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FBIS3-10779_0 | Roundup of Economic Activity | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on economic developments in Cuba carried on Havana radio and television in Spanish between 8 and 12 March. Radio Reloj at 2030 GMT on 8 March reports that the Efrain Alfonso Brigade from Villa Clara has reached 2 million arrobas of... |
FBIS3-10791_0 | Official: Chile `Natural Candidate' for NAFTA | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] Victor Manuel Rebolledo, the minister secretary of government designate, yesterday pointed out that U.S. authorities are favorably disposed toward incorporating Chile into NAFTA. "The time is ripe for the Clinton administration to propose that Chile join NAFTA and for the U... |
FBIS3-10825_0 | Government: Legislative Elections `Success' | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Santa Fe de Bogota, 13 Mar (DPA) -- The Colombian Government described today's legislative elections as a "success," stating the voting signified the triumph of peace and democracy over the violence perpetrated by those who sought to curtail citizens' rights. According to Gover... |
FBIS3-10840_1 | Foreign Minister Outlines Policies | ideas with our neighboring countries, and from there we can project our image to the rest of the world. Uruguay has followed two different approaches in its foreign policy, stemming precisely from its strategic location: the meridian policy and the parallel policy. The latter referred to the unavoidable influence exert... |
FBIS3-10854_0 | Onusal Director: Violence `Very Worrisome' | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Yesterday, Onusal [UN Observers for El Salvador] Director Augusto Ramirez Ocampo called the recent political incidents very worrisome, particularly the attack on the Mario Valiente caravan and the attack on Arena [Nationalist Republican Alliance] deputy candidate Julio Gamero. ... |
FBIS3-10867_1 | Editorial Decries U.S. Move To Count Votes | which, hiding behind AID, "expects to conduct a parallel and independent vote count during the presidential elections in Mexico." In light of this intention to oversee the elections, six parties represented in the Chamber of Deputies have unanimously condemned this sham. Legislators of the Institutional Revolutionary P... |
FBIS3-10875_4 | Presidential Candidates Hold Debate | to implement these types of actions. We are also going to ensure that state funds deposited in private banks will be used to promote development and job creation. That is the fourth measure I would implement. The fifth measure is to confront this government's shortcomings in terms of the peace plans. We will solve the ... |
FBIS3-10875_15 | Presidential Candidates Hold Debate | is possible to quickly develop the cattle industry almost immediately. Right now, when we tour those areas and review agricultural activities, we realize the great efforts that are being made. Therefore, it is just a matter of giving the sector the encouragement and incentives it needs. We are also working on some nont... |
FBIS3-10876_0 | Arena Communique Reports Attack on Marchers | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [From the "YSU Radio News" newscast] [Text] On Sunday [13 March], the Nationalist Republican Alliance [Arena] charged that militants of the former guerrilla organization attacked a Saturday march by the ruling party in San Salvador. Two people were injured, one of them by a bullet. An... |
FBIS3-10878_4 | Signs of Economic Reactivation Outlined | us most under the current circumstances. However, is this hope justified? [Rodriguez] Of course. There is the sugarcane recovery program. We have to keep in mind that our fields have been highly exploited, which makes the soil lose its fertility. It is therefore necessary to fertilize the land used for sugarcane. The l... |
FBIS3-10878_6 | Signs of Economic Reactivation Outlined | We began tourism late. We must remember that it is difficult to reduce that distance. Of course, we must keep the U.S. blockade in mind. The greatest number of cruise ships in the Caribbean and around Cuba, transporting approximately 8 million tourists, are based in Miami. These are American businesses. The blockade ba... |
FBIS3-10879_3 | Journalists Discuss Underground Economy | Osvaldo, why has this term emerged, and why has this phenomenon occurred in the world economy? [Rodriguez] First, let us begin with why it emerged in Cuba. It was the shortage in state supplies to the population that enlarged and consolidated this type of economy, which we can call underground or informal economy. Undo... |
FBIS3-10890_1 | Editorial Comments on U.S. Human Rights Report | the human rights situation in the entire world. Any reference to Brazil in that report is received in Brasilia with outrage even, and the executive branch does not seem to understand that the human rights issue is a universal concern. Although no one expected it, a top U.S. Government official touched on this issue in ... |
