has launched overseer-type demands against Mexico's rights to self-determination the same way he headed the anti-Cuban campaign in the U... |
FBIS4-33762_0 | Liquor, Cigarettes Saturate Market To Reduce Surplus Money | BFN [Text] Havana, 4 Jun (PL) -- The saturation of the market with large amounts of Cuban-made liquor and cigarettes will result in a reduction of 500 million pesos (same amount in dollars) in circulating money this year alone. This was disclosed today at a plenary meeting held in this city by the Communist Party Provi... |
FBIS4-33773_0 | OAS General Assembly Continues Brazil Meeting Approves Convention on Women's Rights | BFN [Article by Jose Carlos Santana] [Text] Belem -- After resolving the Haitian topic, the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) immediately turned to a problem that is considered very serious in the community of nations of the Americas: violence against women. During the evening of 7 June, the... |
FBIS4-33790_0 | Departs 12 Jun | BFN [From the NTV newscast] [Text] Politburo members Jose Ramon Balaguer and Carlos Lage bid farewell to the CPC delegation at Jose Marti Airport on 12 June. Wu Banngou said he was very satisfied with his visit to Cuba and underscored the importance of having met President Fidel Castro on two occasions. In a statement ... |
FBIS4-33798_0 | GRANMA Reports Social Security Recipients Increase | BFN [Text] Despite the economic limitations that Cuba currently faces, the number of retired and pensioned workers supported by the social security system has increased in the five years of the special period. In today's edition, GRANMA points out that this information was provided by Orlando Penate, director of Social... |
FBIS4-33814_0 | Manager: Possible U.S. Flight Embargo's Effects | BFN [Text] Airlines in Port-au-Prince are awaiting the decision on suspending passenger flights. The airline association president has said it will be business as usual while airlines wait to hear about the measure. Frantz Desvarieux explains that the suspension of commercial flights could have some serious consequence... |
FBIS4-33817_0 | Menem Denounces Rumors Alleging Illness | BFN [Text] Buenos Aires, 9 Jun (NA) -- President Carlos Menem reported on 9 June about a campaign by U.S. "specialists" hired from Argentina to "establish" among citizens the issue of an alleged illness of the chief executive that would make the fulfillment of his term of office difficult. Menem announced: "They [not f... |
FBIS4-33822_1 | Editorial Urges End to U.S. Embargo of Cuba | him. No one can ignore the extent and depth of the changes produced by the current international situation -- quite different from the situation 30 years ago in the middle of the Cold War. At that time of tension and confrontation, Cuba undoubtedly represented a threat to the Americas' common choice of the liberal, dem... |
FBIS4-33837_0 | Five Thousand Participate in Antigovernment March | BFN [From the "24 Hours" newscast] [Text] A violent, aggressive, and threatening march in downtown Mexico City reached the National Palace. On Friday afternoon, various social organizations held a demonstration in downtown Mexico City. Approximately 5,000 persons were there to commemorate the 23d anniversary of the 10 ... |
FBIS4-33840_4 | PRI Candidate Zedillo Economic Program Interview | and sustained, to a good microeconomy, which consists of suitable family incomes and large production output. [Zabludovsky] You included fiscal policies in your 10-point plan. We have heard medium- and large-scale businessmen complaining that there are too many taxes. We have also heard small-scale businessmen complain... |
FBIS4-33862_8 | Interior Minister on Crime, Immigration, Drugs | out a psychological revolution to treat the public properly. I am going to send some experts to tell people in DIEX that they should learn to say, "Good morning," "with pleasure," and "please." [Pimentel] Do you think that, beyond the matter of behavior which you hope to change, the problem is also structural, involvin... |
FBIS4-33867_0 | Ibero-American Summit Technical Commission Meets Colombian Drug Official Views Cooperation | BFN [By Maria Cortina] [Text] Cartagena de Indias, 9 Jun (NOTIMEX) -- Gabriel de Vega, director of the Colombian National Drug Directorate, today said international cooperation in the struggle against drug trafficking has been hindered by double standards in some drug-consuming countries. The official, who is attending... |
