CUBAN CHRONOLOGY

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Cuban Chronology
1987
A Reference Aid
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This publication is a chronological listing of major international and
domestic events affecting Cuba during the period from 1 January to 31 De-
cember 1987. The events are arranged alphabetically by country. In
addition, two general subject categories are included: the Nonaligned
Movement, and the Palestine Liberation Organization. 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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Key to Abbreviations
AFP French Press Agency
ANPP People's Government National Assembly
CDR Committees for Defense of the Revolution
CEMA Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
CPCZ Czechoslovakia Central Committee
CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union Organizations
ECLA Economic Commission for Latin America
FAPLA Popular Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola
FAR Revolutionary Armed Forces
ICAP Cuban Institute of Friendship With Peoples
ICRT Cuban Radio and Television Institute
JUCE-
PLAN Central Planning Board
KUFNCD Kampuchean United Front for National Construction and Defense
MPLA-PT Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola?Party of Labor
MPLA Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola
PCC Communist Party of Cuba
PCCH Communist Party of Chile
SELA Latin American Economic System
SWAPO South-West African People's Organization
UJC Union of Young Communists
UN United Nations
UNITA National Union for the Total Independence of Angola
UPI United Press International
US United States
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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Contents
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Preface
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Key to Abbreviations
Afghanistan
1
Algeria
2
Angola
4
Argentina
13
Austria
14
Barbados
15
Bolivia
16
Botswana
17
Brazil
18
Bulgaria
24
Burkina
25
Cambodia
27
Canada
29
Cape Verde
30
Chile
31
China
32
Colombia
34
Congo
35
Costa Rica
36
Cuba
37
Cyprus
100
Czechoslovakia
101
Denmark
104
Dominican Republic
105
Ecuador
106
Egypt
108
El Salvador
109
Ethiopia
110
France
111
Germany, East
113
Germany, West
117
Ghana
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Greece
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Grenada
120
Guatemala
121
Guinea
122
Guinea-Bissau
123
Guyana
124
Haiti
126
Hungary
127
India
129
Iran
130
Iraq
132
Ireland
133
Israel
134
Italy
135
Jamaica
137
Japan
138
Kenya
139
Korea, North
140
Korea, South
143
Kuwait
144
Laos
145
Lebanon
146
Liberia
147
Libya
148
Madagascar
149
Mali
150
Mauritania
151
Mexico
152
Mongolia
156
Mozambique
157
Namibia
159
Netherlands
160
Nicaragua
161
Nigeria
164
Nonaligned Movement
165
Palestine Liberation Organization
168
Panama
170
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Peru
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Poland
173
Portugal
176
Puerto Rico
177
Romania
178
Seychelles
179
Sierra Leone
180
South Africa
181
Spain
182
Sudan
185
Sweden
186
Switzerland
188
Syria
190
Tanzania
191
Thailand
192
Trinidad and Tobago
193
Turkey
194
Uganda
195
United Kingdom
196
United Nations
197
United States
202
Uruguay
218
USSR
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Venezuela
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Vietnam
237
Western Sahara
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Yugoslavia
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Zaire
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Zambia
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Zimbabwe
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MAY 01
NOVEMBER 07
CUBAN CHRONOLOGY
JANUARY 1987 - DECEMBER 1987
AFGHANISTAN
Foreign Minister Malmierca and Afghan Foreign
Minister Abdul Wakil sign a scientific-technical
cooperation agreement that will provide for the
exchange of specialized technicians for assistance
in documents and information.
Fidel Castro meets with Afghan Foreign Minister
Abdul Wakil to discuss party relations and other
matters of mutual interest. Wakil also meets with
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Jorge Risquet.
Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Afghan leader
Mohammed Najibullah. Fidel states that Cuba has
always favored a just political solution to the
Afghanistan problem and supports the national re-
conciliation policy.
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MARCH 23
MARCH 24
MARCH 25
MARCH 26
ALGERIA
Mohamed Cherif Messaadia, member of the Politburo
of the National Liberation Front Party of Algeria,
arrives in Cuba for an official visit and meets
with Raul Castro to discuss the current inter-
national situation and bilateral relations.
Cherif Messaadia places a wreath at the base of
the monument of Jose Marti--accompanied by
Politburo member Jorge Risquet.
Algerian official Mohamed Cherif Messaadia and
Jorge Risquet begin official talks on the interna-
tional situation. Messaadia visits the Hermanos
Ameijeiras Hospital and the Nino Lopez National
School of the Communist Party of Cuba in Havana.
A 1987-88 protocol is signed in Havana by Jorge
Risquet and Mohamed Cherif Messaadia to expand
Cuban-Algerian ties and provide for the exchange
of expertise.
Fidel Castro and Mohamed Cherif Messaadia, member
of the Politburo of the National Liberation Front
Party of Algeria, meet.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Algiers with
his counterpart Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi to exchange
information on Central America, Middle East, and
Africa situations and to analyze the work carried
out by the Nonaligned Movement.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Cherif
Mesaadia, Secretary General of Algeria's National
Liberation Front, to discuss bilateral relations.
