Análisis y Debate - Agosto 2002

DIÁLOGO (ANÁLISIS Y DEBATE) - Agosto 2002

Date:: 01 Aug 2002
Time:: 22:56:30

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

With respect, we wish to respond to the point raised by a person in Colombia who seems to be concerned about lack of religious and cultural freedom in Cuba.

On several occasions, I have visited churches in Cuba. There is an impressive church in Central Havana, near an exhibition of Afro-Christian religion. My favourite is in a grove of trees in Miramar. Also, I have visited a synagogue in the city of Havana.

The most interesting church that I have seen in several years is in Santa Maria del Rosario. Although it was built long before the Revolution of 1789, it is decribed locally as “French”. Probably, it is a copy of a church in Franken, in modern Germany. The entire square in the city is among the few surviving examples of a North or Central European bishopstown.

As to cultural freedom: tourists are free to visit the great stutue of Jesus Christ, the Market in Old Havana, to look at Mafia remnants in the Hotel Nacional and at an alternative on the Havana campus of the Cuban Superior Institute for the Arts in Playa.

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 03 Aug 2002
Time:: 22:57:46

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. Although we do not wish to interfere in the interrnal affairs of your party, we believe that some very important information should be shared as extensively as possible.

2. The following information has attracted the attention of many Anglophic people..

3. Can any Comrades or Friends translate it into Castilian?

Yours fraternally,

“The Centro Ibero Latinamericano de la Tercera Edad.

This Center, established with the financial support of the World Health Organization and the Pan American Health Organization, provides comprehensive services to the elderly and is a research center. The Center operates under the aegis of the "Calixto Garcia General Hospital" the leading health institution in Cuba. Among the services offered are medical services, prevention and control of illnesses associated with aging, and an extensive program of individual and family counseling” [Extracted from the web. This information can be confimed by Reports of the WHO and its subsidiary, the Panam Health Organization e.g.]

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Regional Core Health Data System - Country Health Profile 2001: CUBA This summary contains information from the Core Health Data System updated in the year 2001, and the General Health Situation and Trends for CUBA (Summary of the Country Chapter, Health in the Americas, 1998 Ed.) in the following aspects: 1.Socioeconomic, Political, and Demographic Overview 2.Mortality Profile 3.Analysis by Population Group 4.Communicable Diseases 5.Noncommunicable Diseases and Other Health-Related Problems 6.National Health Plans and Policies 7.Organization of Health Services 8.Research and Technology 9.Surveillance and Data Systems 10.Expenditures and Sectoral Financing 11.Technical and Financial External Cooperation (19/Oct/2001) In English (60.46k) en español (64.91k)

DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTEGRAL HEALTH PROGRAM FOR CENTRAL AMERICA, THE CARIBBEAN AND AFRICA

1.Introduction 2.General Principles of the Integral Health Plan 3.Priorities in the Program of Cooperation 4.General results of the Medical Missions 5.Experience in some countries 6.Countries and NGOs that cooperate with Cuba

Introduction

At the end of October and the beginning of November, 1998, hurricane Mitch wreaked havoc on the countries of Central America. Hardest hit by the hurricane were Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, in addition to other Central American areas such as Belize, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. These latter had in addition been severely hit some months before by hurricane George.

In a meeting held in El Salvador on November 9, 1998, the heads of state from Central America revealed to the world the full extent of the destruction due to hurricane Mitch and the dire consequences of it on the social and economic infrastructure of the region. The dead and the disappeared numbered more than thirty thousand. The Central American presidents issued a seven-point communiqué in which they asked for help from the international community.

Cuba responded immediately to this request and cancelled the debt to Nicaragua – the only country indebted to Cuba – in the amount of 50.1million dollars. At the same time Cuba signified its willingness to send medical and auxiliary personnel for the time needed, and asked the developed countries to contribute technical equipment and medical supplies. Given the seriousness of the situation in these countries, the Government of Cuba proposed and began to put in place an Integral Health Plan for Central America and the Carribean, a plan which was later broadened to include some countries of Africa and Asia, at the request of the governments involved.

The plan involved the sending of as many health workers as were deemed necessary, as well as the willingness to provide programs of formation for medical professionals and technicians, either in Cuba or in the host countries, in order to guarantee the continuity of the program. General Principles of the Integral Health Plan

The cooperation offered by the Government of Cuba involved the provision, on a gratuitous basis, of health professionals, in particular General Practitioners for a maximum period of two years.

The teams would offer their services in rural areas where their work would not interfere with that of medical professionals from the country in question. This would only be done after presenting documents confirming the professional capacities of the health workers to be sent by Cuba.

The host country would provide air transport by commercial or charter flights for the personnel involved, and in addition provide them with a stipend equivalent to one hundred US dollars monthly, along with food and lodging.

Priorities in the program of Cooperation

Integral medical attention at both primary and secondary levels Technical assistance Formation of human resources Further capacitation of human resources already in service Development of health programs Management of programs of medical supplies

General results of the Medical Missions

The program now consists of 1929 men and women who make up 47 medical teams in fourteen countries. A total of 2638 collaborators have already contributed their services through this program.

This has involved medical attention to more than 4 666 913 persons, including more than 42 611 surgical operations.

They have assisted at 22 655 births.

