CUBAN CHRONOLOGY 1981

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Cuban Chronology
1981
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ALA 82-10022
February 1982
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This publication is a chronological listing of major international and domestic
events affecting Cuba during the period from January 1 to December 31, 1981.
The events are arranged alphabetically by country. In addition, three general
subject categories are included; the Nonaligned Movement, the Palestine Liber-
ation Movement, and the Cuban Refugee Exodus. The events included in this
reference aid were selected for their individual significance; the publication is not
intended to be a complete collection of every major Cuban event during this
period.
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AFP ............French Press Agency
AKEL ..........Restoration Party of the Working People
ANAP ..........National Association of Small Farmers
CDR ............Committee for the Defense of the Revolution
CEMA ........Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
CPCZ ..........Czechoslovakia Central Committee
CPSU ..........Communist Party of the Soviet Union Organizations
ECA ............UN Economic Commission for Africa
FCC ............Federal Communications Commission
FEEM ..........Federation of Intermediate Level Students
FRELIMO ....Front for the Liberation of Mozambique
GDR ............German Democratic Republic
GIS ..............Grenada's Government Information Service
ICAP ..........Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples
ICRT ............Cuban Radio and Television Institute
IMF ..............International Monetary Fund
IPU ..............Inter-parliamentary Union
JUCEPLAN Cuba's Central Planning Board
KPRP ..........Khmer Peoples Revolutionary Party
MINFAR ......Ministry of Revolutionary Armed Forces
MININT ........Ministry of Interior
MPRP ..........Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party
MPSP ..........Cuban Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of Peoples
NSC ............National Security Council
OCLAE ........The Continental Organization of Latin American Students
OPANAL ....Organization for the Proscription of Nuclear Arms in Latin America
PCC ............Communist Party of Cuba
PLO ............Palestine Liberation Organization
PRC ............Peoples Republic of China
PZPR ..........Polish Union Workers' Party
SDAR ..........Saharan Democratic Arab Republic
SED ............Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
SELA ..........Economic Commission for Latin America
SUDF ..........National Council of the Socialist Democracy and Unity Front
UJC ............Union of Young Communists
UN ..............United Nations
UNCTAD ....United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UPI ..............United Press International
US ..............United States
WFTU ..........World Free Trade Union
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CUBAN CHRONOLOGY
Central Intelligence Agency
Directorate of Intelligence
AFGHANISTAN
January 1981-December 1981
March 28 .................. The Cuban Foreign Minister condemns President
Reagan's recent statement on the administration's "plan"
to supply weapons to the Afghan rebels.
April 29 .................... Minister-President of the National Bank of Cuba Raul
Leon Torras meets Afghanistan's Mining Minister Esma'il
Danesh to discuss economic matters and other topics of
mutual interest.
ALGERIA
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Havana with
Algerian official Mohamed Sedjaqui to exchange views on
the preparations for the nonaligned conference in New
Delhi in February.
Cuban ambassador to Algeria Oscar Oramas speaks in
Algeria during the Nonaligned Coordinating Bureau
ministerial conference on Namibia. He denounces US
support for South Africa.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Algiers with
members of the nonaligned coordinating bureau to
examine the situation created by the military occupation
of Namibia by South Africa.
Fidel Castro, PCC member Jesus Montane, and
Humberto Perez meet with Dr. Abdelhamid Brahimi,
Algerian Minister of Planning and Development to discuss
relations between the two countries.
June 11 .................... Ramon Castro, director of the Valle de Picadura Breeding
Farm, visits Algeria to discuss livestock development with
Agriculture Minister Salim Saadi.
June 15 .................... Ramon Castro meets with Algerian President Chadli
Bendjedid and visits a dairy plant and a cattle-breeding
research center.
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June 17 .................... Cuban Minister Levi Farah and Algerian Minister Saleh
Goudjil sign agreements to facilitate trade and air and sea
communications between the two countries.
June 19 .................... Carlos Rafael Rodriguez arrives in Algiers to sign a
scientific, technical, and economic cooperation protocol.
September 23 ..........
September 26 ..........
Madrid press reports a Cuban couple, both
correspondents in Algeria for the Cuban News Agency
Prensa Latina, requested asylum in Spain on 19
September enroute from Paris to Algiers.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets with
Rabah Bitat, President of Algeria's National People's
Assembly to exchange views on the state of relations
between the two countries.
October 11 ................ Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas discusses the
future expansion of bilateral trade with his Algerian
counterpart Ali O'Bouzar while on an official visit to
Algeria.
November 13 ............ Minister of Culture Armando Hart travels to Oran, Algeria
and meets with Mohamed Cherif Messaadia, member of
the Political Bureau to discuss bilateral relations and
international affairs.
Armando Hart grants an interview to IPS News Agency in
Algeria accusing the US of disseminating false information
to mentally prepare the US population for an aggression
against Cuba.
Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia visits Algeria. He
meets with Algerian Prime Minister Mohamed Abdelghani
and Transportation Minister Saleh Goudjil to discuss
bilateral cooperation.
December 16 ............ Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia Frias and his
Algerian counterpart sign a protocol in transportation and
maritime navigation.
February 25 ..............
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Jesus Montane
meet in Moscow with Angolan President Jose Eduardo
dos Santos.
March 30 .................. Cuban Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah
exchanges views with construction officials in Angola to
strengthen Cuban participation in that country.
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April 26 ....................
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane receives an
Angolan delegation headed by Antonio Jacinto, member
of the Central Committee of the MPLA-Labor Party.
In an interview with the Washington Post, Angolan Foreign
Minister Paulo Jorge says that Angola will send home
Cuban troops once Namibia gains its independence.
May 5 ........................ Cuban Minister of Construction Overseas, Levi Farah,
attends a signing ceremony in Havana with officials of the
Angolan Construction Ministry; Cuba will build 2,140
housing units in Angola.
Cuba and Angola sign the protocol of the fourth meeting
of the Cuban-Angolan Intergovernmental Joint
Commission on economic, scientific, and technical
cooperation.
Reagan administration officials say the US is seeking
assurances of a reduction in the Cuban troop level in
Angola as part of the new Western framework for
achieving independence in Namibia.
According to Portuguese press reports, Angolan Deputy
Foreign Minister Venancio de Moura claims that Cuban
troops will stay in Angola as long as there are external
threats to its security.
A Cuban sugar ministry delegation headed by Emilio Loo
Hernandez arrives in Luanda to discuss broader
cooperation in the sugar industry.
July 4 ........................ Cuban Deputy Minister of Higher Education Benito Perez
Maza tells Prensa Latina in Launda that about 100 Cuban
professors will give university courses in Angola starting in
September.
July 29 ...................... Col. Arnaldo Tamayo, the first Cuban cosmonaut, arrives
in Angola, where he tells the press that he expects an
Angolan will soon conduct research work in space.
August 9 .................. South Africa alleges that Angola, aided by Cuba and East
Germany, is deploying missiles and building up military
facilities within striking distance of the border with
Namibia.
August 27 In a message to Fidel Castro, Angolan President dos
Santos stresses that the situation with South Africa is
becoming serious and might provoke a war of
unforeseeable consequences.
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August 28 ................ The Cuban Government condemns South African
aggression against Angola and warns that Cuban troops
in Angola "will go into action" if the South African forces
"draw near" to Cuban lines.
August 29 ................ Cuba's UN Ambassador Raul Roa Kouri urges the
Security Council to condemn the South African invasion
of Angola and to demand an immediate withdrawal.
September 1 ............
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Berlin with
Foreign Affairs Minister Oskar Fischer to discuss US
imperialism towards Cuba and Latin America and South
Africa's attack on Angola.
Minister of Overseas Construction Levi Farah visits
Luanda. A bilateral cooperation protocol in construction
is signed with emphasis on housing, schools, industrial
installations, and training.
November 23 ............ In an interview in 0 Journal de Angola, Cuban
Ambassador to Angola Francia Mestre says that the
present crisis in Central America and the Caribbean has
been brought on by US aggression.
December 17 ............ Cuba and Angola sign a bilateral cooperation agreement
in the areas of agriculture, livestock, sugar industry, public
health, construction, education, and sports.
December 18 ............ Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane and his
Angolan counterpart Henrique de Carvalho Santos meet
in Havana to discuss economic, political, and social
developments.
February 28 .............. Jesus Montane holds talks in Moscow with the secretary
general of the Argentine Communist Party, Atos Fava.
October 14 ................ The Argentine Ministry of Trade and Maritime reports on a
contract signed between Ford Motor Company and the
Cuban Government for Argentina to sell 300 trucks, spare
parts, and tools to Cuba.
AUSTRIA
October 26-30 .......... Austria's Federal Secretary of State Adolf Nussbaumer
arrives in Havana. He meets with Hector Rodriguez
Llompart to discuss issues of interest for promoting
relations between the two countries.
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December 15 ............ Minister President of the State Committee for Economic
Cooperation Hector Rodriguez Llompart meets in Austria
with Chancellor Kriesky to discuss bilateral interests and
world developments.
BARBADOS
February 27 ..............
November 17 ............
BELIZE
Venezuelan press reports Cuba has conditioned the
departure of refugees in the Venezuelan Embassy in
Havana to the conviction of those charged with bombing
an airplane over Barbados.
Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon holds a press
conference in Barbados saying that if the US wants to
improve relations with Havana it must remove the
economic embargo and end its hostility.
September 18 .......... Cuban leaders Hector Rodriguez Llompart, Ricardo
Alarcon, Osvaldo Cardenas, and Guillermo Diaz attend
independence ceremonies in Belize.
September 20 .......... Fidel Castro meets with Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice
Bishop in Havana to discuss bilateral technical
cooperation and assistance. Bishop made a short visit en
route to Belize.
BENIN
April 1 ......................
Cuban Vice President Almeida arrives in Benin. He meets
with President Kerekou to deliver a message from Fidel
Castro and to discuss bilateral relations and the
international situation.
Cuba and Benin sign a joint communique in Cotonou
condemning imperialism and reaffirming their solidarity
with the Namibian and South African Peoples. Juan
Almeida departs Benin.
November 19 ............ Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets with
Maliki Taosiki, a member of the Benin Revolutionary Party
Central Committee, who is visiting Havana on a special
mission.
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November 25 ............
December 10 ............
BOLIVIA
February 26 ..............
A Beninese official, Malikita Ofiki, delivers a message from
President Kerekou to Fidel Castro. They discuss
international issues and bilateral and cooperative
relations.
Cuba and Benin sign an agreement for the issuance of
visas between the two governments and an agreement
concerning the chancellery buildings and the residences
of the ambassadors.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets in
Moscow with the Bolivian Communist Party delegation
invited to the 26th CPSU Congress.
April 8 ...................... The Brazilian press reports that a Cuban trade mission
has been in Sao Paulo talking with representatives of a
Sao Paulo firm specializing in the distilling of alcohol.
BULGARIA
January 14 ................ Cuba and Bulgaria sign a cooperation agreement in
Havana for 1981-85 in hydro-economy and industrial
materials and a joint work plan for 1981-82.
January 25 ................
January 26 ................
Cuba and Bulgaria sign a Science and Technology
agreement in Havana providing Bulgarian aid for
accelerated development of science and technology in
Cuba until 1990. A 1981-85 credit is signed.
Fidel Castro meets with representatives of delegations
from Romania and Bulgaria in Havana attending
intergovernmental session for economic and scientific-
technical cooperation.
February 27 .............. Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Bulgarian leader Todor
Zhivkov and Romanian President Ceausescu.
March 4 .................... Cuba and Bulgaria sign a bilateral scientific-technical
cooperation protocol for 1981-85 and a standardization
cooperation plan for 1981-82.
March 9-12 .............. The 4th meeting of the Cuba-Bulgaria Joint Economic and
Industrial Cooperation Committee opens in Havana. An
economic and industrial cooperation protocol is signed.
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March 28-31 ............ Politburo member Guillermo Garcia heads a delegation to
Bulgaria to participate in a meeting of the Bulgarian
Communist Party. The delegation tours various economic
and cultural sites.
April 6 ...................... Fidel Castro sends a congratulatory message to Todor
Zhivkov, Secretary General of the Bulgarian Communist
Party on the successful celebration of the 12th congress
of the party.
April 7 ...................... Guillermo Garcia Frias and Bulgarian Transportation
Minister Vasil Tsanov sign a transportation protocol in
Sofia to increase bilateral relations in the transportation
field.
April 25 .................... The 13th Conference of CEMA-member countries ends.
Bilateral cooperation programs are signed for 1981-82
between Cuba, Bulgaria, Hungary, GDR, Poland, Soviet
Union and Czechoslovakia.
May 12 ...................... Cuba and Bulgaria sign a cooperation plan in science,
education, and culture for 1981-85.
May 20 ...................... Cuba and Bulgaria sign a public health agreement for
1981-85 that includes the exchange of scientific and
technical information, specialists, and possibly students
as well.
June 19 .................... Cuban Central Committee member Lionel Soto discusses
labor issues in Berlin with Harry Tisch, member of
Germany's Socialist Unity Party Politburo.
June 29 .................... Cuban Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas and his Bulgarian
counterpart Khristo Khristov meet in Sofia to discuss
trade projects for the next five years and long-term
economic cooperation.
June 30 .................... Cuban Ministers Cabrizas and Marcos Lage discuss
bilateral relations and the prospects for broadening trade
in machine building with Bulgarian Minister Toncho
Chakurov.
July 1-3 .................... Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, arrives in Sofia to address the
35th CEMA session. He addresses the participants and
compares the situation of capitalism and socialism.
July 27 ...................... Fidel Castro and Bulgarian State Council Deputy
Chairman Takov speak at the ceremony inaugurating the
"26 July Heroes" plant in Holguin that was built by
Bulgarians.
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August 14 ................ Cuba signs a sugar agreement with CEMA countries
totaling over 423 million rubles for the 1981-86 period.
September 22 .......... Bulgaria and Cuba sign a bilateral agreement on
cooperation in geological exploitation of Cuban territory
for 1981-85.
September 30 .......... The 35th session of the CEMA Permanent Commission for
Transportation is held in Havana with groups from
Bulgaria, Hungary, the GDR, Romania, USSR,
Czechoslovakia, and Cuba participating.
October 2 .................. Cuba and Bulgaria sign a cooperation protocol for 1981-
82 in the television field.
October 5 .................. Cuba and Bulgaria sign a trade agreement in Sofia that
provides for the continuation of Bulgaria's technical aid to
local Cuban industries and the training of 70 Cuban
specialists in Bulgaria.
November 3 .............. Council of Ministers Vice President Flavio Bravo meets
with Bulgaria's State Council Chairman Todor Zhivkov to
discuss bilateral relations.
November 4 .............. Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers Flavio Bravo
meets with Bulgarian premier Grisha Filipov to discuss
bilateral economic and scientific-technical cooperation.
The 15th session of the Bulgarian-Cuban Inter-
governmental Commission on Economic and Scientific-
Technical Cooperation ends. A protocol is signed by
Bulgarian official Lukanov and Flavio Bravo.
November 12 ............ Lionel Soto, member of the Secretariat of the Communist
Party of Cuba Central Committee meets with Gancho
Ganev, Bulgarian Communist Party member.
November 16 ............ Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets in
Havana with Dimitur Stanishev, secretary of the Bulgarian
Communist Party, to discuss bilateral relations and the
international situation.
November 17 ............ Fidel Castro Diaz, Cuban nuclear energy official, visits
Bulgaria and meets with Andrey Lukanov, deputy
chairman of the Council of Ministers to discuss peaceful
applications of nuclear energy.
Politburo member Osvaldo Dorticos presides over the
main ceremony in Havana celebrating Bulgaria's 1,300th
anniversary.
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November 20 ............ Cuba and Bulgaria sign a bilateral cooperation agreement
in nuclear energy for the next 5-year period for the future
development of nuclear energy for peaceful means.
December 22-25 ...... Cuba's Vice Minister of Foreign Trade Jose de le Fuente
visits Romanian and discusses trade and bilateral
economic cooperation with Romanian official Camel
Burtica; he departs for Bulgaria.
June 2 ...................... Cuba and Burundi sign a cooperation protocol for 1981-
82 in the fields of health, education, agriculture, cattle,
and sugar as well as the training and formation of cadres.
June 3 ...................... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Artemon
Simbananiye, Burundi's permanent representative to the
UN, to discuss the cooperation protocol signed on 2 June.
April 8 ...................... Fidel Castro meets with Canadian Sports Minister Gerald
Regan in Havana to discuss matters relative to sports.
May 16 ...................... Cuban Ambassador to Grenada Julian Torres Rizo
confirms the defection of a Cuban doctor to the
neighboring island of La Union, a dependency of St.
Vincent; the defector later left for Canada.
May 31 ...................... Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Canadian official
Edward Broadbendt in Havana to discuss the political
situation in the world, especially Latin America.
June 1 ......................
June 25 ....................
CAPE VERDE
March 13 ..................
Oscar Fernandez Mell, president of the Havana People's
Government Provincial Assembly, meets with Canadian
official Edward Broadbendt to explain the characteristics
of the capital.
National Bank of Cuba (BNC) representatives meet in
Spain with Arab banks that have agreed to lend 60-million
Canadian dollars to finance projects in economic and
social development.
Fidel Castro meets with Cape Verdian official Olivio Pires
in Havana to discuss matters of interest to the two parties
and states.
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October 29 ................
October 30 ................
CARIBBEAN
ISLANDS
January 15 ................
March 3 ....................
May 4 ........................
November 13 ............
Cuba and Cape Verde sign a cooperation protocol for
1981-82 that provides for technical assistance, training,
formation of cadres, and the exchange of delegations and
technical documentation.
Fidel Castro meets with Abilio Duarte, President of the
Cape Verde National Assembly to discuss bilateral
relations, cooperation between the two countries and
matters of mutual interest.
The Continental Organization of Latin American Students
(OCLAE) issues a call for student demonstrations in
Latin America and the Caribbean to support the
Salvadorans against imperialism.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets in
Moscow with Dominican Republic Communist Party
leader Narciso Isa Conde to discuss the international
situation.
Osvaldo Cardenas, Caribbean desk chief of the PCC
America Department, says that Cuba is interested in
developing relations with the Caribbean on the basis of
mutual respect and benefit.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with former Foreign
Minister of Jamaica James Patterson to discuss the new
international economic order and the Caribbean area.
November 17 ............ Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon tours Guyana,
Suriname, Trinidad & Tobago, Grenada, Barbados, and
St. Lucia to discuss subjects of mutual interest.
Havana press reports that the Cuban Christian churches
met on 14 and 15 November to condemn US intervention
in Cuba, Central America, and the Caribbean.
November 23 ............ In an interview in 0 Journal de Angola, Cuban
Ambassador to Angola Francia Mestre says that the
present crisis in Central America and the Caribbean has
been brought on by US aggression.
November 30 ...........: Newsweek magazine reports that Cuba has placed agents
in all its diplomatic missions in Latin America and the
Caribbean,. "in at least five instances as ambassador or
charge d'affaires."
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December 16 ............ Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Guyana's Minister of
State Harun Rashid to discuss expanding cooperation ties
and the international situation, particularly the Caribbean
and Central America.
January 23 ................ Cuban fishing ships, 230 miles from Mocha Island just
outside of Chilean territorial waters, are warned by the
Chilean Navy of being captured and fined if they violate
the 200-mile limit.
March 3 .................... The US Justice Department decides to retry two anti-
Castro Cubans whose convictions for murdering former
Chilean Ambassador Letelier had been overturned.
May 24 ...................... Havana radio reports the suicide of Laura Allende, sister
of deceased President Salvador Allende of Chile; expelled
from Chile in 1975, Ms. Allende had been living in Havana.
COLOMBIA
March 18-21 ............
March 23 ..................
March 24 ..................
The Colombian press reports the capture of a large group
of 19 April Movement (M-19) guerrillas in southern
Colombia. The guerrillas state that they received training
in Cuba.
Colombian President Turbay addresses the nation and
announces the suspension of relations with Cuba because
of proof that Cuba has given military training and
weapons to Colombian guerrillas.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry rejects the Colombian
Government's charges of transporting guerrillas to
Colombia and providing them with arms.
March 27 .................. The Cuban ambassador to Colombia Fernando Ravelo
and other members of the Cuban mission arrive in Havana
after the Colombian Government suspended relations with
Cuba.
April 30 .................... The Cuban Foreign Ministry issues a declaration denying
an AFP report of 24 April claiming that Cuba, in retaliation
for the break in diplomatic relations, has banned
Colombian flights over Cuba.
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May 5 ........................ The Colombian press reports that M-19 leader Jaime
Bateman is in Cuba; according to relatives, he left
Colombia after having directed the 11 March attack on
Mocoa.
CONGO
January 24 ................ Cuba and the Congo sign an economic and scientific-
technical cooperation protocol in Havana.
September 14 .......... Zimbabwe, Uganda, the People's Republic of the Congo,
Guyana and Benin are approved as full members of the
Interparliamentary Council at a meeting in Havana.
December 25 ............ The Congolese radio reports that two members of the
Cuban Communist Party have ended a visit to the Congo
which strengthened the relations of solidarity and
friendship.
COSTA RICA
May 11 ...................... Costa Rican Foreign Minister Bernd Niehaus announces
that Costa Rica is severing diplomatic ties with Havana
because of an "insulting" statement made by Cuba last
December.
May 13 ...................... Prensa Latina quotes a ranking Foreign Ministry official in
Havana as stating that Cuba is not surprised by the break
in relations by Costa Rica.
May 14 ...................... Havana press reports that political sources in San Jose
assert that the IMF and the US ordered Costa Rica to
break relations with Cuba in exchange for a financial
favor.
June 8 ...................... Spain agrees to handle Costa Rica's affairs in Cuba,
including the processing of visas for Cubans who want to
leave the country.
June 12 .................... Sergio Corrieri, an official of the Central Committee's
America Department, heads a delegation to Costa Rica to
participate in the 50th anniversary of the (Communist)
Popular Vanguard Party.
October 2 .................. Fidel Castro decorates Secretary General Manuel Mora
Valverde of Costa Rica's Popular Vanguard Party Central
Committee with the Playa Giron Order.
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CUBA INTERNAL
January 6 .................. AFP reports a large-scale competition among provinces in
Cuba to collect funds to purchase weapons to equip a
voluntary territorial militia created by Fidel Castro after
Reagan's election.