Foreign Minister Malmierca ends his visit to
Algeria, stating that Cuba and Algeria agree on
major international problems and both countries
wish to contribute actively to international
peace and safety.
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JULY 07
OCTOBER 18
ALGERIA
Secretariat member Jaime Crombet and Foreign Trade
Minister Cabrizas depart Algiers after attending
the 25th Anniversary of Algerian Independence.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas also participated
in trade negotiations.
Central Committee member Raul Valdes Vivo visits
Algeria and meets with Abderrezak Bouhara, member
of the Algerian Communist Party Secretariat, to
exchange views on political and ideological train-
ing.
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JANUARY 16
JANUARY 23
ANGOLA
UNITA claims they killed 131 government soldiers
and 12 Cubans in fighting in four provinces over
the past week.
Angolan press reports that deserter Francisco
Maduvo revealed that 10,000 Cubans are billeted at
Nkamba mountain, at Agostinho Neto Port and air-
port in Point Noire, the Congo and are ready to
intervene in support of the Luanda regime.
JANUARY 24 Angolan rebels claim that Angolan soldiers stormed
a garrison of Cuban troops and that more than
1,000 civilians died in Angola after eating
poisoned food distributed by Cubans.
FEBRUARY 07 The 12th session of the bilateral commission of
Cuban-Angolan cooperation is held in Havana.
Politburo member Antonio dos Santos heads the
Angolan delegation.
FEBRUARY 09 The 12th meeting of Cuban-Angolan cooperation be-
gins in Havana. Jorge Risquet says relations are
very productive. Antonio dos Santos says coopera-
tion is not aimed to achieve individual advantages
but to achieve progress for the two countries.
FEBRUARY 12 Politburo member Jorge Risquet praises the Cuban-
Angolan cooperation during talks in Havana and
signs the final documents which covers the areas
of forestry, energy, health, education, sugar,
food, fishery, and others.
FEBRUARY 13 Soviet Ambassador to Angola Arnold Kalinin is
given two Cuban awards during a ceremony held at
the Cuban Embassy in Luanda--the Armando Mestre
and 28 of September orders, conferred by the
National Construction Workers Union and the CDR.
Lt. General Antonio dos Santos departs Cuba after
a 5-day visit. Jorge Risquet and dos Santos
attended meetings of the Cuban-Angolan Commission
for General Cooperation examining cooperation in
forestry, energy, and others.
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MARCH 31
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ANGOLA
Fidel Castro receives Lieutenant General Antonio
dos Santos Franca, member of the Politburo of the
ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of
Angola to discuss existing bilateral cooperation
and the international situation.
UNITA rebels say they attacked and destroyed a
Cuban military base near the central city of
Huambo on 16 March, killing 15 Cuban soldiers,
according to a statement distributed in Lisbon.
Jorge Risquet reiterates Cuba's decision to remain
in Angola as long as the Government of Angola
considers it necessary, at a ceremony commemo-
rating the 1 1 th anniversary of the Angolan victory
over South Africa.
Foreign Minister Malmierca holds a press confer-
ence on his arrival in Harare and says Cuba will
not withdraw its troops from Angola until SWAPO
Namibia is granted its independence.
Paris AFP reports Angolan President dos Santos
reportedly requested North Korea to "play an
essential role" in Angola and be ready to replace
the Cubans "imminently."
Foreign Minister Malmierca, who attends the Non-
aligned Conference of Ministers in Harare, meets
with POL Chairman Arafat to discuss holding an
international peace conference on the Middle East
with PLO participation.
President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and
Television Ismael Gonzalez and Carlos Garcia,
General Director of the Angolan People's Tele-
vision, meet in Havana to discuss Cuban assistance
and cooperation to the African states.
President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and
Television ?Ismael Gonzalez and Carlos Garcia, Gen-
eral Director of the Angolan People's Television,
sign a work protocol, effective until 1989, to ex-
change personnel and programs to improve quality.
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MAY 01
MAY 02
MAY 04
MAY 25
JUNE 12
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ANGOLA
Luanda Domestic Service reports that Lucio Lara,
First Secretary of the Angolan People's Assembly,
met with Politburo member Jorge Risquet in Havana
to discuss international politics and bilateral
interests. Lara was enroute to Managua.
The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples
signs a bilateral friendship and cooperation
agreement in Havana with similar institutions from
Angola and Mozambique.
UNITA announces that its forces killed 96 Angolan
Government troops and seven Cuban soldiers in
various parts of the country between 23 and
30 December.
According to a UNITA war communique signed by
Chief of Staff General Chilingutila, 140 MPLA
soldiers and 4 Cubans were killed and 195 MPLA
soldiers were injured from 20 to 26 April in
Malanje, Huambo, Luanda, and Moxico Provinces.
Vice President of the National Assembly of the
People's Government Severo Aguirre del Cristo
meets in Havana with Lucio Lara, First Secretary
of the Angolan People's Assembly, to discuss the
Cuban parliament.
UNITA reports 92 FAPLA soldiers and 6 Cubans died
in violent fighting in the Angolan provinces of
Huambo, Uige, Moxico, and Cuando Cubango between
16 and 18 May.