The Cuban assistance has given complete vaccination to 142 975 persons providing protection against ten kinds of illness. Experience in some countries

Belize

The presence of the Cuban medical teams has made possible the establishment of 45 health centres, 37 of which are located in rural areas, with family medical services made available to some 100 000 persons.

Honduras

The provision of medical attention to the people by the Cuban program covers some twelve per cent of the population, but in Departments such as Intibuca and Mosquitia, where the complexities of geography and economic limitations created special conditions, the program covered eighty-five per cent of the population.

In the Mosquitia Department of Honduras, located in the Northeastern part of the country, there was a forty per cent reduction in infant mortality. According to official data from the Honduran Ministry of Health for 1998 the infant mortality rate was 92 for every 1000 live births. With the presence of the Cuban medical teams infant mortality at the end of the first semester of the year 2000 had fallen to 46 for 1000 live births. That is to say, in a year and a half of this collaboration fifty-four infant lives were saved in this Department.

In the Department of Santa Barbara, which has a population of 300 000 inhabitants, in six months of work by the Cuban medical teams infant mortality was reduced by fifteen per cent, from a rate of 60 per 1000 live births to 45 per 1000 live births. At the request of the First Lady of the Republic of Honduras and of the leaders of the Tawahka people, considered by UNESCO as an anthropological reserve of this region, and which is in danger of extinction as a consequence of serious depopulation, a program of integral attention to these communities has been initiated with the project of protecting and of developing this people.

The Cuban medical assistance program has also been able, through the work of electro- medical engineers, to carry out repairs of a significant amount of medical equipment. It is estimated that this has resulted in savings of some 371 266 US dollars on the part of the Honduran Ministry of Health.

Guatemala

Cuban medical assistance in Guatemala during the eighteen months of work has put into place, together with the Ministry of Health, in each of the departments where they were present, a network of primary care which has resulted in the application of a program of Maternal and Infant care and in the reduction of the rate of infant mortality from 40 per 1000 live births to 18.5 live births.

In collaboration with the Guatemalan Ministry of Health a teaching program for family medicine has been implemented in six Departments of the country.

Gambia

Emergency centres staffed by Cuban collaborators have confirmed the reduction of infant mortality rates by thirty-four per cent, from a 1998 rate of 121 per 1000 live births to 90 per 1000 live births. With 154 collaborators it has been possible to cover ninety per cent of the population.

The creation of a small faculty in Gambia has permitted the training of some twenty-two young people in medicine. This effort has enjoyed the support of the Gambian authorities as well as of the World Health Organization, which has made possible the purchase of textbooks and computers with a contribution of 35 thousand US dollars.

Equatorial Guinea

In this African country, which had an infant morality rate of 111 per 1000 live births, the presence of 139 Cuban health collaborators throughout the national territory has provided medical attention to eighty per cent of the population. Work has begun on the founding of a School of Medicine, with a team of Cuban professors, in which thirty young Guineans will be enrolled.

Countries and NGOs that cooperate with Cuba

There are sixty-one NGOs, particularly in Central America, that have joined with the Cuban medical teams in the development of the Integral Health Program. Outstanding are MOPAWI with a contribution of 45 000 US dollars, Norwegian Popular Assistance with a contribution of 320 000 US dollars, the Italian GVC, Doctors without Frontiers and Pastors for Peace. Recently the American Friends Service Committee joined the effort with a contribution of 11 000 US dollars. France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Lybia and Nigeria have joined the effort with Cuba in the development of the Integral Health Program with the provision of medical supplies. In the Summit Meeting of the Group of 77 and China, Cuba offered 3000 medical doctors to work in the development of a health program in the African continent, as an example if South-South cooperation. This offer was well received by the Heads of State taking part in the Summit, and countries such as Nigeria, Algiers, Lybia, South Africa and Botswana have offered financial support which will make the development of the plan a real possibility.

