Radio Havana Cuba-25 November 2000 Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 25 November 2000 . *FIDEL ADDRESSES RALLY OF MORE THAN 30,000 CUBANS FROM CITY OF GUISA *LATIN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGISTS MEET IN HAVANA *FRENCH EXPERT REPORTS CUBA HAS IMPORTANT OIL RESERVES *TELEPHONE SERVICE EXPANDS IN REMOTE MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS *RALLY PLANNED FOR MONDAY AT JOSE MARTI ANTI-IMPERLIALIST TRIBUNE *VARADERO'S AIRPORT CELEBRATES 11th BIRTHDAY *FIRST ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE CONGRESS WINDS UP IN HAVANA *Viewpoint: CUBA DEMANDS JUSTICE, NOT REVENGE . *FIDEL ADDRESSES RALLY OF MORE THAN 30,000 CUBANS FROM CITY OF GUISA Guisa, November 25 (RHC)--Cuban President Fidel Castro addressed a rally today of more than 30,000 Cubans in the town of Guisa in the eastern province of Granma. In a lively 20 minute speech, the Cuban leader accused the right wing government of El Salvador of having information since October 1999, on the activities of international terrorist Luis Posada Carriles, who is under arrest in Panama. The Cuban-born terrorist is waiting a ruling on an extradition request made by Cuba for crimes committed against that nation and for plotting the assassination of Fidel Castro. President Castro accused El Salvador's leader of lying during the 10th Ibero-American Summit which was held in Panama last weekend. He stressed that all the relevant information on Posada's movements had been sent to Salvadoran president, Francisco Flores by special envoy on the afternoon of October 5, 1999. The Cuban leader indicated that Posada Carriles lived in El Salvador, tolerated by the current government and that various members of the past administration of Armando Calderon Sol, who had close ties with the terrorist, remain in the government of President Flores. Further, charged President Castro, Flores had been informed of the situation since he was a candidate and he chose to do absolutely nothing about it and then he hypocritically lied during the Panama Ibero- American Summit, claiming he knew nothing about Posada Carriles' presence in his country. Fidel Castro termed as "also hypocritical" a resolution against terrorism presented by the El Salvadoran president and passed by the Summit, which Cuba refused to sign because it dealt only with the activities of ETA in Spain, leaving out the 40 years of state terrorism waged against Cuba by the United States. *LATIN AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGISTS MEET IN HAVANA Havana, November 25 (RHC)--Over a dozen Latin American Anthropologists agreed in Havana, on Friday, for the need to be involved in the region's problems in order to confront the era of technological globalization. During the closing session of the 5th Social Anthropologist Conference, the participants called on their fellow colleagues to work on collective projects and social structures in each of their countries. The region's anthropologists agreed to create, in Havana, an information network on the Internet in an attempt to connect with other experts in the field and to initiate mutual dialog. *FRENCH EXPERT REPORTS CUBA HAS IMPORTANT OIL RESERVES Havana, November 25 (RHC)--Cuba could satisfy its energy needs in about five years after the discovery of important oil reserves, according to French expert, Gerard Bourgoin. The French expert, who heads a Canadian company dedicated to the exploration and development of Cuban oil, spoke about the existence of a gas structure that is not allowing the release of the oil. Gerard Bourgoin expressed that although it is a heavy oil due to high quantities of sulfur, Cuban oil is of great use for the country in generating electricity, domestic consumption and for the cement and nickel industries. Cuba achieved one million 376,000 tons of oil in 1999 and is expected to end this year with 2.8 million tons and over 600 million cubic meters of natural gas. *TELEPHONE SERVICE EXPANDS IN REMOTE MOUNTAINOUS REGIONS Havana, November 25 (RHC)--Cuba's Informatics and Communications Ministry said in Havana on Friday that they will continue expanding the telephone service to the island's mountainous regions, especially the provinces of Villa Clara and Cienfuegos in the central part of the country. They added that a complex program of installation has begun in the eastern Sierra Maestra Mountains and will continue to the central Escambray Mountains with the objective of improving living conditions in those remote areas. *RALLY PLANNED FOR MONDAY AT JOSE MARTI ANTI-IMPERLIALIST TRIBUNE Havana, November 25 (RHC)--More