Viewing from March 2004
USA Today admits it lied over Cuba
Campaign News | Monday, 29 March 2004
Award winning journalist fabricated tale of migrants lost at seaThe resurrection of Jacqueline and other ghostsBy Ricardo Alarcon de QuesadaA new style is making headway in US journalism: to reveal that some of its main stories were the spurious work of frauds violating every ethical principle in order to lie, ... read more
Cuban foreign minister exposes US plot at Geneva
Campaign News | Saturday, 27 March 2004
Reveals draft resolution written by state department to be presented by another nationBY JOAQUIN ORAMAS of Granma InternationalMarch 25: United States seeking a new lackeyThe US government is seeking a new lackey to condemn Cuba in Geneva says Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque.During a press conference with journalists from 50 ... read more
Virgin Atlantic to fly to Cuba from 2005
Campaign News | Friday, 26 March 2004
Airline boss Branson says service will start in JulyMarch 27: Virgin Atlantic plans to launch nonstop flights from London Gatwick to Cuba and the Bahamas in July 2005, the Miami Herald reports.The new flights will operate twice a week from London to Havana, starting July 21, 2005, and once a ... read more
Demand for changes in the EU policy on Cuba
Campaign News | Friday, 26 March 2004
Socialist victory in Spain puts pressure on 'Common Position'BRUSSELS March 26: On the initiative of Deputy Pedro Marset of the United Left, the European Parliament Friendship and Solidarity with the People of Cuba Group is to call on the new Spanish government to change the so-called European Common Position toward ... read more
The truth about the trials and the treatment of prisoners
Campaign News | Thursday, 25 March 2004
A statement from the Cuban mission to the UNMarch 25The Truth about the TrialsTwenty-nine trials were held in Cuba, in different provinces across the nation, in which 75 people were accused: 74 men and one woman. The courts handed down jail sentences of 6 to 28 years. Nowhere was the ... read more
Cuba receives first award for control of TB
Campaign News | Wednesday, 24 March 2004
Disease has almost been eradicated in the islandHavana, March 24: More than two million people in the world die annually from pulmonary tuberculosis, 50,000 of them on the American continent, but, as in many things, Cuba is the exception with a rate of 7 cases per 100,000 people.In recognition of ... read more
Cuba speaks out against biased report in Geneva
Campaign News | Wednesday, 24 March 2004
US suffers humiliating defeat over its defence of IsraelGeneva, March 24: The US failed today to keep Cuba from rebutting a biased report at the UN Human Rights Commission (HRC) in Geneva.The day began with the US suffering a defeat of its unconditional pro-Israeli policy in a vote condemning the ... read more
Terrorism will not cease while inequalities remain
Campaign News | Tuesday, 23 March 2004
Cuban diplomat calls for world disarmament at GenevaGeneva, Mar 23: Stopping terrorism requires reducing global inequality by implementing policies that reduce military spending and increase aid for development, Cuban diplomat Jorge Ferrer Rodriguez told the U.N. Commission on Human Rights on March 24."Terrorism cannot be defeated nor can armed conflicts ... read more
British MP tables EDM in support of Cuban Science
Campaign News | Monday, 22 March 2004
Early Day Motion attacks US ban on editing Cuban articles as absurdMarch 22: Ian Gibson MP, Chair of the All Party Cuba Group of Westminster MPs,has tabled an Early day Motion in support of Cuban Science.As of March 22, it had gathered 24 signatures:EDM 837CUBAN SCIENCE16.03.04Gibson/IanThat this House decries the ... read more
Anti-Cuban terrorists await sentencing in Panama
Campaign News | Friday, 19 March 2004
Verdict expected within 30 daysMarch 19: The trial in Panama of four Miami terrorists, who plotted to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro, concluded Thursday with general certainty of the accused guilt and expectation they will receive the maximum penalty.Terrorists of Cuban-origin Luis Posada Carriles, Pedro Crispin Remon, Guillermo Novo Sampol, ... read more
Cuba rejects Human Rights resolution
Campaign News | Thursday, 18 March 2004
Speech by Cuban foreign minister at UN Human Rights CommissionSTATEMENT DELIVERED BY H. E. MR. FELIPE PÉREZ ROQUE, MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA, AT THE HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT OF THE 60TH SESSION OF THE COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTSGeneva, 17 March 2004Mr. Chairman:For 17 years now, Cuba has ... read more
President Castro's message to new Spanish PM
Campaign News | Wednesday, 17 March 2004
Cuban leader asks for Latin Americans in Iraq to be sent homeMessage from the President of the Councils of State and Ministers of the Republic of Cuba to the distinguished Mr. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero on the occasion of his election as President of the Spanish governmentDistinguished Mr. José Luis ... read more
Who are these terrorists on trial in Panama?
