Radio Havana Cuba-27 November 2000 Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 27 November 2000 . *CUBAN STUDENTS DEMAND EXTRADITION AND TRIAL OF POSADA CARRILES *PANAMA: SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE AGAINST LUIS POSADA CARRILES *POSADA USED CENTRAL AMERICA AS HIS OWN PERSONAL ESTATE *SENEGALESE MINISTER OPTIMISTIC ABOUT SOUTH-SOUTH RELATIONS *FIRST VENEZUELAN PATIENTS ARRIVE IN CUBA *FUTURE CUBAN TEACHERS RECEIVE OFFICAL BANNER *TWO MILLION CUBANS SPEND TSUNDAY DOING VOLUNTARY WORK *TAKE A BOAT TO THE BEACH: HAVANA-VARADERO MARITIME ROUTE *NOVEMBER 27th AN IMPORTANT DATE IN CUBA'S HISTORIC STRUGGLE *HAVANA MARCH COMMEMORATES COLONIAL KILLING OF 8 STUDENTS . *CUBAN STUDENTS DEMAND EXTRADITION AND TRIAL OF POSADA CARRILES Havana, November 27 (RHC) -- In Havana, more than one hundred thousand students and young people gathered late this afternoon at the Jose Marti Anti-Imperialist Tribunal to commemorate another anniversary of the 1871 assassination of 8 Cuban medical students by Spanish colonial forces. Cuban President Fidel Castro was at the head of the demonstration, held at the Tribunal in front of the U.S. Interests Section. Participants also reiterated Cuba's demand for justice in the case of the terrorists arrested in Panama who had planned to assassinate the Cuban leader during the Iberoamerican Summit. The Jose Marti Anti- Imperialist Tribunal became another podium to denounce the complicity of the Miami-based Cuban-American National Foundation with terrorist Luis Posada Carriles. Students from Central America and the Caribbean, studying at Havana's Latin American School of Medicine, also participated in the demonstration, as did the leader of Brazil's leftist Workers' Party, Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva. On November 27, 1871, 8 Cuban medical students were executed solely due to their pro-independence sentiments. *PANAMA: SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE AGAINST LUIS POSADA CARRILES Panama City, November 27 (RHC)-Panamanian authorities have confirmed that they have sufficient evidence to bring charges against Luis Posada Carriles, accused of planning an assassination attempt against Cuban President Fidel Castro. According to police officials in the Panamanian capital, 8 kilograms of C-4 plastic explosives were found last week, along with recent discoveries of other weapons that the terrorists planned to use during the 10th Ibero-American Summit. The Deputy Director of the Panamanian Judicial Police, Javier Cherigo, told reporters on Monday that he could only say that authorities have enough material evidence to file criminal charges against the terrorists. Cherigo stated that more information would be released in the coming days. *POSADA USED CENTRAL AMERICA AS HIS OWN PERSONAL ESTATE Tegucigalpa, November 27 (RHC)-In related news, Luis Posada Carriles used Central America as his own personal estate, according to Monday morning's edition of the Honduran daily "El Heraldo." The newspaper reported that Posada Carriles was actually in Honduras one week before he and three other terrorists were arrested in Panama on November 17th. "El Heraldo" revealed that the Cuban-born terrorist first arrived in Honduras during the early 1990's. During that period of time, according to the newspaper, Posada Carriles was working on the security team of Guatemalan President Vinicio Cerezo. The Honduran news daily also reported that Luis Posada Carriles was involved in two assassination attempts against former Honduran President Carlos Roberto Reina. Right-wing forces accused his administration of becoming too close to Cuba when the former president moved to open interests sections in Havana and Tegucigalpa. *SENEGALESE MINISTER OPTIMISTIC ABOUT SOUTH-SOUTH RELATIONS Havana, November 27 (RHC)-Senegal's Foreign Minister Tidiane Gadion, says that South-South relations can significantly increase, which will allow for favorable exchanges in the future between his country and Cuba. Before flying to New York on Sunday, after a visit to Havana, the Senegalese government official talked to reporters about the future of economic and political cooperation between Cuba and Senegal. He said he will return to Havana after taking part in discussions on the Palestinian situation at the United Nations General Assembly. Referring to a recent meeting with Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque, Chaikh Tidiane Gadion said that talks focused on issues such as literacy, education, culture, public health, agriculture, technological development and other topics of bilateral interest. The Senegalese Foreign Minister noted that the great geographic distance separating Cuba and his country poses no obstacle to bilateral cooperation, stressing that despite Washington's unfair blockade against Cuba, the island has been able to develop many economic sectors which has made Cuba an example, particularly for other Third World Nations. *FIRST VENEZUELAN PATIENTS ARRIVE IN CUBA Havana, November 27 (RHC)-The first group of Venezuelan patients will arrive in Cuba on Thursday to receive medical attention. Venezuela's President, Hugo Chavez, said that the first group of low income Venezuelans will include 50 patients suffering from cancer, heart diseases and drug addiction problems. The treatment in Cuba of Venezuelans is part of last month's Caracas Energy Agreement which stipulates that Venezuela will supply Havana with up to 53 thousand barrels of oil daily, under preferential conditions. The accord, signed by Presidents Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro, states that in return Cuba will offer Venezuela medical services and expertise in fields such as agriculture, education and sports. During his radio program "Hello, President," Hugo Chavez announced on Sunday that the groups of Venezuelans to be treated in Cuba are scheduled to fly to Havana every two weeks. He explained that each patient will be accompanied by a family member and will fly on presidential aircraft. *FUTURE CUBAN TEACHERS RECEIVE OFFICAL BANNER Havana, November 27 (RHC)- Cuba's Education Minister, Luis Ignacio Gomez, Sunday presented the Manuel Ascunce Domenech 29th Teacher's Contingent with its official banner. During the ceremony, which took place in the central province of Sancti Spiritus , speakers praised the more than 6,460 youths who have chosen to be the country's new teachers. The Cuban Education Minister explained that the teachers' contingent was created to deal with a lack of educators island wide and that it has become crucial in the struggle for high-quality teaching and the dissemination of Cuban culture. Sunday's ceremony also paid tribute to teacher, Manuel Ascunce Domenech and farmer Pedro Lantigua, both murdered by counterrevolutionaries during the Literacy Campaign in the early years of the Revolution. During the activity, members of the First Teachers' Detachment and leaders of the island's University Students' Federation reaffirmed Cuba's demand for the extradition of the anti-Cuba terrorists who are currently under arrest in Panama. *TWO MILLION CUBANS SPEND TSUNDAY DOING VOLUNTARY WORK Havana, November 23 (RHC)-Some two million Cubans performed voluntary work on Sunday to demonstrate their support for the government and their confidence in the recovery of the economy. Workers in hospitals, factories, schools, sugar mills and coffee and tobacco plantations spent the day contributing to the economy on the anniversary of the voluntary work initiative begun by Cuban-Argentinean guerrilla fighter, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in November of 1959. Sunday's voluntary work centered on ongoing preparations for the upcoming sugar harvest, which included work in 10 sugar factories in Eastern Camaguey province. Some 97 thousand workers in the central province of Sancti Spiritus contributed to the coffee harvest, while tens of thousands worked in agricultural fields of central Villa Clara province. In the eastern province of Holguin volunteers repaired machinery and built spare parts for the sugar industry. And, in western Pinar del Rio province efforts were concentrated in tobacco planting. In the capital, tens of thousands workers cleaned up their work centers. *TAKE A BOAT TO THE BEACH: HAVANA-VARADERO MARITIME ROUTE Havana, November 27 (RHC)-Cuba's two major tourist centers have been linked by the recent opening of the Havana-Varadero maritime route inaugurated by the island's Cubanacan Corporation. The new route joins previous bus connections between the two tourist areas and offers new attractions in a pleasant two-hour boat trip. The rapid ferry which holds 380 passengers, sails a mile off the Cuban coast after departing from cruise terminals in Varadero and Havana. The project was implemented by the Cubanacan Jet group which came out of a joint operational contract signed by Cuba's Cubanacan Nautical firm and Argentina's Dodero Cruise company. The new tourist option is part of the development of the island's tourism program. Viewpoint: *HAVANA MARCH COMMEMORATES COLONIAL KILLING OF 8 STUDENTS November 27th is an important date for students and young people in Cuba. On this day in l871, 8 Cuban medical students were lined up against a wall in Havana and shot down in cold blood by Spanish colonial troops. The young people had been falsely accused of having profaned the tomb of anti-Cuba journalist Gonzalo de Castanon in Havana's Colon cemetery, an act which no country punishes with a death sentence. The regime had no evidence to offer against any of the 8 students who were condemned to death despite the magnificent defense presented by Spanish lawyer, Captain, Don Federico Capdevilla. The historic trial, if it can be called that, was held under the control of the so-called, "Volunteer Corps" of Havana, made up of integrationist elements of the worst kind, who demanded the heads of the Cuban youths. The incident occurred just three years after the beginning of Cuba's first war of independence, which began October 10, l868. And so November 27th became an important day, and every year since Cubans pay homage to the memory of those student patriots who died for their country. It is a custom that has been maintained throughout the six decades of U.S. colonialism in Cuba, imposed at the point of a gun when uninvited U.S. troops intervened in the island's war of independence against Spain. What's more, the action was unnecessary because Cuba's Liberation Army had successfully fought its way to the gates of the Cuban capital and had the Spanish forces neutralized in the rest of the island. Today, on the 129th anniversary of that sad event, Cubans maintain their spirit of staunch resistance in the face of U.S. attempts to reinstate their neo-colonial regime which the Cuban Revolution ended once and for all in l959. Cuban students and youth, who after 40 years of resistance to U.S. pressures, who have maintained the date as a patriotic tradition, have organized a major rally in Havana's Anti-Imperialist Tribunal, in front of the U.S. Interests Section, to demand the extradition to Cuba of terrorist Luis Posada Carriles and his accomplices arrested in Panama, as they were preparing an assassination attempt against Cuban president, Fidel Castro. Cuba's students and young people have made it clear that it is not vengeance that they seek, but rather, justice and an end to terrorism around the world. (c) 2000 Radio Habana Cuba, NY Transfer News. 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