Date:: 05 Aug 2002
Time:: 03:39:35

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Un saludo solidario y revolucionario a los camaradas del PSRDC. Mi nombre es el c. dario. soy venezolano y pertenezco a un partido comunista marxista leninista llamado BANDERA ROJA. tengo 17 años de edad y 6 en el partido.estoy en plena formacion politica y soy tan curioso e inquieto como cualquier hombre revolucionario y cientifico.Ojala y puedan leer esta correspondencia,pues me interesa harto el tema cubano.Estuve leyendo un poco su programa y me parece interezante.A los militantes de mi partido los vigila el gobierno cubano cuando viajan a la isla en representacion gremial (un iversitarios, obreros ,etc.),asi que comprendemos bien su definicion del estado policiaco-represivo cubano.Nuestro partido a criticado duramente las desviaciones que ha sufrido desde hace unos 25 años el proceso de liberacion cubano.Primero, debo dejarles claro que nuestro fin estrategico es la liberacion del hombre de toda forma de opresion pero, y derrepente aca tengamos divergencia,para ello concevimos una trancicion que va desde la instauracion de la dictadura del colectivo trabajador sobre los dueños de los medios de produccion, en pocas palabras, la democracia popular,en donde ademas participan sectores amplios de la pequeña burguesia,campesinado e intelectuales,que en un momento estrategico de la revolucion seran nuestros aliados y a medida que se valla socializando el estado, algunos de estos sectores pasaran de ser reserva estrategica de la revolucion a reaccionarios y un problema para el desarrollo del proceso revolucionario, pues muchos no querran hipotecar intereses individuales por los colectivos.Estamos inscritos en la linea de los partidos que denunciaron en los 70 y aun denunciamos la traicion que los pcs adscritos a la union sovietica le propinaron a sus respectivos pueblos, estos son los de la tercera internacional,y en estos (a criterio personal) se inscribe el pc cubano,partido de la estafa fidelista.Para constatar nuestro criterio sobre su gobierno esta el apoyo fariseo interesado y alcahueta que fidel le da al gobierno pseudorrevolucionario de venezuela liderizado por hugo chavez frias, farsante, cobarde y asesino, que es capaz de propiciar en nuestro pais una guerra civil atipica,donde pretende enfrentar civiles contra civiles,en una division que no es de clase,pues los que apoyan el oficialismo venezolano son pobres ,pero tambien son ricos,y en la oposicion hay ricos pero tambien hay pobres, de hecho la central obrera mas grande y con mayor poder de convocatoria y organizacion es opositora,y esta integrada por la derecha y la izquierda, unidos no en un programa inmediato de unos o de otros, sino de todos,sobre la base de acuerdos minimos y donde no puede haber exclusion de ningun sector de nuestra sociedad,para librar al pais de uno de los gobiernos mas corrupto,demagogo ,incapaz y populista de la historia. Este gobierno con la ayuda de la izquierda tradicional, que hace mucho tiempo caduco,pretende engañar no solo a los venezolanos,sino a nuestros hermanos del resto del planeta,con un falso bolivarianismo que pregona a los cuatro vientos,mas parecido a una consigna patriotera-chouvinista que a otra cosa.Bueno,en conclusion,me parece que estan haciendo un gran esfuerzo por darle la oportunidad a cuba de volver a ser la vanguardia revolucionaria del continente, un espacio verdaderamente liberado,donde la liberacion y realizacion del ser deje de ser utopia y de una buena vez se convierta en realidad dialectica.De todas formas,se que estan bastante ocupados como para pònerle atencion a las inquietudes de un joven rebelde,pero seria estimulante para mi por lo menos un pequeño analisis de alguno de sus militantes a esta humilde opinion que les emito,quisiera saber ademas,cual es la tactica de su partido,tambien se me parecen mucho a los comunistas libertarios(anarquistas), y quisiera saber su opinion sobre nuestro gobierno y la vision del pueblo cubano sobre el mismo.

hasta la proxima,estamos a 04/08/2002.Se despide: c. dario (dirigente de la UJR-union de jovenes revolucionarios- del partido BANDERA ROJA) E-MAIL: proletario15@latinmail.com

Date:: 06 Aug 2002
Time:: 14:05:05

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. At this time, with our comrades from Japan, we respectfully recall the events of 1945 when, by the dropping of the atom bombs on the people who were in Hiroshima and Nakasaki, the United States of America declared what came to be known as “The Cold War” against the peoples of the entire world.

2. Earlier this year, the President of the regime in the United States of America that manages the affairs of that country on behalf of the military-industrial finance-capitalist complex declared that the Cold War has ended.

3. At the Kananaskis G8 Summit, it was agreed that 30 billion yanki dollars will be allocated over the next decade so that the work of securing the nuclear missiles in former socialist countries will be completed before the environment has been so degraded that life on this planet will become unsustainable.

1. Recently, Fidel expressed the opinion that the Soviet Union collapsed because inadequate attention was provided to the ideological struggle against ideas that originate in the United States of America.

1. In our opinion, during the Period of Emergency, the Cuban “castroist” state has provided more solidarity to the people of Venezuela than vice versa. Some of this solidarity has been in the form of providing training to doctors.

2. During and since the Kananaskis G8 Summit, information about Cuban participation in World Health Organization and Panamerican Health Organization programs has attracted attention among Anglophone people.

3. Apparently, the PSRDC does not think that this information would interest readers of Castilian or other “Spanish” dialects. Perhaps the Women of the World should be asked to respond to that attitude.

4. ¿Jeva..qué bolá?

¡Sé concreto... sé explícito ! Does the theory or practice of social revolutionary democracy require the negation, in Cuba, of hospitals and doctors?

Do you want to be equal to tens-of-millions of pobre setos sin techos in the United States of America and Canada?

Decirme..¿si o no?

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 07 Aug 2002
Time:: 21:53:47

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Dear Compañera Maribel Campos,

1. Once again, you have asked us to express our opinions about the debate in which you are engaged. We have no wish to interfere in the internal affairs of your Party. We believe that we agree with your aims.

2. Although some members of our Party are socialists or communists, we neither emphasise not conceal that fact because we know that, at this time, the peoples of the entire world are threatened by weapons of mass destruction and other forms of environmental degradation.

3. We have expressed our respect for the achievents of the Cuban people during the Period of Emergency. We have seen, at first hand, that many Cubans became degraded during that Period. We have experienced, at first hand, from many Cuban people, direct expressions of proletarian solidarity. I am 71 years of age. My “interest” is in poetry. Several years ago, a Cuban poet gave me a book with poems by Nicolás Guillén.