FBIS4-33869_0 | International Opposition to U.S. Embargo Viewed | BFN [Commentary by Roberto Morejon from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] The U.S. policy aimed at tightening the blockade against Cuba has recently proved that it completely lacks support. A large segment of the international community does not care that in his so-called message to the Cubans, U.S. Pre... |
FBIS4-33876_0 | `Declassified' CIA Document Serves Libel Suit Defense | BFN [Text] San Salvador, 10 Jun (NOTIMEX) -- The defense of former rebel [Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front -- FMLN] commander Joaquin Villalobos, charged with libel, today presented in court an alleged CIA document confirming the existence of death squads in El Salvador. The documents, which were delivered Fri... |
FBIS4-33883_0 | Cubans Doubt Summit To Ask for Change | BFN [Text] Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), 13 Jun (EFE) -- High-ranking Cuban officials, who are participating in the meetings prior to the Fourth Ibero-American Summit, doubt that other presidents will ask Fidel Castro to make political changes, "because we have not come with an agenda to ask anything from anybody." "... |
FBIS4-33899_1 | Justice Minister on Anti-Drug Fight, Family | As you stated, this is the 10th conference. On this occasion we touched on topics that appear to be permament topics on our agendas. One is the topic of the fight against drug trafficking. This topic does not have the same implication in Cuba as in other countries because our society does not engage in using, trafficki... |
FBIS4-33900_1 | Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Canadian Aid, Embargo | recent statements by various international organizations regarding the lifting of the U.S. blockade against Cuba. Miguel Alfonso spoke, in particular, of Resolution 356 approved by the SELA [Latin American Economic System] Council. [Alfonso] "This resolution is significant because it is the first time that SELA has app... |
FBIS4-33900_2 | Foreign Ministry Spokesman on Canadian Aid, Embargo | on the developed countries to put an end to the generic implementation of all the unilateral coercive measures against developing countries. ``I believe it is important we view this within a single context. These are not isolated things. The Cuban Foreign Ministry has observed that the international community is more f... |
FBIS4-33908_0 | Sergio Soto Refinery To Produce Transformer Oil | BFN [Commentary by Fernando Davalos from the "Exclusive" program] [Text] On this occasion I do not want to add another word to a news item that appeared recently on the inside pages of GRANMA, lost among other news with more appealing headlines. This information, however, is a bombshell. The dateline on the item is Cab... |
FBIS4-33912_0 | TRABAJADORES Discusses Price Hikes, Production | BFN [From the "First Thing" program] [text] The 13 June TRABAJADORES features an editorial on the effects that increased prices and fees for some products and services are having on salaries. Money lacks value when it does not have the backing of goods and services because real income does not depend on the amount of c... |
FBIS4-33913_0 | `Straight Talk' on Deregulating Cigarette Sales | BFN [Editorial Report] Havana Radio Rebelde Network in Spanish at 1600 GMT on 10 June carries a 15-minute edition of its regularly scheduled "Straight Talk" program, with Eloy Concepcion, from TRABAJADORES newspaper, and host Osvaldo Rodriguez, from BOHEMIA magazine. Rodriguez opens the debate by stating that measures ... |
FBIS4-33913_1 | `Straight Talk' on Deregulating Cigarette Sales | debate by stating that measures increasing prices and deregulating sales of cigarettes and rum have significantly influenced the market and buyers. Concepcion states that consumers and speculators have not hoarded these products since they went on deregulated sale. He adds that many people feared the cigarettes were st... |
FBIS4-33914_0 | Roundup of Economic Developments | BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Cuban economic developments monitored from Havana radio and television sources in Spanish between 6 and 10 June: Havana Radio Rebelde Network in Spanish at 0900 GMT on 6 June carries a report on the Arturo Almeida Credit and Services Cooperative in Las... |
FBIS4-33915_13 | De Leon Carpio Interviewed on First Year | of a nation where human rights are totally respected. In those cases -- as happens in any part of the world -- where a human right is violated, the person responsible must be tried and punished, no matter who it is and what institution he belongs to. This is in broad terms. I would like to say that for me it is very sa... |