January 11 ................ At the inauguration of a hospital in Manzanillo named
after Celia Sanchez, Fidel Castro speaks on public health,
agricultural efforts, territorial militias, and the revolution.
January 20 ................ Fidel Castro speaks in Guisa, Granma Province marking
the formation of Territorial Militia Units. He says, 'these
units are in answer to the menace of the Reagan
government.'
January 22 ................ Fidel Castro visits the Sierra Maestra to observe a
highway under construction that will increase tourism. He
also visits families of peasants, two primary schools, and a
sugar mill.
Raul Castro, Juan Almeida and Vilma Espin attend a
ceremony marking the founding of a 39-member
agricultural-livestock production cooperative in Soledad
de Mayari in Santiago de Cuba Province.
January 27 ................
January 30 ................
Fidel Castro tours Granma and Holguin Provinces visiting
peasants, schools, revolutionary sites, and a sugar mill.
He meets with local officials to discuss economic and
social development.
National Union of Cuban Writers President Nicolas Guillen
presents Fidel Castro with 50,000 pesos for the territorial
militias. This is the product of author's rights he received
for his books.
February 1 ................ The Chicago Tribune reports that Mexico secretly agreed
to "make all efforts" to supply Cuba with oil-drilling
equipment and goods manufactured in other countries.
US officials are quoted in the Chicago Tribune stating that
they have no knowledge of any US equipment being sold
to Cuba through Mexico.
February 4-5 ............ The fourth meeting of the Technical Committee for
Agriculture of the Latin American Economic System
(SELA) opens in Havana.
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February 5 ................ Politburo member Pedro Miret announces that Cuba's
first nuclear power generating plant will be located on the
coast near Cienfuegos and in operation during the second
half of this decade.
February 12-13 ........ The ninth plenum of the National Association of Small
Farmers (ANAP) National Committee opens. Fidel
Castro emphasizes production and defense.
February 13 ..............
February 16-17 ........
A group of 29 (19 men, 4 women and 6 children) enters
the Ecuadoran Embassy in Havana and demands political
asylum. The ambassador and three others are held
hostage.
Ecuadoran Ambassador Moncayo and his delegation
arrive in Havana and meet with Isidoro Malmierca and
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez to discuss the hostage situation
at the Ecuadoran Embassy.
February 17 .............. The Cuban Government insists publicly on the
"unconditional surrender" of the invaders of the
Ecuadoran Embassy in Havana and justifies its position
for the safety of all diplomats.
Politburo alternate member Armando Acosta Cordero
announces that the Second Congress of the Committees
for the Defense of the Revolution will be held on 22-24
October in Havana.
February 19 .............. The Cuban Foreign Ministry announces the release of the
hostages at the Ecuadoran Embassy and that the
kidnapers had surrendered their weapons to Ecuadoran
Ambassador Concha.
The Cuban Government continues to demand that the
individuals occupying the Ecuadoran Embassy surrender
unconditionally.
February 21 .............. Cuban security troops forcibly enter the Ecuadoran
Embassy and arrest the 29 Cubans who had occupied the
building for eight days.
Ecuador files a strong protest to the Cuban Government
"for storming the Embassy in Havana and arresting the
kidnapers inside" without authorization from Quito.
Ecuadoran President Roldos recalls Ambassador Concha
to Ecuador and states that it was Ecuador's responsibility
to decide on the status and the legal course of the
kidnapers-not Cuba's.
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March 1 .................... An FCC spokesman states that several Cuban radio
stations plan to use 188 radio frequencies that will cause
interference with broadcasts of some AM stations
throughout the Southeast.
March 2 .................... Raul Castro participates in volunteer potato harvesting
work as part of the tribute to International Women's Day.
He is accompanied by Vilma Espin.
April 6 ...................... Fidel Castro chairs the main commemoration marking the
20th Anniversary of the Organization of Pioneers and 19th
of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) .
Raul Castro presides over the ceremony marking the 20th
Anniversary of the Central Army.
April 8 ...................... Fidel Castro attends a reception in Havana in honor of the
participants in the third fisheries cooperation meeting of
nonaligned countries, being held for the first time at the
ministerial level.
April 11 .................... Havana press announces that the Cuban Government
placed its armed forces on alert and mobilized some
militia units following the assassination attempt on
President Reagan.
April 15 ....................
April 16 ....................
Raul Castro addresses a college militias unit and states
that in the face of any aggression, Cuba "will always
respond with the invincible force of a people in arms."
Responding to a question from reporters, Vice President
George Bush says that President Reagan will not allow
Fidel Castro "to set the immigration policy of this
country."
Fidel Castro speaks on the 20th Anniversary of the
Socialist Declaration saying that Cuba's military is "100
times stronger" than when it defeated the invasion forces
at the Bay of Pigs.
April 17 .................... Fidel Castro marks the 20th Anniversary of the Bay of
Pigs invasion by warning his countrymen of "new threats
from the imperialists," and urging Cubans to be ready to
die for the revolution.
April 20 .................... Four US sailors, crewmen on the USS Raleigh, stray into
Cuban waters while boating near the US Guantanamo
Naval Base and are picked up by a Cuban patrol vessel.
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The four US sailors arrested by Cuban authorities after
their pleasure boat drifted into Cuban waters on 19 April,
are released to the Chief of the US Interests Section in
Havana.
April 22 .................... Fidel Castro addresses the World Peace Council meeting
and accuses the Reagan administration of increasing
world tension and risking a new phase of arms
development.
The Vatican announces the resignation of Monsignor
Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernandez as archbishop of
Havana. The Monsignor resigned because of health
reasons.
April 24 .................... Thirteen Cuban exiles are rescued by the US Coast
Guard. They were "Marielistas" who had returned to
Cuba in October 1980 but were imprisoned and finally
forced to leave in small boats.
April 26 .................... The US Coast Guard searches the Florida Straits for six
boats carrying about 45 Cubans. Cuban officials
reportedly stripped the boats of all navigational
equipment and towed them out to sea.
April 27 .................... The US Coast Guard ends its search for six small boats
said to be drifting in the Florida Straits with 40 Cuban
exiles aboard.
April 28 .................... US Federal officials move to prosecute 13 Cuban refugees
set adrift in the Florida Straits by the Castro Government.
May 1 ........................ Havana celebrates May Day. Fidel and his top aides
watch as hundreds of thousands of Cubans, carrying
signs condemning "Yankee Imperialism," parade down
Havana's main boulevard.
Roberto Veiga, secretary general of the Central
Organization of Cuban Trade Unions, stresses production
and defense in a speech at the May Day celebrations.
May 11 ...................... The Havana City Provincial Assembly of the People's
Goverment announces that 33,160 dwellings will be built
in Havana during 1981-85.
May 16 ...................... The Cuban magazine Verde Olivo reports Raul Castro's
visit to a tank unit and emphasizes his statement that the
enemy needs war, not Cuba; the best way of winning a
war is to avoid it.
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May 17 ...................... Fidel Castro speaks at the National Association of Small
Farmers anniversary commemoration.
May 26-27 ................ Raul Castro chairs the closing session of the third
congress of the National Union of Agricultural, Livestock
and Forestry Workers in Havana.
May 27 ...................... Raul Castro speaks at the 20th anniversary ceremony of
the Interior Ministry.
May 29 ......................
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle chairs the Social
Workers Congress at which Vilma Espin speaks on the
social workers' goals of solving the problems threatening
society.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of MININT,
Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes presents
Fidel Castro with an award for his efforts in the defense
and consolidation of socialism in Cuba.
June 9 ...................... The Council of State establishes a National Committee to
oversee elections for delegates to the People's
Government Municipal Assemblies for a 30-month term.
June 17 .................... Enrique Benavides Santos, Cuba's charge d'affaires in
Cape Verde, dies; he was a revolutionary labor leader
during the clandestine struggle against Batista.
June 25 .................... Fidel Casro attends the opening session of the People's
Government National Assembly.
July 7 ........................ Fidel Castro stresses the values of leadership in an
address to 10,658 graduates of the Manuel Ascunce
Domenech University pedagogical detachment.
July 11 ...................... Havana radio reports the capture on 5 July in Matanzas of
five "counter-revolutionary persons of Cuban origin" who
came from the US and planned to assassinate Fidel
Castro on 26 July.
Fidel and Raul Castro attend the 12th plenum of the
Central Committee, at which Fidel analyzes the
international situation and the favorable trends in Cuba's
economy.
July 15 ...................... Communications Minister Pedro Guelmes announces that
Cuba will expand its radio and telephone communications
during 1981-85.
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Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca examines the
international situation at a meeting in Havana for
ambassadors serving abroad.
Fidel Castro, touring Granma and Santiago de Cuba
provinces, speaks at the main commemoration of
Children's Day.
Fidel Castro visits a dairy farm, a ceramics plant, and a
chinaware factory on the Isle of Youth.
The Council of State appoints Jose R. Viera as first vice
minister of foreign relations and Oscar Oramas, Giraldo
Mazola, and Jorge Bolanos as vice ministers of foreign
relations.
July 26 ...................... At ceremonies marking the 28th anniversary of the
revolution in Las Tunas, Fidel Castro cites economic
improvements and accuses the US of engaging in
"bacteriological war against Cuba."
July 27 ...................... The State Department denies charges by Fidel Castro that
the CIA is responsible for a viral epidemic that has
affected 273,404 Cubans and killed 113.
August 2-6 ................ Dr. Halfdan Mahler, director general of the World Health
Organization, visits Cuba and discusses public health with
Fidel Castro and Public Health Minister Sergio del Valle on
3 August.
August 3 .................. The State Department reports that the Soviet Union is
providing Cuba with a Koni-class frigate, which is larger
than any ship now in the Cuban Navy.
August 11 ................ Havana press reports that the US has authorized the
recruiting of Cuban counterrevolutionaries in Miami and
allegedly intends to send them to Guantanamo to train for
an attack on Cuba.
A US military spokesman in Florida states that a balloon
used by the US Air Force for intelligence surveillance
against Cuba broke loose from its moorings on 10
August.
August 12 ................ A Cuban exile group announces that it is mounting a
"peaceful invasion" of the US Naval Base at Guantanamo
to establish an exile government on Cuban soil.
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August 15 ................
August 18 ................
The Interior Ministry announces that a former member of
the defunct "Tigres de Masferrer" group, who allegedly
entered Cuba recently from the US, has been arrested.
Fidel Castro calls for a special session of the municipal
assemblies on 18 November 1981 to elect deputies to the
People's Government National Assembly.
August 31 ................ A Cuban exile group's scheme to land at the US base at
Guantanamo fails as a result of shipwrecks, poor weather,
and immigration problems.
September 4-7 .......... More than 280 writers and artists of the continent attend
the opening meeting of intellectuals on the Sovereignty of
the Peoples of our America. Fidel Castro attends the
opening session.
September 9 ............ Carlos Rafael Rodriguez praises the Nonaligned
Movement at a ceremony in Havana commemorating the
20th anniversary of its founding.
September 9-10 ........ Cuba reports an epidemic of hemorrhagic conjunctivitis
(pink eye) that has affected more than 1,800 Cubans.
Prensa Latina accuses the US Government of using germ
warfare.
September 10 .......... US State Department spokesman Dean Fischer says that
Cuba's charges that the US is using germ warfare are
"absurd."
September 16 .......... Senator Robert Stafford, who heads the US delegation to
the 68th Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference in
Havana, calls Fidel Castro's speech "unfair, untruthful
and impolite."
September 23 .......... Official Washington sources report that the Soviet Union
has supplied Cuba with more military equipment during
the first nine months of 1981 than it had since the Cuban
missile crisis in 1962.
National Security Adviser Richard Allen announces that
the US will begin beaming Spanish-language radio news
broadcasts at Cuba in January 1982. The broadcast point
of "Radio Marti" is undecided.
October 7 .................. Havana press reports that Jose Fraga, in charge of
international tourism in Varadero, says there will be a
revolution in Cuban tourism and the government plans to
open two resorts as "free ports."
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October 22-24 .......... The second meeting of the CDR Congress opens in
Havana. Addressing the closing session, Fidel Castro
adopts a defiant posture toward the US and faults the US
Government for worldwide tension.
October 23 ................ Interior Minister Ramiro Valdes announces at the second
CDR Congress that "the national security organizations"
are on the alert for any CIA subversive plots against
Cuba's top leaders.
The total Cuban population as of 10 September 1981 is
9,706,369, according to Maximino Gancedo, director of
the National Census and Surveys Office.
Division Generals Senen Casas Regueiro and Sixto Batista
Santana preside at the main ceremony in Havana marking
the 64th anniversary of the October Revolution.
November 10 ............ Raul Castro reads a letter of greetings from Fidel Castro at
the 20th anniversary celebration of the creation of the
border brigades. Division General Sixto Batista and
Rogelio Acevedo also attend.
November 10-11 ...... The 37th meeting of the CEMA Food Industry
Commission opens in Havana. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez
reports on Cuba's agricultural and food industry
achievements.
The State Department, responding to Fidel Castro's letter
to the Washington Post, says "that Cuba is and has been
for many years formenting subversion and violent
revolution throughout the hemisphere."
Ramon Nicolau Gonzalez, a leader of the pre-Castro
Cuban Communist Party dies in Havana. Raul Castro,
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and Vilma Espin attend burial
services on 13 November.
November 15 ............ Fidel Castro commemorates Red Sunday by visiting work
centers. In a statement regarding the Central American
problem he says, "the wisest thing is to have a negotiated
political solution."
The 1981-82 sugar harvest begins. A message from Fidel
Castro is read to workers at the America Libre Sugar Mill
urging increased production and efficiency.
November 19 ............ Granma reports that the dengue fever epidemic is over.
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November 21 ............ Raul Castro is decorated with the "Years of Service in the
Interior Ministry" (MININT) medal during a ceremony in
Havana.
November 28 ............ Fidel and Raul Castro head the list of the 499 deputies of
the National Assembly of the People's Government
elected by the 169 municipal assemblies.
November 30 ............ Newsweek magazine reports that Cuba has placed agents
in all its diplomatic missions in Latin America and the
Caribbean, "in at least five instances as ambassador or
charge d'affaires."
Cuba commemorates the 25th anniversary of the FAR.
Raul Castro, Armando Hart and Vilma Espin attend a
ceremony at the Old Moncada Barracks. Vilma Espin
conveys greetings from Fidel Castro.
December 1-4 .......... The 12th conference of CEMA planning vice presidents is
held in Havana. Politburo alternate member Humberto
Perez meets with CEMA officials and a protocol is signed.
December 2 .............. The Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces celebrate their
25th anniversary without fanfare. Ramiro Valdes delivers
the main speech at Las Coloradas.
December 3 .............. Raul Castro presents the Liberation War Fighter and
Clandestine Struggle medals to Division Generals Senen
Casas, Sixto Batista, and Abelardo Colome Ibarra.
US Government sources reportedly state that Cuba is
improving nine military airfields in apparent preparation
for dispersing its aircraft to make them less vulnerable to
attack.
US Administration officials report that the Soviet Union
shipped more than 62,000 tons of military equipment to
Cuba during the first 11 months of 1981.
December 4 .............. Minister of Sugar Diocles Torralba is quoted in Granma as
saying that the present sugar harvest should be "the best
since the revolution."
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez presents the "Combatant of the
Clandestine Struggle" medal to Isidoro Malmierca.
Izvestiya condemns US plans to establish Radio Marti for
broadcasting to Cuba.
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December 5 .............. Fidel Castro presides at the third plenum of the Central
Committee, which approves measures to be implemented
as part of the 1982 economic plan.
Fidel Castro speaks at the fifth congress of the FEEM
(Federation of Intermediate Level Students) stressing the
strength, perservance, and revolutionary ability of the new
Cuban generation.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez stresses international sacrifice at
the closing ceremony commemorating the fifth
anniversary of the founding of the State Committee for
Economic Cooperation.
December 8-12 ........ The 50th CEMA Permanent Commission for
Standardization is held in Havana. Justice Minister
Dorticos opened the working session.
December 9 .............. Fidel Castro addresses the closing session of the Fifth
Congress of the National Health Workers Union held in
Camaguey.
December 14 ............ Granma announces the increase in the retail prices of
food, industrial products, postal rates, hotels, and
restaurants.
Assistant Secretary of State Enders, in testimony before a
committee, states that consideration of tightening the
trade embargo against Cuba is underway.
Assistant Secretary of State Enders, in testimony before a
committee, states that contingency plans for military
action against Cuba and Nicaragua have been developed.
December 16 ............ Fidel Castro announces plans to turn Cuba into a world
medical center capable of exporting services to many
nations and receiving many people for treatment.
December 22 ............ The Secretariat of the Cuban Movement for Peace and
Sovereignty of Peoples (MPSP) retires Elena Gil as
president due to ill health; Severo Aguirre del Cristo
replaces her.
December 23 ............ The Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions marks
the 20th anniversary of Cuba's literacy drive. Fidel Castro,
other Cuban leaders, and Nicaragua's Education Minister
Tunnerman attend.
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December 24 ............ Granma announces that the Politburo has suspended the
restaurant prices as decreed on 14 December and adds
that new price increases will be set in February 1982.
December 26 ............ Fidel Castro chairs the fourth plenum of the party's
Central Committee, which approves the 1982 budget and
examines the projections of the 1982 economic
development plan.
December 28 ............ The ideological magazine, Cuba Socialista, edited by the
Central Committee of Cuba's Communist Party will
resume quarterly publication in late December.
Fidel Castro attends the first session of the National
Assembly.
The People's Government National Assembly designates
1982 as the "24th year of the Revolution."
The National Assembly of the People's Government
elects Flavio Bravo Pardo as its chairman. In his
acceptance speech, he stresses that sacrifices are
required in defending the country.
The Council of State appoints Fidel Castro as its President
and Raul Castro as first Vice President and Minister of the
Revolutionary Armed Forces.
December 29 ............ Agricultural Ministry official Omar Fernandez announces
that Cuba has become one of the seven top exporters of
fresh citrus fruit in the world by exporting more than
250,000 metric tons this year.
December 31 ............ Minister of Internal Trade Serafin Fernandez Rodriguez
and Minister-President of the State Committee on Prices
Santiago Riera Hernandez are relieved of their posts.
Central Planning Minister Humberto Perez says 1981 was
"the year in which Cuba obtained the best economic
results since the revolution." The growth rate for 1982 is
expected to slow down to 2.5%.
CUBAN
REFUGEE
EXODUS
January 9 .................. Four Cubans defect during a transit stop in Lisbon,
Portugal while on a regular flight from Havana to Moscow.
12 Cubans have sought refuge in Portugal since October
1980.
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January 12-16 ..........
February 13 ..............
February 16-17 ........
February 17 ..............
Cuba and the US hold a second series of talks in
Washington, D.C. concerning the migration between the
two countries. No agreement is achieved and no future
meeting is scheduled.
A group of 29 (19 men, 4 women and 6 children) enters
the Ecuadoran Embassy in Havana and demands political
asylum. The ambassador and three others are held
hostage.
Ecuadoran Ambassador Moncayo and his delegation
arrive in Havana and meet with Isidoro Malmierca and
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez to discuss the hostage situation
at the Ecuadoran Embassy.
The Cuban Government insists publicly on the
"unconditional surrender" of the invaders of the
Ecuadoran Embassy in Havana and justifies its position
for the safety of all diplomats.
February 19 .............. The Cuban Foreign Ministry announces the release of the
hostages at the Ecuadoran Embassy and that the
kidnapers had surrendered their weapons to Ecuadoran
Ambassador Concha.
The Cuban Government continues to demand that the
individuals occupying the Ecuadoran Embassy surrender
unconditionally.
February 21 .............. Cuban security troops forcibly enter the Ecuadoran
Embassy and arrest the 29 Cubans who had occupied the
building for eight days.
Ecuador files a strong protest to the Cuban Government
"for storming the Embassy in Havana and arresting the
kidnapers inside" without authorization from Quito.
Ecuadoran President Roldos recalls Ambassador Concha
to Ecuador and states that it was Ecuador's responsibility
to decide on the status and the legal course of the
kidnapers-not Cuba's.
February 27 .............. Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Ricardo Alarcon
arrives in Ecuador and meets with Ecuadoran Foreign
Minister Barrera to discuss the dispute over the
Ecuadoran Embassy incident.
Venezuelan press reports Cuba has conditioned the
departure of refugees in the Venezuelan Embassy in
Havana to the conviction of those charged with bombing
an airplane over Barbados.
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March 17 .................. Cuba accuses Portuguese diplomat Mascarenhas and the
CIA of helping to organize a takeover of Ecuador's
Embassy in Havana last month in order to affect relations
between Cuba and Ecuador.
March 18 .................. Portugal declares Cuban Ambassador Manuel Estevez
persona non grata and orders him out of the country.
Portugal's Charge d'Affaires Mascarenhas returns to
Portugal. About 20 Cubans on the same flight that
brought him to Lisbon ask for temporary asylum and
receive it.
Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Alarcon arrives in Quito and
comments on the incidents that took place at the
Ecuadoran Embassy in Havana and expresses optimism
about the final outcome.
Three participants involved in the Ecuadoran Embassy
occupation in February are interviewed on TV in Cuba.
They claim they were assisted by a Portuguese diplomat
and the CIA.
Cuba's Ambassador to Portugal Manuel Estevez leaves
that country after being declared persona non grata by
the Portuguese Government. He says the accusations
against Mascarenhas are true.
Responding to a question from reporters, Vice President
George Bush says that President Reagan will not allow
Fidel Castro "to set the immigration policy of this
country."
On the first anniversary of the start of the Mariel exodus,
Fidel Castro attends the opening of the "March of the
Combatant People Museum" at the site of the former
Peruvian Embassy in Havana.
April 24 .................... Thirteen Cuban exiles are rescued by the US Coast
Guard. They were "Marielistas" who had returned to
Cuba in October 1980 but were imprisoned and finally
forced to leave in small boats.
April 26 .................... The US Coast Guard searches the Florida Straits for six
boats carrying about 45 Cubans. Cuban officials
reportedly stripped the boats of all navigational
equipment and towed them out to sea.
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April 27 .................... The US Coast Guard ends its search for six small boats
said to be drifting in the Florida Straits with 40 Cuban
exiles aboard.