UNITA reports that their forces carried out 112
coordinated attacks against combined Soviet,
Cuban, and MPLA forces between 30 May and 10 June,
and killed 304 FAPLA and 12 Cuban troops.
UNITA reports that 100 MPLA soldiers and 9 Cubans
were killed in two days of fighting in northern
and central Angola.
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JUNE 30
JULY 09
JULY 13
JULY 14
JULY 15
JULY 22
JULY 24
JULY 25
ANGOLA
The New York Times reports that Angolan President
dos Santos tells a visiting US congressional dele-
gation that he is willing to negotiate the with-
drawal of Cuban troops from Angola as a way to
improve relations with the United States.
Angolan President dos Santos is interviewed in
Luanda by US journalists. He says that as long as
apartheid continues to threaten Angola, Cuban
troops will stay in the country.
UNITA reports that it killed 160 Angolan Govern-
ment and 7 Cuban troops in clashes in nine
provinces in northern, eastern, and central
Angola.
An Angolan Army communique says two Cuban soldiers
were killed when UNITA troops attacked Kirimba
post in Cuanza Sul Province.
PCC member Jorge Risquet awards medals to 50
internationalist combatants and workers upon ful-
filling their mission in Angola.
US Assistant Secretary of State Crocker visits
Luanda to discuss the withdrawal of Cuban troops
in exchange for Namibian independence.
UNITA reports that 116 Angolan troops, 19 Cubans
and two Soviet soldiers were killed on 19 and
20 July.
Angolan President dos Santos calls for peace talks
to end the conflict in Angola and Namibia during
a meeting of the Southern African Development Co-
ordination Conference. He proposes that talks be
held among Angola, South Africa, Cuba, and SWAPO.
Angolan Deputy Foreign Minister Venancio de Moura
holds a press conference in Lusaka stating that
Angola is ready to be flexible over the timing and
extent of a withdrawal of Cuban troops from south-
ern Angola as part of a regional peace process.
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JULY 30
JULY 31
AUGUST 01
AUGUST 03
AUGUST 05
AUGUST 10
ANGOLA
Angolan Government soldiers, 33 Cubans, and 2
Soviets were killed in the course of 4 days of
intense fighting.
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Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos arrives
in Havana and is greeted at the airport by Fidel
Castro.
UNITA forces killed 29 Angolan Government soldiers
and two Cubans during fighting in Luanda, Moxico,
Bie, Uige, Zaire, and Cuando Cubango Provinces
over the last three days.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Jorge
Risquet, and Division General Abelardo Colome
Ibarra meet in Havana with Angolan President Jose
Eduardo dos Santos to discuss bilateral relations
and the situation in southern Africa.
Angolan President dos Santos visits the '
Guanabacoa's municipal museum in Havana; accom-
panied by Minister of Culture Armando Hart and
attends a performance at the Angolan House of
Culture accompanied by Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro and Angolan President dos Santos
issue a communique after talks in Havana agreeing
to make 'their common position more flexible,'
regarding southern Africa and their commitment to
support Namibia's independence.
UNITA denounces Soviet-Cuban efforts to portray
the ruling Popular Movement for the Liberation of
Angola as a skeletal movement in Angola and
southern Africa in a communique signed by UNITA
President Jonas Savimbi.
Angolan rebel press reports that Cuban troops are
indiscriminately shelling areas surrounding Kuito
in Bie Province, killing scores of villagers and
destroying homes. Cuban soldiers are also deliber-
ately killing Angolan Army soldiers.
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AUGUST 22
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SEPTEMBER 04
SEPTEMBER 11
SEPTEMBER 14
SEPTEMBER 29
OCTOBER 04
OCTOBER 08
ANGOLA
Johannesburg press reports that Angola has pro-
posed withdrawing some 28,000 Cuban troops
stationed south of the 13th parallel within two
years, in a bid to make the Benguela railway
operational.
UNITA reports killing twelve Angolan soldiers and
4 Cubans in intense fighting between Chambinga and
Cuzumbia on 20 August.
UNITA claims that Huambo-based Cuban soldiers are
reported to have confiscated clothes, soap,
medicine, foodstuffs, and other essentials from
Angolan farmers. The male farmers who resisted
were beaten and killed, women were raped.
Angolan Politburo member and Secretary of the
Central Committee Juliano Mateus Matros in Lusaka
says Angola is prepared to withdraw about 15,000
troops, two years after Namibia's independence.
Secretary General of the Zambian United National
Independence Party Grey Zulu tells reporters at
the Lusaka Airport that Cuba hopes to withdraw
its troops from Angola two years after Namibia's
independence.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet arrives in Luanda
to deliver a message from Fidel Castro to Angolan
President dos Santos and to discuss bilateral
matters and the South African situation.
UNITA announces that several hundred Angolan and
Cuban troops were killed in the fighting along the
Lomba river.
Angolan press reports that a group of armed Cuban
troops recently stormed the villages of Mukishi,
Kambondo, and Katala in the Angolan province of
Malange looting property and slaughtering live-
stock.
Angolan President dos Santos tells Novosti and
Pravda newspaper correspondents in Lisbon that
Angola does not want to substitute Cuban troops
with other foreign forces.