FBIS3-10896_0 | Menem: Church, State `in Complete Agreement' | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] President Carlos Menem said that he was "in complete agreement" with a document released on Wednesday [9 March] by the Catholic Church that outlined its recommendations for the reformed Constitution including a guarantee of greater separation of the three branches of government... |
FBIS3-10896_1 | Menem: Church, State `in Complete Agreement' | same time the President said he supported the concept of a separation of powers but did not directly respond to the Episcopal Conference of bishops' assertion that the executive branch had experienced "uncontrolled growth" during his term. However, he said, any final decision "depends fundamentally on what the people s... |
FBIS3-10932_0 | Alleged Bishop-Guerrilla Meeting in Cuba Viewed Episcopal Conference Head Denies `Summit' | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Santa Fe de Bogota, 11 Mar (EFE) -- The Colombian Catholic Church has not sent bishops to meetings with guerrillas in Cuba, said Pedro Rubiano Saenz, president of the Colombian Episcopal Conference, today. Rubiano, Cali archbishop, told Radio Cadena Nacional (RCN) the local med... |
FBIS3-11007_0 | Election Abstention Rate Reported at 68 Percent | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Javier Dario Restrepo from the "24 Hours Newscast"] [Text] People did not come out to vote yesterday the way they have in the last 15 years despite the fact there were over 600 campaigns seeking votes. All the politicians' machinery proved ineffective when it came to gettin... |
FBIS3-11018_0 | Clergy Issue Communique Supporting Poorest Sectors | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] During a meeting yesterday to assess the current situation in Paraguay, the Paraguayan Bishops Conference [CEP] and the Confederation of Paraguayan Clergy [Confederacion de Religiosos del Paraguay -- Conferpar] urged the public to assume an effective commitment to national unit... |
FBIS3-11018_1 | Clergy Issue Communique Supporting Poorest Sectors | for effective commitment to national unity through a moralization campaign, so to be able to face the socioeconomic crisis the country is suffering through. The communique issued by the religious group maintains that they welcome "with happiness" a democratic regime that, among other things, made it possible to win pub... |
FBIS3-11023_0 | Exclusion From Summit of Americas Criticized | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Roberto Morejon from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] With the alleged purpose of collectively defending democracy and promoting economic growth while advancing on a strategy of sustained development, the United States will hold a so-called Summit of th... |
FBIS3-11026_0 | Gore's Planned Talks on Drug Laws Reported | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] U.S. Ambassador James Cheek on 14 March said that on 21 March U.S. Vice President Al Gore will propose to President Carlos Menem the need for Congress to pass a law creating the status of repentant within a group of new legal weapons against drug trafficking. Cheek thus confirm... |
FBIS3-11027_14 | President Frei Holds News Conference | was time to end the rhetoric regarding poverty, about which so much has been said. How do you propose to fight extreme poverty? Where will you obtain the funds for this? Why was nothing said about the crusade against poverty? [Frei] Well, as you know one of the priorities of our government is to fight poverty. We belie... |
FBIS3-11041_0 | Roundup of Economic Activity | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on economic developments in Cuba carried on Havana radio and television in Spanish between 12 and 16 March. Radio Reloj at 1504 GMT on 12 March reports that Matanzas Province is outstanding in controlling borers through biological ... |
FBIS3-11041_1 | Roundup of Economic Activity | in Minas de Matahambre, Pinar del Rio Province, will begin next month. The engineer in charge of extraction and processing says the gold is in tiny particles that will have to be extracted from the soil. He says approximately one pound of gold, worth $6,000 on the world market, can be obtained from every 500 tons of so... |
FBIS3-11051_0 | Sandinist Leader Decries U.S. Human Rights Report | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Lucy Castillo from the "Extravision" newscast] [Text] Alexander Watson, U.S. assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, is in Nicaragua to gather information, not to discuss issues that are strictly Nicaraguan internal affairs. This statement was made by Natio... |