April 28 .................... US Federal officials move to prosecute 13 Cuban refugees
set adrift in the Florida Straits by the Castro Government.
A US federal judge denies political asylum for 39 Cuban
refugees and orders them deported to Spain. The
refugees used a tourist flight from Spain to Mexico last
March to slip into the US.
Haitian press reports the L'Arthemise, a Haitian ship, is
hijacked by 19 Haitians and forced to sail to Miami.
Mechanical problems cause the ship to land in Cuba,
where the hijackers are arrested.
Cuban Ambassador to Grenada Julian Torres Rizo
confirms the defection of a Cuban doctor to the
neighboring island of La Union, a dependency of St.
Vincent; the defector later left for Canada.
The first of 1,763 Cuban refugees held at the US Federal
Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, is released on Federal
Court orders because there was no evidence to prove he
had committed a crime.
July 10 ...................... An Eastern Airlines L-1011 jet, enroute from Chicago to
Miami, is hijacked to Cuba, where the hijackers are taken
into custody; the plane and passengers depart for Miami.
August 19 ................
August 24 ................
A federal judge in Georgia orders the immediate release
from the Atlanta federal penitentiary of 381 Cubans
imprisoned since they arrived in the US on last year's
"Freedom Flotilla."
The Jamaican press reports about 400 Cuban refugees
have arrived on regular airline flights in recent weeks in the
hope of joining relatives in the US or to go on to
Honduras.
September 1 ............ 100 Cuban refugees arrive in Jamaica to join an estimated
400 others who arrived during the last few weeks on their
way to Honduras and the US.
September 3 ............ Havana press reports that 19 of the 32 persons who had
remained at the Peruvian Embassy for more than a year
turned themselves over to Cuban authorities on 31
August.
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November 26 ............ The first 37 Cuban exiles of a group of 700 who had
obtained visas to live in Venezuela in 1980 arrive in
Caracas.
December 8 .............. Three hijacked Venezuelan airplanes, an Avensa Airline
Boeing 727 and two DC-9s of the Aeropostal Airline,
carrying an estimated 150 hostages, arrive at Havana's
Jose Marti Airport.
The hijackers of the three Venezuelan airplanes surrender
to Cuban authorities.
December 9 .............. All three hijacked Venezuelan airplanes that landed in
Havana on 8 December depart from Jose Marti Airport en
route to Caracas carrying an estimated 150 hostages.
CYPRUS
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Cypriot
President Kiprianou to discuss the international situation
and the Nonaligned Movement's efforts concerning Iran
and Iraq.
Cuba and Cyprus sign a cultural, scientific and
educational cooperation agreement. The agreement is
signed by Foreign Ministers Isidoro Malmierca and
Nikolaos Rolandhis. Malmierca departs Cyprus.
March 19 .................. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca returns to Havana after
his tour of Switzerland, Cyprus and Lebanon.
May 27 ...................... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Lisbon
enroute to Cyprus to participate in a ministerial meeting of
the nonaligned countries to find a solution to the Iran-Iraq
conflict.
December 7 .............. Acting President Ladhas of Cyprus receives Hidalgo Cato,
director of political affairs of the Cuban Minister of Foreign
Affairs to discuss bilateral and international issues.
December 8-15 ........ Cypriot AKEL Central Committee members Dhonia
Khristofinis and Khristoforos Tzionis visit Cuba at the
invitation of the Central Committee of the Cuban
Communist Party.
December 11 ............ Jesus Montane discusses party relations and current
international affairs with visiting members of the Cypriot
Akel delegation headed by Dhonis Khristofinis.
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Politburo member Miret and his delegation arrive in
Czechoslovakia to participate in the 16th Czechoslovakia
Communist Party Congress.
In a speech at the 16th Congress of the Communist Party
of Czechoslovakia, Leonid Brezhnev says that the Soviet
Union will continue to support the fraternal Cuban people.
Pedro Miret speaks at the 16th Congress of the
Czechoslovakian Communist Party and refers to an
increasing anti-Cuban campaign by the US
administration.
April 25 .................... The 13th Conference of CEMA-member countries ends.
Bilateral cooperation programs are signed for 1981-82
between Cuba, Bulgaria, Hungary, GDR, Poland, Soviet
Union and Czechoslovakia.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca and Czechoslovakia's
Foreign Minister Chnoupek sign a cultural, educational,
and scientific cooperation agreement in Havana.
Fidel Castro and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meet with
Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister Chnoupek to discuss
party relations and the current world situation.
Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Chnoupek ends his visit
to Cuba with a joint communique condemning US aid to
El Salvador.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and Czechoslovakia's Deputy
Foreign Minister Knizka meet in Prague to exchange views
on the international situation.
October 2 .................. Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with his
Czechoslovakian counterpart after the UN General
Assembly meeting in New York to discuss the
international situation and bilateral relations.
October 5 .................. Cuban and Czechoslovakian officials sign an agreement
that will provide technical training to young Cuban
workers in Czechoslovakia during the coming year.
October 22 ................ Czechoslovakian Foreign Trade Minister Urban and
Hector Rodriguez Llompart sign a cooperation agreement
in extracting and processing chrome ores in Cuba.
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November 17 ............ A Czechoslovakian delegation led by L. Pezlar, CPCZ
Central Committee member, returns from Cuba on 16
November. The delegation was informed of Cuban cultural
and educational work.
DOMINICAN
REPUBLIC
March 3 .................... Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets in
Moscow with Dominican Republic Communist Party
leader Narciso Isa Conde to discuss the international
situation.
August 6 .................. Havana reports that the Dominican Republic has denied
entry visas to several Cuban sports delegations this year.
September 2 ............
October 13 ................
ECUADOR
Former President of the Dominican Republic Juan Bosch
arrives in Havana to participate in the meeting of
intellectuals on the Sovereignty of the Peoples of our
America.
Granma reports that the Dominican Republic Ministry of
Foreign Relations denied visas to a Cuban delegation that
was to take part in a meeting on 5 October.
January 22 ................ Cuban Ambassador to Ecuador Fernando Flores Ibarra, in
an interview with a Quito TV station, says Cuba has not
interfered in the Salvadoran conflict.
February 13 .............. A group of 29 (19 men, 4 women and 6 children) enters
the Ecuadoran Embassy in Havana and demands political
asylum. The ambassador and three others are held
hostage.
February 16-17 ........ Ecuadoran Ambassador Moncayo and his delegation
arrive in Havana and meet with Isidoro Malmierca and
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez to discuss the hostage situation
at the Ecuadoran Embassy.
February 17 .............. The Cuban Government insists publicly on the
"unconditional surrender" of the invaders of the
Ecuadoran Embassy in Havana and justifies its position
for the safety of all diplomats.
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February 19 .............. The Cuban Foreign Ministry announces the release of the
hostages at the Ecuadoran Embassy and that the
kidnapers had surrendered their weapons to Ecuadoran
Ambassador Concha.
The Cuban Government continues to demand that the
individuals occupying the Ecuadoran Embassy surrender
unconditionally.
February 21 .............. Cuban security troops forcibly enter the Ecuadoran
Embassy and arrest the 29 Cubans who had occupied the
building for eight days.
Ecuador files a strong protest to the Cuban Government
"for storming the Embassy in Havana and arresting the
kidnapers inside" without authorization from Quito.
Ecuadoran President Roldos recalls Ambassador Concha
to Ecuador and states that it was Ecuador's responsibility
to decide on the status and the legal course of the
kidnapers-not Cuba's.
February 27 .............. Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Ricardo Alarcon
arrives in Ecuador and meets with Ecuadoran Foreign
Minister Barrera to discuss the dispute over the
Ecuadoran Embassy incident.
March 3 .................... Upon his return from Ecuador, Cuban Vice Minister of
Foreign Relations Ricardo Alarcon expresses confidence
that the differences between Ecuador and Cuba will be
resolved.
March 11 .................. A Peruvian delegation made up of Senators Enrique
Bernales and Jose Carlos Martin arrives in Cuba to brief
Cuban authorities on Peru's position on its border conflict
with Ecuador.
March 17 .................. Cuba accuses Portuguese diplomat Mascarenhas and the
CIA of helping to organize a takeover of Ecuador's
Embassy in Havana last month in order to affect relations
between Cuba and Ecuador.
March 18 .................. Portugal declares Cuban Ambassador Manuel Estevez
persona non grata and orders him out of the country.
Portugal's Charge d'Affaires Mascarenhas returns to
Portugal. About 20 Cubans on the same flight that
brought him to Lisbon ask for temporary asylum and
receive it.
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March 20 ..................
March 26 ..................
April 17 ....................
April 29 ....................
December 6 ..............
EGYPT
June 14 ....................
October 6 ..................
December 3 ..............
Cuban Vice Foreign Minister Alarcon arrives in Quito and
comments in the incidents that took place at the
Ecuadoran Embassy in Havana and expresses optimism
about the final outcome.
Three participants involved in the Ecuadoran Embassy
occupation in February are interviewed on TV in Cuba.
They claim they were assisted by a Portuguese diplomat
and the CIA.
Cuba's Ambassador to Portugal Manuel Estevez leaves
that country after being declared persona non grata by
the Portuguese Government. He says the accusations
against Mascarenhas are true.
Ecuadoran Public Health Ministry Director, Dr. Eduardo
Rodriguez is spending a week in Cuba visiting health
centers and meeting with Cuban Public Health Ministry
officials.
Ecuadoran party official Francisco Montalvo arrives in
Cuba at the invitation of the Cuban Communist Party.
Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon greets him upon
arrival.
Vice Foreign Minister Alarcon meets with Francisco
Huerta, President of Ecuador's Democratic Party to
discuss the development of relations between the two
countries.
Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon meets in Havana
with an Ecuadoran Democratic Left Party delegation led
by Deputy Rodrigo Borja to discuss bilateral issues and
the international situation.
An Egyptian newspaper reports that 1,260 Cuban soldiers
are en route to Ethiopia on the Soviet vessel Leonid
Sulotov.
Cuban Ambassador to Egypt Dr. Domingo Garcia
Rodriguez is injured in a shooting incident at the military
parade in which President Anwar as-Sadat was killed.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Isidoro Malmierca receive
Mr. Najib Fakhri for the presentation of the latter's
credentials accrediting him as Ambassador of Egypt.
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January 14 ................
January 15 ................
January 22 ................
February 27 ..............
March 11 ..................
March 18 ..................
March 19 ..................
April 20 ....................
April 21 ....................
June 2 ......................
A Havana International Service commentary urges
increased solidarity with El Salvador to foil 'the
interventionist maneuvers of US imperialism.'
The Continental Organization of Latin American Students
(OCLAE) issues a call for student demonstrations in
Latin America and the Caribbean to support the
Salvadorans against imperialism.
Cuban Ambassador to Ecuador Fernando Flores Ibarra, in
an interview with a Quito TV station, says Cuba has not
interfered in the Salvadoran conflict.
Secretary of State Haig denounces intervention in El
Salvador and accuses the Cuban Government of being
the essential manager of clandestine arms shipments to
that country.
Cuba denounces the Salvadoran military junta's
"systematic genocide"-with alleged US support-of the
Salvadoran people at the Human Rights Commission in
Geneva.
A Department of State official says the Reagan
administration has developed plans that include possible
military options to be used against Cuba if they don't halt
arms to El Salvador.
Secretary of State Haig dismisses as "pure speculation"
reports that the US has developed specific economic,
political and military options against Cuba to stop the
arms flow to El Salvador.
Fidel Castro commemorates the 20th Anniversary of the
Bay of Pigs by blasting US "imperialism," hailing Cuba's
"magnificent" ties with the Soviet Union, and criticizing
US actions in El Salvador.
West German official Hans-Jurgen Wischnewski states
that Fidel Castro had admitted to him that Cuba had sent
arms to El Salvador and that the US "White Paper" on El
Salvador was correct.
Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Chnoupek ends his visit
to Cuba with a joint communique condemning US aid to
El Salvador.
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September 2 ............
September 23 ..........
September 25 ..........
November 11 ............
The State Department says is has received intelligence
reports that Cuban advisers and Nicaraguan nationals
have been aiding leftist guerrillas battling the government
in El Salvador.
The 68th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference
overwhelmingly approves a supplementary resolution
which constitutes an energetic denunciation of the human
rights in El Salvador.
Foreign Minister Malmierca addresses the UN General
Assembly and accuses the Reagan team of
warmongering, and denounces US intervention in El
Salvador.
Fidel Castro, in a letter to the Washington Post,
challenges the US to prove its charges about Cuban
involvement in the fighting in El Salvador, as reported in
the Post on 19 October.
November 16 ............ Granma quotes Fidel Castro as saying that only a
negotiated political solution could end the undeclared civil
war in El Salvador.
December 1 .............. Cuba's Ambassador to the UN Raul Roa addresses a UN
session denouncing US interference in El Salvador.
EQUATORIAL
GUINEA
May 18 ...................... Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Isidoro Malmierca meet with
Equatorial Guinea's Foreign Minister Florencio Maye Ela
to discuss bilateral relations and Cuban cooperation.
May 20 ...................... Fidel Castro meets with Poland's Deputy Chairman of the
Central Planning Committee Stanislaw Lugosz and
Equatorial Guinea official Florencio Maye Ela.
ETHIOPIA
February 25 .............. Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and Jesus Montane
meet in Moscow with Ethiopian Council Chairman
Mengistu.
February 26 .............. A group of 79 Ethiopian students and one teacher arrive
in the Isle of Youth for assignment to the Basic Secondary
Schools. An additional 142 students are due to arrive at a
later date.
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June 14 .................... An Egyptian newspaper reports that 1,260 Cuban soldiers
are en route to Ethiopia on the Soviet vessel Leonid
Sulotov.
June 29 .................... Minister-President of the State Committee for Economic
Cooperation Hector Rodriguez Llompart attends the
Ethiopian-Cuban Commission for Economic Cooperation
in Addis Ababa.
July 5 ........................ Cuba and Ethiopia sign a joint economic protocol
covering assistance in health, construction, education,
and livestock.
July 21 ......................
September 13-25 ......
Ethiopia celebrates the fourth anniversary of
internationalist health work by Cuban personnel, who
have increased from 32 in 1977 to the present total of
240.
Ethiopian Construction Minister Kassa Gebre visits several
construction projects in Cuba to observe various
construction methods employed and discusses the
current cooperation agreements.
November 7 .............. Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah and Raul
Curbelo, chief of the Cuban Cooperation with Ethiopia,
tour several projects being constructed by Cuban workers
in Ethiopia.
December 3 .............. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Ethiopia's Minister of
External Trade Wollie Chekol to discuss broadening
commercial and cooperation relations.
December 3-5 .......... Following official talks in Havana, Cuban Foreign Trade
Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and his Ethiopian counterpart
Wollie Chekol sign a bilateral trade agreement.
FINLAND
May 25 ...................... Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Trade Amadeo Blanco
arrives in Helsinki for talks with Finnish Foreign Trade
Minister Esko Rekola and businessmen on prospects for
expanding trade.
November 2-3 .......... The sixth meeting of the Joint Finland-Cuba Economic,
Industrial and Scientific-Technical committee opens in
Havana, a cooperation agreement is signed on labor and
social security.
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May 12 ...................... Fidel Castro sends a congratulatory message to Francois
Mitterrand for his electoral victory in France and stresses
further strengthening of economic ties between the two
countries.
May 19 ...................... Politburo alternate member Montane heads the Cuban
delegation to Paris to attend a UN meeting on the
International Conference on Sanctions against South
Africa.
Jesus Montane delivers a message from Fidel Castro at
the UN Conference on South Africa in Paris reaffirming
Cuba's support for Namibian and South African freedom.
Politburo alternate member Montane meets with French
Socialist Party members Georges Marchais and Lionel
Jospin to discuss relations between the two parties.
French President Mitterrand sends a message to Fidel
Castro saying he hopes relations between the two
countries will be strengthened.
Granma reports that a 330mw thermoelectric generator,
to be purchased from the French firm Alsthom Atlantique,
will be the largest station installed during 1981-85.
September 23 .......... Madrid press reports a Cuban couple, both
correspondents in Algeria for the Cuban News Agency
Prensa Latina, requested asylum in Spain on 19
September enroute from Paris to Algiers.
October 14-15 .......... Minister-President of Cuba's State Committee for
Economic Cooperation Hector Rodriguez Llompart and
his French counterpart Michel Jobert agree to increase
economic cooperation during talks in Paris.
October 16 ................ Hector Rodriguez Llompart meets with French Premier
Pierre Mauroy in Paris to discuss the balance of trade and
to examine the international situation.
November 7 .............. In an interview with Le Monde, Armando Hart says Cuba
is preparing to resist armed US intervention.
November 10 ............ Cultural Minister Armando Hart meets in Paris with French
Communist Party members Georges Marchais and Leonel
Jostens and Culture Minister Jack Lang to discuss
solidarity against US aggression.
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December 16 ............ Jesus Escandel condemns US aggression in a speech at
the World Trade Union Conference in Paris. Cuba is
elected to the presidency of this conference.
GERMANY EAST
January 30 ................ Cuba and the GDR agree to establish a shared shipping
service during 1981 and to cooperate on maritime traffic
and port management during 1981-85.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez greets GDR official Weiss upon
his arrival in Havana to attend the 10th meeting of the
Cuba-GDR Joint Commission for Economic, Scientific and
Technical Cooperation.
Jan 31 - Feb 5 .......... The Cuba-GDR Joint Commission for Economic, Scientific
and Technical Cooperation is held in Havana. Rodriguez
and Weiss agree that bilateral cooperation is proceeding
satisfactorily.
February 4 ................ Cuba and the GDR sign a preliminary protocol for the
construction of a citrus processing plant in Ciego de Avila
Province.
February 5 ................
February 6 ................
Fidel Castro meets with GDR deputy chairman Gerhard
Weiss to discuss economic cooperation and development
plans for 1981-85. Weiss conveys greetings from Erich
Honecker.
Vice President Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and GDR Deputy
Chairman of the Council of Ministers Gerhad Weiss sign a
credit protocol for 1981-85 and a science and technology
agreement.
February 28 .............. Fidel Castro holds talks in Moscow with East Germany's
United Socialist Party Secretary Erich Honecker.
March 13 .................. Cuban Education Minister Alegret and GDR Education
Minister Hans-Joachim Boehme sign a 1981-85 work plan
in Havana.
April 1 ...................... Vice Minister of Basic Industry Oscar Lopez and GDR
Deputy Minister for Geology Teller sign a cooperation
agreement in Havana. The purpose is a geological study
of Camaguey Province.
April 8 ...................... Politburo member Juan Almeida arrives in Berlin heading
a delegation that will participate in the 10th Congress of
the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).
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April 13 .................... Politburo member Juan Almeida speaks at the SED
Congress in Berlin and accuses the US of promoting the
arms race and of halting the process of political and social
changes in the world.
April 15 .................... Politburo member Juan Almeida and German Socialist
Unity Party member Erich Mueckenberger meet in Berlin
to exchange views on the work of the two parties.
April 21 .................... Politburo member Juan Almeida departs Berlin after
attending the 10th Congress of the Socialist Unity Party.
May 29 ...................... Vice President Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with GDR
State Bank President Horst Kaminsky to discuss bilateral
cooperation.
June 19 .................... PCC member Omar Iser Mojena meets in Berlin with
Germany's Socialist Unity Party Politburo member Erich
Mueckenberger to study the party's experiences in the
field of control and revisions.
June 24 .................... Central Committee member Soto conveys greetings from
Fidel Castro to GDR State Council Chairman Honecker.
June 27 .................... Carlos Rafael Rodriguez arrives in Berlin to attend a
meeting of the Cuba-GDR Intergovernmental Commission
for Economic, Scientific, and Technical Cooperation.
July 1 ........................ Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with GDR Premier Willi
Stoph to discuss bilateral economic relations.
July 10 ...................... Havana press reports that, under a new shipping
schedule, Cuba and the GDR will each dispatch two ships
monthly, with Cuba sending an additional ship every 30
days to Rostock.
July 15-22 ................ Vilma Espin arrives in Berlin to attend a meeting of the
International Federation of Democratic Women.
July 16 ...................... Cuba and the GDR sign an agreement under which a
plant to process citrus fruits will be built in Havana and the
product sent to the GDR.
August 9 .................. South Africa alleges that Angola, aided by Cuba and East
Germany, is deploying missiles and building up military
facilities within striking distance of the border with
Namibia.
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August 14 ................ Cuba signs a sugar agreement with CEMA countries
totaling over 423 million rubles for the 1981-86 period.
September 13-14 ...... GDR State Council Chairman Erich Honecker visits
Havana enroute from Mexico. He meets with Fidel Castro
to discuss cooperation between the two countries and on
international politics.
September 30 .......... The 35th session of the CEMA Permanent Commission for
Transportation is held in Havana with groups from
Bulgaria, Hungary, the GDR, Romania, USSR,
Czechoslovakia, and Cuba participating.
October 15 ................ Trade Union leader Roberto Veiga meets with German
Trade Union Federation Chairman Harry Tisch in Berlin to
discuss union relations and the 10th WFTU Congress to
be held in Havana in February.
October 19 ................ Alternate Politburo member Antonio Perez Herrero meets
with GDR Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers to
discuss mutual cooperation and the CEMA plan on
science and technology development.
October 20 ................ Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with GDR's Council of
Ministers and Minister of Science and Technology to
discuss the cooperation plans in the fields of science and
technology.
Cuba and the GDR sign a labor and wage agreement, in
Havana, that provides for the training of Cubans at
industrial facilities in the GDR.
Secretary General of Germany's Socialist Unity Party,
Erich Honecker, expresses solidarity with Cuba as it faces
threats of aggression from the US.
December 7 .............. Fidel Castro meets in Havana with Herbert Mies, chairman
of the West German Communist Party to discuss the
current international situation and topics of mutual
interest.
GERMANY WEST
April 21 .................... West German official Hans-Jurgen Wischnewski states
that Fidel Castro had admitted to him that Cuba had sent
arms to El Salvador and that the US "White Paper" on El
Salvador was correct.
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June 18 .................... At the invitation of the West German Government, Ramon
Castro visits agricultural production and experimentation
centers.
March 13 .................. Fidel Castro sends a congratulatory message to Ghanian
Chief of State Hilla Limann on Ghana's Independence
Day. He expresses Cuba's wish to strengthen ties of
friendship and cooperation.