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OCTOBER 30
NOVEMBER 07
NOVEMBER 14
NOVEMBER 16
NOVEMBER 18
ANGOLA
Havana Tele-Rebelde reports that a Cuban combat
plane was shot down in the eastern area of Angola
and that two Cuban pilots have been taken
prisoner.
Angolan press reports that two high-ranking Cuban
pilots Lt. Colonel Manuel Rojas and Captain Ramon
Quesada were shot down by UNITA forces and
captured after bailing out of their MIG at Luvuei
in eastern Angola on 28 October.
A Cuban National Assembly delegation headed by
Luis Morejon Mendez arrives in Luanda to discuss
strengthening friendship and cooperation between
national assemblies.
Fidel Castro meets with Angolan President Jose
Eduardo dos Santos in Moscow to discuss strength-
ening Cuba's internationalist cooperation in the
defense of Angola's sovereignty and territorial
integrity.
UNITA Chief of the Military Intelligence,
Brigadier Peregrino Wambu, says that more than
2,000 MPLA, Cuban, and Soviet troops have been
killed during UNITA attacks in Angola over the
past 80 days.
Havana Radio Reloj reports Lt. Col. Manuel Rojas
Garcia and Captain Ramon Quesada Aguilar, shot
down in Angola on 28 October, were interviewed by
the press in Jamba. Rojas says he and Quesada were
on a reconnaissance mission when shot down.
The Washington Times reports that Fidel Castro has
assured Angolan President dos Santos and Moscow
that he will immediately reinforce the 40,000
Cuban troops already in Angola because of the
recent defeat suffered by the Angolan Army.
Cuba reaffirms its support for Angola but denies
its troops were involved in recent fighting there
against South African forces.
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NOVEMBER 19
NOVEMBER 20
ANGOLA
The Cuban Foreign Ministry releases a note
condemning South Africa's new attacks against
Angola.
Angolan Ambassador to Cuba Manuel Pedro Pacavira
tells the 15th Congress of the International Union
of Students that South African aggression against
Angola has been increasing with the assistance of
the United States.'
Angolan Ambassador to Cuba Manuel Pedro Pacavira
tells the press that there are Soviet military
advisers in Angola but no troops; Cuban troops are
in Angola to prevent a South African invasion, not
to fight against UNITA.
NOVEMBER 23 UNITA reports that Cuban and Angolan soldiers have
killed, injured, and maimed defenseless civilians
in the city of Bela Vista.
NOVEMBER 24 Politburo member Jorge Risquet delivers a message
from Fidel Castro to Angolan President dos Santos
that discusses Cuba's solidarity with the people
of Angola.
DECEMBER 03 Outgoing Cuban Ambassador to Angola Rodolfo
Puentes Ferro bids farewell to Angolan President
Jose Eduardo dos Santos.
DECEMBER 05 The Mozambican news agency, AIM, in Luanda,
reports that a considerable number of fresh Cuban
troops have arrived in Angola, and the 50th
Division of the Cuban Armed Forces is on its way
to southern Angola.
DECEMBER 08
AIM reports that Cuban General Arnaldo Ochoa
Sanchez has returned to Angola to assume command
of Cuban forces.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet in Paris denies
news reports from South Africa on alleged clashes
between South African troops and Cuban inter-
nationalists in Angola.
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ANGOLA
DECEMBER 10 KWACHA UNITA PRESS news agency in Jamba, Angola
quotes well-placed sources that the Cuban Govern-
ment is pressuring Luanda to provide crude oil as
partial payment for the presence of the estimated
45,000 Cuban combat troops in Angola.
DECEMBER 15 Angola's highest ranking military officer Lt. Gen.
Antonio dos Santos Franca says Cuban troops
started to patrol southern Angola this week with
orders to engage South African troops in combat.
DECEMBER 21 Angolan Deputy Foreign Minister Venancio de Moura
says Angola will propose a two-year pullout of
Cuban troops from Angola as opposed to three
years, during a meeting in Angola in January 1988
with US official Chester Crocker.
DECEMBER 22
DECEMBER 31
UNITA communique reports that its forces have
scored a series of major military successes in
different part of Angola over the past week,
killing nine Cuban and 37 Angolan troops.
UNITA reports that their forces used ground-to-air
missiles to stop reinforcement and supplies to
Kuemba Garrison, which is under the command of a
Cuban general and completely cut off from govern-
ment bases in Bie and Luena.
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MAY 07
ARGENTINA
Fidel Castro sends a letter of support to
Argentine President Raul Alfonsin on the attempted
military rebellion in Argentina during the last
few days.
Fidel Castro discusses various international and
economic policy topics in Havana with Bernaldo
Grispun, head of the Argentine delegation to the
ministerial meeting of the Group of 77.
Havana TV reports on a large fire that broke out
on 6 May at an open air storage area in El Cerro
Municipality, Havana. The storage area contains
"hundreds of spools" of telephone cable, "most of
which were recently imported from Argentina."
JUNE 09 An Argentine parliamentary delegation headed by
Dr. Eduardo Castro de Truman meets in Havana with
Severo Aguirre del Cristo, Vice President of the
National Assembly.