4. We have expressed our respect for the democratic Poder Popular institution.

The following Fable is attributed to Tommy Douglas, a Canadian Social Democrat.

“The Mice, who were chosing a new President, were favourably impressed by the promises of The White Cat.

“Later, they were favourably impressed by the promises of The Black Cat.

“Later, Mouse Power institutions were formed.”

5. In our opinion, the answers to many of the problems that concern you will be found in the best features of your own traditional culture.

6. It is our opinion that not all ideas that emanated from either the Soviet Union or the United States of America should be dismissed.

In fact, the first person of African ancestry who went into space was a Cuban member of the Russian cosmonaut program.

The operetta, “West Side Story” warns potential migrants from San Juan, Puerto Rico, about the implications of the belief that “everything’s up to date in America.” Similarly, in the operetta “South Pacific”, it is pointed out that people must be taught how to hate.

Those of you who have applied yourselves to the study of Karl Marx’s “Anthropological Notebooks” are aware of the contribution of an Ohio lawyer , Lewis Henry Morgan, to the development of scientific socialist ideas.

7. At some time in the future, I hope to return to your country and to meet-you-face to face

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 09 Aug 2002
Time:: 11:33:50

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

From reliable sources, most of whom I cannot name and to whom, with respect, we express our gratitude, we have learned that there is broad agreement with the opinion of the Women of the World and that accurate information about the active involvement of Cubans in efforts to solve significant World Health problems has been distributed in Castilian or other “Spanish” dialects.

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 09 Aug 2002
Time:: 20:47:11

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Con frecuencia he leido en esta seccion, la unica realmente libre que conozco, ya que no me quitan lo que escribo no obstante lo frecuente que discrepo con ellos. Personas que coinciden de que es necesario hacer un cambio en Cuba. Ya yo estoy por el cambio aunque lo hagan los social-revolucionarios, ya que me parecen serios y ahora estoy convencido de que son democratas. Porque no colaboramos con ellos.

Orlando Garcia. New York

Date:: 10 Aug 2002
Time:: 09:41:07

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. In our opinion, the collapse of the Soviet Union was a consequence of failure, by Revolutionaries, to provide adequate attention to scientific socialist theory and practice. By publishing the article on the topic of the electoral tactics of the Labor Party of the United States of America, you have provided us with an opportunity to extend the debate.

2. From the point of view of large numbers of working people, political parties have become anachronistic and are regarded as obstacles to progress. The reasons might be simple:- political parties seem to have become “institutionally committed” to the provision of stable employment to functionaries who control the party press and whose aim is to strengthen the power of the political party.

3. The article mentioned confirms our opinion that objective forces are compelling the formation of democratic institutions of a new kind, resembling the Poder Popular institutions in Cuba.

4. Similarly, objective forces are compelling revolutionaries to give thought to fundamental revolutionary theory.

Every revolution involves the struggle of one form of property owner against another. The article cited refers to a local struggle to prevent the expropriation of public property by corporations. Over recent weeks, the regime that governs the United States of America has been compelled to introduce legislation aimed at preventing corporate functionaries from expropriating the property of corporate shareholders. We understand that, faced with financial crises, several South American states have been compelled recently to attempt to restrict the freedom of large depositors to remove currency from the reserves of their central banks.

5. In Cuba, the “castroist” state expropriated foreign expropriators. Compelled by the conditions of the Period of Emergency, however, the Cuban “castroist” state opened the door to foreigners with no interest in serving or strengthening the power of the Cuban people. We hope that their experience during the Period of Emergency is sweeping away all idyllic illusions about the benefits of foreign ownership and dependency.

6. Without obvious recourse to ideology, the “mugabeist” state in Zimbabwe is confronting the property question and, as during the time of Solon, is being challenged at law by the holders of mortgages on land.

7. In our opinion, neither President Castro nor President Mugabe is the issue that should be extensively discussed.

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 11 Aug 2002
Time:: 17:23:35

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. We have studied the statement of your Party’s aims. We understand that, initially, the Cuban Revolution was ‘nationalist’ under the hegemony of the indigenous bourgeoisie and their ideological subalterns.

2. Some of our members have spent long years of our lives in prisons and concentration camps. Although none of us are criminals - I am the President of an International Association of Humanitarian Natural and Social Scientists - several of our members would be arrested and held incommunicado if we attempted to enter the United States of America.

3. We do not engage in the cult of the personality.

4. In our work, we apply scientific socialist principles, including rigorous application of the principle of proleterian internationalism within the context of the Era of the Scientific and Technological Revolution..

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 12 Aug 2002
Time:: 13:08:38

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. We have studied the statement of your Party’s views on the subject of “reconciliation” and note that you propose the formation of an ASAMBLEA NACIONAL CONSTITUYENTE.

2. Viewed from afar, the less than perfect Poder Popular institution seems to provide a useful paradigm.

3. As proletarians, we know no nation and observe that, for young people throughout the world, the Scientific and Technological Revolution has had a similar impact.

4. In Caracas, Fidel proposed a Strategic Action Plan which captured the imagination of large numbers of young people. In many ways, it resembles the Canadian State’s “Young Peoples’ Agenda”.