January 19 ................ Cuba and Grenada sign visa agreements to facilitate entry
and exit formalities of their citizens and an exception of
rental payments for the buildings occupied by the
respective missions.
January 26 ................ Grenada's Prime Minister Bishop announces that Air
Cubana will make weekly flights into his country beginning
30 January 1981.
March 11 .................. Public Health Minister Sergio del Valle heads a delegation
to Grenada to attend the activities marking the second
anniversary of the Grenadian revolution.
March 13 .................. Public Health Minister Sergio del Valle visits schools,
hospitals, and the site where Cuban internationalist
workers and Grenadian workers are building a modern
airport in Grenada.
March 20 .................. The President of the Cuban Radio and Television Institute,
Nivaldo Herrera and his delegation arrive in St. Georges,
Grenada.
April 1 ...................... Four Cuban trawlers are transferred to the Government of
Grenada in a ceremony at St. Georges Bay. Cuban
Ambassador to Grenada Julian Torres Rizo presides at
the ceremony.
May 8 ........................ The Government Information Service (GIS) of Grenada
says that Cuba is assisting in the construction of an
asphalt plant.
May 12 ...................... Grenada's Government Information Service (GIS) reports
two Cuban experts have completed a three-month survey
of Grenada's forestry resources.
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September 13 ..........
Cuban Ambassador to Grenada Julian Torres Rizo
confirms the defection of a Cuban doctor to the
neighboring island of La Union, a dependency of St.
Vincent; the defector later left for Canada.
George Luison, member of the New Jewel Movement
Politburo of Grenada arrives in Havana to participate in
the Second Session of the Mixed Cuban-Grenadian
Commission.
September 17 .......... Cuba and Grenada sign a cooperation protocol for 1981-
82 in the areas of construction, fishing, health,
communications, education, agriculture and culture.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Humberto Perez, Politburo
alternate member, meet with Grenadian Deputy Prime
Minister Bernard Coard, in Havana, to attend the Cuba-
Grenada intergovernmental meeting.
September 20 ..........
November 10 ............
GUATEMALA
May 7 ........................
Fidel Castro meets with Grenadian Prime Minister Maurice
Bishop, in Havana, to discuss bilateral technical
cooperation and assistance. Bishop made a short visit en
route to Belize.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade Amadeo Blanco and
Magarita Ruiz arrive in Grenada to discuss Grenada's
trade with Cuba for 1982 and Cuban technical assistance
programs.
John Bushnell, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs, says the US wants to resume
military aid to Guatemala to help deal with a Cuban-
inspired insurgency movement.
May 13 ...................... Secretary of State Haig tells the House Foreign Affairs
Committee that Cuba has resumed "massive" arms
shipments to Central America-primarily through
Nicaragua into Guatemala.
October 21 ................ Cuba and Guinea sign a cooperation agreement that
includes a Cuban medical and agricultural brigade to be
sent to Guinea and training of Guinean technicians in
Cuba.
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February 20 ..............
May 8 ........................
Armed forces intervene at secondary school in Guinea-
Bissau where students had protested the Cuban grading
methods-that marks were based on political rather than
academic merit.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Humberto Perez
discusses topics of mutual interest with Vasco Cabral,
Guinea-Bissau's Minister of Economic Coordination and
Planning.
October 15-18 .......... Guinea-Bissau's Foreign Minister Vitor Saude Maria visits
Havana and discusses traditional relations and other
matters of mutual interest with Carlos Rafael Rodriguez
and Isidoro Malmierca.
October 20 ................ Fidel Castro meets with Guinea-Bissau Foreign Minister
Saude Maria to discuss bilateral relations and the
international situation.
November 24 ............ Cuba and Guinea-Bissau hold cooperation talks in
Havana. A scientific and technical cooperation agreement
for 1981-82 is signed.
GUYANA
January 8-10 ............ Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Guyana. He
meets with his Guyanese counterpart Rashleigh E.
Jackson to discuss bilateral and international interests.
January 26 ................ Fidel Castro meets with Elvin McDavid, chief adviser to
Guyanese President Burnham.
January 27 ................ Elvin McDavid, heading a Guyanese delegation visiting
Cuba states in a press conference that the region must be
on alert against any attempt by the US to put the Reagan
platform into practice.
May 29 ...................... Georgetown press reports that Fidel Castro sent a
message to President Burnham supporting Guyana in its
border dispute with Venezuela.
September 14 .......... Zimbabwe, Uganda, the People's Republic of the Congo,
Guyana and Benin are approved as full members of the
Interparliamentary Council at a meeting in Havana.
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November 17 ............ Grenada's Minister of Health Dorcas Braveboy heads a
seven-member team of health officials to Cuba to visit
hospitals, polyclinics, and health centers.
December 16 ............ Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Guyana's Minister of
State Harun Rashid to discuss expanding cooperation ties
and the international situation, particularly the Caribbean
and Central America.
December 23 ............ Cuba and Grenada sign a sports and cultural agreement.
Cuba will assist Grenada in music and the theatre;
Grenada will teach steelband music to Cubans; soccer
teams will be exchanged.
May 2 ........................ Haitian press reports the L'Arthemise, a Haitian ship, is
hijacked by 19 Haitians and forced to sail to Miami.
Mechanical problems cause the ship to land in Cuba,
where the hijackers are arrested.
November 27 ............
December 23 ............
HONDURAS
August 24 ................
ICAP Vice President Mario Rodriguez expresses solidarity
toward the oppressed Haitian people, blaming US
imperialism for the situation in that country.
At a ceremony at the Cuban Institute of Friendship with
Peoples (ICAP), Mario Munoz is elected president of the
Haitian Residents Association in Cuba.
The Jamaican press reports about 400 Cuban refugees
have arrived on regular airline flights in recent weeks in the
hope of joining relatives in the US or to go on to
Honduras.
September 1 ............ 100 Cuban refugees arrive in Jamaica to join an estimated
400 others who arrived during the last few weeks on their
way to Honduras and the US.
HUNGARY
January 31 ................ Cuba and Hungary sign an agreement to expand scientific
and technical cooperation, exchange professors and
undertake joint agricultural research.
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April 1 ...................... Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets with
Hungarian Assembly Vice President Janos Peter to
discuss bilateral relations and the international situation.
April 8 ...................... Hungarian People's Republic National Assembly Vice
President Janos Peter ends his official visit to Cuba.
April 20 .................... Hungarian Council of Ministers Deputy Chairman Jozsef
Marjai arrives in Havana to participate in the 10th
intergovernmental meeting for economic, scientific, and
technical cooperation.
April 24 .................... Cuba and Hungary sign an economic cooperation
agreement for 1981-85 and a trade agreement for 1981
ending the 10th session of intergovernmental economic
and scientific-technical meetings.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Rene Anillo, and
Ricardo Cabrizas meet with Jozsef Marjai, Hungarian
Council of Ministers official, to discuss cooperation
between the two countries.
April 25 .................... Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia meets with
Hungarian Council of Ministers official Joszef Marjai to
discuss bilateral cooperation in the transportation field.
The 13th Conference of CEMA-member countries ends.
Bilateral cooperation programs are signed for 1981-82
between Cuba, Bulgaria, Hungary, GDR, Poland, Soviet
Union and Czechoslovakia.
July 1-9 .................... Brigadier General William Galvez, chairman of Cuba's
Patriotic Military Commission, arrives in Budapest to meet
with officials of the Hungarian defense organization.
July 5 - August 8 ......
July 6 ........................
Cuban Council of Ministers Vice Chairman Humberto
Gonzalez meets in Budapest with his counterpart Lajos
Faluvegi and signs an economic coordination protocol for
1981-85.
The president of the Cuban Central Planning Board
(JUCEPLAN) arrives in Budapest and meets with
Hungarian Council of Ministers Chairman Gyorgy Lazar to
discuss cooperation for 1981-85.
September 24 .......... Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas Ruiz visits
Hungary at the invitation of his counterpart Peter Veress.
They sign a trade agreement for 1981-85.
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September 26 .......... Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle arrives in
Budapest to participate in the 22nd annual meeting of
socialist countries' health ministers.
September 30 ..........
The 35th session of the CEMA Permanent Commission for
Transportation is held in Havana with groups from
Bulgaria, Hungary, the GDR, Romania, USSR,
Czechoslovakia, and Cuba participating.
Fidel Castro meets with the President of the World
Federation of Trade Unions Sandor Gaspar to discuss
international politics and the 1982 World Trade Congress
that will be held in Havana.
November 23 ............ Minister of Justice Osvaldo Dorticos meets with Hungarian
Justice Minister Imre Markoja in Cuba to exchange views
on mutual cooperation.
November 27 ............
December 7 ..............
INDIA
January 15 ................
January 26 ................
February 6 ................
Justice Minister Osvaldo Dorticos and his Hungarian-
counterpart Imre Markoja exchange views on juridical
topics and sign a cooperation agreement.
Cuba and Hungary sign an agreement in Budapest that
will provide a consignment of 585 buses and cars to arrive
in Cuba in February 1982.
Vice Foreign Minister Jose Viera arrives in New Delhi to
exchange views with officials about the nonaligned
ministerial-level conference to be held in that capital in
February.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Havana with
Algerian official Mohamed Sedjaqui to exchange views on
the preparations for the nonaligned conference in New
Delhi in February.
Cuba's ambassador to the UN, Raul Roa Kouri denounces
in New Delhi US aggressive policy in the Indian Ocean, the
Persian Gulf, the Middle East, Central America and the
Caribbean.
February 9 ................ Fidel Castro sends a message to the Conference of
Foreign Ministers in New Delhi denouncing the threat of
aggression against Mozambique by South Africa.
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February 10 .............. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets for the second
time during the New Delhi Conference with Bahzad
Nabavi, Iranian Minister of State for Executive Affairs to
discuss the Iran-Iraq War.
February 12 .............. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with India's
Prime Minister Gandhi to discuss matters dealing with the
Nonaligned Conference and the international situation.
February 13 .............. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca visits with India's
President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy to discuss relations
between the two countries.
May 6 ........................
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Geneva and
meets with his counterparts from India and Zambia to
search for a political solution to the Iran-Iraq conflict.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca leaves for New Delhi to
discuss the Iran-Iraq conflict with Indian, Palestinian, and
Zambian leaders.
May 10 ...................... Prensa Latina and the Press Trust of India sign an
agreement in New Delhi on collaboration and information
exchange to be conducted via satellite between the main
offices of both agencies.
May 15 ...................... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca returns to Havana after
visiting India, Iran, and Iraq to meet with nonaligned
movement ministers to find a solution between Iran and
Iraq.
June 17 .................... A four-member Cuban delegation visits India to sign an
accord regarding cooperation in the production of basic
drugs and antibiotics in Cuba.
August 31 ................ Granma announces the appointment of Jose Perez Novoa
as the new Cuban ambassador to India.
September 2-3 .......... Vice Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torras talks with the Indian
delegation visiting Cuba. During the visit, a three year
cultural and educational program is signed.
November 16 ............ Jose Perez Novoa, the new Cuban ambassador to India,
presents his credentials to President Sanjiva Reddy in
New Delhi.
December 12 ............ Cuban Ambassador to India Jose Perez Novoa meets with
Prime Minister Gandhi and External Affairs Minister
Narasimha Rao to discuss matters of mutual interest.
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April 30 .................... The Council of State appoints Jose Arteaga Hernandez as
the new Cuban Ambassador to Indonesia.
January 6 .................. Cuban Ambassador in Tehran Alberto Valazco meets with
Iran's Agriculture Minister Mohammad Salamati to discuss
agricultural cooperation in the sugarcane industry.
January 15-17 .......... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in New York
City to report to the Nonaligned Countries Movement
Coordinating Bureau his efforts to find a peaceful solution
to the Iran-Iraq conflict.
February 10 .............. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets for the second
time during the New Delhi Conference with Bahzad
Nabavi, Iranian Minister of State for Executive Affairs to
discuss the Iran-Iraq War.
March 10 .................. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Geneva and
meets with his counterparts from India and Zambia to
search for a political solution to the Iran-Iraq conflict.
March 12 .................. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Cypriot
President Kiprianou to discuss the international situation
and the Nonaligned Movement's efforts concerning Iran
and Iraq.
March 14 .................. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Beirut,
Lebanon at the start of a "new" mission to try to mediate
the war between Iran and Iraq. He meets with Yasir
Arafat.
May 6 ........................ Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca leaves for New Delhi to
discuss the Iran-Iraq conflict with Indian, Palestinian, and
Zambian leaders.
May 15 ...................... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca returns to Havana after
visiting India, Iran, and Iraq to meet with nonaligned
movement ministers to find a solution between Iran and
Iraq.
May 27 ...................... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Lisbon
enroute to Cyprus to participate in a ministerial meeting of
the nonaligned countries to find a solution to the Iran-Iraq
conflict.
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August 4 ..................
August 7 ..................
September 20 ..........
September 22 ..........
IRAQ
January 15-17 ..........
February 3 ................
February 5 ................
February 10 ..............
March 10 ..................
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Zambia to
attend a nonaligned meeting to find a peaceful solution to
the Iran-Iraq conflict.
Foreign Minister Malmierca leaves for Geneva for
discussions on Iran and Iraq with the foreign ministers of
India and Zambia and representatives of the PLO.
Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Tehran to continue
efforts by the Nonaligned Movement to find a solution to
the Iran-Iraq conflict.
Fidel Castro meets in Havana with Sweden's Democratic
Labor Party leader Olof Palme to discuss party relations,
the international situation, and the Iran and Iraq conflict.
Fidel Castro meets with Iranian leader Hojjat ol-Eslam
Do'a' in Havana to discuss the Iranians' need to open an
embassy in Cuba in order to increase contacts.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in New York
City to report to the Nonaligned Countries Movement
Coordinating Bureau his efforts to find a peaceful solution
to the Iran-Iraq conflict.
Cuban Minister of Economic Cooperation Hector
Rodriguez Llompart arrives in Baghdad to attend
meetings of the Iraqi-Cuban Joint Commission for
Economic, Scientific and Technical Cooperation.
Minister of Economic Cooperation Hector Rodriguez
Liompart meets in Baghdad with Planning Minister Dr.
Taha Ibrahim al-'Abdallah to discuss the investment
program and projects for 1981.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets for the second
time during the New Delhi Conference with Bahzad
Nabavi, Iranian Minister of State for Executive Affairs to
discuss the Iran-Iraq War.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Geneva and
meets with his counterparts from India and Zambia to
search for a political solution to the Iran-Iraq conflict.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Cypriot
President Kiprianou to discuss the international situation
and the Nonaligned Movement's efforts concerning Iran
and Iraq.
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March 14 .................. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Beirut,
Lebanon at the start of a "new" mission to try to mediate
the war between Iran and Iraq. He meets with Yasir
Arafat.
May 6 ........................ Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca leaves for New Delhi to
discuss the Iran-Iraq conflict with Indian, Palestinian, and
Zambian leaders.
May 15 ......................
May 27 ......................
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca returns to Havana after
visiting India, Iran, and Iraq to meet with nonaligned
movement ministers to find a solution between Iran and
Iraq.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Lisbon
enroute to Cyprus to participate in a ministerial meeting of
the nonaligned countries to find a solution to the Iran-Iraq
conflict.
June 10 .................... Fidel Castro sends a message to Iraqi President Hussein
stressing Cuba's solidarity in the wake of the Israeli attack
against Iraq's nuclear installation.
In response to a request from the Iraqi Government, Cuba
asks the nonaligned coordinating bureau to hold a
meeting at the ambassadorial level to consider the Israeli
attack.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in New York to
preside over the nonaligned meeting called to consider
Israel's "acts of aggression" in bombing Iraq's nuclear
reactor.
June 26 .................... Cuban Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah
congratulates Cuban workers during a visit to three
housing projects being constructed in Basrah Province in
southern Iraq.
June 30 .................... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Zambia to
attend a nonaligned meeting to find a peaceful solution to
the Iran-Iraq conflict.
August 4 .................. Foreign Minister Malmierca leaves for Geneva for
discussions on Iran and Iraq with the foreign ministers of
India and Zambia and representatives of the PLO.
August 7 .................. Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Tehran to continue
efforts by the Nonaligned Movement to find a solution to
the Iran-Iraq conflict.
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ISRAEL
January 2 ..................
October 10 ................
October 13 ................
Fidel Castro meets in Havana with Sweden's Democratic
Labor Party leader Olof Palme to discuss party relations,
the international situation, and the Iran and Iraq conflict.
Fidel Castro meets with Na'im Haddad, head of the Iraqi
delegation to the IPU Conference to discuss bilateral
relations and Arab international issues of common
interest.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas meets Taha Yasin
Ramadan, First Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq to discuss
relations of friendship and cooperation between the two
countries.
Fidel Castro sends a message to Iraqi President Hussein
stressing Cuba's solidarity in the wake of the Israeli attack
against Iraq's nuclear installation.
In response to a request from the Iraqi Government, Cuba
asks the nonaligned coordinating bureau to hold a
meeting at the ambassadorial level to consider the Israeli
attack.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in New York to
preside over the nonaligned meeting called to consider
Israel's "acts of aggression" in bombing Iraq's nuclear
reactor.
At the UN Security Council, Cuban Foreign Minister
Malmierca charges that the US supported Israel's attack
on Iraq.
Jesus Montane meets with Italian Communist Party
Director Pajetta in Havana to discuss bilateral party
relations and the international situation.
Fidel Castro and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez greet Secretary
General Enrico Berlinguer of the Italian Communist Party
at Jose International Airport.
Fidel Castro and Italian leader Enrico Berlinguer discuss
current international issues and matters of mutual interest
concerning relations between the two political
organizations.
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October 23 ................ Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Jesus Montane meet with
Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer in
Havana to discuss his trip to America, Mexico, and
Nicaragua.
JAMAICA
June 30 .................... Fidel Castro meets with Jamaica's former prime minister
Michael Manley, who is visiting Havana.
August 24 ................ The Jamaican press reports about 400 Cuban refugees
have arrived on regular airline flights in recent weeks in the
hope of joining relatives in the US or to go on to
Honduras.
September 1 ............ 100 Cuban refugees arrive in Jamaica to join an estimated
400 others who arrived during the last few weeks on their
way to Honduras and the US.
September 30 .......... An Eastern Airlines spokesman reports that Cuban
officials refused to allow at least six Eastern Airlines
Jamaica-bound flights to fly through Cuban airspace in
the past week.
October 29 ................ Jamaica's Prime Minister Edward Seaga, in a speech to
Parliament, announces the break of diplomatic relations
with Cuba.
October 31 ................ The Cuban Revolutionary Government decides that
Mexico will represent Cuban interests in Jamaica.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets with
Jamaican People's National Party official James
Patterson, who expresses his party's solidarity with Cuba.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with former Foreign
Minister of Jamaica James Patterson to discuss the new
international economic order and the Caribbean area.
December 16 ............ Jamaica refuses entry visas to Cuban officials who were to
attend the second congress of the Workers Party of
Jamaica opening on 17 December.
December 21 ............ The Central Committee sends a message to the second
congress of the Worker's Party of Jamaica attacking
Jamaica's Prime Minister Seaga by describing him as a
subordinate of Washington.
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March 5 .................... Cuba's Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas meets
with Japan's International Trade and Industry Minister
Tanaka in Japan. Trade between the two countries
exceeded $500 million in 1980.
March 6 .................... Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas, leading a delegation to
an economic conference in Japan, discusses prospects
for increased bilateral trade. A final protocol is signed.
July 3 ........................ Fidel Castro receives a delegation from the Japanese Diet.
July 10 ...................... Fidel Castro meets in Havana with Japanese trade envoy
Saburo Okita to discuss international economic matters
and bilateral trade.
August 14-18 ............ Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Raul Roa Garcia meet with a
delegation from the Japanese Parliamentary Friendship
League, which is visiting Cuba to discuss bilateral
relations.
KAMPUCHEA
Fidel and Raul Castro send messages of congratulations
to Kampuchean leaders Heng Samrin, Pen Sovan, and
Hun Sen on the 6th anniversary of Kampuchean National
Day on 17 April.
Armando Acosta, alternate member of the Politburo,
meets in Phnom Penh with Pen Sovan, secretary general
of the People's Revolutionary Party, who stresses inter-
party friendship.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle arrives in Phnom
Penh and meets with his counterparts Yit Kim Seng to
discuss cooperation in the health field.
September 17 .......... Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle and KPRP
Central Committee member Chea Soth sign a bilateral
cultural cooperation agreement for 1981-85.
September 18 .......... Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle meets in Phnom
Penh with Kampuchean leaders Pen Sovan, Chea Soth,
Chheng Phon, Chea Thang, and Hun Sen to discuss
topics of mutual interest.
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December 22 ............
December 24 ............
KOREA NORTH
May 19 ......................
August 20-24 ............
August 24 ................
LAOS
September 14-16 ......
October 7-11 ............
November 19-21 ......
December 21 ............
The International Seminar of Solidarity with Indochina is
held in Havana. Jesus Montane says that the path of
increasing close relations between the US and PRC is a
serious danger for peace.
Kampuchea's Minister of Foreign Affairs Hun Sen
expresses his government's support for the Cuban people
in their struggle against US imperialism during his visit with
Pelegrin Torras.
Heng Samrin, Kampuchea's Central Committee general
secretary emphasizes the need to reinforce solidarity with
Cuba in his meeting with Pelegrin Torras.
Cuba and North Korea sign a 1981-82 working plan for
scientific cooperation.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and his delegation visit Korea
and meet with Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Ho Tam.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with North Korea's
President Kim II-song to convey greetings from Fidel
Castro and to discuss the present international situation.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and his Korean counterpart,
Ho Tam, sign a cultural cooperation agreement for this
and coming years.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle visits Laos and
meets with President Souphanouvong to discuss solidarity
between the two countries.
Laotian Foreign Minister Phoun Sipaseut visits Havana
and discusses bilateral relations and the international
situation-particularly Southeast Asia-with Foreign
Minister Malmierca.
The International Seminar of Solidarity with Indochina is
held in Havana. Jesus Montane says that the path of
increasing close relations between the US and PRC is a
serious danger for peace.
A cultural agreement for 1981-83 is signed in Vientiane by
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Pelegrin Torras and his
Laotian counterpart Khamphai Boupha.