FBIS3-11075_2 | EL COMERCIO: Effort Must Be Made To Speed Up Economic Reforms | to more goods and services, thus avoiding illegal trade and contraband. From another viewpoint, in order to make the struggle against inflation successful (and so, in turn, its monthly average drops) the Economy and Finance Ministry program must widen its scope so it channels the huge funds being received by the AFP [P... |
FBIS3-11090_1 | Allende: Government Wants `Normal' U.S. Ties | Of course, one can also interpret the maintenance of the embargo against Cuba as a warning to the rest of Latin America," a warning that a high price is paid for any reduction in U.S. influence on the continent. "The Americans," Allende sighs, "make demands on us about human rights and democracy. But they are just excu... |
FBIS3-11090_2 | Allende: Government Wants `Normal' U.S. Ties | their country. The deputy prime minister speaks passionately in support of the democratization carried out by Cuba within the one-party system. "What is democracy?" she asks. "Does it only exist in one form, such as the one applied in the United States? For me, it still means government by the people. In Cuba the peopl... |
FBIS3-11103_0 | Defense, Foreign Ministries Disagree Over U.S. Proposal | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Daniel Santoro; copyright CLARIN] [Text] The United States has reiterated its "subtle" request that the Argentine Government make antinarcotics action "more efficient" by opening two battle fronts. On the one hand, Washington wants more legal weaponry to be given to judges... |
FBIS3-11105_0 | Trade Partnerships With Mercosur, NAFTA Viewed | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Paz Tejerina] [Text] Foreign Minister Guido Di Tella on 9 March forecast that if Argentina is on the list of countries chosen by the United States to join NAFTA, "we would not be able to join it until 1987." Bilateral negotiations with Washington to join NAFTA will not har... |
FBIS3-11106_0 | Foreign Minister Praises Entry Into OECD | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Interview with Foreign Minister Guido Di Tella by LA NACION correspondent Graciela Iglesias in Paris -- date not given] [Text] [Iglesias] What commitments are involved in OECD membership? Are there any fees to be paid? [Di Tella] Yes. A yearly fee will have to be paid. The amount sti... |
FBIS3-11108_0 | Commentary Views `Weak Legs' in Economic Policies | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Unattributed commentary] [Text] One of the weak legs in the economic plan is shaking a bit more. Last year's trade deficit reached 3.6 billion pesos. But the members of the economic team do not seem to be worried. As a counterbalance, it was officially announced that the February inf... |
FBIS3-11117_0 | Robaina Continues Visit to Asian Countries Terms Burma Talks `Positive' | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Rangoon, 14 Mar (PL) -- Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina described as positive the talks held in this capital with Myanmar (former Burma) Prime Minister Than Shwe and several government officials Approached by the local media, Robaina, who has already spent a week visitin... |
FBIS3-11123_2 | Haitian Deaths Blamed on U.S. Immigration Policy | apply for permanent residence in a year. This option is repeatedly denied to other applicants. The daily, weekly, monthly, and annual publication of the number of Cubans who, according to U.S. statistics, avail themselves of this possibility after leaving Cuba illegally is part of the anti-Cuban strategy being implemen... |
FBIS3-11124_0 | Commentary Contends U.S. Blockade Breaking Down | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Javier Rodriguez] [Text] Havana, 11 Mar (PL) -- It appears that the U.S. blockade on Cuba -- which is harmful to the Cuban economy, which the island occasionally sidesteps, and which is being questioned in the United States -- is destined to develop growing cracks. Acco... |
FBIS3-11129_0 | Roundup of Economic Developments | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Venezuelan economic developments monitored through 15 March. Orinoco Iron and Steel Works, Sidor, and Colombian Steel Works Corporation, Acesco, signed an agreement allowing Sidor to open an office in Bogota. According to Sidor, Colombia i... |
FBIS3-11141_1 | Cuba Expert Discusses `Very Deep' Changes | but the government continues implementing them because we are fully convinced that we will overcome the current difficulties. The changes, which also have an important influence on foreign relations and seek to meet the needs of the new times, began in 1990. They are part of a reorganization process aimed at making gov... |
FBIS3-11142_2 | Roundup of Economic Activity | in the asphalt mixture, with solid experience obtained in Matanzas and Villa Clara. Radio Rebelde adds that Cuba received almost 250,000 tourists last year as a result of Cubanacan operations. This represents almost 40 percent of the foreign tourists visiting the country. These operations have brought some $96 million ... |