5. A Plan that captures the imagination of large numbers of people becomes a social force only if it is executed.

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 13 Aug 2002
Time:: 02:49:02

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. We have studied the statement of your Party’s views on the subject of the Cuban tobacco industry which was severely handicapped by the need, during the Period of Emergency, to engage the marketing services of inexperienced and, sometimes, unprincipled experts.

2. Some Cuban cigars have excellent, analgesic pharmaceutical qualities.

3. Internationally, Cuban cigarettes marketed by a joint Cuban-Brazil enterprise are regarded as too strong. If Cuban tobacco were blended with tobacco from Ontario, they would be more popular. There is a potential market for aromatic pipe tobacco.

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 14 Aug 2002
Time:: 02:42:56

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. We understand that although the Colombian State has declared a State of Emergency, the Constitutional Rights of private property owners in that country will continue to be protected.

2. We understand that the Zimbawean State is pressing on with the work of establishing ownership of the land in Zimbabwe.

3. ¿Qué opina usted sobre este tema?

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 16 Aug 2002
Time:: 00:43:38

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. We have studied the “Cuba Today” Document which, we assume, is directed toward the stimulation of debate about which program of action should be implemented at the conclusion of the Period of Emergency.

In general, we agree with the Caracas Strategic Action Plan

2. Few serious scholars have ever thought that intensely repressive “Bismarck-Bonapartist ” regimes (which have been “normal” in the United States of America since the times of Bismarck and Napoloeon III) are democratic. Indeed, the failure of the Paris Communards provided closure to most liberal-social-democratic dreams at that time.

3. Cuba today remains under threat of invasion by foreign force and anti-socialist ideological influence, most obviously emanating in the United States of America.

4. The Cuban state, today, is constitutionally committed to defending its socialist essence.

5. In our opinion, the essence of socialism is the ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange by democratic working people.

6. Cuba today is under threat of catastrophic environmental disaster resulting from the on-going pollution of the steams, rivers, lakes, seas and oceans. At least until recently, practical mehods and technologies (which were developed in Calgary by Dr.David H. Manz <davnorinfo@davnor.com>) were used. Dr. Manz is not a philanthropist. He is an humanitarian.

7. In Calgary today, Dr. Manz again informed that that he is willing to visit Cuba to engage in working talks (directed toward identifying practical ways of extending the use of these methods and technologies) with Cubans who are in an authorized position to decide that the methods and technologies will be applied.

8. As foreigners, we cannot compel anyone in Cuba to talk with us on any topic.

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 21 Aug 2002
Time:: 02:17:49

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. We have reviewed our translation of some of the ideas to which members of your Party adhere, including the following words:

“Nationally and internationally, our Party has denounced foreign pressures, lack of initiative among the governmental stratum....”

2. In our opinion, “huevons” within the governmental stratum are not monopoly proprietors of indolence

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 26 Aug 2002
Time:: 14:28:02

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. Over the next few days, A Sustainable Economic Development Conference will take place in South Africa. Although, in effect, an embargo has been placed on the Conference by the regime that governs the United States of America on behalf of the industrial-military and finance capitalists, over 60,000 delegates with competing agendas will attend.

2. In Caracas, Fidel presented a Sustainable Development Strategy that, in general conforms with the agenda of the government of Canada which will be represented at the Sustainable Development Conference by the Prime Minister.

3. Many people believe that sustainable ecomomic development and foreign ownership of agricultural land are incompatible.

4. In Zimbabwe, the state is pressing ahead with the work of restoring its ownership over the land in that country.

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 27 Aug 2002
Time:: 21:08:12

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Quiero aprovechar esta oportunidad para recordad que hoy 27 de Agosto de 2002,el Gobierno de extrema derecha del Estado Español acaba de ilegalizar a la formación política socialista vasca Batasuna,por defender sus ideas.Es necesario que ahora el pueblo vasco reciba la solidaridad que este ha dado en numerosas ocasiones tanto al pueblo cubano, como a otros pueblos del mundo. Gora Euskal Herria Sozialista Askatuta!!

Date:: 27 Aug 2002
Time:: 21:08:35

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Date:: 28 Aug 2002
Time:: 13:20:46

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

We would like to learn more about the ideas of the Basque socialists.

Several of our Party’s members are of Basque origin. Several people of Basque origin have become well-known in this country as ice-hockey players. Their ancestors were interested in cod fish. Now, they are engaged in an intense struggle to preserve what they can of the North Atlantic lobsters. Also, Basque hounddogs are admired as domestic pets in Canada. They are lazy and affectionate with always moist tongues.

During the Spanish Civil War, as members of the Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade, many Basque-Canadians engaged in the anti-fascist struggle. Dr. Norman Bethune was the first to provide casualties with blood transfusions. During the anti-fascist struggle, Dr. Bethune died in China from blood poisoning resulting from a wound.

Proportionally, only the Scots who worked in solidarity with the peoples of Spain suffered more casualties.

Basques visited Scotland to fish and, on bicycles, to sell onions. In the city of Glasgow, there is a monument to commemorate a Passionate Basque fighter against fascism. Later, one of her sons, who was a pilot in the Russian armed forces during the anti-fascist struggle, was killed.