SEPTEMBER 11 The first session of the Joint Cuban-Argentine
Commission for Scientific and Technical Coopera-
tion begins in Havana. Delegates discuss coopera-
tion in health, energy, sugar, agriculture, and
food industries.
OCTOBER 14 Minister President of the National Bank of Cuba
arrives in Buenos Aires to discuss bilateral
relations with economic authorities.
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JUNE 01
JUNE 03
OCTOBER 01
AUSTRIA
Minister of Justice Juan Escalona Reguera heads a
delegation to the UN International Conference in
Vienna on the improper use and illegal traffic of
drugs.
The President of the Austrian Parliament meets in
Vienna with Cuban Ambassador to Austria Gustavo
Mazorra to discuss bilateral relations. Mazorra
concludes his diplomatic mission in Austria.
Cuban Atomic Energy Commission Executive Secretary
Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart attends the 31st general
conference of the International Atomic Energy
Agency in Vienna. Linking nuclear safety and its
technology to industry and medicine are discussed.
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JUNE 10
BARBADOS
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Juan
Almeida Bosque, Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo
Alarcon, and other Cuban officials attend funeral
services in Bridgetown for Barbadian Prime
Minister Errol Barrow.
Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida and
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Ricardo Alarcon
depart for Barbados to attend the funeral of Prime
Minister Errol Barrow.
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BOLIVIA
JANUARY 26 A culture exhibit sponsored by the Bolivian-Cuban
Friendship Cultural Institute is held in La Paz.
JANUARY 29 During a meeting in La Paz, Bolivian Public Health
Minister Carlos Perez expresses his country's
appreciation for the medical assistance provided
by Cuban orthopedic Dr. Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras.
FEBRUARY 26 Bolivia's University of San Andres confers an
honorary doctorate degree to Fidel Castro because
of his merits as a jurist, statesman, and Latin
American leader.
MARCH 20 Bolivia's San Simon Higher University awards Fidel
Castro with an honorary degree in recognition for
his brilliant analysis of the foreign debt and
the moral, legal, political, and economic reasons
to suspend payments.
JUNE 19 First Vice Minister of Public Health Jorge Antelo
delivers to Bolivia an Intensive Care Unit, built
and equipped by Cuba. This is the second of three
intensive care units to be built by Cuba.
SEPTEMBER 23 Foreign Minister Malmierca addresses the UN
General Assembly; he supports Bolivia's claim for
an outlet to the sea and condemns Chile's intran-
sigience in the matter.
OCTOBER 09 The Bolivian Armed Forces marks the 20th
anniversary of Che Guevara's death with admiration
for all who participated in the anti-guerrilla
campaign.
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SEPTEMBER 06
SEPTEMBER 07
BOTSWANA
Minister of External Affairs of Botswana Gaositwe
Chiepe arrives in Havana and is met by Foreign
Minister Malmierca.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Minister of
External Affairs of Botswana Gaositwe Chiepe to
discuss the international situation and the
economic situation affecting underdeveloped
countries.
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JANUARY 21
JANUARY 23
JANUARY 26
FEBRUARY 10
FEBRUARY 23
BRAZIL
Cuban Ambassador to Brazil Jorge Bolanos invites
Brazilian Justice Minister Paulo Brossard to visit
Cuba in March.
Brasilia press reports that Foreign Minister Abreu
Sodre will visit Cuba to discuss bilateral co-
operation. This will be the first visit in 20
years of a Brazilian foreign minister to Cuba.
Brazilian Communications Minister Antonio Carlos
Magalhaes arrives in Havana and meets his counter-
part, Manuel Castillo Rabassa. They discuss coop-
eration in satellite communications and Brazilian
exports of public telephone equipment to Cuba.
Brazilian Communications Minister Antonio Carlos
Magalhaes says that Cuban and Brazilian coopera-
tion is clear and unavoidable. A communications
agreement is signed by Magalhaes and his Cuban
counterpart Manuel Castillo Rabasa.
Fidel Castro and Brazilian President Jose Sarney
inaugurate a direct telephone line in a six-minute
telephone conversation with the two leaders
viewing each other on video screens as they
talked.
Deputy Culture Minister Antonio Nunez Luis Gimenez
and Brazilian Culture Minister Celso Furtado meet
to discuss participation of Brazilian scientists
in the canoe project from the Amazon to the
Caribbean that will begin 1 March.
Brasilia press reports that Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev is expected to visit Brazil, Argentina,
Uruguay, Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua, and Cuba in
August.
Fidel Castro calls Brazil's decision to suspend
payment of its foreign debt interest "historic"
and affirms that "the day of the world's poor
people has arrived." "This is the moment to turn
the history of the Third World people around."
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MARCH 15
MARCH 16
MARCH 17
BRAZIL
A 5-year cultural cooperation agreement between
the Cuban Institute of Friendship With Peoples and
the Cuba-Brazil Cultural Association in Brasilia
is signed in Havana.
In an interview with the Brazilian Weekly Veja,
Fidel Castro hails Brazil's suspension of interest
payments on its commercial debt and terms the step
taken as historic.