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December 31 ............
LEBANON
March 14 ..................
A delegation from the Lao People's Democratic Republic,
headed by Tanbou Sonmihai, arrives in Havana for the
first scientific-technical cooperation talks between the two
nations.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Havana with the Lao
People's Democratic Republic delegation headed by
Khambou Soumisai that is attending economic, scientific,
and technical cooperation talks.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Beirut,
Lebanon at the start of a "new" mission to try to mediate
the war between Iran and Iraq. He meets with Yasir
Arafat.
March 17 .................. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca departs Beirut,
Lebanon.
March 19 .................. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca returns to Havana after
his tour of Switzerland, Cyprus and Lebanon.
December 24 ............ Lebanese President Ilyas Sarkis receives the credentials
of Cuban Ambassador Jacinto Vasquez de la Garza.
April 3 ...................... Prensa Latina notes UPI and AFP reports that Cuban
military advisers will be expelled from Liberia. The Cuban
Foreign Ministry denies any Cuban presence in Liberia.
March 31 .................. Cuban Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah arrives
in Libya to begin talks with local officials on bilateral
cooperation in the construction field.
June 10 .................... Undersecretary of State Richard Kennedy charges that
the Kremlin-through surrogates such as Libya and
Cuba-has a substantial involvement in international
terrorism.
August 27 ................ Delegations from the PCC, the Institute of Friendship with
Peoples, and the Cuban-Arab Friendship Association
arrive in Libya to attend the International Conference on
Solidarity.
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August 31 ................ Fidel Castro and Cuban Ambassador to Nicaragua Julian
Lopez talk with Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega during
his stopover in Cuba enroute to Libya.
November 10 ............ In an interview for Radio Reloj, 'Ali al-Ajila, secretary of
the Libyan People's Bureau in Havana, declares that his
country will stand with Cuba if it is attacked by US
imperialism.
MADAGASCAR
February 27 .............. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Jesus Montane hold talks in
Moscow with Secretary General of Madagascar's
Congress of Independence Party Giselle Rabesajaba.
July 23 ...................... The Mali-Cuba joint commission meets to discuss
cooperation in various economic and technical fields,
including sports, culture, and youth organizations.
May 6 ........................ Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane discusses the
international situation and party relations with Malta
official Paul Agius in Havana.
February 1 ................ The Chicago Tribune reports that Mexico secretly agreed
to "make all efforts" to supply Cuba with oil-drilling
equipment and goods manufactured in other countries.
US officials are quoted in the Chicago Tribune stating that
they have no knowledge of any US equipment being sold
to Cuba through Mexico.
February 19 .............. Cuba and Mexico sign a contract providing that Mexico
will purchase 100,000 tons of sugar from Cuba in 1981.
March 2 .................... Raul Castro greets Mexico's Secretary of the Navy
Admiral Ricardo Chazaro Lara upon his arrival in Havana.
Raul presents the 20th FAR Anniversary Commemorative
Medal to Chazaro.
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March 5 .................... Cuba and Mexico sign a cooperation agreement in
Havana for 1981-82 in the fields of agriculture, fisheries,
health, construction, industry and support services.
March 6 .................... Raul Castro attends a reception hosted by Mexican
Ambassador Gonzalo Martinez Corbala in honor of
visiting Mexican Navy Secretary Chazaro.
Raul Castro bids farewell to Mexican Navy Secretary
Chazaro. Chazaro visited educational centers, military
units and places of historic and cultural interest.
March 17 .................. Cuba announces it will provide Mexico with a total of
200,000 tons of refined sugar in 1981 as a result of a
second agreement for 100,000 tons signed on 16 March
in Havana.
April 23 .................... Havana sends a message to the seventh session of the
Organization for the Proscription of Nuclear Arms in Latin
America (OPANAL) stating that it will not sign the
Tlatelolco Treaty.
April 29 .................... A US federal judge denies political asylum for 39 Cuban
refugees and orders them deported to Spain. The
refugees used a tourist flight from Spain to Mexico last
March to slip into the US.
May 15 ...................... Cuban Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez and
Mexico's Secretary of Public Education Fernando Solana
sign an education and culture cooperation program in
Mexico City.
June 13 .................... The second meeting of the Cuban-Mexican Management
Committee ends in Mexico City with the signing of a joint
statement expressing an interest in expanding bilateral
trade in all areas.
June 23 .................... Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with President Lopez
Portillo during his visit to Mexico for the signing of
protocols on data processing and peace.
June 24 .................... Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, Mexico's programming and
budget secretary, arrives in Havana accompanied by
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Humberto Perez
meets with Mexican official de la Madrid to discuss
technical cooperation and planning experiences.
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June 25 .................... Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Osmani
Cienfuegos, Humberto Perez, and Hector Rodriguez
discuss the economies of Cuba and Mexico with visiting
Mexican official de la Madrid.
June 26 .................... Fidel Castro and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez attend the
signing of a technical cooperation agreement between
Cuba and Mexico.
August 7-9 ................ Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Osmani
Cienfuegos, and Jose Lopez Moreno arrive in Cozumel,
Mexico, for talks with President Lopez Portillo.
Fidel Castro meets with President Lopez Portillo to
discuss the North-South summit meeting in October,
which Cuba will not be attending, as well as bilateral
relations.
August 13-16 ............ A Mexican Navy training ship, "Comodoro Manuel
Azueta," visits Cuba as part of a training cruise.
September 21 .......... Fidel Castro grants an interview to Julio Scherer, director
of the Mexican magazine Proceso. Castro compares
Hitler's time with the present time under Reagan.
October 3 .................. Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Mexican President
Lopez Portillo to discuss the international situation and
bilateral relations.
October 12-15 .......... Carlos Rafael Rodriquez delivers a message from Fidel
Castro to Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo and
discusses bilateral relations with other Mexican leaders.
October 23 ................ Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Jesus Montane meet with
Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer in
Havana to discuss his trip to America, Mexico, and
Nicaragua.
October 27 ................ Vice President of the Council of State Guillermo Garcia
Frias attends the 15th Congress of the Pan-American
Railroad Association in Mexico. He meets with Mexican
leader Emilio Jujica Montoya.
October 31 ................ The Cuban Revolutionary Government decides that
Mexico will represent Cuban interests in Jamaica.
November 10 ............ Cuba and Mexico sign an agreement in Mexico that
provides training for Cubans as instructors in textile
manufacturing at Mexico's National Center for
Productivity.
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December 5 .............. The Spanish newspaper, El Pals, reports that Secretary of
State Haig and Cuban Vice President Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez met in Mexico on 23 November.
December 9 .............. Vice Minster of Foreign Relations Ricardo Alarcon, in an
interview with the Mexican newspaper El Dia, says that US
threats against Cuba and Nicaragua have not been
ignored.
December 15 ............ Representatives of Cuba's National Institute of Tourism
and Mexico's Mexicana de Aviacion Airlines sign an
agreement to increase bilateral tourism.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Flavio Bravo
visits Mexico at the invitation of President Lopez Portillo.
He says the Cuban people are prepared to face and
defeat any US aggression.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet conveys greetings from
Fidel Castro to the Mongolian people and their People's
Revolutionary Party (MPRP) during a speech at the 8th
party congress in Ulaanbaatar.
Central Committee member Lionel Soto Prieto arrives in
Mongolia and meets with his counterpart Gelegiyn Adyaa
to discuss matters of mutual interest; Soto attends
anniversary celebrations.
Foreign Minister Malmierca praises the outstanding ties
between Cuba and Mongolia at a banquet in Ulaanbaatar
hosted by Foreign Affairs Minister Dugersuren.
August 21 ................ Cuba and Mongolia sign an agreement on health
cooperation.
MOZAMBIQUE
February 9 ................ Fidel Castro sends a message to the Conference of
Foreign Ministers in New Delhi denouncing the threat of
aggression against Mozambique by South Africa.
February 12 .............. Cuban Economic Counselor in Mozambique, Isidro Diez
reports over 1,000 Cubans are presently in Mozambique
and that more than 4,000 Mozambicans have been
technicaly trained by Cuban personnel.
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February 27 .............. Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Marcelino dos Santos,
secretary of the FRELIMO Party of Mozambique.
March 5 .................... The leftist government of Mozambique orders four US
Embassy officers expelled on charges of being part of a
CIA operation.
April 29 ....................
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Humberto Perez
meets with Mario Machungo, Mozambique's Liberation
Front member to discuss economic and planning
relations.
Cuba and Mozambique sign a protocol of cooperation
under which Havana will plan projects and supply
technical assistance for the construction and exploitation
of salt works.
October 16 ................ Cuba and Mozambique sign, in Havana, a 5 year radio
cooperation agreement which includes the exchange of
delegations, programs, music, information, and
cooperation in technical matters.
October 20 ................ Cuba and Mozambique sign a cooperation agreement, in
Havana, in the area of ideological work between the PCC
and FRELIMO.
November 17 ............ The Cuban-Mozambique Joint Commission meets in
Havana.
November 26 ............ Cuba and Mozambique hold economic cooperation talks
in Havana. Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia Frias
meets with Mozambican Minister Lousa to discuss
cooperation between the ministries.
April 18 .................... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Algiers with
members of the nonaligned coordinating bureau to
examine the situation created by the military occupation
of Namibia by South Africa.
April 26 .................... In an interview with the Washington Post, Angolan Foreign
Minister Paulo Jorge says that Angola will send home
Cuban troops once Namibia gains its independence.
May 15 ...................... Reagan administration officials say the US is seeking
assurances of a reduction in the Cuban troop level in
Angola as part of the new Western framework for
achieving independence in Namibia.
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May 20 ...................... Jesus Montane delivers a message from Fidel Castro at
the UN Conference on South Africa in Paris reaffirming
Cuba's support for Namibian and South African freedom.
August 9 .................. South Africa alleges that Angola, aided by Cuba and East
Germany, is deploying missiles and building up military
facilities within striking distance of the border with
Namibia.
NICARAGUA
January 26-29 ..........
January 27 ................
A Nicaraguan medical delegation consisting of 10 doctors
visit Camaguey Province as part of the cooperation
program between the Cuban and Nicaraguan health
ministries.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca and Nicaragua's Vice
Minister of Foreign Affairs Suarez sign an agreement in
Havana allowing citizens of both countries to visit the
other without a visa.
January 28 ................ Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers
Rodriguez meets with Nicaragua's Vice Minister of Foreign
Affairs to discuss bilateral relations and the international
situation.
February 17 .............. Raul Roa Garcia welcomes Nicaragua's State Council
Chairman Carlos Nunez Tellez to Havana.
March 21 .................. A memorandum of intention is signed in Havana by
Nicaraguan Agrarian Reform Minister Jaime Wheelock
and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez for construction in Nicaragua
of a agro-industrial center.
Fidel Castro meets with Agrarian Reform Minister Jaime
Wheelock to discuss economic relations between the two
countries.
March 25 .................. US press confirms the charges recently made in Managua
that mercenaries of Cuban and Nicaraguan origin are
training in camps located in Florida.
March 27 .................. Cuba and Nicaragua open negotiations in Managua for a
new economic cooperation agreement. Cuban aid in
1979-80 was estimated at $61 million and will increase in
1980-81.
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April 24 ....................
April 25 ....................
May 13 ......................
June 03 ....................
June 06 ....................
July 17 ......................
July 29 ......................
August 31 ................
September 01 ..........
Nicaraguan Junta member Daniel Ortega denounces the
current US foreign policy as a threat to world peace in a
speech delivered at the World Peace Council meeting in
Havana.
Hector Rodriguez Llompart, Minister-President of the
State Committee for Economic and Scientific-Technical
Cooperation arrives in Managua.
Hector Rodriguez Llompart, Minister-President of the
Cuban State Committee for Economic Cooperation and
Nicaraguan Planning Minister Henry Ruiz sign a
cooperation agreement for $64 million.
Secretary of State Haig tells the House Foreign Affairs
Committee that Cuba has resumed "massive" arms
shipments to Central America-primarily through
Nicaragua into Guatemala.
Assistant Secretary of State Enders says Cuba has sent
600-800 military advisers to Nicaragua in an attempt to
use that country as a base of operations in Central
America.
Fidel Castro attends the 20th anniversary ceremony of
MININT, at which Soviet representative Yuriy Shurbanov
conveys greetings from President Brezhnev; Nicaraguan
leader Borge also speaks.
In a message of solidarity with Nicaragua on the second
anniversary of the Sandinista victory, Fidel Castro
reiterates Cuba's intention to continue to extend
"modest" cooperation.
Fidel Castro, accompanied by Nicaraguan leaders Ortega
and Tirado and US scientist George Wald, tour places of
economic and social interest in Las Tunas and Holguin
provinces.
Fidel Castro and Cuban Ambassador to Nicaragua Julian
Lopez talk with Nicaraguan leader Daniel Ortega during
his stopover in Cuba enroute to Libya.
Minister President of the State Committee for Economic
Cooperation, Hector Rodriguez Llompart, representing
Fidel Castro, attends the inauguration of the General
Torrijos Plaza in Managua.
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September 02 .......... The State Department says is has received intelligence
reports that Cuban advisers and Nicaraguan nationals
have been aiding leftist guerrillas battling the government
in El Salvador.
September 22 ..........
October 08 ................
October 20 ................
October 21 ................
Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez bids farewell
to the first contingent of 2,000 Cuban primary school
teachers leaving soon for Nicaragua.
Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia discusses
bilateral cooperation with his Nicaraguan counterpart
Carlos Zaruk during Zaruk's visit to Havana.
Arnaldo Milian visits Nicaragua and discusses
technological and scientific cooperation with Jaime
Wheelock, Nicaraguan Minister of Agriculture.
Nicaraguan junta leader Ortega announces that two
Cuban teachers and two Nicaraguan peasants were killed
by Somoza counterrevolutionaries. He sends a message
of condolence to Fidel Castro.
October 23 ................ Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Jesus Montane meet with
Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer in
Havana to discuss his trip to America, Mexico, and
Nicaragua.
Arnaldo Milian and Nicaraguan Minister of Agriculture
Jaime Wheelock sign, in Managua, an agreement to
implement agricultural projects through joint investments.
Ambassador to the UN Raul Roa Kouri asks UN Secretary
General Waldheim to demand proof from Secretary Haig
that Cuba landed 500-600 soldiers in Nicaragua.
November 07 ............ Vice President of the Cuban National Assembly Raul Roa
Garcia arrives in Nicaragua to attend ceremonies
commemorating the fifth anniversary of Carlos Fonseca's
death.
November 12 ............ US press reports that Fidel Castro has claimed that
reports of Cuban troops in Nicaragua are "aimed at
setting the stage" for aggressive US action against Cuba.
December 03 ............ Secretary of State Haig tells reporters in St. Lucia that
there are 1,500 Cuban military advisers in Nicaragua.
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December 04 ............ Commander of the Nicaraguan Revolution Humberto
Ortega sends a message to Fidel and Raul Castro on the
25th anniversary of the Revolution.
A Cuban teacher, Aguedo Morales Reina, is murdered by
"counter-revolutionary elements" in Nicaragua.
December 09 ............ Vice Minster of Foreign Relations Ricardo Alarcon, in an
interview with the Mexican newspaper El Dia, says that US
threats against Cuba and Nicaragua have not been
ignored.
Assistant Secretary of State Enders, in testimony before a
committee, states that contingency plans for military
action against Cuba and Nicaragua have been developed.
Nicaragua's Education Minister Carlos Tunnerman arrives
in Havana to participate in the activities commemorating
the 20th anniversary of the literacy drive.
December 22 ............ Deputy Foreign Minister Alarcon and Nicaraguan Deputy
Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Espinosa sign a cultural
agreement in Havana for the exchange of professors and
journalists.
Nicaragua's Vice Foreign Minister Victor Tinoco visits
Cuba and meets with Foreign Minister Malmierca and Vice
Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon.
Vice Foreign Minister Alarcon and his Nicaraguan
counterpart Victor Tinoco sign a cooperation pact for
1982-84 in the fields of protocol, press, Nonaligned
Movement, and bilateral relations.
December 23 ............ The Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions marks
the 20th anniversary of Cuba's literacy drive. Fidel Castro,
other Cuban leaders, and Nicaragua's Education Minister
Tunnerman attend.
NIGERIA
March 26 .................. Vice President of the Council of State Juan Almeida and
his delegation arrive in Lagos to begin economic,
scientific and technical cooperation talks.
March 27 .................. Nigerian Vice President Ekwueme hosts a banquet for
visiting Cuban Vice President Almeida. In a speech
Almeida reiterates Cuba's support for the liberation of
South Africa's peoples.
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NONALIGNED
MOVEMENT
January 08-10 .......... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Guyana. He
meets with his Guyanese counterpart Rashleigh E.
Jackson to discuss bilateral and international interests.
January 15 ................
January 15-17 ..........
Vice Foreign Minister Jose Viera arrives in New Delhi to
exchange views with officials about the nonaligned
ministerial-level conference to be held in that capital in
February.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in New York
City to report to the Nonaligned Countries Movement
Coordinating Bureau his efforts to find a peaceful solution
to the Iran-Iraq conflict.
January 26 ................ Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Havana with
Algerian official Mohamed Sedjaqui to exchange views on
the preparations for the nonaligned conference in New
Delhi in February.
February 02 .............. Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Mugabe praises the role
played by Fidel Castro as chairman of the nonaligned in
an interview granted to Prensa Latina News Agency.
February 06 .............. Cuba's ambassador to the UN, Raul Roa Kouri denounces
in New Delhi US aggressive policy in the Indian Ocean, the
Persian Gulf, the Middle East, Central America and the
Caribbean.
February 09 .............. Cuba attacks the Reagan Administration at the
nonaligned conference in New Delhi saying it had come to
power on the "dangerous platform" of achieving military
superiority.
Fidel Castro sends a message to the Conference of
Foreign Ministers in New Delhi denouncing the threat of
aggression against Mozambique by South Africa.
February 10 .............. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets for the second
time during the New Delhi Conference with Bahzad
Nabavi, Iranian Minister of State for Executive Affairs to
discuss the Iran-Iraq War.
February 12 .............. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with India's
Prime Minister Gandhi to discuss matters dealing with the
Nonaligned Conference and the international situation.
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March 10 .................. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Geneva and
meets with his counterparts from India and Zambia to
search for a political solution to the Iran-Iraq conflict.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Cypriot
President Kiprianou to discuss the international situation
and the Nonaligned Movement's efforts concerning Iran
and Iraq.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Beirut,
Lebanon at the start of a "new" mission to try to mediate
the war between Iran and Iraq. He meets with Yasir
Arafat.
March 17 .................. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca departs Beirut,
Lebanon.
March 19 .................. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca returns to Havana after
his tour of Switzerland, Cyprus and Lebanon.
April 08 .................... Fidel Castro attends a reception in Havana in honor of the
participants in the third fisheries cooperation meeting of
nonaligned countries, being held for the first time at the
ministerial level.
Cuban ambassador to Algeria Oscar Oramas speaks in
Algeria during the Nonaligned Coordinating Bureau
ministerial conference on Namibia. He denounces US
support for South Africa.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Algiers with
members of the nonaligned coordinating bureau to
examine the situation created by the military occupation
of Namibia by South Africa.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca returns to Havana after
visiting India, Iran, and Iraq to meet with nonaligned
movement ministers to find a solution between Iran and
Iraq.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Lisbon
enroute to Cyprus to participate in a ministerial meeting of
the nonaligned countries to find a solution to the Iran-Iraq
conflict.
June 11 .................... In response to a request from the Iraqi Government, Cuba
asks the nonaligned coordinating bureau to hold a
meeting at the ambassadorial level to consider the Israeli
attack.
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June 16 .................... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in New York to
preside over the nonaligned meeting called to consider
Israel's "acts of aggression" in bombing Iraq's nuclear
reactor.
June 30 .................... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Zambia to
attend a nonaligned meeting to find a peaceful solution to
the Iran-Iraq conflict.
August 04 ................ Foreign Minister Malmierca leaves for Geneva for
discussions on Iran and Iraq with the foreign ministers of
India and Zambia and representatives of the PLO.
August 07 ................ Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Tehran to continue
efforts by the Nonaligned Movement to find a solution to
the Iran-Iraq conflict.
September 09 .......... Carlos Rafael Rodriguez praises the Nonaligned
Movement at a ceremony in Havana commemorating the
20th anniversary of its founding.
October 05-09 .......... PLO official Farug Qaddumi visits Havana. He meets with
Foreign Minister' Malmierca on 5 October to discuss
bilateral aspects of the international situation and the
nonaligned movement.
The second nonaligned radio festival is held in Havana
and the majority of delegations attending condemned the
US Government's decision to create a radio station to
broadcast into Cuba.
December 22 ............ Vice Foreign Minister Alarcon and his Nicaraguan
counterpart Victor Tinoco sign a cooperation pact for
1982-84 in the fields of protocol, press, Nonaligned
Movement, and bilateral relations.
May 08 ...................... Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane discusses the
current international situation with Norwegian Socialist
International official Reiulf Steen.
PALESTINE
LIBERATION
March 14 .................. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Beirut,
Lebanon at the start of a "new" mission to try to mediate
the war between Iran and Iraq. He meets with Yasir
Arafat.
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May 06 ......................
Orlando Fundora arrives in Damascus to attend the 15th
Palestine National Council Meeting. He meets with PLO
leader Sharer to reaffirm Cuba's solidarity with the PLO.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca leaves for New Delhi to
discuss the Iran-Iraq conflict with Indian, Palestinian, and
Zambian leaders.
October 05-09 .......... PLO official Farug Qaddumi visits Havana. He meets with
Foreign Minister Malmierca on 5 October to discuss
bilateral aspects of the international situation and the
nonaligned movement.
October 07 ................ Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with visiting PLO official
Qaddumi to discuss the Middle East, the cause of the
Palestinian people, and relations between the two
countries.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane Oropesa and
PLO leader Faruq Qaddumi sign a cooperation
agreement.
November 02 ............ Pedro Miret and Jesus Montane meet in Havana with PLO
officials to discuss bilateral relations between the two
organizations.
November 17 ............ PLO leader Yasir Arafat sends a message to Fidel Castro
reaffirming his support for Cuba in the face of US threats.