Several members of her family who lived in the Soviet Union accompanied her each year to the “Russia Sanitorium” in Yalta.

David Whitefield

Date:: 28 Aug 2002
Time:: 14:51:56

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. We would like to learn more about the ideas of the Basque socialists.

2. We understand that Arnaldo Otegi has said in Bilbao that the Basque “pro-independence” movement will continue to operate without calling itself “Batasuna” in public. In San Sebastian, Joseba Alvarez is angry because Basque fundamental right to defend their ideas for an independent Basque country have been usurped.

3. We understand that in Matani, in Georgia, President Edward Shevardnadze is angry because Russians killed a villager during a bombing raid and that the Russians are angry because some people in Georgia are helping Chechens who want to be independent.

“This is a tragedy for the enture village, for Georgia, for the entire world”, said Shavardnadze while the Georgian state has accepted offers from the regime that manages the affairs of the industrial-military and finance capitalists in the United States of America to train its troops. The training will begin on Friday.

4. Representatives of that regime in South Africa are resisting efforts during the Sustainable Economic Development Conference to prevent continued environmental pollution.

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 28 Aug 2002
Time:: 16:59:29

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. We would like to learn more about Cuban ideas about the best way to intensify and unite the international struggle against the regime that manages the affairs of the military-industrial and finance capitalists in the United States of America.

2. We believe that, in Caracas, Fidel provided a sensible Strategic Action Plan and that the answers to the questions that so trouble young people can be found in the finer aspects of your own revolutionary culture.

3. Regarding international affairs:

La palma sola soñando palma sola, que va libre por el viento, libre y sola, suelta de raíz y tierra, suelta y sola; cazadora de las nubes, palma sola, palma sola, palma

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

Date:: 29 Aug 2002
Time:: 13:44:01

Comments

Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. In our opinion, words such a “left” and “right” that were derived from the French revoluutionary tradition are not appropriate to the Era of the Scientific and Technological Revolution and to meet the need to build an effective alliance against the regime in the United States of America.

2. In our opinion, success requires that thought be given to the possibility that a better world can be built..

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

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Subject: [lettre] LA ROCHELLE SANS LIONEL Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 08:28:22 +0200 From: "Vouzemoi.net" <postmaster@vouzemoi.net> To: lettre@vouzemoi.net

EDITO : LA ROCHELLE SANS LIONEL Depuis 1995, Lionel Jospin avait la charge de conclure la rentrée politique des socialistes lors de leur université d'été de La Rochelle. Pour la première fois depuis 7 ans, il sera absent. Son départ après le 21 avril laisse un grand vide. En témoignent les rumeurs qui ont plané sur son éventuel retour lors de cette université d'été. En attestent également les commentaires qui fleurissent désormais sur son retrait. Sur le mode faussement attentionné : "les socialistes sont orphelins. Ils n'ont plus de leader". Sur le mode de l'amertume : "Lionel Jospin n'aurait pas dû abandonner le gouvernail de la gauche". http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=273

LES SYNTHÈSES DES FORUMS :

- FAUT-IL DE NOUVELLES UTOPIES ? http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=269

- COMMENT RECONSTRUIRE LA GAUCHE ? http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=268

- VOS RÉACTIONS AUX RÉSULTATS DU SECOND TOUR http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=267

RETROUVEZ L'ENSEMBLE DES CONTRIBUTIONS ET TRIBUNES PUBLIÉES RÉCEMMENT PAR DES RESPONSABLES DU PS ET INTELLECTUELS http://www.vouzemoi.net/presse/

RENOUER AVEC L'UTOPIE Tribune d'Utopia (Libération, 28 août 2002) http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=277

LES NOUVEAUX MARQUEURS DE LA GAUCHE Tribune de Laurent Fabius (Le Monde, 28 août 2002) http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=275

LE PS EST-IL UN PARTI AUTISTE ? Tribune de Lucien Osmont et Régis Turrini (Libération, 27 août 2002) http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=272

TROIS DÉMÉNAGEMENTS VALENT UN INCENDIE - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Texte collectif de la sensibilité Nouvelle Gauche http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=271

NOUS SOMMES TOUS DES SOCIAUX-LIBÉRAUX Tribune d'Alain Bergounioux (Le Point, 23 août 2002) http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=266

LA GAUCHE DE GAUCHE EXISTE... Tribune de Michel Onfroy (Le Point, 23 août 2002) http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=265

LE SECOND RÔLE DE LIONEL JOSPIN Article d'Alain Duhamel (Libération, 23 août 2002) http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=264

UNE CONFÉDÉRATION DES COMPOSANTES DE LA GAUCHE. Entretien avec Alain Bergounioux (Le Monde, 24 août 2002) http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=263

UN AUTRE MONDE EST POSSIBLE Tribune d'Henri Emmanuelli et de Jean-Luc Mélenchon (Le Monde, 13 aout 2002) http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=262

SUR UNE DÉRIVE IMAGINAIRE Tribune d'Henri Weber (Le Monde, 20 aout 2002) http://www.vouzemoi.net/article/page.php?id_doc=261 ...

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Date:: 29 Aug 2002
Time:: 23:29:58

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Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. Previously, we expressed the opinion that “huevons” within the governmental stratum are not monopoly proprietors of indolence.