Fidel Castro tells Veja reporters that Latin
America is different from that of the 1960s
because it is no longer dragged along by the
United States.
On Uruguayan TV, Fidel Castro speaks of the Third
World's unpayable and irrevocerable foreign debt
and he reiterates his support for Brazil's
decision to suspend interest payments on its
foreign debt for an indefinite period of time.
Brazilian Foreign Minister Roberto de Abreu
Sodre visits Cuba. Sodre is the first Brazilian
Foreign Minister to make an official visit to Cuba
since relations were broken in 1964.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and Sodre discuss
bilateral relations, the international situation,
the foreign debt, and the Central American con-
flict.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas meets with
Brazilian Foreign Minister Abreu Sodre to discuss
topics of mutual interest and expanding ties
between the two governments.
Costa de Abreu Sodre visits the National Bank of
Cuba and meets Acting Minister President Luis
Gutierrez and Vice President Raul Amado Blanco to
discuss financial affairs and other topics of
mutual interest.
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MARCH 18
MARCH 19
BRAZIL
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Abreu Sodre, who
conveys a message from President Jose Sarney.
Sodre says his trip to Cuba is characterized by a
feeling of reencounter between the two peoples.
Cuban scientists visit Brazil for the first time
to tour facilities that manufacture vaccines and
serums. The Cuban Scientific Investigations Center
is preparing to supply Brazil with immunological
material.
In a press conference, Brazilian Foreign Minister
Costa de Abreu Sodre stresses that a positive
result of his visit to Cuba has been the con-
solidation of unity between the two countries.
Isidoro Malmierca and Abreu Sodre sign an agree-
ment for scientific-technical and technological
cooperation and a memorandum for the establishment
of an adhoc commission to review standing legal
documents pertaining to Cuba and Brazil.
During his press conference in Havana, Abreu Sodre
also reiterates that his country will not pay its
foreign debt at the expense of economic backward-
ness and the hunger of the people.
Jesus Escandel, Cuba's delegate to the bureau
meeting of the Permanent Congress for Latin
American Workers Trade Union Unity reiterates
Cuba's support to Brazil in its decision to not
make foreign debt service payments.
Fidel Castro meets with Brazilian journalists in
Havana. He tells them that his ties to Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev are excellent, but that
the road chosen by Gorbachev does not necessarily
apply to Cuba.
Fidel Castro tells Brazilian journalists that the
Third World as a whole, not only Latin America,
is in no condition to pay its foreign debt. He
also says there are no dissidents imprisoned in
Cuba.
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MARCH 24
MARCH 25
MARCH 27
APRIL 05
APRIL 07
APRIL 09
BRAZIL
Justice Minister Paulo Brossard confirms his trip
to Cuba from 7 to 12 April at the invitation of
Fidel Castro.
Transport Minister Diodes Torralba Gonzalez
arrives in Brazil for a nine-day visit, meeting
with his counterpart Jose Reinaldo. Torralba says
his visit may pave the way for the purchase of $15
million in equipment.
Vice Minister of Communications Manuel Garcia
Fernandez tells journalists in Brazil that Brazil
will participate with the USSR, East Germany,
Yugoslavia, and Hungary in installing 130,000 new
telephone lines in Cuba.
Fidel Castro meets in Havana with Andres Franco
Montoro, former governor of Sao Paulo, Brazil to
discuss the international economic situation,
especially in Latin America.
Brazilian Justice Minister Paulo Brossard de Souza
Pinto arrives in Havana and is received by Justice
Minister Juan Escalona Reguera who explains the
Cuban judicial system and the newly approved laws.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Brazilian
Justice Minister Paulo Brossard and his delegation
to discuss ? Cuba's current economic status.
Vice President of the National Assembly Severo
Aguirre del Cristo reaffirms to Brazilian Justice
Minister Brossard de Souze Pinto Cuba's support
for the Brazilian Government's decision to stop
payments on the interest of its foreign debt.
First Vice Minister of Transportation Manuel
Cespedes announces that Cuba and Brazil will sign
economic, scientific, and technical agreements in
the maritime, automotive, railroad, and air trans-
portation fields.
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APRIL 15
APRIL 26
JULY 17
AUGUST 26
OCTOBER 12
NOVEMBER 29
DECEMBER 15
BRAZIL
Brazilian and Cuban economists meet for the first
time in Havana. They discuss the training of
economists in the two countries, and agree the
foreign debt is unpayable.
The Sao Paulo 0 Estado De Sao Paulo reports that
the Cuban vessel El Jigue, which docked on 25
April in Santos, is the first Cuban ship to do so
in 23 years. The El Jigue docked in the port of
Paranagua in January 1987.
Brazilian press, 0 Globo, reports that the VASP
Aviation Company has been granted permission to
make weekly flights to Havana from 15 August until
the end of the year. Flights will service Sao
Paulo, Manaus, Curacao, and Havana.
Brazil's State Secretary of Health Sergio Arauca
announces that Cuba will assist Brazil in health
programs. Brazil will import Cuban technology to
manufacture melagenine, used in the treatment of
vitiligo, and interferon, used to treat cancer.