November 28 ............ Fidel Castro sends a message to UN Secretary General
Kurt Waldheim reiterating Cuba's support for the
Palestinian people.
January 11-14 ..........
January 14 ................
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca visits Panama. He
meets with President Royo and Foreign Minister Ozores to
convey greetings from Fidel Castro and to discuss the
international situation.
Cuba and Panama issue a joint communique supporting
Puerto Rican independence and calls for a US withdrawal
from Guantanamo, an end to the economic blockade, and
overflights of Cuba.
March 27 .................. Panamanian Foreign Minister Jorge Illueca issues a
communique denying press reports of tensions in
Panama's relations with Cuba and states that ties are
developing normally.
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August 01 ................
August 03-05 ............
Fidel Castro expresses profound grief over the death of
Panamanian leader Torrijos in a message to President
Royo; the Cuban Council of State decrees three days of
official mourning.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Manuel Pineiro; Hector
Rodriguez Llompart, and Ricardo Alarcon attend the
funeral of General Torrijos; Rodriguez returns to Cuba on
5 August.
October 21 ................ Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Panamanian Minister
of Commerce and Industries Arturo Melo to exchange
views on the international political and economic
situation.
February 25 .............. America Department chief Manuel Pineiro and ICAP
President Rene Rodriguez Cruz preside at a ceremony in
Havana marking the 53rd anniversary of the Paraguayan
Communist Party.
March 03 .................. Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets in
Moscow with Paraguayan Communist Party leader
Ananias Maidana where solidarity between the two
parties is expressed.
June 17 .................... Vice Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torras and his delegation
arrive in Japan.
March 03 .................. Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets in
Moscow with Peruvian Communist Party leader Jorge del
Prado to discuss aspects of the situation in Latin America.
March 11 .................. A Peruvian delegation made up of Senators Enrique
Bernales and Jose Carlos Martin arrives in Cuba to brief
Cuban authorities on Peru's position on its border conflict
with Ecuador.
March 12 .................. Acting Foreign Minister Alarcon meets with Peruvian
Senators Bernales and Martin to discuss matters of
interest between the two countries.
April 21 .................... On the first anniversary of the start of the Mariel exodus,
Fidel Castro attends the opening of the "March of the
Combatant People Museum" at the site of the former
Peruvian Embassy in Havana.
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Havana press reports that 19 of the 32 persons who had
remained at the Peruvian Embassy for more than a year
turned themselves over to Cuban authorities on 31
August.
Central Committee member Oscar Fernandez Mell meets
with members of the United Leftist Front of Peru to
explain the structure of the Cuban electoral system and
the development of government.
December 26 ............ Manuel Pineiro discusses the international situation,
especially in Latin America, with leaders of the political
parties belonging to the United Left Alliance of Peru.
PHILIPPINES
July 10 ......................
POLAND
Cuban Justice Minister Osvaldo Dorticos arrives in Lima
for a 13-17 July meeting of justice ministers from 22
countries in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the
Phillippines.
January 03 ................ Cuba and Poland sign a trade protocol for 1981 providing
for more than a 25 percent increase in mutual trade
turnover as compared with last year.
March 17 .................. Cuba's Acting Foreign Minister Jose Fernandez and
Polish Ambassador to Cuba Ryszard Majchrzak sign a
cultural, educational, and scientific cooperation
agreement for 1981-85.
May 20 ...................... Fidel Castro meets with Poland's Deputy Chairman of the
Central Planning Committee Stanislaw Lugosz and
Equatorial Guinea official Florencio Maye Ela.
July 13-15 ................ Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, in Warsaw to attend the 9th
special congress of the Polish United Workers' Party
(PZPR), speaks on the achievements of socialism in
Poland.
July 15 ...................... Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Warsaw with Polish
Foreign Affairs Minister Jozef Czyrek and Yugoslavia's
Communist Party leader Aleksandar Grlickov to discuss
bilateral relations.
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September 16 ..........
PORTUGAL
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca hosts a reception for
visiting Polish Foreign Minister Jozef Czyrek. A plan of
cooperation and exchanges for 1981-85 is signed on 16
September.
Fidel Castro meets with Polish Foreign Minister Czyrek to
discuss matters of bilateral interest and the current
international situation.
January 09 ................ Four Cubans defect during a transit stop in Lisbon,
Portugal while on a regular flight from Havana to Moscow.
12 Cubans have sought refuge in Portugal since October
1980.
February 07 .............. Vice Foreign Trade Minister Amadeo Blanco arrives in
Lisbon to participate in the trade talks of the Portuguese-
Cuban Joint Committee.
February 13 .............. Cuba and Portugal sign a commercial protocol for 1981.
March 17 .................. Cuba accuses Portuguese diplomat Mascarenhas and the
CIA of helping to organize a takeover of Ecuador's
Embassy in Havana last month in order to affect relations
between Cuba and Ecuador.
March 18 .................. Portugal declares Cuban Ambassador Manuel Estevez
persona non grata and orders him out of the country.
Portugal's Charge d'Affaires Mascarenhas returns to
Portugal. About 20 Cubans on the same flight that
brought him to Lisbon ask for temporary asylum and
receive it.
March 19 .................. Three participants involved in the Ecuadoran Embassy
occupation in February are interviewed on TV in Cuba.
They claim they were assisted by a Portuguese diplomat
and the CIA.
March 20 .................. Cuba's Ambassador to Portugal Manuel Estevez leaves
that country after being declared persona non grata by
the Portuguese Government. He says the accusations
against Mascarenhas are true.
May 27 ...................... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Lisbon
enroute to Cyprus to participate in a ministerial meeting of
the nonaligned countries to find a solution to the Iran-Iraq
conflict.
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The Cuban Chamber of Commerce sponsors a meeting of
Portuguese industrialists and businessmen to explore the
possibilities of increasing trade.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with the group of
Portuguese businessmen visiting Havana to discuss
increased bilateral trade.
June 19 .................... First Vice President of ICAP Mario Rodriguez meets with
the group of visiting Portuguese businessmen.
June 20 .................... According to Portuguese press reports, Angolan Deputy
Foreign Minister Venancio de Moura claims that Cuban
troops will stay in Angola as long as there are external
threats to its security.
June 30 .................... Politburo alternate member Montane discusses interparty
.cooperation with Antonio Gervasio, a member of the
Portuguese Communist Party Politburo visiting Havana.
July 10 ......................
September 10 ..........
Cuban Justice Minister Osvaldo Dorticos arrives in Lima
for a 13-17 July meeting of justice ministers from 22
countries in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the
Phillippines.
PCC Central Committee member Jorge Valdes heads a
delegation visiting Portugal to discuss with Portuguese
Communist Party officials agreement on cooperation and
exchange between the two parties.
November 12 ............ The Council of State appoints Carlos Lechuga Havia as
the new Cuban ambassador to Portugal.
December 17 ............ Portuguese President Antonio Ramalho Eanes receives
the credentials of the new Cuban Ambassador Carlos
Lechuga Hevia.
PUERTO RICO
January 14 ................ Cuba and Panama issue a joint communique supporting
Puerto Rican independence and calls for a US withdrawal
from Guantanamo, an end to the economic blockade, and
overflights of Cuba.
May 06 ...................... Puerto Rican Socialist Party leader Juan Mari Bras arrives
in Cuba and is greeted by Manuel Pineiro Lozada.
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January 20-26 .......... Romanian Deputy Prime Minister Constantin arrives in
Havana to attend economic and social cooperation talks
for the 1981-85 planning period.
January 25 ................
January 26 ................
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Romanian Deputy Prime
Minister Constantin sign a 1981-85 economic protocol
which increases economic cooperation by 900 million
rubles over the 5-year period.
Fidel Castro meets with representatives of delegations
from Romania and Bulgaria in Havana attending
intergovernmental session for economic and scientific-
technical cooperation.
January 31 ................ Romania's Foreign Trade Minister Burtica and Cuba's
Deputy Minister of Foreign Relations de la Fuente meet in
Romania to discuss economic relations between the two
countries.
February 27 .............. Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Bulgarian leader Todor
Zhivkov and Romanian President Ceausescu.
July 03-07 ................ CDR Coordinator Armando Acosta visits Bucharest and
meets with Tamara Dobrin, executive chairman of the
National Council of the Socialist Democracy and Unity
Front (SUDF).
July 06 ...................... Cuban Minister of Foreign Trade Ricardo Cabrizas meets
in Bucharest with his counterpart, Cornel Burtica, to
discuss economic relations and bilateral relations.
Trade Union leader Roberto Veiga participates in the 26th
WFTU bureau meeting in Bucharest and discusses the
preparations for the 10th WFTU Congress which will be
held in Cuba next year.
The "Santiago de Cuba," a new freighter for Cuba's
merchant fleet is launched at the Braila Shipyard in
Romania. The Baracoa, Pinar del Rio, Tania, and the
Cienfuegos are being readied for operation.
December 22-25 I ...... Cuba's Vice Minister of Foreign Trade Jose de le Fuente
visits Romanian and discusses trade and bilateral
economic cooperation with Romanian official Camel
Burtica; he departs for Bulgaria.
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April 30 .................... Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas meets with
Rwanda's Minister of Economy and Trade Ngirira Mathieu
to discuss aspects of development and trade relations
between the two countries.
SAO TOME
January 28 ................ Cuba's Minister of Fish Industry Jorge Fernandez meets in
Havana with Sao Tome and Principe's Minister of Health
and Sports to discuss cooperation between their two
ministries.
October 01-08 .......... Manuel Pinto da Costa, President of Sao Tome and
Principe, arrives in Havana and meets with Fidel Castro to
discuss bilateral relations and the international situation.
SEYCHELLES
December 31 ............ A delegation from the Seychelles, headed by Deputy
Foreign Minister Heremias Boleyn, arrives in Havana.
SIERRA LEONE
April 02 .................... Politburo member Juan Almeida arrives in Sierra Leone
and delivers a message from Fidel Castro to President
Siaka Stevens. They discuss bilateral relations between
the two countries.
SOUTH AFRICA
February 09 .............. Fidel Castro sends a message to the Conference of
Foreign Ministers in New Delhi denouncing the threat of
aggression against Mozambique by South Africa.
April 14 .................... Cuban ambassador to Algeria Oscar Oramas speaks in
Algeria during the Nonaligned Coordinating Bureau
ministerial conference on Namibia. He denounces US
support for South Africa.
April 18 .................... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Algiers with
members of the nonaligned coordinating bureau to
examine the situation created by the military occupation
of Namibia by South Africa.
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May 19 ...................... Politburo alternate member Montane heads the Cuban
delegation to Paris to attend a UN meeting on the
International Conference on Sanctions against South
Africa.
May 20 ...................... Jesus Montane delivers a message from Fidel Castro at
the UN Conference on South Africa in Paris reaffirming
Cuba's support for Namibian and South African freedom.
August 09 ................ South Africa alleges that Angola, aided by Cuba and East
Germany, is deploying missiles and building up military
facilities within striking distance of the border with
Namibia.
August 27 ................
August 28 ................
August 29 ................
September 01 ..........
December 02 ............
December 31 ............
SOUTH YEMEN
(PDRY)
March 18 ..................
In a message to Fidel Castro, Angolan President dos
Santos stresses that the situation with South Africa is
becoming serious and might provoke a war of
unforeseeable consequences.
The Cuban Government condemns South African
aggression against Angola and warns that Cuban troops
in Angola "will go into action" if the South African forces
"draw near" to Cuban lines.
Cuba's UN Ambassador Raul Roa Kouri urges the
Security Council to condemn the South African invasion
of Angola and to demand an immediate withdrawal.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Berlin with
Foreign Affairs Minister Oskar Fischer to discuss US
imperialism towards Cuba and Latin America and South
Africa's attack on Angola.
Appearing before the UN General Assembly, Cuba's
Ambassador Raul Roa accuses the US of attempting to
link South Africa with the "most reactionary regimes" of
South America in a military alliance.
In an interview with Zimbabwe's Inter-African News
Agency, Cuban Ambassador Teofilo Acosta pledges his
country's support for Zimbabwe in the face of "South
African aggression."
Acting Foreign Minister Jose Fernandez and PDRY
Ambassador to Cuba Ahmad 'Ali Maysari sign a
cooperation agreement in the fields of education, science,
and culture.
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July 02 ...................... Cuba and PDRY sign an economic and technical
cooperation protocol under which Havana will assist in the
fields of agriculture, fishing, tourism, communications,
health, and construction.
November 25 ............ Granma announces the appointment of Ulises Estrada
Lescaille as the new Cuban ambassador to the People's
Democratic Republic of Yemen.
December 15 ............ The president of the People's Democratic Republic of
Yemen, 'Ali Nasir Muhammad Al-Hasani accepts the
credentials of Ulises Estrada as the new Cuban
Ambassador.
April 29 ....................
Cuba and Spain sign a financial agreement for a 200
million Canadian dollar credit to finance purchases in
Spain of goods, ships, entire plants, equipment, repairs
and payment of services.
A US federal judge denies political asylum for 39 Cuban
refugees and orders them deported to Spain. The
refugees used a tourist flight from Spain to Mexico last
March to slip into the US.
June 05-11 ................ Politburo alternate member Montane meets in Spain with
Communist Party Secretary General Santiago Carrillo.
June 08 .................... Spain agrees to handle Costa Rica's affairs in Cuba,
including the processing of visas for Cubans who want to
leave the country.
June 23 .................... Ramon Castro arrives in Spain to visit livestock breeding
centers and other establishments and to report on Cuban
progress in the field.
June 25 ..................... National Bank of Cuba (BNC) representatives meet in
Spain with Arab banks that have agreed to lend 60-million
Canadian dollars to finance projects in economic and
social development.
July 10 ...................... Cuban Justice Minister Osvaldo Dorticos arrives in Lima
for a 13-17 July meeting of justice ministers from 22
countries in Latin America, Spain, Portugal, and the
Phillippines.
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July 29 ...................... Politburo alternate member Montane heads a delegation
to the 10th Congress of the Spanish Communist Party in
Madrid.
August 03 ................ Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane visits Spain
for discussions with Santiago Carillo and Santiago
Alvarez, members of the Spanish Communist Party.
August 06 ................ Fidel Castro bids farewell to Adolfo Suarez, former
president of the Republic of Spain, who was visiting
Havana after attending the funeral of General Torrijos.
September 23 .......... Madrid press reports a Cuban couple, both
correspondents in Algeria for the Cuban News Agency
Prensa Latina, requested asylum in Spain on 19
September enroute from Paris to Algiers.
Fidel Castro visits the Spanish Embassy in Havana to
meet with the ambassador and the Spanish delegation
attending the IPU Congress to discuss bilateral relations
and the international situation.
September 24 .......... Dr. Cesar Leante, senior official of the Cuban Culture
Ministry, asks the Spanish Government for political
asylum during a stopover made by the aircraft in which he
was traveling.
November 17 ............ Minister of Culture Armando Hart meets in Spain with
Santiago Carillo, Secretary General of the Spanish
Communist Party, to discuss topics of mutual interest.
November 22-24 ...... Santiago Carrillo, general secretary of the Spanish
Communist Party, visits Cuba and meets with Fidel Castro
and Jesus Montane.
December 05 ............ The Spanish newspaper, El Pais, reports that Secretary of
State Haig and Cuban Vice President Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez met in Mexico on 23 November.
ST. LUCIA
December 03 ............ Secretary of State Haig tells reporters in St. Lucia that
there are 1,500 Cuban military advisers in Nicaragua.
ST. VINCENT
May 16 ...................... Cuban Ambassador to Grenada Julian Torres Rizo
confirms the defection of a Cuban doctor to the
neighboring island of La Union, a dependency of St.
Vincent; the defector later left for Canada.
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SURINAME
June 04 .................... Cuba establishes an embassy in Paramaribo, Suriname,
with Pedro Gonzalez as charge d'affaires; Suriname's
ambassador will be accredited to Cuba on a non-resident
basis.
SWEDEN
September 20 .......... Fidel Castro meets in Havana with Sweden's Democratic
Labor Party leader Olof Palme to discuss party relations,
the international situation, and the Iran and Iraq conflict.
SWITZERLAND
January 21 ................
February 03 ..............
The Switzerland-Cuba Friendship Association demands
an end to the US blockade against Cuba, removal of the
Guantanamo military base and the end of spy flights by
SR-71 aircraft.
Raul Roa, acting president of the National Assembly
meets with Swiss parliamentary official in Havana to
discuss the international situation and the strengthening
of parliamentary relations.
March 11 .................. Cuba denounces the Salvadoran military junta's
"systematic genocide"-with alleged US support-of the
Salvadoran people at the Human Rights Commission in
Geneva.
March 16 .................. Reuter reports in Geneva that Cuba is accusing the US of
using blackmail in an effort to block a Cuban bid to host
the Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in
Cuba.
US Ambassador Gerard Helman tells a UN meeting in
Geneva that his country will not attend the sixth UN
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) if it is
held in Cuba in 1983.
March 19 .................. Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca returns to Havana after
his tour of Switzerland, Cyprus and Lebanon.
August 04 ................ Foreign Minister Malmierca leaves for Geneva for
discussions on Iran and Iraq with the foreign ministers of
India and Zambia and representatives of the PLO.
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August 18 ................
At a 40-nation Geneva Disarmament Committee meeting,
Cuba charges that the CIA may have been responsible for
the island's widespread epidemic of dengue fever.
Cuba withdraws its offer to host the sixth UNCTAD
conference in 1983 and denounces the US for objecting
to Havana as the site.
October 28 ................ Cuban Ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Luis Sola Vila,
calls upon the UN to prohibit the production,
development, storage, and installation of neutron
weapons.
SYRIA
January 14 ................ Jesus Montane meets in Havana with a Syrian
parliamentary delegation headed by Dr. Muhsin Bilal.
They support each other's country struggles against
imperialism.
April 14 .................... Alternate Central Committee member Orlando Fundora
and Cuban ambassador to Syria Lester Rodriguez meet in
Damascus with Ba'th party officials to discuss party
relations.
April 16 .................... Orlando Fundora arrives in Damascus to attend the 15th
Palestine National Council Meeting. He meets with PLO
leader Sharer to reaffirm Cuba's solidarity with the PLO.
April 24 .................... Politburo member Jesus Montane meets with Syrian
Peace Council official Muhammad Jabbar Bajbuj in
Havana to discuss bilateral relations between the PCC
and the Socialist Arab Ba'th Party.
October 18 ................ Secretary General of the Ba'th Party Regional Command
meets with the Cuban Afro-Asian solidarity committee
headed by Melba Hernandez to discuss bilateral relations
and imperialism.
March 13 .................. Cuba and Tanzania sign cooperation agreements for
1981-82 in political, press and international affairs. The
agreements are signed in Dar es Salaam.
March 26 .................. Tanzania's Economic Affairs minister arrives in Havana to
participate in the fourth session of the Cuba-Tanzania
Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation
Commission.
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April 01 ....................
April 02 ....................
Minister-President of the State Committee for Economic
Cooperation Hector Rodriguez Llompart meets with
Tanzanian Economic Minister Malima in Havana to
discuss bilateral cooperation.
Vice President Rodriguez, Sergio del Valle and Hector
Rodriguez meet with the Tanzanian delegation visiting
Cuba. An economic, scientific, and technical cooperation
protocol is signed.
July 13 ...................... Cuba and Zanzibar sign a cooperation agreement in
Havana.
July 14 ...................... A cooperation agreement is signed in Havana by Isa
Mohammed Suleiman, minister of information of Zanzibar,
and Nivaldo Herrera, president of the Cuban Radio and
Television Institute ([CRT).
TURKEY
October 23 ................ Cuba's Charge d'Affaires in Turkey, Leonel Martinez
Estevez, meets with Turkish officials to discuss bilateral
relations and the future opening of the Cuban diplomatic
mission in Turkey.
UGANDA
September 14 .......... Zimbabwe, Uganda, the People's Republic of the Congo,
Guyana and Benin are approved as full members of the
Interparliamentary Council at a meeting in Havana.
US
January 09 ................ A spokesman for Alpha 66 tells a Miami television station
that "in the last two months we have sent three infiltration
teams into Cuba to commit acts of sabotage."
January 12-16 .......... Cuba and the US hold a second series of talks in
Washington, D.C. concerning the migration between the
two countries. No agreement is achieved and no future
meeting is scheduled.
January 14 ................ A Havana International Service commentary urges
increased solidarity with El Salvador to foil "the
interventionist maneuvers of US imperialism."
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January 15-17 ..........
January 20 ................
Cuba and Panama issue a joint communique supporting
Puerto Rican independence and calls for a US withdrawal
from Guantanamo, an end to the economic blockade, and
overflights of Cuba.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in New York
City to report to the Nonaligned Countries Movement
Coordinating Bureau his efforts to find a peaceful solution
to the Iran-Iraq conflict.
Fidel Castro speaks in Guisa, Granma Province marking
the formation of Territorial Militia Units. He says, "these
units are in answer to the menace of the Reagan
government."
January 21 ................ The Switzerland-Cuba Friendship Association demands
an end to the US blockade against Cuba, removal of the
Guantanamo military base and the end of spy flights by
SR-71 aircraft.
Raul Castro speaks at the inaugural ceremonies of the
Territorial Militia Groups in Santiago de Cuba and warns
that the slightest sign of counter-revolutionary activity will
be crushed.
January 27 ................ For the first time in 19 years a Cuban Government official
attends a White House diplomatic reception, hosted by
President Reagan. NSC adviser Allen states there is no
special meaning to it.
February 01 .............. The Chicago Tribune reports that Mexico secretly agreed
to "make all efforts" to supply Cuba with oil-drilling
equipment and goods manufactured in other countries.
US officials are quoted in the Chicago Tribune stating that
they have no knowledge of any US equipment being sold
to Cuba through Mexico.
February 06 .............. Cuba's ambassador to the UN, Raul Roa Kouri denounces
in New Delhi US aggressive policy in the Indian Ocean, the
Persian Gulf, the Middle East, Central America and the
Caribbean.
February 09 .............. Cuba attacks the Reagan Administration at the
nonaligned conference in New Delhi saying it had come to
power on the "dangerous platform" of achieving military
superiority.
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February 11 .............. Ricardo Escartin, First Secretary at the Cuban Interests
Section in Washington is expelled for attempting to
persuade American businessmen to violate the US trade
embargo against Cuba.