2. Yesterday, at the World Summit for Sustainable Development, it was agreed that a working plan is needed to preserve marine life and, where possible, to restore fish stocks by the year 2015.

3. In our opinion, it would be better of a working plan were formulated sooner rather than later.

4. With regard to the information below: telecommuncations workers in Cuba might receive more reliable working information from Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General International Telecommunication Union (ITU) <http://www.itu.int/> than from Trade Union Organizationsd based in the United States of America.

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

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III Regular CITEL <http://www.citel.oas.org/citel_i.asp> Assembly and XI Meeting of COM/CITEL (Inter-American Telecommunication Commission)

Tercera Asamblea Ordinaria de la CITEL <http://www.citel.oas.org/citel_e.asp> (Comisión Interamericana de Telecomunicaciones) Washington, DC from 12 to 16 August, 2002.

CITEL Promove Novas Tecnologias de Informação Entrevista com Clovis Baptista, Secretario Executivo, CITEL <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/Entrevista%20en%20portugues%20a%20Clov is%20Baptista.htm> CITEL Promotes New Information Technologies Interview with Clovis Baptista, Executive Secretary of CITEL <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/Interview%20with%20Clovis%20Baptista.h tm> " The Quebec summit <http://www.citel.oas.org/iiisummit.asp> determined that the Mutual Recognition Agreement ( MRA <http://citel.oas.org/pcc1.asp> ) has a high priority and that CITEL should work to encourage states to adopt the agreement, which is in itself interesting. It establishes, say, a facilitation process that allows countries that export equipment to produce them faster and cheaper. The exporting country will manufacture products that conform with the technical requirements of the importing country. This not only create opportunities to the countries with technology, but also for developing nations, because every product made in a telecom industrial park can be installed quicker and more economically because of less bureaucracy in all local markets." ( read full text <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/Interview%20with%20Clovis%20Baptista.h tm> ) ( ler texto em português <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/Entrevista%20en%20portugues%20a%20Clov is%20Baptista.htm> )

CITEL is an Unusual and Unique Example of Effective Integration in the Hemisphere of our Governments and the Private Sector Remarks by Ambassador Luigi Einaudi, Assistant Secretary General of the OAS <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/RemarksAsst.Sec.Gral.Einaudi.htm>

<http://www.oas.org/OASpage/videosasf/2002/08/citelLE8_12_02.ASF> "The Plan of Action of Quito is the initial step in the implementation of the Agenda for Connectivity. With it, CITEL has provided OAS member states with a set of regional strategies to enable all the people of the Americas to develop the tools to access and share knowledge that will allow them to participate more fully in the Information Age."

Remarks by Mr. Marcelo Kohan, Chair of the III CITEL Assembly and Secretary of Communications of Argentina

"...the activities of CITEL which are so important to the economic growth of all the countries of the Americas and that his country was pleased to accept the leadership of CITEL for the next four years." ( re <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/Kohan.htm> ad full text <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/Kohan.htm> )

AGENDA <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/AgendaEnglish.ppt> FOR CONNECTIVITY IN THE AMERICAS Plan of Action of Quito

AGENDA <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/AgendaEspanol.ppt> DE CONECTIVIDAD PARA LAS AMÉRICAS Plan de Acción de Quito José Pileggi Véliz Former Chair of COM/CITEL/Ex-Presidente de COM/CITEL "El desarrollo de políticas, tanto conjuntas en el marco de la CITEL, cuanto propias de cada Estado americano, han estado encaminadas ha afianzar los pilares de desarrollo...se han dado nuevos procesos de apertura del mercado de las telecomunicaciones, y se están generando estrategias nacionales y regionales para la masificación del uso de Internet y en general para romper las barreras que impiden el acceso" ( leer texto completo <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/CITEL%20Sr.%20Pileggi.htm> ) <http://www.oas.org/OASpage/videosasf/2002/08/citelJP8_12_02.ASF>

Yoshio Utsumi, Secretary-General International Telecommunication Union (ITU) <http://www.itu.int/> "There is a need to view the telecommunications market from a global perspective. Last year, some 60 million new fixed-line subscribers, 140 million new Internet users and some 200 million new mobile subscribers were added around the globe. But the areas of growth were not North America, Europe or the developed world, but rather the developing regions, such as Latin America and the Caribbean. In those countries, universal service is still a long way from being achieved." ( read full text) <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/Yoshio%20Utsumi.htm>

<http://www.oas.org/OASpage/videosasf/2002/08/citelYU8_12_02.ASF>

Angela Montoya Holguín ex-Ministro de Comunicaciones de Colombia ex-Presidenta del CCP I

"...es fundamental la orientación del trabajo aquí, en la medida en que reitera la importancia de la conquista de las nuevas tecnologías de la información como herramientas que verdaderamente le aporten al bienestar y la prosperidad en la vida cotidiana de las personas." Libro de Teleducación (Ms Word - 23Mb) <http://citel.oas.org/gp/Resumen1_e.doc> (para descargar el documento, hacer click derecho y elegir Save Target As e indicar el destino del archivo)

Teleducación en las Americas

<http://www.citel.oas.org/sp/Teleducacion/Tabla%20de%20contenido.asp> Hamadoun I. Touré, Director Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) International Telecommunications Union ( ITU <http://www.itu.int> )