Jornal Do Brasil reports that Brazilian exports to
Cuba will reach at most $2.5 million this year,
but they could easily be increased several times
if the Brazilian Government were able to finance
them.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez is interviewed by Jornal
Do Brasil about Cuba's new attitude of cooperation
without shame, Cuba-US relations have been at an
all time low during the 1980s, and Cubans do not
have a hostile attitude toward the US.
The governor of Sao Paulo Orestes Quercia arrives
in Havana and meets with Jorge Lezcano, First
Secretary of the PCC. Quercia tours projects being
built by the minibrigade movement and Habana Vieja
restoration area.
DECEMBER 16 Fidel Castro receives Governor Orestes Quercia at
a reception in Havana.
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DECEMBER 30
BRAZIL
Fidel Castro tells Brazilian reporters that he and
Sao Paulo Governor Orestes Quercia agree on the
decentralization concept, the concept of greater
participation at the municipal level of government.
Governor of the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso
Carlos Gomes Bezerra and his delegation visit
Cuba. They meet with Victor Fernandez, Havana's
Provincial Assembly President, and will tour cen-
ters of social, scientific, and cultural interest.
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BULGARIA
JANUARY 26 PCC member Jose Lopez Moreno meets in Havana with
Ivan Iliev, member of the Bulgarian Communist
Party Central Committee. Iliev will visit centers
of recreational, economic, and scientific interest.
FEBRUARY 23 Bulgarian official Chudomir Aleksandrov receives
Interior Minister Jose Fernandez Abrantes in Sofia
to exchange information on the activity and tasks
of the two countries' communists and working
people and strengthening bilateral cooperation.
FEBRUARY 25 President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo
is interviewed in Havana by special correspondent
Mitko Bozhkov of Rabotnichesko Delo. Bravo says
the Cubans highly value the work of the Bulgarian
citizens in Cuba who help in an unselfish manner.
MARCH 16 A cooperation agreement between the state
arbitration organs of Cuba and Bulgaria is signed
at the Bulgarian Embassy in Havana. The agreement
will strengthen the juridical system in the two
countries' socialist economies.
MARCH 25 The presidents of the Cuban-Bulgarian Intergov-
ernmental Commission for Economic, Scientific, and
Technical Cooperation Antonio Esquivel Yedra and
Andrey Lukanov meet in Havana to discuss coopera-
tion in the field of machine building.
MAY 19 Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers Ramiro
Valdes Menendez arrives in Bulgaria. Valdes and
his counterpart Andrey Lukanov attend a rally
where a monument of Jose Marti is unveiled.
MAY 30
Cuba signs bilateral agreements with CEMA dele-
gations from the USSR, Bulgaria, and Poland for
the exchange of medical equipment, including
equipment used in physiotherapy and rehabilitation.
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BURKINA
FEBRUARY 03 Justice Minister Juan Escalona Reguera reports
that the second session of the joint Cuba-Burkina
Faso Cooperation Commission will begin in Burkina
on 5 February.
FEBRUARY 05 The second session of the Cuban-Burkinabe Joint
Cooperation Commission, under the chairmanship of
Minister of External Affairs and Cooperation
Leandre Bassolet, begins in Burkina. Minister of
Justice Juan Reguera Escalona represents Cuba.
FEBRUARY 10 The Cuba-Burkinabe joint commission ends in
Ouagadougou. A cooperation plan for 1987-1989 is
drafted. Burkinabe's Minister of External Affairs
Leandre Bassole expressed contentment with the
dynamic bilateral cooperation.
MARCH 14 Foreign Ministers Kim Yong-nam of North Korea,
Witness Mangwende of Zimbabwe, and Leandre
Bassolet of Burkina arrive in Havana to talk and
visit areas of economic, scientific, and
historical interests.
MARCH 16 Foreign Minister Malmierca and Minister of Exter-
nal Relations and Cooperation of Burkina Leandre
Bassolet meet in Havana to discuss bilateral rela-
tions, the activities of the Nonaligned meeting in
Guyana, and the international situation.
MARCH 17
MARCH 18
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets Leandre
Bassolet to discuss bilateral relations and the
international situation.
Fidel Castro receives Burkinan Foreign Minister
Bassolet to discuss the international situation,
the results of the ministerial meeting in Guyana,
and the evolution of relations and cooperation
between the two countries.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and Bassolet sign a
protocol for 1987-89 that will provide increased
cooperation in culture, education, and sports. The
agreement includes resources to establish a field
school to train young Burkinabe students.
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OCTOBER 07
BURKINA
Vice President of the Cuban-North Korean Friend-
ship Association Ramon Castro and a delegation
participate in the fourth anniversary of the
Burkinian revolution. He and Burkinian President
Thomas Sankara discuss bilateral relations.
A Cuban delegation headed by Emilio Guevara Mache
arrives in Ouagadougou to participate in a
ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of
Ernesto Che Guevara's death on 8 October.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets in Havana
with Ernest Nongma Ouedraogo, Burkinabe Minister
of Territorial Administration and Security to
discuss matters of mutual interest.
OCTOBER 17 Granma criticizes the coup in Burkina in which
President Thomas Sankara was killed on 16 October.