FBIS4-33918_4 | Jonassaint's 12 Jun Address to Nation | is imploring those people to come and invade Haiti, to reduce us to slavery. Everyone has the right to vote for the one they want. I too voted for the person I wanted. But I do not think that any Haitian can accept another Haitian asking that Haiti be reduced to slavery. It is not possible. This is why we say no, this ... |
FBIS4-33936_1 | Roundup of Economic Reports | AIRES HERALD in English 7 Jun 94 p 7) According to data supplied by Indec, the trade balance deficit since April 1991, when the convertibility program was launched, amounts to some $5 billion. Between January and December 1991 a trade balance surplus of 3.7024 billion pesos was achieved; for the April to December 1991 ... |
FBIS4-33939_1 | Roundup of Economic Reports | hydrocarbons 10.5 percent, and nontraditional exports 72 percent. (La Paz LA RAZON in Spanish 1 Jun 94 p B2) Integration Under Secretary Victor Rico on 30 May reported that Bolivian exports to Chile dropped "dramatically" from $30 million to $12 million in the past three years. The commercial deficit, which totals $100... |
FBIS4-33995_10 | Second EZLN Lacandona Jungle Declaration | mostly comprises Indians, has decided to reject the signing of the government proposal. Being under siege and pressured from various flanks which have threatened us with extermination if we failed to sign for peace, we, the Zapatists, reaffirm our determination to attain peace with justice and dignity, and in this ende... |
FBIS4-33997_10 | Second EZLN Lacandona Jungle Declaration | mostly comprises Indians, has decided to reject the signing of the government proposal. Being under siege and pressured from various flanks which have threatened us with extermination if we failed to sign for peace, we, the Zapatists, reaffirm our determination to attain peace with justice and dignity, and in this ende... |
FBIS4-34012_0 | Central American Presidents Not To Accept Haitian Refugees | BFN [Text] Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), 14 Jun (EFE) -- The Central American governments have agreed not to receive Haitian refugees, as was requested by U.S. President Bill Clinton, official Central American sources have told EFE. The matter of the refugees was discussed by the chiefs of state of the region who met... |
FBIS4-34021_2 | Castro Addresses Ibero-American Summit Meeting | cruel military dictatorships subordinate to U.S. interests. Cuba cannot tolerate U.S. efforts to become the model and supreme judge of Latin American political guidelines. Cuba determinedly defends the principle of national sovereignty. It would be willing to defer only to a united Latin America, but under no circumsta... |
FBIS4-34027_0 | Authorities Investigate Illegal Vehicle Sales | BFN [Report by Felix Carbonell from the "Doing Radio" program] [Text] A total of 400 people nationwide have been charged with illegal vehicle sales so far. In Havana, there are approximately 3,000 cases of automobiles and motorcycles involved in transactions through powers of attorney, one of the most frequently used w... |
FBIS4-34030_0 | Lieutenant Colonel Notes Training Efficiency Measures | BFN [Interview with Lieutenant Colonel Sandino Fernandez, deputy chief of the Playa Giron Fighter Brigade, by Eduardo Gonzalez at Playa Giron on 14 June; interview opens with one Major Chamizo answering a telephone call and the "Alert Position One" order, followed by an air raid siren; from the "First Thing" program --... |
FBIS4-34033_0 | Commentary Questions Conditions for Criminal Trial | BFN [Commentary by Teresa Valdez from the "Exclusive" program] [Text] We must always consider the conditions for committing a crime when deciding whether to bring someone to trial. Take the case of a robbery at the enterprise supplying sugarcane harvesters that was reviewed by the Fourth Havana Provincial Court. The ch... |
FBIS4-34046_7 | PRI's Zedillo Interviewed on Policy Issues | affecting the process to control inflation? There is a contraction in foreign investment. There are increasing pressures with regard to the type of exchange of the peso vis-a-vis the dollar. There is also commercial opening, globalization, NAFTA, the pressure on micro, small, and medium industries. How can you, with al... |
FBIS4-34049_1 | Human Rights Group Describes Torture Methods | detected the existence of 21 types of torture and three phases of altered behavior of the persons, aimed at extracting handwritten self-incriminating statements, or statements that involve other persons in specified acts. "The tortures identified by the committee include beatings, electric prods, the `submarine,' `bell... |
