CUBA, todos contra el bloqueo...

Esta tarde, Mesa Redonda:

"Votación en la ONU de la resolución contra el bloqueo"

Por catorce ocasiones consecutivas, pese a la oposición y las presiones del gobierno de los Estados Unidos, la comunidad internacional ha condenado abrumadoramente la política genocida y extraterritorial de la Casa Blanca .

Correo: digital [at] jrebelde.cip.cu

08 de noviembre de 2006

Cubavisión, el Canal Educativo, Cubavisión Internacional, Radio Rebelde y Radio Habana Cuba transmitirán hoy, desde las 6:00 p.m.(hora de CUBA), una Mesa Redonda Informativa sobre la votación de la Resolución contra el bloqueo a Cuba en la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas.
Por catorce ocasiones consecutivas, pese a la oposición y las presiones del gobierno de los Estados Unidos, la comunidad internacional ha condenado abrumadoramente la política genocida y extraterritorial de la Casa Blanca.
El Canal Educativo retransmitirá esta mesa redonda al final de su programación y Radio Progreso lo hará a la una de la madrugada.

Sintonizar en:

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http://www.radiohc.cu

http://www.cubavision.cubaweb.cu

http://www.mesaredonda.cu

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Solidaridad contra 47 años de bloqueo a Cuba

El bloqueo económico, comercial y financiero del gobierno de Estados Unidos contra Cuba esta desacreditado en el mundo y es indefendible, afirmó ayer Sergio Corrieri, presidente del Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (ICAP).
Una de las premisas en las cuales se asienta la solidaridad mundial con la Isla es precisamente la lucha contra esa unilateral medida coercitiva de la Casa Blanca y la defensa del derecho a la autodeterminación del pueblo cubano, dijo Corrieri en conferencia de prensa en la sede del ICAP.
Refirió que recientemente se realizaron importantes protestas, con la participación de varios miles de manifestantes, en Milán, Italia, y en Madrid, España, para condenar la guerra económica de la administración Bush contra la patria de José Martí y por la liberación de los Cinco antiterroristas cubanos presos injustamente en EE.UU.
Puntualizó que se encuentran constituidas más de 1 900 agrupaciones de respaldo a la mayor de las Antillas en 139 países, las que impulsan numerosas actividades.
Son casi 47 años de bloqueo, a los que se han opuesto también 47 años de solidaridad ininterrumpida frente a la hostilidad de las sucesivas administraciones norteamericanas, acotó.
Añadió que una dura lucha libra el movimiento de solidaridad con Cuba dentro de los Estados Unidos, ante la enorme desinformación de la realidad cubana y el silencio en la gran prensa sobre la criminal política de Washington contra La Habana. (AIN)

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Las aberraciones de un bloqueo económico contra Cuba...