FBIS3-11160_0 | UN/OAS Condemns Increase in Capital Violence | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Text] The UN/OAS international civilian mission has publicly noted the increase in violence in Port-au-Prince over the past few days. The mission, which resumed its activities on 31 January, is currently investigating 21 cases of extrajudicial executions and of suspicious deaths that ... |
FBIS3-11165_1 | Pharmaceutical Director Views U.S. Patents Conflict | this. The agreement also establishes a series of exceptions and the possibility of granting licenses. This provision will guarantee, through the appropriate legislation, the existence of sufficient competition in the market. The agreement also establishes a transition of 11 years for developing countries before the ful... |
FBIS3-11165_2 | Pharmaceutical Director Views U.S. Patents Conflict | of 11 years for developing countries before the full implementation of the measure. This is natural, because developing countries were granted a period of transition of between 30 to 40 years to end their agricultural subsidies. [CLARIN] Which is the main hurdle blocking a solution to this conflict? [Challu] The proble... |
FBIS3-11175_1 | Program Requires Constitutional Changes | if the PT is successful at the polls. Many of the proposals in the PT government program, which is still under discussion, directly contradict the Constitution and would entail making deep changes in nearly all its chapters. By way of example, the endorsement of abortions to be performed at state-run health care center... |
FBIS3-11179_3 | Leadership Style of Ceara Governor Gomes Viewed | a PSDB leader with ties to Senator Mario Covas. "We have already had Collor I, and now here comes Collor II," is the ironic comment by Luiz Carlos Santos (PMDB, Sao Paulo), government leader in the Chamber of Deputies. And economist Edmar Bacha, special adviser to the minister of finance, said at one meeting: "With a f... |
FBIS3-11189_0 | Roundup of Economic Developments | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on Mexican economic developments monitored through 15 March. According to a survey by EL FINANCIERO NORESTE EMPRESARIAL, the 12 most important industrial groups in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon State experienced a 3 percent drop in profits because of... |
FBIS3-11194_2 | Newspaper Terms La Cantuta Law `Intolerable' | the view of all the jurists, it is more than evident that the case of the La Cantuta massacre does not properly fall within the competency of the military tribunals, because it does not derive from the military's functions, for it is not credible that those functions include the assassination of students. The case clea... |
FBIS3-11208_1 | Commentary Urges Resumption of U.S. Aid | some tourists -- are returning to what used to be battlefields. Fujimori's free trade policy has curbed inflation and turned our country into the fastest growing economy in the Americas. It is hardly surprising that he now enjoys overwhelming popularity among his fellow countrymen. Despite all this, Fujimori has been u... |
FBIS3-11212_6 | Justice Minister Sends Letter to de Greiff | simply confesses his crime, in which case Article 369B of the Code of Criminal Procedure should be applied. - The application of Article 369E of the procedural statute is predicated upon cooperation with justice authorities. Indeed, the aforementioned regulation is part of the legal institution known as "surrender to a... |
FBIS3-11229_0 | TSE Releases Preliminary Election Results ARENA Falls Short of 50 Percent | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] ARENA [Nationalist Republican Alliance], the ruling party, was unable to maintain the absolute majority it obtained when the official vote tally for Sunday's elections started; and the results indicate a runoff election will be needed. ARENA, with a conservative ideology, conti... |
FBIS3-11236_1 | Cristiani Discusses Upcoming Elections 19 Mar | president and vice president of the Republic, for deputies to the Legislative Assembly, and for municipal councils throughout the country will take place on the same day as the result of a very fortunate concurrence of the electoral calendar as established by the Constitution. It is a day when all elected offices will ... |
FBIS3-11256_2 | Castro Meets With Friendship Caravan Members TV Broadcasts Meeting | that there are values that cannot be lost. [Passage indistinct] even life. [Passage indistinct] for peace because you know that history is full of martyrs. [Passage indistinct] of ideas. This is why we are meeting here. [applause] We, through resistance, [words indistinct] for the life of ideas, morale under the presen... |