FBIS4-34049_3 | Human Rights Group Describes Torture Methods | he said, adding that the victims sign what they are told to sign, and even incriminate themselves, in order to end the tortures, despite the fact that Bolivian law does not accept such documents as valid. "The committee is now also investigating why the judges are not accepting the evidence being presented by detainees... |
FBIS4-34050_2 | Police Chief on New Image, Modernization | is available to the institution to improve its means of providing service to the Bolivian population is being put to use. As part of these plans, legally established businesses in Bolivia have been invited to bid on supplying typewriters and new office equipment for the offices of the PTJ. During the first phase, these... |
FBIS4-34050_3 | Police Chief on New Image, Modernization | to its improvements program, the institution is currently awaiting the release of the Bolivian police budget funds that were approved this year by the government, so as to issue further calls for bids on the supplying of police reconnaissance cars, modern vehicles to augment our pool of radio patrol cars, and motorcycl... |
FBIS4-34063_0 | Implementation of National Biodiversity Program Announced | BFN [Article by Lilian Bem David] [Text] The main objective of the National Biodiversity Program that the Ministry of Environment and the Amazon Region will set in motion in Rio de Janeiro on 17 June is to obtain more detailed knowledge of the living organisms in Brazil, which represent 15 percent of all the living org... |
FBIS4-34094_0 | Governors Launch `Offensive' on Economic Policies | BFN [Text] Buenos Aires, 13 Jun (NA) -- This week, Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo will face a new offensive by the governors, who are demanding changes in the system of federal income sharing and object to the import of subsidized agricultural products and the transfer of provincial pension funds to the nation. These... |
FBIS4-34095_1 | Capitalization of State Companies Progresses | organization of markets, which will set policy on concessions, authorizations, rates, and fees for the five companies, are being analyzed and evaluated. The president and his cabinet will be approving them any day now, and then they will be sent to Congress. In short, the procedures for carrying out the capitalization ... |
FBIS4-34098_3 | Article Examines Poor International Image | The Central Bank's international reserves have increased by 3,642 percent in real terms since 1988, dollar deposits have grown by 349 percent (by 475 percent since February 1989), and the external debt has been reduced by 35 percent in the period under consideration (by 41 percent since December 1989). Indeed, Paraguay... |
FBIS4-34103_0 | Statistics Institute Examines Poverty Levels | BFN [Text] Almost half of the 9 million destitute Brazilian families live in the northeastern region: 48.67 percent of the region's inhabitants make hardly enough money to buy basic foodstuffs. These figures were released by the IBGE [Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics]. A diagram of Brazilian poverty leve... |
FBIS4-34124_1 | Article Views U.S. Immigration Problems | disdain contained in the semantic value of the word, which means "strange," "unrelated".... According to Victor Inzunza, director of the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF, from its name in English) there is a "vicious evil" directed against immigrants in the United States. He added that "what I ... |
FBIS4-34124_3 | Article Views U.S. Immigration Problems | several very ill-intended proposals, such as that of Representative Dana Rohrabacher of California, who presented a reform bill that would oblige education authorities to identify high school students who are unable to prove their legal status in the country and thus expose them to deportation. Rohrabacher's bill also ... |
FBIS4-34124_6 | Article Views U.S. Immigration Problems | by this trend. The extended use of words such as "aliens" or "illegal" not only serves to perversely deform the meaning of the word immigrant until it makes it sound as if it were a criminal, but it also to presents them as people from another world and greatly to blame for U.S. economic problems. Jesus Hernandez Cuell... |
FBIS4-34125_0 | `Increasing Rejection' of Embargo Highlighted | BFN [Text] Havana, 10 Jun (PL) -- Today, Cuba highlighted the increasing rejection of the U.S. economic and trade embargo against the island. Cuba pointed out recent decisions by several international organizations and within certain circles in the U.S. Congress itself. The Cuban Foreign Ministry expressed its satisfac... |