Por Issac Zamora

La Habana, 8 nov (PL) Las amenazas del gobierno estadounidense contra empresarios y autoridades de terceros países que mantienen relaciones comerciales con Cuba aparecen denunciadas hoy en el informe cubano a la Asamblea General de la ONU.
El ministro de Relaciones Exteriores de este país, Felipe Pérez Roque presentará esta jornada ante el organismo internacional el proyecto de resolución Necesidad de poner fin al bloqueo económico, comercial y financiero, impuesto por Estados Unidos contra Cuba.
Según la Ley Helms-Burton, de 1996, los tribunales estadounidenses podrían perseguir por el resto de sus días a los empresarios de países a quienes se considere que con sus actividades económicas estarían apoyando la continuidad del legítimo gobierno cubano.
Con esta acción, calificada de aberrante, se pretende dividir a la comunidad internacional en su rechazo a la puesta en práctica de la legislación extraterritorial, sustento jurídico y antecedente directo del Plan Bush, para una supuesta transición democrática.
Dicho plan de medidas, pretende, en sentido general, impedirle al pueblo de esta Isla seguir ejerciendo su derecho legítimo a la libre determinación, contemplado en la Carta de las Naciones Unidas, firmada el 26 de junio de 1945 en San Francisco.
En este histórico y vital documento para la salvaguarda de la paz mundial se reconoce que cada país puede establecer libremente su sistema político y alcanzar sin injerencias externas su desarrollo económico, social y cultural.
Sin embargo, con la nueva versión de su plan denominado "Comisión para la Asistencia a una Cuba Libre", Estados Unidos intenta comprometer y subordinar al cumplimiento de los fines de su proyecto de anexión a sus aliados, lacayos y organizaciones internacionales.
A tales efectos se propone, entre otras acciones, involucrar a gobiernos de terceros países y a organizaciones internacionales al rastreo y persecución de los activos cubanos en el exterior.
También busca identificar vías adicionales para perseguir e interrumpir los ingresos exteriores que recibe este país, incluyendo la identificación de los activos de funcionarios del gobierno de este país en el exterior.
Y por si fuera poco, se empeña en crear una coalición de naciones a las cuales comprometería con el derrocamiento del gobierno de Cuba, y para ello incluye en su agenda conversaciones bilaterales con los estados susceptibles de ser arrastrados en esa maniobra.
El documento cubano sobre la resolución 60 12 de la Asamblea General de las Naciones Unidas, que será debatido y sometido a votación hoy por decimoquinta ocasión, busca poner fin al cerco impuesto por Estados Unidos contra esta nación antillana.
En el primer capítulo del informe, recientemente publicado, se reitera la recomendación de aplicar rigurosamente la prohibición de otorgar visas para entrar a Estados Unidos a inversionistas extranjeros en este país.
El nuevo documento anuncia la aplicación con especial ensañamiento de las referidas medidas a empresarios que invierten o hayan invertido en sectores estratégicos para la Mayor de las Antillas.
Entre ellas se mencionan la perforación y extracción de petróleo, turismo, níquel y la producción y comercialización del ron y tabaco.
Una vez más el mundo demostrará con su voto lo ilegal, injusto y aberrante del acoso de casi medio siglo contra una nación de apenas 11 millones de habitantes, negada a ponerse de rodillas ante el imperio más poderoso y prepotente de la historia de la Humanidad.

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ADDRESS BY CARLOS LAGE DÁVILA, VICEPRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL OF STATE OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA, AT THE 16TH IBERO-AMERICAN SUMMIT OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT
NOVEMBER 3 – 5, 2006

Excellencies,

Emigration is a right that must be respected. It is unfair and cruel to be forced to emigrate and leave homeland and family behind in order to provide food, healthcare and education to your children.

Sending remittances to family back home is a noble act which should be facilitated but it is humiliating for a country to have to depend on this money.

The fact that rich countries are adopting ever more restrictive, abusive and xenophobic measures on emigration is morally unacceptable.

The wall on the Mexican border and the immigrant hunts that take place there are proof, if any were needed, of the contempt that the powerful feel towards all those who are not as powerful, even if these governments are their allies.

Alongside this form of emigration is another which is just as shocking. Doctors, computer programmers, teachers, nurses and other professionals and technicians are encouraged to migrate to rich countries, and are offered wages and conditions unavailable to them in our countries. For them there are no walls or forced returns, on the contrary, there are plans and programs in place to lure them. Around 240,000 Latin American university graduates migrated last year. Training these professionals cost no less than 5 billion dollars. We should be paid compensation and I propose that we make this demand.

These émigrés, whose rights we justly defend, are a consequence of the plundering, exploitation and unequal distribution of wealth.

Nothing will stop this migration as long as there is underdevelopment and poverty, as long as the current neoliberal economic policies are imposed on the countries of the South, and as long as the current international economic order remains unchanged.

I want to make something perfectly clear. In most underdeveloped countries there is no political will or economic or human interest to change this situation. The opulent and spendthrift North uses immigrants while discriminating against them. The South is providing raw material to the North, while serving as a kind of warehouse from where they get all their resources, from mineral supplies to human talent.

