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LATIN AMERICA
- Thursday
03
February 2005
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Fidel Castro: Cuba Will Never
Return to Capitalism
Cuban President Fidel Castro
said Cuban people prefer to die
under a sky they have built over
surviving a capitalist hell
proposed by the current United
States administration.
The Cuban leader, speaking
before 5,000 delegates from 52
countries participating in the
Pedagogy 2005 and 1st World
Literacy Congress, condemned US
threats and aggressions against
Cuba.
Cubans "can be exterminated but
never ruled by corrupt
politicians, mercenaries and
torturers," warned the Cuban
president, referring to the
so-called Commission for
Assistance to a Free Cuba, a
program elaborated by the
government of President George
W. Bush to try to oust the Cuban
government.
Fidel Castro condemned US
aggression in Iraq and
reproached the crimes and
tortures carried out there and
in other countries under the
excuse of fighting terrorism.
The Cuban leader recalled the
case of the five Cuban patriots
serving long sentences in United
States prisons for protecting
their people from terrorist
actions planned from that
territory. He said they are five
true heroes who were in that
country to protect Cuban and US
people from terrorism.
Cuba backs Brazil's bid for UN
Security Council seat
Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe
Perez said here Wednesday that
his country supports Brazil's
bid for a permanent seat on the
UN Security Council.
"We have the same position as
Brazil for a multipolar world
anda reinforcement of UN's role
when the UN is at a time of
reform and democratization,"
said Perez, who is in Brazil for
an officialvisit.
Perez met Brazil's National
Congress President Jose Sarney
and President of Chamber of
Deputies Joao Pablo Cunha to
discuss cultural exchanges
between the two countries.
Perez will meet Brazilian
President Luis Inacio Lula da
Silva and Foreign Minister Celso
Amorim on Thursday.
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Chinese vice president meets
leaders of Caribbean countries
China hopes to further tighten
friendship and cooperation via
the China-Caribbean Economic and
Trade Cooperation Forum with the
Caribbean countries, said Vice
President Zeng Qinghong here
Wednesday.
Zeng said this in meetings, on
separate occasions, with leader
sof Jamaica, Antigua and
Barbuda, Dominic, Cuba, Suriname
and Barbados, who are here to
attend the opening ceremony of
the firstMinisterial Meeting of
the China-Caribbean forum that
opened here earlier Wednesday.
This is in the fundamental
interests of the two sides, he
said, adding it will have
positive impact on promoting the
South-South cooperation.
Zeng said the Chinese side is
convinced that the forum will
play a positive role in
enhancing China-Caribbean
cooperation with efforts of all
parties concerned.
These leaders said China's
precious support and assistance
for the Caribbean countries in
many years has served to play a
helpful role in promoting
regional economic and social
progress.
China's initiate on establishing
the forum set up another example
on developing the relations
between a big country and small
ones, they said, noting they
take a positive attitude towards
it and will join the Chinese
side to reinforce economic and
trade cooperation by the
platform of the forum.
The leaders also reiterated
their persistence to the one
China policy.
Zeng arrived in Jamaica Tuesday,
the last leg of his five-nation
visit in Latin America and
Caribbean after Mexico, Peru,
Venezuela and Trinidad and
Tobago. He is scheduled to leave
here for Beijing Thursday.
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