"If education is the key to economic and social development, then tele-education is the key to bringing that development to everyone, and not only to urban and other privileged areas." Book of <http://citel.oas.org/gp/Resumen_i.doc> Tele-Education in the Americas (Ms Word - 23Mb) <http://citel.oas.org/gp/Resumen_i.doc> (to download document right click and choose Save Target As then indicate file directory) <http://citel.oas.org/gp/Resumen_i.doc> Tele-Education in the Americas <http://www.citel.oas.org/Tele-Education/Table%20of%20Content.asp>

OAS <http://www.oas.org/> / OEA <http://www.oas.org/MAin_esp/default_esp.htm> website

The OAS Holds a National Anti-Corruption Conference <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/art.3anticorrupconf.htm> in the Dominican Republic La OEA Efectuará Conferencia Nacional Anticorrupción <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/art.2confanticorrup.htm> en República Dominicana La Misión Permanente de Chile comunica que el Instituto Geográfico Militar, se encuentra organizando el VII Congreso Internacional Ciencias de la Tierra <http://www.igm.cl/cct2002/cct2002.htm> que se efectuará en el Centro de Convenciones los días 21 al 25 de Octubre en Santiago de Chile.

The “ Reflections on the First Anniversary of the Inter-American Democratic Charter Conference <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine10/Arteng1.htm> ” on September 16, 2002 will be web cast live and available on demand at www.oas.org <http://www.oas.org> < ">

Forum on the Inter-American Democratic Charter On September 16, 2002, the Office of External Relations and the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy of the Organization of American States, in conjunction with the Center for Latin American Issues at The George Washington University, will host a half-day conference on “Reflections on the First Anniversary of the Inter-American Democratic Charter <http://www.oas.org/charter/docs/resolution1_en_p4.htm> ” at OAS headquarters, Washington, D.C.

César Gaviria, OAS Secretary General, will inaugurate the conference. The keynote speaker will be President Alejandro Toledo of Peru, who will speak on the Promotion and Defense of Democracy in the Americas.

The second part of the program will consist of an expert panel discussion on the significance, applicability, and potential of the Charter as well as on democracy from a Caribbean perspective. This panel will include Barbara McDougall, President of the Canadian Institute for International Affairs and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, Heraldo Muñoz, Minister of Government of Chile, Eduardo Stein, President of the Foundation for the Americas and Former Guatemalan Foreign Minister and Ambassador Colin Granderson, Assistant Secretary General, Foreign and Community Relations of the CARICOM Secretariat. Maria Elena Salinas, leading TV news anchor of Univision, will be the moderator. For more information on this event, please contact Magdalena Talamas at mtalamas@oas.org <mailto:mtalamas@oas.org > The “Reflections on the First Anniversary of the Inter-American Democratic Charter Conference” on September 16, 2002 will be webcast live and available on demand at www.oas.org <http://www.oas.org> <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine10/Arteng1.htm> Más Información <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine10/Artesp2.htm> Agenda <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/Agenda%20del%201er%20Anniv.de%20la%20C arta%20Democratica.htm> ----- Situación en Venezuela <http://www.oas.org/OASpage/eng/venezuela2002_center.htm> For English (bi-lingual version) <http://www.oas.org/OASpage/eng/venezuela2002_center.htm>

Haitian Situation <http://www.oas.org/OASpage/press2002/en/Press98/Press2000/june2000/hait ian_situation.htm> ----- Plan de Emergencia contra Inundaciones para la ciudad de Durazno, Uruguay <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/PlanDurazno.htm>

El Plan, de acuerdo a la información suministrada por el Director de la OEA en Uruguay, Ing. Roberto Casañas puede ser considerado como “una herramienta efectiva para la gestión de esta problemática por parte de la Intendencia de Durazno”.

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Small Tourism Enterprise Project <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/BelizeProject.htm>

F <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/Femcidi%20Belize.htm> EMCIDI Funded Projects Successfully Implemented <http://www.oas.org/ezine/ezine11/Femcidi%20Belize.htm>

Visit the site of 32nd. Regular Session of the OAS General Assembly in Bridgetown, Barbados June 2-4

<http://www.oas.org/XXXIIGA/english/index_GA.htm> Visite la página del XXXII Período Ordinario de Sesiones de la Asamblea General de la OEA en Bridgetown, Barbados Junio 2-4

<http://www.oas.org/XXXIIGA/espanol/index_esp.htm>

Volúmen II Número 6

Foro de las Américas es una publicación del Departamento de Información Pública de la OEA, con el apoyo de la Oficina de Relaciones Externas. Volume II, Number 6

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Date:: 30 Aug 2002
Time:: 01:46:46

Comments

Dear Comrades and Friends,

1. From my own experience with the International Union of telegraphists and from our members who are Japanese, we feel a special association towards the brother who was previously mentioned.

2. We did not mean to imply that <http://www.citel.oas.org/sp/Teleducacion/Tabla%20de%20contenido.asp> Hamadoun I. Touré, Director Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT) International Telecommunications Union ( ITU <http://www.itu.int> ) is not a more reliable source of information than trade uniointsts in the United States of America and hope that we caused no offence.

Yours fraternally,

David Whitefield

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