February 24 ...............
February 26 ..............
A State Department spokesman alleges that Ricardo
Escartin has been involved in intelligence activities while in
the US.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry denies a US accusation that
Ricardo Escartin enticed American businessmen into
illegal deals with Havana.
While speaking at the Party Congress in Moscow, Fidel
Castro implies that the USSR should help defend Cuba in
the event of a US invasion.
Fidel Castro and Brezhnev meet in Moscow. Brezhnev
expresses unspecified support for Cuba in the face of "an
anti-Cuban campaign by US imperialists."
February 27 .............. Secretary of State Haig denounces intervention in El
Salvador and accuses the Cuban Government of being
the essential manager of clandestine arms shipments to
that country.
March 01 .................. An FCC spokesman states that several Cuban radio
stations plan to use 188 radio frequencies that will cause
interference with broadcasts of some AM stations
throughout the Southeast.
March 03 .................. The US Justice Department decides to retry two anti-
Castro Cubans whose convictions for murdering former
Chilean Ambassador Letelier had been overturned.
March 05 .................. The leftist government of Mozambique orders four US
Embassy officers expelled on charges of. being part of a
CIA operation.
US State Department officials report that 12 Cuban
diplomats and several Mozambican officials had forcibly
detained an American diplomat in Maputo, trying to
recruit him to spy for Cuba.
March 09 .................. Raul Castro is interviewed by Granma. He sharply
criticizes the aggressive US policy towards Cuba and the
Central American countries.
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March 11 .................. Cuba denounces the Salvadoran military junta's
"systematic genocide"-with alleged US support-of the
Salvadoran people at the Human Rights Commission in
Geneva.
March 16 .................. Reuter reports in Geneva that Cuba is accusing the US of
using blackmail in an effort to block a Cuban bid to host
the Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in
Cuba.
US Ambassador Gerard Heiman tells a UN meeting in
Geneva that his country will not attend the sixth UN
Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) if it is
held in Cuba in 1983.
March 17 .................. Cuban exile Huber Matos, in a TV interview in Virginia
Beach, predicts Fidel Castro will be overthrown by a
revolution in his own country.
Cuba accuses Portuguese diplomat Mascarenhas and the
CIA of helping to organize a takeover of Ecuador's
Embassy in Havana last month in order to affect relations
between Cuba and Ecuador.
March 18 .................. A Department of State official says the Reagan
administration has developed plans that include possible
military options to be used against Cuba if they don't halt
arms to El Salvador.
March 19 .................. Secretary of State Haig dismisses as "pure speculation"
reports that the US has developed specific economic,
political and military options against Cuba to stop the
arms flow to El Salvador.
Three participants involved in the Ecuadoran Embassy
occupation in February are interviewed on TV in Cuba.
They claim they were assisted by a Portuguese diplomat
and the CIA.
US press confirms the charges recently made in Managua
that mercenaries of Cuban and Nicaraguan origin are
training in camps located in Florida.
The Cuban Foreign Minister condemns President
Reagan's recent statement on the administration's "plan"
to supply weapons to the Afghan rebels.
March 30 .................. Havana press reports factual news accounts concerning
the attempt on President Reagan's life. No commentary is
given.
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April 01 .................... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca calls Wayne Smith,
Chief of the US Interest Section in Cuba, to express Fidel
Castro's "profound concern" and "sincere wishes" for
President Reagan's recovery.
April 03 .................... Prensa Latina notes UPI and AFP reports that Cuban
military advisers will be expelled from Liberia. The Cuban
Foreign Ministry denies any Cuban presence in Liberia.
Havana press announces that the Cuban Government
placed its armed forces on alert and mobilized some
militia units following the assassination attempt on
President Reagan.
Politburo member Juan Almeida speaks at the SED
Congress in Berlin and accuses the US of promoting the
arms race and of halting the process of political and social
changes in the world.
Cuban ambassador to Algeria Oscar Oramas speaks in
Algeria during the Nonaligned Coordinating Bureau
ministerial conference on Namibia. He denounces US
support for South Africa.
Responding to a question from reporters, Vice President
George Bush says that President Reagan will not allow
Fidel Castro "to set the immigration policy of this
country."
April 16 .................... Pedro Miret speaks at the 16th Congress of the
Czechoslovakian Communist Party and refers to an
increasing anti-Cuban campaign by the US
administration.
Fidel Castro speaks on the 20th Anniversary of the
Socialist Declaration saying that Cuba's military is "100
times stronger" than when it defeated the invasion forces
at the Bay of Pigs.
April 17 .................... Fidel Castro marks the 20th Anniversary of the Bay of
Pigs invasion by warning his countrymen of "new threats
from the imperialists," and urging Cubans to be ready to
die for the revolution.
April 20 .................... Nicaraguan Junta member Daniel Ortega denounces the
current US foreign policy as a threat to world peace in a
speech delivered at the World Peace Council meeting in
Havana.
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Fidel Castro commemorates the 20th Anniversary of the
Bay of Pigs by blasting US "imperialism," hailing Cuba's
"magnificent" ties with the Soviet Union, and criticizing
US actions in El Salvador.
Four US sailors, crewmen on the USS Raleigh, stray into
Cuban waters while boating near the US Guantanamo
Naval Base and are picked up by a Cuban patrol vessel.
The four US sailors arrested by Cuban authorities after
their pleasure boat drifted into Cuban waters on 19 April,
are released to the Chief of the US Interests Section in
Havana.
West German official Hans-Jurgen Wischnewski states
that Fidel Castro had admitted to him that Cuba had sent
arms to El Salvador and that the US "White Paper" on El
Salvador was correct.
Fidel Castro addresses the World Peace Council meeting
and accuses the Reagan administration of increasing
world tension and risking a new phase of arms
development.
Thirteen Cuban exiles are rescued by the US Coast
Guard. They were "Marielistas" who had returned to
Cuba in October 1980 but were imprisoned and finally
forced to leave in small boats.
The US Coast Guard searches the Florida Straits for six
boats carrying about 45 Cubans. Cuban officials
reportedly stripped the boats of all navigational
equipment and towed them out to sea.
April 27 .................... The US Coast Guard ends its search for six small boats
said to be drifting in the Florida Straits with 40 Cuban
exiles aboard.
April 28 .................... US Federal officials move to prosecute 13 Cuban refugees
set adrift in the Florida Straits by the Castro Government.
April 29 .................... A US federal judge denies political asylum for 39 Cuban
refugees and orders them deported to Spain. The
refugees used a tourist flight from Spain to Mexico last
March to slip into the US.
May 01 ...................... Havana celebrates May Day. Fidel and his top aides
watch as hundreds of thousands of Cubans, carrying
signs condemning "Yankee Imperialism," parade down
Havana's main boulevard.
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May 07 ......................
Secretary of State Haig says in a Senate hearing that the
US would welcome improved relations, but Cuba first
must indicate that it is willing to abide by the rules of
international law.
Haitian press reports the L'Arthemise, a Haitian ship, is
hijacked by 19 Haitians and forced to sail to Miami.
Mechanical problems cause the ship to land in Cuba,
where the hijackers are arrested.
John Bushnell, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for
Inter-American Affairs, says the US wants to resume
military aid to Guatemala to help deal with a Cuban-
inspired insurgency movement.
May 08 ...................... In a speech at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Vice
President Bush says the Castro regime is "the worst
offender of human rights in this hemisphere."
May 13 ......................
May 14 ......................
Vice President of the Council of State and Ministers
Rodriguez examines Reagan's policy toward the Soviet
Union and Cuba in a speech at the Management Institute
of Higher Education.
Secretary of State Haig tells the House Foreign Affairs
Committee that Cuba has resumed "massive" arms
shipments to Central America-primarily through
Nicaragua into Guatemala.
Havana press reports that political sources in San Jose
assert that the IMF and the US ordered Costa Rica to
break relations with Cuba in exchange for a financial
favor.
May 15 ...................... Reagan administration officials say the US is seeking
assurances of a reduction in the Cuban troop level in
Angola as part of the new Western framework for
achieving independence in Namibia.
Czechoslovakian Foreign Minister Chnoupek ends his visit
to Cuba with a joint communique condemning US aid to
El Salvador.
June 03 .................... Vice President Bush publicly calls Cuba the chief threat to
peace in the hemisphere and vows that the US will resist
Cuban aggression and aid countries vulnerable to
subversion.
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Assistant Secretary of State Enders says Cuba has sent
600-800 military advisers to Nicaragua in an attempt to
use that country as a base of operations in Central
America.
June 10 .................... Undersecretary of State Richard Kennedy charges that
the Kremlin-through surrogates such as Libya and
Cuba-has a substantial involvement in international
terrorism.
June 11 .................... The first of 1,763 Cuban refugees held at the US Federal
Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, is released on Federal
Court orders because there was no evidence to prove he
had committed a crime.
June 16 .................... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in New York to
preside over the nonaligned meeting called to consider
Israel's "acts of aggression" in bombing Iraq's nuclear
reactor.
June 17 .................... At the UN Security Council, Cuban Foreign Minister
Malmierca charges that the US supported Israel's attack
on Iraq.
July 10 ....................... An Eastern Airlines L-101 1 jet, enroute from Chicago to
Miami, is hijacked to Cuba, where the hijackers are taken
into custody; the plane and passengers depart for Miami.
July 11 ......................
July 26 ......................
Havana radio reports the capture on 5 July in Matanzas of
five "counter-revolutionary persons of Cuban origin" who
came from the US and planned to assassinate Fidel
Castro on 26 July.
At ceremonies marking the 28th anniversary of the
revolution in Las Tunas, Fidel Castro cites economic
improvements and accuses the US of engaging in
"bacteriological war against Cuba."
July 27 ...................... The State Department denies charges by Fidel Castro that
the CIA is responsible for a viral epidemic that has
affected 273,404 Cubans and killed 113.
July 29 ...................... Fidel Castro, accompanied by Nicaraguan leaders Ortega
and Tirado and US scientist George Wald, tour places of
economic and social interest in Las Tunas and Holguin
provinces.
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July 30 ...................... Pentagon spokesman announces that-over international
waters southeast of Florida on July 17 and 24-US Navy
F-14s intercepted Cuban MIG-21s that were heading for
the US carrier Independence.
August 03 ................ The State Department reports that the Soviet Union is
providing Cuba with a Koni-class frigate, which is larger
than any ship now in the Cuban Navy.
August 11 ................ Havana press reports that the US has authorized the
recruiting of Cuban counterrevolutionaries in Miami and
allegedly intends to send them to Guantanamo to train for
an attack on Cuba.
A US military spokesman in Florida states that a balloon
used by the US Air Force for intelligence surveillance
against Cuba broke loose from its moorings on 10
August.
August 15 ................ The Interior Ministry announces that a former member of
the defunct "Tigres de Masferrer" group, who allegedly
entered Cuba recently from the US, has been arrested.
August 18 ................ At a 40-nation Geneva Disarmament Committee meeting,
Cuba charges that the CIA may have been responsible for
the island's widespread epidemic of dengue fever.
August 19 ................ A federal judge in Georgia orders the immediate release
from the Atlanta federal penitentiary of 381 Cubans
imprisoned since they arrived in the US on last year's
"Freedom Flotilla."
September 01 .......... US Department of State official William Jahn says the US
is actively pursuing the possibility of beaming special
radio broadcasts at Cuba.
100 Cuban refugees arrive in Jamaica to join an estimated
400 others who arrived during the last few weeks on their
way to Honduras and the US.
September 02 .......... The State Department says is has received intelligence
reports that Cuban advisers and Nicaraguan nationals
have been aiding leftist guerrillas battling the government
in El Salvador.
September 03 .......... Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca chairs a ceremony at
the United Nations on the occasion of the 20th
anniversary of the founding of the nonaligned countries
movement.
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September 09-10 ...... Cuba reports an epidemic of hemorrhagic conjunctivitis
(pink eye) that has affected more than 1,800 Cubans.
Prensa Latina accuses the US Government of using germ
warfare.
September 10 .......... US State Department spokesman Dean Fischer says that
Cuba's charges that the US is using germ warfare are
"absurd."
September 15-23 ...... The 68th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting is held
in Havana. In a speech, Fidel Castro describes the US
administration as "Fascist" and accuses it of being
involved in biological warfare.
September 16 .......... Senator Robert Stafford, who heads the US delegation to
the 68th Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU) Conference in
Havana, calls Fidel Castro's speech "unfair, untruthful
and impolite."
The State Department refuses visas to Cuban officials
Ricardo Alarcon, Marcelo Fernandez Font, and Alberto
Betancourt Roa, who were scheduled to attend a trade
seminar in Washington on 23-24 Sept.
September 21 .......... Fidel Castro grants an interview to Julio Scherer, director
of the Mexican magazine Proceso. Castro compares
Hitler's time with the present time under Reagan.
September 23 .......... Alberto Betancourt Roa and Marcelo Fernandez Font,
who had been denied visas, use a videotaped
presentation at a trade seminar to show that the Cuban
economy has grown substantially.
Official Washington sources report that the Soviet Union
has supplied Cuba with more military equipment during
the first nine months of 1981 than it had since the Cuban
missile crisis in 1962.
National Security Adviser Richard Allen announces that
the US will begin beaming Spanish-language radio news
broadcasts at Cuba in January 1982. The broadcast point
of "Radio Marti" is undecided.
September 25 .......... Foreign Minister Malmierca addresses the UN General
Assembly and accuses the Reagan team of
warmongering, and denounces US intervention in El
Salvador.
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September 29 ..........
September 30 ..........
Fidel Castro meets with US representatives to the IPU
Conference Congressmen Derwinski and Danielson. The
contents of their dialogue will not be made public
according to the congressmen.
Foreign Minister Malmierca asks the international
community to demand that the US put an end to its
aggressive economic and military policies at a meeting of
foreign ministers of the Group of 77.
An Eastern Airlines spokesman reports that Cuban
officials refused to allow at least six Eastern Airlines
Jamaica-bound flights to fly through Cuban airspace in
the past week.
October 05-09 .......... The second nonaligned radio festival is held in Havana
and the majority of delegations attending condemned the
US Government's decision to create a radio station to
broadcast into Cuba.
October 08 ................ Cuba withdraws its offer to host the sixth UNCTAD
conference in 1983 and denounces the US for objecting
to Havana as the site.
October 22-24 .......... The second meeting of the CDR Congress opens in
Havana. Addressing the closing session, Fidel Castro
adopts a defiant posture toward the US and faults the US
Government for worldwide tension.
October 23 ................ Interior Minister Ramiro Valdes announces at the second
CDR Congress that "the national security organizations"
are on the alert for any CIA subversive plots against
Cuba's top leaders.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Jesus Montane meet with
Italian Communist Party leader Enrico Berlinguer in
Havana to discuss his trip to America, Mexico, and
Nicaragua.
October 29 ................ Secretary of State Haig announces in a press conference
that the US will adopt "measures" against Cuba and that
President Reagan will make the "final decisions."
October 31 ................ Havana press reacts to Secretary of State Haig's
comments on 29 October by stating that Cuba is
mobilizing and preparing to react to any US actions
against Cuba.
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November 03 ............ Cuba's newly appointed Ambassador to the USSR Rene
Anillo Capote meets with Foreign Minister Gromyko to
discuss US threats and pressure against Cuba.
November 05 ............ An unidentified Cuban diplomat says that Cuba fears "US
military aggression" to offset alleged Cuban involvement
in Central America, and has mobilized its forces "to
respond to any attack."
Cuba's Ambassador to Vietnam Faure Chomon meets
with Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach to discuss the US
Government's alleged intensification of hostile actions and
threats to invade Cuba.
November 06 ............ Ambassador to the UN Raul Roa Kouri asks UN Secretary
General Waldheim to demand proof from Secretary Haig
that Cuba landed 500-600 soldiers in Nicaragua.
November 07 ............ Cuba's Ambassador to the UN Raul Roa Kouri delivers a
note to UN Secretary General Waldheim protesting what
he claims are US plans to blockade or attack Cuba.
In an interview with Le Monde, Armando Hart says Cuba
is preparing to resist armed US intervention.
November 09 ............ Pravda warns the Reagan administration that any
"aggressive actions" by the US against Cuba would entail
"dangerous consequences."
November 10 ............ In an interview for Radio Reloj, 'Ali al-Ajila, secretary of
the Libyan People's Bureau in Havana, declares that his
country will stand with Cuba if it is attacked by US
imperialism.
Cultural Minister Armando Hart meets in Paris with French
Communist Party members Georges Marchais and Leonel
Jostens and Culture Minister Jack Lang to discuss
solidarity against US aggression.
November 11 ............ Fidel Castro, in a letter to the Washington Post,
challenges the US to prove its charges about Cuban
involvement in the fighting in El Salvador, as reported in
the Post on 19 October.
The State Department, responding to Fidel Castro's letter
to the Washington Post, says "that Cuba is and has been
for many years formenting subversion and violent
revolution throughout the hemisphere."
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US press reports that Fidel Castro has claimed that
reports of Cuban troops in Nicaragua are "aimed at
setting the stage" for aggressive US action against Cuba.
An article in the Vietnam newspaper Nhan Dan tells US
imperialists not to lay a hand on Cuba. "An attack on
Cuba will be regarded as an attack on Vietnam."
November 16 ............ Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mohamed
Abdelaziz sends a letter to Fidel Castro denouncing US
interference in Western Sahara.
November 17 ............ Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon holds a press
conference in Barbados saying that if the US wants to
improve relations with Havana it must remove the
economic embargo and end its hostility.
Armando Hart grants an interview to IPS News Agency in
Algeria accusing the US of disseminating false information
to mentally prepare the US population for an aggression
against Cuba.
PLO leader Yasir Arafat sends a message to Fidel Castro
reaffirming his support for Cuba in the face of US threats.
Havana press reports that the Cuban Christian churches
met on 14 and 15 November to condemn US intervention
in Cuba, Central America, and the Caribbean.
The International Seminar of Solidarity with Indochina is
held in Havana. Jesus Montane says that the path of
increasing close relations between the US and PRC is a
serious danger for peace.
In an interview in 0 Journal de Angola, Cuban
Ambassador to Angola Francia Mestre says that the
present crisis in Central America and the Caribbean has
been brought on by US aggression.
November 27 ............ ICAP Vice President Mario Rodriguez expresses solidarity
toward the oppressed Haitian people, blaming US
imperialism for the situation in that country.
November 30 ............ Newsweek magazine reports that Cuba has placed agents
in all its diplomatic missions in Latin America and the
Caribbean, "in at least five instances as ambassador or
charge d'affaires."
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December 01 ............ Cuba's Ambassador to the UN Raul Roa addresses a UN
session denouncing US interference in El Salvador.
December 02 ............ Appearing before the UN General Assembly, Cuba's
Ambassador Raul Roa accuses the US of attempting to
link South Africa with the "most reactionary regimes" of
South America in a military alliance.
December 03 ............ Secretary of State Haig tells reporters in St. Lucia that
there are 1,500 Cuban military advisers in Nicaragua.
US Government sources reportedly state that Cuba is
improving nine military airfields in apparent preparation
for dispersing its aircraft to make them less vulnerable to
attack.
US Administration officials report that the Soviet Union
shipped more than 62,000 tons of military equipment to
Cuba during the first 11 months of 1981.
December 04 ............ lzvestiya condemns US plans to establish Radio Marti for
broadcasting to Cuba.
December 05 ............ Cuba's alternate Ambassador to the UN Rolando Lopez
del Amo urges the US to provide security measures for its
diplomats in New York.
The Spanish newspaper, El Pais, reports that Secretary of
State Haig and Cuban Vice President Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez met in Mexico on 23 November.
December 09 ............ Vice Minster of Foreign Relations Ricardo Alarcon, in an
interview with the Mexican newspaper El Dia, says that US
threats against Cuba and Nicaragua have not been
ignored.
December 14 ............ Assistant Secretary of State Enders, in testimony before a
committee, states that consideration of tightening the
trade embargo against Cuba is underway.
Assistant Secretary of State Enders, in testimony before a
committee, states that contingency plans for military
action against Cuba and Nicaragua have been developed.
December 15 ............ Defense Undersecretary Fred We tells the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee that the US is making plans for a
major military action if there are any "further military
threats" from Cuba.
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Vice President of the Council of Ministers Flavio Bravo
visits Mexico at the invitation of President Lopez Portillo.
He says the Cuban people are prepared to face and
defeat any US aggression.
December 16 ............ Jesus Escandel condemns US aggression in a speech at
the World Trade Union Conference in Paris. Cuba is
elected to the presidency of this conference.
December 21 ............
December 23 ............
USSR
January 12 ................
The Central Committee sends a message to the second
congress of the Worker's Party of Jamaica attacking
Jamaica's Prime Minister Seaga by describing him as a
subordinate of Washington.
Radio Havana begins transmitting English-language
programs on the AM radio frequency of 1160 kilohertz,
which is audible in the eastern US. Cuban broadcasting
on 600 kilohertz ceased 10 days ago.
Vice President of Cuba's Council of Ministers Flavio Bravo
heads a delegation to the 98th meeting of the CEMA
Executive Committee in Moscow.
January 21 ................ Cuba's President of the State Committee for Material and
Technical Supply Irma Valdes, meets with USSR officials
Baybakov and Katushev in Moscow to discuss economic
cooperation.
January 27 ................ Chairman of the Cuban State Committee for Economic
Cooperation, Hector Rodriguez Llompart arrives in
Moscow to discuss Soviet assistance during the next, five
years for Cuban industrial enterprises.
February 06-12 ........ Raul Castro greets Soviet Marshal Nikolay V. Ogarkov
upon his arrival in Havana. He holds official talks with Raul
and participates in many other activities.
February 16 .............. A protocol on the coordination of science and technology
plans between Cuba and the USSR for 1981-85 is signed
in Havana; also signed are documents extending the 1972
treaty on training.
Feb 22 - Mar 03 ........ Fidel Castro heads the Cuban delegation to the 26th
Congress of the Soviet Communist Party in Moscow.
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February 24 .............. Fidel Castro is the first foreign Communist official to
address the 26th Party Congress in Moscow.
While speaking at the Party Congress in Moscow, Fidel
Castro implies that the USSR should help defend Cuba in
the event of a US invasion.