FBIS3-11264_0 | U.S. Congress Debate on Blockade Reported Havana Radio Notes Debate | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Many international news agencies have reported from Washington that scores of influential political figures participated on 17 March in a heated debate at the U.S. Congress on the appropriateness of the United States' maintaining the blockade against Cuba, an anachronism in the... |
FBIS3-11266_0 | U.S. Congress Debate on Blockade Reported Radio Comments on Debate | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Roberto Morejon; from the "Evening Information Review" newscast] [Text] Health should not be used as a political weapon. This statement acquired unheard of implications when it was pronounced on 17 March on the floor of the House of Representatives of the United States,... |
FBIS3-11268_1 | U.S. Congress Debate on Blockade Reported Reporters Speak to Rangel on Ties | no longer exists if it existed at all and that the embargo should be removed. I had hearings on this bill, and we have had many people in the Congress to agree. And I think that with all the witnesses, there is an overwhelming belief that the purposes that existed for the embargo before do not exist now and that it sho... |
FBIS3-11269_0 | U.S. Congress Debate on Blockade Reported `More Rational Attitude' in U.S. Seen | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN ["Our Opinion" commentary by Orlando Contreras] [Text] The initiative by U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel in presenting a bill that would normalize trade relations with Cuba has the [words indistinct] and the courage to do so. It has also put on the front page the debate over whether i... |
FBIS3-11279_0 | Workers' Proposals To Improve Economy Lauded | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Commentary by Roberto Morejon] [Text] The balance of the workers' proposals on how to make factories more efficient and how to improve the nation's finances has begun to be reported in the 14 Cuban provinces and the special Isle of Youth municipality today. It is immediately obvious ... |
FBIS3-11321_7 | Finance Minister Outlines 1994 Goals, Policies | of the consolidated financial system to grant credits for uses other than the financing of such operations. This would happen because the private sector would have to borrow (domestically or abroad) or liquidate assets in order to finance the purchase of shares and pay cellular telephone duties. The main assumptions of... |
FBIS3-11332_0 | Government To Study Possible Oil Supplies to Cuba | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Caracas, 18 Mar (EFE) -- Official sources confirmed today the Venezuelan Government will study the possibility of renewing oil supplies to Cuba based on an agreement with Russia. Venezuela supplied between 60,000 and 70,000 barrels of oil per day to Cuba up to the latter part o... |
FBIS3-11344_0 | Cuban Ambassador Sees `Changing' U.S. Attitude | Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Text] Cuban Ambassador to Brazil Jorge Bolanos has said the U.S. attitude toward Cuba "is changing." He said there is no longer consensus among U.S. citizens of Cuban descent about whether Washington's economic embargo -- which has been in force since 1960 -- should be maintained.... |
FBIS3-11364_0 | U.S. State Department `Threatens' Traders | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] In the Argentine city of Mar del Plata, Cuban Vice President Jose Ramon Fernandez has charged that the U.S. State Department has circulated threats against businessmen who intend to trade with Cuba. After calling the blockade the U.S. maintains against Cuba for over three decad... |
FBIS3-11368_0 | People's Groups Propose Solutions to Crisis | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] A serious hope for disentangling the situation in Haiti has yet to emerge. After the series of congresses and conferences and the plan of the parliamentarians, political parties and groups are multiplying proposals aimed at lifting the country out of deadlock. The following ... |
FBIS3-11373_0 | Kantor, Menem Talks Said `Harsh,' `Unusual' | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Article by Marcelo Bonelli; all names as published] [Text] Bill Clinton's Democratic administration is studying the demands submitted by 30 U.S. businesses asking for the immediate application of trade sanctions against Argentine manufacturers that export to the U.S. market. The init... |
FBIS3-11373_1 | Kantor, Menem Talks Said `Harsh,' `Unusual' | on the question of trade because they believe Argentina is "resisting" the implementation of an adequate policy in the intellectual property field. Adequate, of course, for U.S. industry interests. The two demands are really contradictory. Bilateral trade is frankly negative for Argentina. The deficit amounted to $2.4 ... |
FBIS3-11374_3 | Competitiveness of Financial Markets Viewed | small and mid-sized businesses in the interior. The principle of reciprocity is very common in the legislation of major nations. In Argentina's case, however, it has not yielded significant results, to judge by the delays and inaction on various requests by Argentine banks to open branches in major financial centers. T... |