FBIS4-34127_0 | Editorial Cites Workers' Concern Over Incomes | BFN [Text] Havana, 13 Jun (PL) -- An editorial published today maintains that although the Cuban Government's applied financial adjustment measures postpone salary increases for now they do not seek to reduce the people's real income. The weekly magazine TRABAJADORES indicates there is concern and uncertainty among the... |
FBIS4-34128_1 | Economist Analyzes Agrarian Reform | well as credit and service cooperatives, represent 22 percent of the total farming surface today, whereas the thousands of individual small-scale farmers hold the other 3 percent. The state-owned lands were organized into major farms. The development of ambitious state plans entailed substantial changes in Cuban rural ... |
FBIS4-34142_0 | Thermoelectric Plant Tests Begin Following Repairs | BFN [Text] The Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Thermoelectric Plant in Cienfuegos has begun tests to start its machinery after almost 60 days of extensive repairs to Unit No. 2. Specialists from the Carlos Manuel de Cespedes Thermoelectric Plant reported that the work was satisfactorily carried out, which consisted of mainly... |
FBIS4-34153_0 | Official Rejects U.S. Meddling in Domestic Matters | BFN [Article by Leticia Robles de la Rosa] [Text] Mexico will not allow the United States to meddle in domestic matters, unless it involves narcotics and only through the Drug Enforcement Agency, to prevent our sovereignty from being violated, Leandro Arellano, director general of Commercial Relations for Europe, Afric... |
FBIS4-34168_3 | Foreign Minister Abreu Views Integration | ago it is now forbidden to catch medium-size hake in this zone so as not to plunder this resource which migrates south and which has been exploited by Argentina and by the EU. All this has been raised by Uruguay, with concern, firmly, but respectfully because these are common resources that must be managed. We have rai... |
FBIS4-34168_6 | Foreign Minister Abreu Views Integration | confronted with problems that place national interests against group interests. In this case it is more important to stress the national interest even though the group will have difficulties, because this is the only way to maintain credibility and respectability. Consistency, openness, and professional attitudes are t... |
FBIS4-34169_0 | Protestant Congressional Bloc To Increase Power | BFN [Article by Lucio Vaz] [Text] The bloc of Protestant Church congressmen plans to increase their number from 25 to 50 in this year's elections. The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God alone hopes to elect 12 deputies. With about 25 million followers, according to evaluations by their congressional bloc, the Prote... |
FBIS4-34176_3 | Argentina's Menem Closes Summit | than this one, the one we have in practically all the Latin American countries; be it democracy based on the presidential system, democracy based on a monarchic system, or parliamentarian democracy. In the end, these are all democracies. A sole and indisputable democracy without any sort of gadgetry in which the people... |
FBIS4-34178_0 | Foreign Minister Doubts U.S. Will Suspend Aid | BFN [From the "National Newcast"] [Text] Nicaragua does not believe the United States will suspend its aid again. Should this happen, however, it would be a grave mistake, affecting a country trying to consolidate its democracy, Foreign Minister Ernesto Leal said upon arriving in Cartagena de Indias to participate in t... |
FBIS4-34207_1 | Further on Final Document | and a second part that includes evaluations and proposals. The text mentions that the reactivation of international commerce is basic to accessing equitable economic and social development and, for this reason, it condemns all policies for further protectionism or measures that limit freedom in international commerce. ... |
FBIS4-34223_1 | `Fine Print' Overcomes Snags in Declaration | text, which toned down the implicit all-out defense of privatization that appeared in the preliminary drafts of the document. Also, the recommendation to prevent an "excessive emphasis" on economic adjustment plans, which could affect state help to the neediest population, was eliminated from the draft. The corrected a... |
