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DIÁLOGO (ANÁLISIS Y DEBATE) - Abril 2002
- Date:
- 19 Apr 2002
- Time:
- 20:28:21
Comments
La globalizacion ademas de incrementar el hambre
en el mundo contemporaneo ha puesto de manifiesto que las granddes potencias no
respetan el derecho internacional y su unica meta es imponer del dereccho de la
fuerza. Discrepo con uds. si creen que estamos entrando en una nueva edad media.
Estamos ya en la barbarie en la que las ideas desarrolladas en los ultimos
siglos son violentadas, y no hay el menor respeto a los valores mas elementales.
Orlando Garcia de New York. USA
- Date:
- 20 Apr 2002
- Time:
- 12:12:46
Comments
Perhaps it is because we are old that we believe
that the young people of the world will find practical solutions to the problems
that concern the. Earlier tis week,the Canadian Minister for External Affairs
announced that this country's foreign policy is being reviewed in light of the
actions that are being taken by the "hyperpower". Canada's Minister
for Finance announced that efforts to erradicate the burden of debt owed by poor
countries will be continued. Canada remains committed to an humanitarian foreign
policy and to the formation of an humanitarian international culture.
Palomitas que vas volando y en el pico llevas
hilo, damela para coserme este corazon herido.
- Date:
- 25 Apr 2002
- Time:
- 13:30:33
Comments
Dear Comrades & Friends,
My wife and I returned last week from a holiday
in Cuba where we visited the University of Havana. We were surprised by the fact
that very few students were on the campus and that we found none who was
interested in talking with us about Cuban poetry or who had read such works as
“Poemas sin Nombre” by Dulce María Loynaz (an alumnus of the University of
Havana) or the collection, “La Isla Infinita”, published by the Instituto
Cubano del Libro. In addition, we attended a magnificent (but poorly attended)
ballet performance at a theatre in Vedado. The ballet included a section based
on the mediaeval experience of one of the African peoples who were taken as
slaves to Cuba by the Conquistadores.
Although I do not believe that the tourist
sector of the Cuban economy will provide satisfactory answers to your
country’s problems, I am convinced that many good people from Canada would
travel to your country to engage in cultural activities - perhaps even to study
your language. Unfortunately, none of the brochures issed by the foreign-owned
or controlled travel agencies make mention of these opportunities.
What can be done to increase the number of
cultural tourists who visit Cuba?
In my opinion, the answer to that question will
be provided as Cubans implement the International Economic Program of the Cuban
communist party and execute the Caracas Strategic Action Plan
- Date:
- 28 Apr 2002
- Time:
- 17:34:39
Comments
Dear Comrades anf Friends,
I understand that during the next few days, a
conference will be held in Cuba on the topic of ways to improve the quality of
service provided by workers in the Cunab tourist sectpr. Please forgive yet
another comment from an old friend of the Cuban people.
In my opinion, the difficulties that are
associated with the work of strengthening friendships between the peoples of
Canada, for example, and the people’s of Cuba are intensified by excessive
“formality”. I understand that this opinion is shared by Cuba’s Minister
for External Affairs. (My ability to communicate in the Spanish laguage is
limited but I believe that the Minister used words to that effect in a
well-received speeach in Mexico.)
Although I am ashamed of my poor linguistic
skills, I wonder how young people in Canada and Cuba can work together to
improve theirs. (I’ve been told that the quality of English language
instruction in Cuban schools has deteriorated over the last few years. In
Canada, this similar phenomenon is associated with failure to teach students the
basic rules of grammar and the fundamental laws of social-economic and cultural
development.)
Although my knowledge of Cuban history is very
limited, I understand that following the Anti-Colonial Revolution in Cuba, it
was decided that progress toward socialism required a campaign against
illiteracy and that very many young Cuban men and women (including students at
the University of Havana) particpated enthusiastically in that campaign during
which several were assassinated by supporters of colonialism.
In my opinion, modern young people could both
benefit from and enjoy participating in a campaign to improve the quaility of
English and Spanish language teaching that is provided to Cuban and Canadian
young people.
During our recent holiday in Havana, my wife and
I gained the impression that most Cubans are interested only in money and that
they have no time to think about ideas that will benefit them in the future.
Perhaps this intense interest in money inhiibits the ability of Cuban (and
other)young people to apply themselves to finding legal and even interesting
ways of earning it.
What is to be done? In my opinion, Fidel was
correct when he suggested, in Caracas, that students should work hard and study
the best examples of traditional culture, including the Cuban contribution to
scientific socialism. In my opinion, several experts in that subject work at the
Department of Economics at the University of Havana. Nevertheless, I confess to
lack of understanding about what goes on in the minds of modern young people and
must leave it to them to identify practical solutions to their problems.
Saludos para Ustedes
David Whitefield
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