Just one example that confirms this: the Millennium aims and goals, which represent nothing more than a modest palliative for the problems currently endured by underdeveloped countries, will not be fulfilled. The developed world did not have any intention of providing the minimum financial aid asked of them and billions of people continue to live without access to food, healthcare or education.

Spending on arms and wars now exceeds one trillion dollars; another trillion is spent on commercial publicity, which in the case of medication, for example, means that the price is multiplied by up to ten times; the debt still hasn’t been cancelled and the official development assistance is subject to an increasing number of conditions: advisers coming from the North must live in luxury, purchases must be made in donor countries, and less and less cooperation is given to healthcare and education while more and more is given to the struggle against drug trafficking and for good governance and human rights advice.

Instead of trying to change the current situation, the United States issues certificates on “good conduct regarding migration”. Good conduct means letting the professionals migrate, restricting the emigration of non-professionals and accepting back those undesirable to them, after these have taken a postgraduate course in lawbreaking on the streets and in the jails of the United States.

The United States, which depended and still depends so much on immigrants for their economic development, and the European Union, which has been a great source of emigrants in its time, are now the greatest persecutors of immigrants in the world, and apply the most restrictive policies.

The free exchange of commodities that the developed world wants to impose and the free flow of capital that it demands are nothing but a snare if they are not accompanied by the free passage of people.

In this regard, and in others, the hypocrisy and double standards of the world in which we live are laid bare.

The issue of migration in Cuba deserves a special mention.

A Latin American who goes to live in the United States is an immigrant but if Cuban this person is labeled a political exile fleeing the communist regime.

A Latin American must wait in his or her country for a permit to migrate to the United States. If this person is an illegal immigrant, they are returned, but if this person is Cuban, once in the United States, they are immediately granted residency and work, and after one year they automatically receive permanent residency, in compliance with the Cuban Adjustment Act.

The Bush administration cancelled migration talks, once again limited remittances to a total of $300 every three months and imposed travel restrictions that allow Cuban immigrants to travel to Cuba only once every three years and that to visit only parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren or siblings; that is, to Mr. Bush, a cousin or aunt is not a family member.

The United States government offers shelter and impunity in their country to terrorists who have committed murder and hijacked boats and planes in order to migrate; it restricts legal emigration while encouraging illegal emigration in order to use this as propaganda against Cuba, heedless of the fact that countless people have lost their lives in the Florida Straits.

This policy, enforced for decades, seeks to eventually promote a massive exodus which can be used to intensify the anti-Cuban campaign and, ultimately, serve as a pretext for military aggression.

A program financed by the United States government is aimed at luring Cuban doctors and other healthcare specialists who are rendering important services in various countries, but they are coming up against the iron will of the new generation of professionals trained by the Revolution and our solidarity programs will not be stopped.

In hardly two years, Operation Miracle has helped over 450 thousand people from Latin America and the Caribbean to recuperate their vision, and all these services have been provided free of charge. By now, conditions have been created to operate on one million people every year.

Even though our country’s own resources would not suffice to provide these services, if imperialism succeeded in its offensive against Cuba’s economic resources, the capacity would be removed to perform eye surgery on one million Latin American and Caribbean people during 2007. Such figure does not include operated Cubans whose number this year is almost 100 thousand.

The new concepts applied to the massive and urgent training of physicians, from Latin America and elsewhere in the world, will make it possible to have, in a rather short time, over 10 thousand new doctors annually, who will not practice private medicine but will take healthcare to and preserve the lives of millions of people.

Today, cooperation in the field of health enables Cuba, and increasingly Bolivia and Venezuela, to ensure all of its citizens, without exemption, medical care of excellence provided free of charge.

At this moment, 2,400,000 Latin Americans from 11 countries are no longer illiterates and thousands of Cuban specialists work as sport instructors.

Although blockaded and harassed, Cuba has never surrendered, and the countries of Latin America can always count on Cuba to fight for their rights which, as we know, will not be handed to us on a plate.

Thank you very much.

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