February 26 .............. Fidel Castro and Brezhnev meet in Moscow. Brezhnev
expresses unspecified support for Cuba in the face of "an
anti-Cuban campaign by US imperialists."
Politburo alternate member of the PCC Jesus Montane
meets in Moscow with USSR Communications Minister V.
Shamshin to discuss bilateral relations between the two
countries.
February 27 .............. Secretary General of Cuba's Trade Unions Roberto Veiga
meets with USSR Trade Union Chairman Shibayev to
exchange experiences.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Jesus Montane hold talks in
Moscow with Secretary General of Madagascar's
Congress of Independence Party Giselle Rabesajaba.
Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Marcelino dos Santos,
secretary of the FRELIMO Party of Mozambique.
February 28 .............. Jesus Montane holds talks in Moscow with the secretary
general of the Argentine Communist Party, Atos Fava.
Fidel Castro holds talks in Moscow with East Germany's
United Socialist Party Secretary Erich Honecker.
March 01 .................. Fidel Castro addresses a friendship meeting in Odessa
stressing that without the USSR's assistance, Cuba would
not be able to withstand the attacks of imperialism.
March 02 .................. Fidel Castro and his delegation return to Moscow after a
36-hour tour of various places of economic and historic
interest in the region of Odessa.
March 03 .................. Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets in
Moscow with Peruvian Communist Party leader Jorge del
Prado to discuss aspects of the situation in Latin America.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets in
Moscow with Dominican Republic Communist Party
leader Narciso Isa Conde to discuss the international
situation.
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Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets in
Moscow with Paraguayan Communist Party leader
Ananias Maidana where solidarity between the two
parties is expressed.
March 04 .................. Fidel Castro and his delegation return to Havana after
attending the 26th CPSU Congress in Moscow.
March 08 .................. Official sources in Havana report that preliminary work
has begun on the first nuclear powerplant in Cuba. The
Soviet-designed plant will be built near Cienfuegos.
March 24 .................. Cuban Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas Ruiz
arrives in Moscow to attend the 60th meeting of the
CEMA Standing Committee for Foreign Trade. He meets
with Foreign Trade Minister Patolichev.
April 07 .................... In a speech at the 16th Congress of the Communist Party
of Czechoslovakia, Leonid Brezhnev says that the Soviet
Union will continue to support the fraternal Cuban people.
Cuban ambassador to the USSR Severo Aguirre del
Cristo and USSR First Deputy Foreign Minister Korniyenko
sign a cooperation agreement in education, culture, and
science for 1981-85.
April 11 .................... Vice President Rodriguez greets CPSU Central Committee
member Katushev in Havana. The 11th session of
Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation talks
open.
April 14 .................... Soviet experts complete designs for an expansion of Jose
Marti International Airport that will quadruple its present
capacity to serve up to 1,600 passengers per hour.
Fidel Castro meets with Soviet official Konstantin
Katushev to discuss the development of commercial
relations and economic and scientific-technical
cooperation between the two countries.
A Soviet naval detachment, consisting of the
antisubmarine ship "Nikolayev," the escort ships
"Svirepy" and "Bditelnyy" and the tanker "Olekma,"
arrives in Havana for an official visit.
April 16 .................... Raul Castro meets with Vice Admiral Vladimir A.
Samoilov, Commander of the Soviet Naval Detachment
visiting Cuba.
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April 18 .................... Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Konstantin Katushev sign an
economic, scientific, and technical cooperation protocol
and an economic credit agreement for 1981-85. Fidel
attends the ceremony.
Raul Castro and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez attend a
reception hosted by visiting CPSU Central Committee
member Konstantin Katushev. USSR Vice Admiral
Samoilov also attends.
April 20 .................... Fidel Castro commemorates the 20th Anniversary of the
Bay of Pigs by blasting US "imperialism," hailing Cuba's
"magnificent" ties with the Soviet Union, and criticizing
US actions in El Salvador.
April 21 .................... Venezuelan Energy Minister Calderon affirms that
Venezuela continues to deliver 10,000 barrels of oil per
day to Cuba as part of an agreement reached with the
USSR.
April 23 .................... The Soviet naval detachment, commanded by Vice
Admiral Samoilov, arrives in Cienfuegos. The Soviet
officers meet with officials of the Central Naval District
and provincial Party leaders.
April 25 .................... Fidel and Raul Castro visit the Soviet naval detachment
flagship in Cienfuegos. Soviet Vice Admiral Samoilov
briefs them on the ships' combat capabilities and modern
armament.
The 13th Conference of CEMA-member countries ends.
Bilateral cooperation programs are signed for 1981-82
between Cuba, Bulgaria, Hungary, GDR, Poland, Soviet
Union and Czechoslovakia.
May 06-15 ................
May 08 ......................
A CPSU delegation headed by V. M. Nikiforov, deputy
chief of the Organizational Work Department, visits Cuba
for familiarization with the PCC's primary party
organizations.
Vice President of the Council of State and Ministers
Rodriguez examines Reagan's policy toward the Soviet
Union and Cuba in a speech at the Management Institute
of Higher Education.
May 11 ...................... Vice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers Flavio
Bravo and Cuban Ambassador to the Soviet Union
Aguirre arrive in Moscow to attend a CEMA executive
meeting.
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May 15 ...................... Politburo member Senen Casas meets with Marshals of
the Soviet Union Dimitriy Ustinov and Nikolay Ogarkov to
discuss matters of mutual interest.
May 28 ...................... CPSU Politburo member Konstantin Chernenko meets
with Central Committee member Secundino Guerra in
Moscow to exchange views on party matters.
June 02 .................... Leonid Brezhnev awards the Order of October Revolution
to Raul Castro for his contribution to the development and
bolstering of relations between the two countries.
June 02-11 ................ Politburo member Jorge Risquet Valdes and his
delegation arrive in Moscow from Ulaanbaatar; they visit
Latvia and Ukrainia and tour the Port of Kaliningrad.
June 06 .................... Fidel Castro attends the 20th anniversary ceremony of
MININT, at which Soviet representative Yuriy Shurbanov
conveys greetings from President Brezhnev; Nicaraguan
leader Borge also speaks.
June 08 .................... Cuba and the USSR sign a scientific-technical
cooperation protocol for 1981-85.
June 10 .................... Undersecretary of State Richard Kennedy charges that
the Kremlin-through surrogates such as Libya and
Cuba-has a substantial involvement in international
terrorism.
June 14 .................... An Egyptian newspaper reports that 1,260 Cuban soldiers
are en route to Ethiopia on the Soviet vessel Leonid
Sulotov.
CDR coordinator Armando Acosta and his delegation
begin a visit to the Soviet Union.
Politburo member Machado, heading a delegation to the
Soviet Union, meets with CPSU officials to discuss party
organizational work.
The Cuban and Soviet foreign trade ministers, Ricardo
Cabrizas and Mikolay Patolichev, sign a new trade
agreement for 1981-85 in Moscow.
July 15 ...................... The Cuban-Soviet Fishery Commission meets in Riga to
discuss training of Cuban crews in the Soviet Union and
the development of the Cuban canned fish industry.
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At a ceremony at the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed
Forces (MINFAR) , Raul Castro bids farewell to the chief
Soviet military adviser, Lt. General Krivoplyasov, who will
return to the USSR.
A Soviet-Cuban Friendship Society delegation, headed by
Vice Minister Nikolay Snetkov, arrives in Havana to attend
the 28th anniversary of the attack on the Moncada
garrison.
The Council of State appoints Rene Anillo Capote,
alternate member of the Cuban Communist Party's
Central Committee, as the new ambassador to the Soviet
Union.
Secretary of State Haig announces to the Senate Armed
Services Committee that the Soviet Union is shipping
arms to Cuba in near-record quantities-already more
than twice the total for all of 1980.
August 03 ................ The State Department reports that the Soviet Union is
providing Cuba with a Koni-class frigate, which is larger
than any ship now in the Cuban Navy.
August 04 ................ Raul Castro, Vilma Espin, and Division General Senen
Casas bid farewell at Jose Marti Airport to the chief
military adviser of the FAR, Lt. Gen. Sergey Krivoplyasov,
who had concluded his tour.
August 14 ................ Cuba signs a sugar agreement with CEMA countries
totaling over 423 million rubles for the 1981-86 period.
August 18 ................
August 25-26 ............
Havana press announces the arrival of about 50 pieces of
Soviet equipment to be used for spraying the mosquitoes
responsible for spreading dengue fever.
Foreign Minister Malmierca detours to Moscow for
meetings with Soviet Ministers Georgiy Korniyenko and
Igor Zemskov before going on to Vietnam.
August 26 ................ Granma reports that Colonel General Vladimir N.
Konchitz, the new chief Soviet military adviser to the
Cuban Armed Forces, attended a ceremony honoring
Cuban military officers.
August 27 ................ Havana press reports that Soviet experts are developing
plans to improve Cuba's seagoing commerce by
reconstructing the port of Havana and piers in Cienfuegos
by 1990.
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September 03 .......... Minister of Basic Industry Joel Domenech visits the oil
installations and industrial zones in Baku, USSR, and
discusses bilateral cooperation with CPSU member
Geydar Aliyev.
September 05 .......... Minister of Basic Industry Joel Domenech meets in
Moscow with K. F. Katushev, deputy chairman of the
USSR Council of Ministers.
September 09-12 ...... Raul Castro attends Soviet Army maneuvers in Belorussia
and the Baltic.
September 14 .......... Raul Castro and Soviet leaders Ustinov and Ogarkov meet
in Moscow to discuss matters of mutual interest.
September 15 .......... Leonid Brezhnev presents the Order of the October
Revolution to Raul Castro in a ceremony in Moscow. In his
speech, Raul stresses solidarity and fraternity between the
party and the state.
September 18 .......... Raul Castro meets in Moscow with CPSU Central
Committee member Mikhail Suslov to discuss party
relations, social and labor organizations, and to increase
bilateral economic cooperation.
September 22 .......... Raul Castro returns from the Soviet Union which he visited
at the invitation of Soviet Defense Minister Marshal of the
USSR Dimitriy Ustinov.
September 23 .......... Official Washington sources report that the Soviet Union
has supplied Cuba with more military equipment during
the first nine months of 1981 than it had since the Cuban
missile crisis in 1962.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle meets with his
Soviet counterpart Sergey Burenkov and visits several
medical installations in Moscow.
September 24 .......... Cuba and the USSR sign a 3-year cultural protocol
ratifying what has been established in the 1981-85 plan
on bilateral cooperation in the branches of culture,
education, and science.
September 30 .......... The 35th session of the CEMA Permanent Commission for
Transportation is held in Havana with groups from
Bulgaria, Hungary, the GDR, Romania, USSR,
Czechoslovakia, and Cuba participating.
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Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Andrey Gromyko
in New York following a UN General Assembly session to
discuss Soviet-Cuban relations and the international
situation.
Communications Minister Pedro Guelmes arrives in
Moscow to attend a CEMA communications meeting from
12-18 October. He meets his counterpart Vasiliy
Shamshin to discuss bilateral cooperation.
October 11 ................ Vice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers Flavio
Bravo arrives in Moscow to participate in the 101st
meeting of the CEMA Executive Committee.
Cuban Trade Union leader Roberto Veiga and Soviet
Trade Union Council Chairman Aleksey Shibayev sign a
cooperation agreement.
Cuba's newly appointed Ambassador to the USSR Rene
Anillo Capote meets with Foreign Minister Gromyko to
discuss US threats and pressure against Cuba.
November 04 ............ Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with the USSR's
Nonferrous Metallurgy Deputy Minister Ivan Glushkov to
discuss future metallurgy development in Punta Gorda,
Nicaro, Moa, and Castellanos.
Division Generals Senen Casas Regueiro and Sixto Batista
Santana preside at the main ceremony in Havana marking
the 64th anniversary of the October Revolution.
Cuban Ambassador to the USSR Rene Anillo Capote
presents his credentials and reaffirms Cuba's solidarity
with the USSR to Soviet official Vasiliy Kuznetsov.
November 07 ............ Soviet leader Ustinov accuses the US of extensively using
methods of international terrorism and impudently
intervening in domestic affairs of other states and
increasing tensions with Cuba.
Politburo alternate member Antonio Perez Herrero meets
with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko in Moscow to
discuss matters of mutual interest.
November 09 ............ Pravda warns the Reagan administration that any
"aggressive actions" by the US against Cuba would entail
"dangerous consequences."
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Fidel and Raul Castro attend a reception marking the 64th
anniversary of the October Revolution hosted by Vitaliy
Vorotnikov, the Soviet ambassador in Cuba.
November 10 ............ Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane receives a
Soviet delegation led by G. M. Voskanyan, secretary of
the Central Committee of Armenia.
November 11 ............ Politburo member Jorge Risquet Valdes meets in Havana
with Leonid S. Sarviro, Belorussian Communist Party
member, to discuss bilateral relations.
November 27-30 ...... Soviet Air Defense chief Marshal Alexander Koldunov
arrives in Havana to participate in the 25th anniversary
celebration of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces. He
meets with Raul Castro.
November 30 ............ Vice Admiral Aldo Santamaria Cuadrado meets in
Moscow with Ustinov, Ogarkov, and Army General
Aleksey Yepishev. Santamaria will attend the 25th
anniversary celebration of the FAR in the USSR.
December 03 ............ Raul Castro presents the Liberation War Fighter, the
Clandestine Struggle and International Fighter medals to a
group of Soviet armed forces officers at the Palace of the
Revolution.
Raul Castro grants an interview to Izvestiya stressing the
creation of a new defensive unit, the territorial militias,
which consists of more than 1.5 million members.
US Administration officials report that the Soviet Union
shipped more than 62,000 tons of military equipment to
Cuba during the first 11 months of 1981.
December 04 ............ Raul Castro and Division Generals Julio Casas Regueiro
and Senen Casas Regueiro attend a farewell party for
USSR Marshal of Aviation Aleksandr Koldunov before his
departure from Cuba.
Izvestiya condemns US plans to establish Radio Marti for
broadcasting to Cuba.
December 18 ............ Soviet Agriculture Minister Valentin Karpovich Mesyats
visits with Mario Rodriguez, vice president of the Cuban
Institute of Friendship and inspects the institution's
facilities.
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December 22 ............ The Council of State confers the Carlos Manuel de
Cespedes Order and the Hero of the Republic of Cuba
awards on Leonid Brezhnev on the occasion of his 75th
birthday.
April 22 .................... The Vatican announces the resignation of Monsignor
Francisco Ricardo Oves Fernandez as archbishop of
Havana. The Monsignor resigned because of health
reasons.
VENEZUELA
February 27 ..............
Mar 23 - Apr 01 ........
April 21 ....................
May 29 ......................
Venezuelan press reports Cuba has conditioned the
departure of refugees in the Venezuelan Embassy in
Havana to the conviction of those charged with bombing
an airplane over Barbados.
Cuban Foreign Trade Ministry representative, Eduardo
Delgado, and his delegation attend the seventh Latin
American Economic System (SELA) ministerial meeting
in Caracas.
Venezuelan Energy Minister Calderon affirms that
Venezuela continues to deliver 10,000 barrels of oil per
day to Cuba as part of an agreement reached with the
USSR.
Georgetown press reports that Fidel Castro sent a
message to President Burnham supporting Guyana in its
border dispute with Venezuela.
November 26 ............ The first 37 Cuban exiles of a group of 700 who had
obtained visas to live in Venezuela in 1980 arrive in
Caracas.
December 08 ............ Three hijacked Venezuelan airplanes, an Avensa Airline
Boeing 727 and two DC-9s of the Aeropostal Airline,
carrying an estimated 150 hostages, arrive at Havana's
Jose Marti Airport.
The hijackers of the three Venezuelan airplanes surrender
to Cuban authorities.
December 09 ............ All three hijacked Venezuelan airplanes that landed in
Havana on 8 December depart from Jose Marti Airport en
route to Caracas carrying an estimated 150 hostages.
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December 11 ............ Politburo alternate member Montane meets with
Venezuelan Communist Party members Mancera and
Olaechea to discuss party relations.
April 21 .................... Cuba and Vietnam sign a cultural and scientific
cooperation agreement in Havana providing for the
exchange of scientific cadres, educational officials,
teachers, and students.
June 12 .................... A Vietnamese delegation, headed by Agricultural, Science
and Technology Minister Nghiem Xuan Yem, arrives in
Havana to attend the fifth Cuban-Vietnamese
Intergovernmental Meeting.
June 15 .................... Vietnam's Agriculture Minister Nghiem Xuan Yem meets
with Cuba's Minister of the Fishing Industry Fernandez.
June 16 .................... Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle meets with the
Vietnamese delegation headed by Minister Yem to discuss
cooperation in the field of health.
June 18 .................... Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Vietnam's Agricultural
Minister Yem.
June 20 .................... Cuba and Vietnam sign a final protocol in Havana at the
fifth meeting of the Cuban-Vietnamese Intergovernmental
Committee for Economic, Scientific, and Technical
Cooperation.
July 31 ...................... Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Vietnamese Vice
Premier Huynh Tan Phat in Havana to discuss bilateral
and multilateral cooperation.
August 27-31 ............
September 03-14 ......
Foreign Minister Malmierca visits Hanoi and attends a
reception hosted by his Vietnamese counterpart, Nguyen
Co Thach, during which ties of friendship and solidarity
are highlighted.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle visits Vietnam
and conveys greetings from Fidel Castro at the
inauguration ceremony of the Dong Hoi Hospital that was
built by Cuban workers.
September 14 .......... Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle and his
Vietnamese counterpart Vu Van Can sign a protocol in
health work for 1981-85.
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November 05 ............ Cuba's Ambassador to Vietnam Faure Chomon meets
with Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach to discuss the US
Government's alleged intensification of hostile actions and
threats to invade Cuba.
November 15 ............ An article in the Vietnam newspaper Nhan Dan tells US
imperialists not to lay a hand on Cuba. "An attack on
Cuba will be regarded as an attack on Vietnam."
November 19-21 ...... The International Seminar of Solidarity with Indochina is
held in Havana. Jesus Montane says that the path of
increasing close relations between the US and PRC is a
serious danger for peace.
December 24 ............
December 26 ............
WESTERN
SAHARA
September 11 ..........
September 19 ..........
November 16 ............
YEMEN ARAB
REPUBLIC
February 26 ..............
Vice Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torras and his delegation
visit Hanoi and have working sessions with Deputy
Minister of Foreign Affairs Hoang Bich Son.
Vice Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torras meets with
Vietnam's Communist Party member To Huu and officials
Nguyan Co Thach and Hoang Tung.
Politburo alternate member Montane meets in Havana
with Ibrahim Hakim, Foreign Minister of the Saharan
Democratic Arab Republic (SDAR) to discuss solidarity
and topics of mutual interest.
Fidel Castro, Isidoro Malmierca, and Jesus Montane meet
in Havana with Foreign Minister Ibrahim Hakim of the
Saharan Democratic Arab Republic to stress solidarity
between the two countries.
Secretary General of the Polisario Front Mohamed
Abdelaziz sends a letter to Fidel Castro denouncing US
interference in Western Sahara.
Fidel Castro meets with Yemen's Chairman of the
Presidium of the Supreme People's Council in Moscow to
reaffirm their ties of friendship.
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Minister of Transportation Guillermo Garcia meets with
Yugoslavia's Ambassador Zivojin Jazic to discuss
cooperation between the two countries in the field of
transportation.
Cuba and Yugoslavia open economic and trade talks in
Havana; Central Committee member Jose Lopez Moreno
and Petar Flekovic, vice president of the Executive
Committee of Yugoslavia, preside.
Fidel Castro and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meet with
Yugoslavian official Petar Flekovic to discuss the
international situation and economic, cultural, and
scientific relations.
Acting President of the National Assembly Raul Roa and
Oscar Fernandez Mell greet Dragoslav Markovic,
president of the Federal Assembly of Yugoslavia, upon his
arrival in Havana.
June 03-04 ................ Justice Minister Dorticos, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meet with
Yugoslavia's Federal Assembly President Markovic.
Fidel Castro meets with Yugoslavia's Federal Assembly
President Markovic to discuss bilateral relations and the
international situation; Markovic leaves Havana.
July 15 ...................... .Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Warsaw with Polish
Foreign Affairs Minister Jozef Czyrek and Yugoslavia's
Communist Party leader Aleksandar Grlickov to discuss
bilateral relations.
September 02 .......... Cuban Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Ricardo Alarcon
meets with Yugoslavia's Foreign Minister Josip Vrhovec to
discuss the international situation and relations between
the two countries.
January 07 ................ Enrique Montero Lenzano is appointed Cuba's
ambassador to Zaire. He is the first ambassador
appointed to Zaire since 1977 when President Mobuto
suspended diplomatic relations with Cuba.
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February 17 ..............
March 03 ..................
March 28 ..................
September 14 ..........
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Geneva and
meets with his counterparts from India and Zambia to
search for a political solution to the Iran-Iraq conflict.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca leaves for New Delhi to
discuss the Iran-Iraq conflict with Indian, Palestinian, and
Zambian leaders.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Zambia to
attend a nonaligned meeting to find a peaceful solution to
the Iran-Iraq conflict.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca delivers a message
from Fidel Castro to Zambia's President Kaunda.
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Mugabe praises the role
played by Fidel Castro as chairman of the nonaligned in
an interview granted to Prensa Latina News Agency.
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Robert Mugabe meets with
Cuban Ambassador Teofilo Acosta to discuss the
expansion of bilateral relations and various international
topics.
Cuban Ambassador to Zimbabwe Teofilo Acosta delivers
a gift from Fidel Castro to Prime Minister Mugabe.
Zimbabwe's Minister of Local Government and Housing,
Eddison Zvobgo, arrives in Havana at the invitation of
Cuba's Construction Minister Abroad Levi Farah, to learn
about housing in Cuba.
Cuban Ambassadors Ulises Estrada and Teofilo Acosta
meet with Zimbabwe's Foreign Minister Witness
Mangwende. Acosta presents a gift from Cuba's foreign
minister.
Zimbabwe, Uganda, the People's Republic of the Congo,
Guyana and Benin are approved as full members of the
Interparliamentary Council at a meeting in Havana.
In an interview with Zimbabwe's Inter-African News
Agency, Cuban Ambassador Teofilo Acosta pledges his
country's support for Zimbabwe in the face of "South
African aggression."
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