FBIS3-11384_2 | PRENSA LATINA Views Gore Visit to South America Gore Visit to Buenos Aires Viewed | participation in UN military missions sponsored by the United States. An independent source has reported in addition to the announced summit and to the UN military expeditions, Gore and Menem will discuss regional integration and free trade agreement processes, such as the one signed by Canada, the United States, and M... |
FBIS3-11385_0 | U.S. Accused of Threatening Foreign Investors | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Buenos Aires, 18 Mar (PL) -- Cuban Vice President Jose Ramon Fernandez reported here today that the United States is exerting "all kinds of pressure" against foreign investors interested in doing business with his country. While attending a meeting of the Pan American Sports Or... |
FBIS3-11387_0 | Impartiality of UN Rights Commission Questioned | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [By Mary Simon] [Text] Geneva, 11 Mar (PL) -- After approving more than 100 resolutions, the 50th session of the UN Human Rights Commission ended with a feeling of uncertainty about the commission's impartiality and credibility. The concern about impartiality, closely linked to the cr... |
FBIS3-11387_1 | Impartiality of UN Rights Commission Questioned | concern about impartiality, closely linked to the credibility factor, is based on the Commission's attitude toward specific subjects, such as the people's right to self-determination, economic, social, cultural, and children's rights. Although generally those points are given importance on the agenda, when discussed th... |
FBIS3-11392_3 | Article Examines Budget Difficulties | to watching sports competitions for free, which caused more than headaches during the organization of the Central American and Pan-American Games; or the reality of free, complex, and costly surgical operations, such as aesthetic surgery, for no clinical or humanitarian reason. Expenditures which the state has mostly p... |
FBIS3-11396_0 | Nuclear Technology Used To Improve Agriculture | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Havana, 15 Mar (PL) -- The main applications of nuclear techniques in Cuban agriculture include the genetic improvement of crops, diagnostic control of seeds, and insect radiobiology to reduce the use of pesticides. Dr. Adolfo Rodriguez Nodals, director of the Institute of Basi... |
FBIS3-11401_0 | Uruguay Proposes Consensus Candidate | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Brasilia, 21 Mar (EFE) -- Uruguay has proposed seeking a consensus candidate in the elections for OAS general secretary to be held in Washington on 27 March. This proposal was made in Brasilia today. Uruguayan Foreign Minister Sergio Abreu pointed out that the initiative for se... |
FBIS3-11416_1 | Opposition Leader Views Likelihood of Change | Mas Canosa represents a group that does not believe in a peaceful solution to the situation in Cuba, and expects that the change will be accompanied by acts of violence against the regime. That certainly is very dangerous because it could lead to a civil war that would completely devastate the country. The main differe... |
FBIS3-11418_8 | Report Reveals Reasons for Prostitution | we have no other choice but to resign ourselves once and for all to the "girls" who go around holding up aging tourists, as our colleague Soledad Cruz learned while writing this piece. One even hears with some frequency the tolerant apology, the conformist indulgence toward those who throng to our hotels and thoroughfa... |
FBIS3-11418_11 | Report Reveals Reasons for Prostitution | is not something that we have to resign ourselves to tolerating permanently. Nor does the fact that it now exists in proportions difficult to measure, threatening in certain sectors to monopolize relations with foreigners, mean that we must tolerate it, much less give our blessings to it. We even believe it is possible... |
FBIS3-11420_0 | Failure to Achieve Majority Vote Confirmed | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Salvadorans woke up today without knowing the final results of Sunday's general elections and with the expectation of a runoff election to choose the new president. More than 63 percent of the votes have been tallied and the Supreme Electoral Tribunal [TSE] reported that the ru... |
FBIS3-11450_2 | _o_ President Responds to Guarani Demands | creation of educational infrastructure for the Guaranis. Finally, the Guarani Higher Institute for Bilingual Intercultural Education would be established. According to the 22 January issue of PRESENCIA, Maria Calvo, under secretary for ethnic affairs, said that the extension and consolidation of bilingual education int... |