FBIS4-34233_2 | Castro CNN Interview on Summit, OAS | of people die every year, people who could be saved. We have done so in Cuba. Only in Cuba, the Revolution's social efforts have not only educated the entire population but also saved the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. [Words indistinct] the others have not done this. [Reporter] As you explained, Cuba has ex... |
FBIS4-34234_2 | Castro on Embassy Occupations, U.S. Relations | immigration policy, which denies visas to Cubans who want to emigrate to that country. In his statement to RCN -- one of the most important radio networks in Colombia -- Castro also referred to Cuba's relations with the United States, denying the possibility for "direct contact" at this time. He stressed that U.S. Pres... |
FBIS4-34236_0 | Cartagena Summit Document: `Step Forward' | BFN ["Our Opinion" commentary by Orlando Contreras for the "Doing Radio" newscast] [Text] The Fourth Ibero-American Summit has just concluded in Cartagena de Indias, a city that is part of the cultural and historical patrimony of the world. The final document is 19 pages long and, obviously, we have not had access to i... |
FBIS4-34238_0 | Russia, Cuba Create Research Organization | BFN [From the "National Radio News"] [Text] Today, Russia and Cuba signed the statutes for the Ros-Cuba International Organization, created to sponsor cooperation in the production, financial, and scientific and technical research sectors. Ros-Cuba will be comprised of state enterprises, organizations, and businessmen ... |
FBIS4-34239_0 | Statutes Signed for Joint Association | BFN [Text] With the objective of promoting cooperation in the spheres of production, finance, and scientific-technical research, representatives of Cuba and Russia signed the statutes of the Ros-Cuba international association. (Lev Mogilevskiy) and Pablo Martin, president and vice president of the association respectiv... |
FBIS4-34241_1 | Country Intends To Carry Out Nuclear Plans | in late 1995 or early 1996, while the other one was only 20 or 30 percent completed. The project, which is estimated to have involved an investment of $1.1 billion, would have been a big relief for Cuban authorities, who lack hard money to buy the necessary oil for the operational use of their thermoelectric plants. Fo... |
FBIS4-34269_2 | _O_Media Notes: Economic Roundup | transfers; --minimum reserve requirements which do not include branch office assets and funds in transit. "Even though the peso system has a 40 percent reserve requirement, in reality it becomes 65 percent of deposits" since the branch office assets and funds in transit are not included, continued LA NACION. Eduardo Es... |
FBIS4-34284_2 | Editorial Praises River Plate Agreements | the result of particularly favorable circumstances, but it is also true that it represented the final stage of a long and historic process of convergence. The treaty's prologue establishes that the document's main purpose is to iron out difficulties derived from "all situations lacking juridical definition on the exerc... |
FBIS4-34310_2 | OAS Secretary General Interviewed on OAS Role | of land. When democracy was under attack, we created a favorable atmosphere with our participation, but I am aware of the fact that the decisions to restore democracy are made by the people. It is not the OAS but the people who guarantee democracy. The inter-American community, through the OAS, may actually cooperate, ... |
FBIS4-34315_15 | Radio Cadena Nacional Interview | should be solved by each country. [Caballero] In fact, President Castro, one of the candidates with the best chance of winning on Sunday, Andres Pastrana, said it will be necessary to revise relations with you because he does not think they should exist. [Castro] I believe it would be a mistake to recant concerning rel... |
FBIS4-34315_18 | Radio Cadena Nacional Interview | even if the world has yet to go in that direction -- is the formula in which each human being works according to his capabilities and receives according to his needs. That is the most noble thing ever written. In fact, that is what most closely resembles the Christian sermons. I say that one cannot talk about democracy... |
FBIS4-34338_0 | Support for `Second Generation Economic Reforms' Noted | BFN [Unattributed commentary] [Text] Cuba's presence at the Fourth Ibero-American Summit in Cartagena de Indias was closely linked with its interest in adopting specific actions in favor of regional integration. That is why it supported previous presidential summits and the one that recently concluded in Colombia. Ever... |