Campaign News | Wednesday, 17 March 2004
By Jane Franklin, author of Cuba and the US: A Chronological HistoryWhen I wrote CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES: A CHRONOLOGICAL HISTORY, I could not possibly follow the terrorist careers of every one of the hundreds of Cuban-American terrorists unleashed against Cuba from the United States; so I chose several ... read more
Panama prosecutor attacks accused Castro plotters
Campaign News | Wednesday, 17 March 2004
They should have no clemency, he saysMarch 17: Prosecutors said four Cuban émigrés accused of possessing explosives in an alleged plot to kill Fidel Castro planned to kill Cuba's leader in cold-blood, the Associated Press reports."There shouldn't be clemency for these people," said federal attorney Arquimedes Saez.After being delayed three ... read more
Fidel bomb plotters go on trial in Panama
Campaign News | Monday, 15 March 2004
Posada Carriles pleads not guiltyPANAMA CITY, March 15: A Cuban-born anti-communist went on trial on March 15 accused of plotting to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro in Panama in 2000.Luis Posada Carriles, 74, is being tried with five others of possessing explosives, threatening public security and plotting to violate the ... read more
March 15: Miami Five latest: “IT WAS A FAIR HEARING"
Campaign News | Monday, 15 March 2004
Interview with Leonard Weinglass, lawyer of Antonio Guerrero by Rosa Miriam Elizalde and Esther Barroso of the Cuban mediaHavana, March 15:He had just arrived in Havana, two days after the appeals hearing in the case of the Five Cubans, who were condemned in the “poisoned” city of Miami three years ... read more
Cuban scientists save the banana
Campaign News | Saturday, 13 March 2004
New hope in fight against killer virusCuban researchers might have saved the banana from extinction.They have developed a quick and easy method for assessing the susceptibility of banana plants to a serious fungal infection known as Panama disease, according to a report in the Independent newspaper on March 13th.Their finding ... read more
March 13: Latest from Miami Five Appeal
Campaign News | Saturday, 13 March 2004
CSC's Father Geoff Bottoms is heartened by the court caseA new Cuban exile group by the name of Cuba Democracy Advocates recently commissioned a controversial poll to survey 600 Cuban-American registered voters in Miami-Dade and Broward counties on their attitudes towards Fidel Castro and the US blockade of Cuba. The ... read more
A declaration from the Cuban Academy of Sciences
Campaign News | Saturday, 13 March 2004
Reaction to US ban on editing articles from Cuba"?In the twenty first century science must become a shared asset benefiting all peoples on the basis of solidarity ?(considering) the importance for scientific research and education of full and open access to information?"From the Declaration on Science and the Use of ... read more
Cuba is invincible against agression: Raul Castro
Campaign News | Saturday, 13 March 2004
Unity of the people is the key to our defence, says armed forces ministerSantiago de Cuba, March 12 (AIN) Army General Raul Castro, Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, said that the Cuban people, their army and their Communist Party are an invincible monolithic block, against which any acts of ... read more
March 11: Latest from the Miami Five Appeal
Campaign News | Thursday, 11 March 2004
Federal Attorney against the wallThe judges’ questions in the Miami appeal hearing for the five Cuban heroes points to a more objective procedure highlighting doubts over the charges reports JEAN-GUY ALLARD of Granma InternationalMIAMI March 11 -Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Heck-Miller found herself in an embarrassing position when faced with ... read more
Cuban doctors stay in Haiti when all else have fled
Campaign News | Thursday, 11 March 2004
Volunteers keep one emergency room openMarch 11: At the height of the bloody revolt in Haiti, all the hospitals and clinics in the capital closed but one, a makeshift emergency room operated entirely by Cuban doctors.“We're here to help the people," says Juan Carlos Chavez, chief of a 535-person Cuban ... read more
Fidel's message of condolence to King of Spain
Campaign News | Thursday, 11 March 2004
Cuban leader's 'profund consternation'Havana, March 11, 2004Don Juan Carlos IKing of SpainYour Majesty:I have learned with profound consternation of the bomb attack on the Madrid railroad system that, according to the news, has cost almost 200 human lives and around 1,000 injuries.In this hour of mourning for Spain, allow me ... read more
12.4 per cent growth in tourists
Campaign News | Wednesday, 10 March 2004
New figure is a recordHavana, Mar 10: Cuba has recorded a record 12.4 per cent increase in visitor arrivals for January this year, as compared to the same period in 2003. A total of 214, 242 tourists visited the island in January, surpassing the number of arrivals in the same ... read more
Bush stops US scientists from visiting Cuba
Campaign News | Tuesday, 9 March 2004
Ban on travel is being extendedMarch 9: In the latest of a series of measures toughening its stance towards Cuba, the United States government stopped a group of some 70 American medical school professors, doctors and other scientists from attending an international symposium on coma and death in Havana, according ... read more
Aristide's removal presents threat to Cuba says report
Campaign News | Sunday, 7 March 2004
US objective was to establish a base to finish off Fidel CastroFrench journalist Thierry Meyssan claims that in 2003 the US and France devised a joint plan to oust AristideBy Eduardo González of RebelionJournalist and French writer Thierry Meyssan has claimed that France and United States agreed in the summer ... read more
Miami Five ad appears in New York Times
Campaign News | Thursday, 4 March 2004
Worldwide donations paid for publicityDespite Bush administration attempts to stop it, groups of friendship with Cuba finally managed to have their full page advertisement on the plight of five Cubans imprisoned in the US published in the New York Times on March 3rd.The CSC in Britain donated £3,000 towards the ... read more
US limits consular visits to the Miami Five
Campaign News | Thursday, 4 March 2004
Statement from the Cuban Foreign MinistryNew infamy against our five heroes prisoners of the empireIN the afternoon of February 27, the head of the U.S. Department of State Cuba Bureau delivered Diplomatic Note 058/2 to the Cuban Interests Section in Washington. The note states that, with immediate effect, the Department ... read more
Former Miami Cuban leader sentenced for fraud
Campaign News | Tuesday, 2 March 2004
Con artist was treasurer of faction created with funds from USAIDPUERTO RICO March 2nd.A federal court has sentenced Ariel Gutiérrez Rodríguez, a Puerto Rican businessman of Cuban origin, to a five year prison term for fraud in Puerto Rico.Gutiérrez Rodríguez was the treasurer of a faction created by the well-known ... read more