FBIS3-11464_0 | 1993 Trade Deficit Surpasses Estimate by $1.2 Billion | Language: English Article Type:BFN [Text] The Argentine trade deficit was nearly $3.7 billion in 1993, considerably more than the 2.5 billion that had been estimated by the Economy Ministry in its three-year plan "Argentina in growth." These figures, which were released yesterday by the INDEC [National Institute of Sta... |
FBIS3-11467_1 | Brazilian Ambassador Views Relations With Argentina, NAFTA | partnership [preceding words in Latin]. The purpose now is to see that the other party is doing well. It is also true that we began a difficult year and that our problems are real. Argentina can talk with the United States about joining NAFTA but cannot negotiate its entry by itself as long as it is a member of Mercosu... |
FBIS3-11474_0 | Impact of Increase in U.S. Interest Rates Assessed | Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Article by Celso Pinto from Sao Paulo] [Excerpts] Since interest rates on the U.S. market rose on 4 February, the international market for Latin American securities has shrunk dramatically. Interest rates took a jump in absolute and relative terms, and international and Brazilian ... |
FBIS3-11476_0 | UN Asks Government To Report on Precursors, Drug Use | Language: Portuguese Article Type:BFN [Text] Brasilia -- The United Nations estimates that between 70 and 80 percent of the chemical substances used in processing cocaine in Peru and Bolivia are either manufactured in or shipped through Brazil. The statement was made yesterday by Herbert Schaepe, secretary of the UN In... |
FBIS3-11490_0 | More Than 3,000 Observers Witness Elections | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] "The elections of the century" are now part of history, and for the international community El Salvador has opted for the thorough development of its democratic progress. This was confirmed by more than 3,000 international observers who were at the polling sites throughout the ... |
FBIS3-11492_0 | Carles Interviewed by Students on U.S. Invasion, Economic Platform | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Presentation and question and answer session by Ruben Dario Carles, presidential candidate of the Civic Renewal Party, National Renewal Movement, and Nationalist Liberal Republican Movement, with students from the Technological University, Santa Maria La Antigua, and the University o... |
FBIS3-11496_0 | Menem Denies U.S. Conditioning Country's Entry To NAFTA | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Buenos Aires, 21 Mar (NA) -- President Carlos Menem has asserted that the approval of the new law on pharmaceutical patents does not represent "a full requirement" by the United States on Argentina's entry into NAFTA. The chief of state said it is "merely a sort of warning rega... |
FBIS3-11561_1 | Cattle Industry Reported Recovering | he is saying is true: The worst part of the crisis is over. The worst part of a crisis is the period of decline toward the bottom of the abyss -- to employ a metaphor. The Cuban cattle industry has apparently halted its decline. However, it stopped at a very low level. I believe we have to stress this. The decline has ... |
FBIS3-11563_1 | Commentary Highlights Need for Work Ethic | matters that have been discussed in the past, and are to be discussed again, by the National Assembly of the People's Government [ANPP]. But this was not a useless process. It has served essentially to give Cubans an awareness of the nature of national problems and of the alternatives for solving them gradually. In a s... |
FBIS3-11564_0 | Roundup of Economic Activity | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of fileworthy reports on economic developments in Cuba carried on Havana radio and television in Spanish between 17 and 22 March. Radio Reloj at 3052 GMT on 17 March reports that a tourist installation, the (Villa Don Lino) on the north coast in Rafael ... |
FBIS3-11568_0 | Fuel-Carrying Train Involved in Railway Accident | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Report by Villa Clara correspondent Boris Fuentes] [Excerpts] At 0617 today, 21 March, there was a railway accident in the place known as Cumbre, located in Placetas Municipality, Villa Clara Province. A train made up of 23 tanker cars full of oil coming from Cienfuegos Province cras... |
FBIS3-11583_1 | Article Assesses New Challenges in Foreign Policies | by Mexico and Canada, will create, its regional priorities deal with the eradication of drug trafficking, as the new Southern Command chief proposed, and trade deregulation, as international financial institutions are promoting. Under the circumstances, it is necessary to redefine bilateral relations not only political... |
FBIS3-11585_0 | Results of Gore's `Positive' Visit Evaluated | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] A few hours after the brief visit by U.S. Vice President Albert (Al) Gore to Buenos Aires, the balance made by Argentine officials was positive though not noisy, while U.S. officials felt that the points they wanted to conciliate in relations with Argentina are clearer than eve... |