than one hundred thousand Cubans will gather Monday morning at Havana's Jose Marti Anti-Imperialist Tribune to commemorate the 129th anniversary of the killing of 7 Cuban medical students during the Spanish colonialism. Every November 27, Cubans of all walks of life commemorate the criminal act against the innocent students whose only crime was to be part of a wave of protests in favor of the island's independence from Spanish colonialism. *VARADERO'S AIRPORT CELEBRATES 11th BIRTHDAY Varadero, November 25 (RHC)--After 11 years of expanding operations, Varadero's Juan Gualberto Gomez International Airport is today one of the most important in Cuba. Sidelsys Suarez, director of this air terminal, affirmed that every year there are more and more tourists traveling directly to this tourist complex, located some 140 kilometers from Havana. This airport is the second in importance in the country after Havana's Jose Marti International airport. It receives approximately 70 per cent of travelers entering Cuba and the previous year it catered to 1.1 million passengers. The Juan Gualberto Gomez was inaugurated on September 25th, 1989 and at present aircraft from 24 airlines land there. Since its opening, it has carried out 140 thousand operations and catered to 8 million passengers. By the end of this year Varadero airport expects to have catered to 1.2 million passengers. Last year the figure was 1.04 million. *FIRST ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE CONGRESS WINDS UP IN HAVANA Havana, November 25 (RHC)--The lst Congress of the Cuban Society of Bioenergetics and Alternative Medicine wound up on Friday, after three days of sessions, and two days of pre-congress courses. During the closing ceremony, held at Havana's ORTOP Convention Center, Colonel Jose Ernesto Betancourt, head of the Cuban Ministry of Armed Forces' Department of Medical Services, said that the congress had fulfilled its objectives, since it served as an adequate framework for the exchange of experiences and for scientific debate, as well as for the establishment of relations that will contribute to the development and consolidation of Cuba's Natural and Traditional Medicine Program over the next few years. The Cuban official also said that Cuba's goal is to achieve a harmonious balance of the different expressions of bioenergetics and alternative medicine. This will allow for the expansion of the capacity of our island's professionals and an increase in the level of satisfaction of the Cuban people for the health services received. Among issues debated by the hundreds of delegates from some 10 countries attending the event were the latest methods and results of the application of chiropractics, chi ckong, reflexology, acupuncture and other techniques, as well as the need of obtaining a state of harmony of our bodies with the world around us. Numerous personalities attended this lst Congress of the Cuban Society of Bioenergetics and Alternative Medicine, among them Dr. Ralph Allan Dale, from the United States, the discoverer of today's micro-acupunture concepts and techniques. Viewpoint: *CUBA DEMANDS JUSTICE, NOT REVENGE Cuba is prepared to accept the formation of an international court to judge the Cuban-born terrorists arrested last Friday in Panama City after Cuba discovered a plot to assassinate President Fidel Castro. Cuba's enemies are misinforming the public by spreading the rumor that if terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and his accomplices, who planned to assassinate the Cuban President during the 10th Ibero American Summit of Heads of States and Government, are extradited to Cuba to be judged for their crimes, they will not escape the death penalty. Some western media, which never mentioned a word about terrorist actions committed against Cuba, are now re-living the atmosphere of the cold war regarding the justice courts of socialist countries. This was the time when the notorious brainwashing was put into practice, forcing the accused to confess against themselves as the main one responsible for any crime before the courts. Cuba did not make any slandering accusations, despite having sufficient reasons to be inexorable against its bloodiest enemies. In Cuba, many surveys and interviews among the population have been done to find out peoples' opinions regarding the case of terrorist Posada Carriles. Most people agree that Cubans are not looking for revenge, they simply demand justice. (c) 2000 Radio Habana Cuba, NY Transfer News. All rights reserved. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= rhc-eng-21446 2000-Nov-25 23:28:47