FBIS4-34339_0 | Report on Manufactured Gas Shortage in Havana | BFN [From the "NTV" newscast] [Text] Approximately 50,000 families in Havana depend on manufactured gas, and current limitations of that fuel negatively affect between 475,000 and 500,000 persons. Two plants supply the capital, the Mario Fortuni Plant, which operates with French technology, and the so-called Melones pl... |
FBIS4-34365_3 | Economy Minister Interviewed in London | with the same period in 1993. A country in which there are major investments on account of the inflow of capital must of necessity import many capital goods. [Avignolo] Are you not going to take measures in light of the massive import drive in Argentina? [Cavallo] No, because imports of capital goods are the ones that ... |
FBIS4-34381_1 | Editorial Criticizes Antitrust Law as Disadvantageous | form of loans attracted by interest rates that are much higher than in other markets, but in the form of direct investment, which brings not only the funds for creating jobs but the technology with which it is possible to face international competition. Now the first result of the law on the so-called abuse of economic... |
FBIS4-34407_0 | Twenty Injured in Clashes | BFN [Text] Quito, 19 Jun (AFP) -- Violent clashes this Sunday between Indians and merchants of the southern Ecuadoran Andean region resulted in the injury of approximately 20 people by blows, knives, and tear gas and the torching of a dozen vehicles and an Indian community house, the police have informed. Indians who h... |
FBIS4-34473_3 | Editorial Notes Need for Nuclear Energy | plants; Monazite Sands Primary Beneficiation Plant [Usina de Beneficiamento primario de areias monaziticas] in Campos; or the Brazilian Nuclear Quality Institute. These are research and training institutions which provide valuable technological assistance. We must insist: Once the Angra plants are totally operational t... |
FBIS4-34473_4 | Editorial Notes Need for Nuclear Energy | will create 1,400 new electro-mechanical assembly jobs for 5 years. Over the next 5 years, the related taxes collected will represent $100 million for the state and for the municipalities. This is apart from the improved social benefits for the region in the field of education, health, and infrastructure. The consolida... |
FBIS4-34486_0 | Government, Russia Sign Bylaws on Association | BFN [Text] Moscow, 16 Jun (PL) -- Russia and Cuba today signed the bylaws of the international association Ros-Cuba, an institution created to foster cooperation in the fields of production, finance, and scientific-technical investigation. Lev Nogilevskiy and Pablo Martin, president and vice presidents of Ros-Cuba resp... |
FBIS4-34515_3 | Banking Association Discusses Money Laundering | from two sources: -- from some sectors of the international community aimed at limiting their effectiveness and ending their existence; -- attempts by criminal organizations to use these areas to benefit their illegal activities. It is obvious that Panama did not create these institutions to have them used for criminal... |
FBIS4-34515_4 | Banking Association Discusses Money Laundering | Caribbean subgroup. In May 1990, the FATF adopted 40 recommendations on measures to counter money laundering, based on the 1988 Vienna Convention. Fulfillment or adoption of these 40 recommendations currently constitutes the best means to evaluate progress in these struggles, and, in fact, in April 1991 the member coun... |
FBIS4-34523_2 | Amorim Assesses Impact of GATT Agreement | in our annual exports does in fact represent a conservative estimate. There are also the secondary effects that the liberalization of trade is going to have on economic growth itself. These estimates do not take into account the fact that we now have more stable rules for trade. Last year, for example, Brazil was in da... |
FBIS4-34523_4 | Amorim Assesses Impact of GATT Agreement | service sector in the Uruguay Round was not well received by the Brazilian Government when the talks began back in 1986. What is the government's current assessment of that aspect of the agreement? [Amorim] It is true that the liberalization of trade in services frightened us at first. There was concern over competitio... |
FBIS4-34525_0 | Four Indians Reportedly Die in Violent Clashes | BFN [Text] Quito, 20 Jun (AFP) -- The social and political agitation by Ecuadoran Indians, which has kept the country in upheaval in the past eight days, worsened in the last few hours with violent incidents that reportedly led to the death of four Indians from the Andean Province of Canar, south of Quito. Organized by... |
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