FBIS3-11596_2 | Groups Organizing `Mobilization' Against French Aid | ship entering Haitian territorial waters. Therefore, we ask President Mitterrand to stop this ship now, in Guadeloupe -- because the ship will just have to go right back to where it came from. It might as well even carry extra fuel, so that it does not stay even an hour longer in Haitian territory. [end recording] On t... |
FBIS3-11660_0 | U.S. Ambassador's `Meddling' Angers Parliamentarians | Language: French Article Type:BFN [Excerpts] Dejean Belizaire has thumped the table with his fist. Belizaire, president of the Alliance for Parliamentary Cohesion [ACP], has shouted: Meddling! In Belizaire's opinion, it is not up to U.S. Ambassador to Haiti William Lacy Swing to ask the parliamentarians elected on 18 J... |
FBIS3-11679_3 | Envoy to U.S. on Trade, Patents, Gore Visit, Clinton Agenda | States in that field, it is necessary to accept some rules. It is not a question of giving in to a big stick policy. The members of NAFTA -- Mexico, Canada, and the United States -- have defined a minimum level for the patents law, and this is what is being negotiated. What would be best for us, reject NAFTA and not ha... |
FBIS3-11682_1 | Central Bank Reports $1.49 Billion Trade Deficit | $160.8 million in the comparable period in 1992 to $119.1 million in 1993. The Dominican economic products traditionally exported are sugar and its derivatives, coffee, cacao, tobacco, and minerals. They have accounted for more than 90 percent of the export totals. The rest of the goods exported are principally nontrad... |
FBIS3-11682_3 | Central Bank Reports $1.49 Billion Trade Deficit | about five percent. Certain foundations that make estimates in this connection predicted that growth would come to less than 1 percent. The foreign-exchange balance came to $643.4 million pesos in gross reserves in the January-November period, down from the figure reported in the month of August, which was $714.2 milli... |
FBIS3-11683_0 | Colosio Shot, Killed in Attack During Tijuana Campaign Stop Shot Three Times | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] Our companion Elizabeth Diaz Otero has reported the following: Luis Donaldo Colosio sustained a bullet wound in the head, near the right temple and two bullets in the abdomen, not one, but two. The Institutional Revolutionary Party [PRI] presidential candidate sustained three b... |
FBIS3-11684_0 | Notes Gains, Losses | Article Type:BFN ["The Key Facts of the Elections" -- EL TIEMPO headline] [Text] After analyzing the results of the 13 March elections, the following data appears to be most relevant: Absenteeism prevailed. On this occasion it reached the alarming figure of 70 percent. There was a strong surge of independent movements,... |
FBIS3-11699_2 | Robaina Discusses Government's `New Orientation' | the ones by which we have traditionally directed our work. Joining that world, while keeping our own line and saving the essential factors, is the process on which we have embarked. It is very hard and very difficult, but by being alive it has begun to show at least that it exists, and the 100-odd entrepreneurs -- or n... |
FBIS3-11699_3 | Robaina Discusses Government's `New Orientation' | we have embarked. It is very hard and very difficult, but by being alive it has begun to show at least that it exists, and the 100-odd entrepreneurs -- or non-entrepreneurs -- or the 100-odd businesses that foreign firms have opened in Cuba prove that we can trade with the capitalist world without giving up the sociali... |
FBIS3-11701_0 | End of Embargo on Cuba Supported in Zimbabwe | Language: Spanish Article Type:BFN [Text] The Zimbabwe-Cuba Friendship Association today expressed full support to negotiations being carried out by U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel, a Democratic Party representative, seeking the lifting of the economic blockade against Cuba. The association sent a message to Rangel who... |
FBIS3-11702_3 | Officials Discuss Human Rights Issue | delegations to the secret U.S. Interest Section document. On this topic, Mora responds: "I believe this document favored the vote. In other words, it was an element that supported something we had been saying for several years, which is also recognized by the great majority of the members of the United Nations. The doc... |
FBIS3-11707_0 | Roundup of Economic Reports | Article Type:BFN [Editorial Report] The following is a compilation of reports on economic activities in Argentina monitored through 24 March. The World Bank has agreed to grant Argentina a $508.5 million loan that will be used to promote market capital. It also approved a $100 million credit for the health sector. (Bue... |
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