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APRIL 26
APRIL 28
MAY 26
JUNE 01
NOVEMBER 03
CAMBODIA
Minister of Communications Manuel Castillo Rebasa
arrives in Phnom Penh to attend the third session
of the Cuba-Kampuchea Commission for Economic,
Scientific and Technical Cooperation. The second
session was held in Havana on 23 November 1984.
Vice Foreign Minister Giraldo Mazola departs
Cambodia after discussing bilateral ties with his
counterpart Bo Rasi and with Minister of Informa-
tion and Culture Chheng Phon and Minister of
Foreign Affairs Kong Korm.
Manuel Castillo Rebasa and Kampuchean official
Khun Chhi sign a cooperation document for 1987-88.
Cuba will provide experts, doctors, and special-
ists to Cambodia, and receive Cambodian students
to train in agriculture, health, and education.
A delegation of the Cambodia-USSR Friendship
Association departs for Havana to attend a confer-
ence. The delegation is led by Min Khin, Secretary
General of the KUFNCD National Council.
Minister of Communications Manuel Castillo Rebasa
attends the joint commission for economic, scien-
tific, and technical cooperation meeting in Phnom
Penh. He meets with Chea Soth, Vice Chairman of
the Kampuchean Council of Ministers.
Vice Foreign Trade Minister Jose de la Fuente
concludes a four-day visit to Cambodia where he
and his counterpart Phang Saret discuss establish-
ing trade relations.
Havana TV reports that the Cuban Embassy in Cam-
bodia condemns the third international conference
on Cambodia slated for July. This is the third
time China has convoked a meeting in support of
the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Havana with
Kampuchean President Heng Samrin's special envoy,
Long Visalo, to express Cuba's support for a
political solution to the Kampuchean issue.
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NOVEMBER 06
CAMBODIA
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas meets in
Havana with Kampuchean Foreign Trade Minister Ho
Nan to discuss bilateral trade relations and
cooperation in training technical cadres in
foreign trade.
Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida meets
with Kampuchean Foreign Trade Minister Ho Nan to
discuss bilateral relations and the international
situation. Nan conveys greetings to Almeida from
Secretary General Heng Samrin to Fidel Castro.
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CANADA
Cuba and Canada sign a fishing agreement that will
keep the fishing quota it assigned to the Cuban
fleet unchanged from last year.
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CAPE VERDE
Cuba and Cape Verde sign a trade protocol on goods
and services for the period from 1987-90. The
agreement includes partial compensation and a
memorandum of understanding.
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SEPTEMBER 23
NOVEMBER 24
CHILE
Jorge Risquet and Manuel Pineiro address a
ceremony in Havana marking the 65th anniversary of
the founding of the Communist Party of Chile. PCCH
Central Committee member Mireya Baltra attends the
ceremony.
Foreign Minister Malmierca addresses the UN
General Assembly; he supports Bolivia's claim for
an outlet to the sea and condemns Chile's intran-
sigience in the matter.
Fidel Castro tells a Chilean student, who is part-
icipating in an international students conference
in Havana, that history will demand an explanation
for the lack of political unity in Chile, which
allows General Pinochet to remain in power.
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APRIL 08
JUNE 01
CHINA (PRC)
Flavio Bravo, President of Cuba's National
Assembly will visit China from 7 to 14 April,
according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
Chinese Vice Chairman of the National People's
Congress Standing Committee Huang Hua and Presi-
dent of Cuba's National Assembly Flavio Bravo
discuss their respective parliaments' composition
and functions in Beijing.
Chinese Vice President Ulanhu and Flavio Bravo
meet in Beijing. Ulanhu says China will continue
its efforts to improve and develop relations.
Chinese Vice Premier Tian Jiyun briefs Flavio
Bravo on China's economic development and reform.
Havana TV reports that the Cuban Embassy in Cam-
bodia condemns the third international conference
on Cambodia slated for July. This is the third
time China has convoked a meeting in support of
the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea.
SEPTEMBER 18 Deputy Foreign Minister Giraldo Mazola begins a
working visit to China.
SEPTEMBER 25
Vice Foreign Minister Giraldo Mazola meets with
China's State Councilor Gu Mu to discuss
strengthening bilateral relations.
Vice Foreign Minister Giraldo Mazola and Chinese
Vice Minister of Culture Gao Zhanxiang sign a
cooperation agreement in culture, education,
sports, science, radio, television, and publish-
ing.
Vice Foreign Minister Mazola meets with Chinese
Vice Foreign Minister Zhu Quzhen and visits
economic centers in Canton and the Shanghai ship-
yards, where Cuban ships are built.
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NOVEMBER 18
NOVEMBER 22
CHINA (PRC)
Cuban Ambassador to China Rolando Lopez del Amo
holds a reception in Beijing marking the Cuban
cultural festival and the upcoming visit to Cuba
of a Chinese art ensemble. Chinese Minister of
Culture Wang Meng attends the reception.
An official from the Chinese Ministry of Foreign
Economic Relations Liu Zepu says China is
interested in increasing and diversifying trade
with Cuba.
Chinese Foreign Trade and Economic Relations
Minister Zheng Tuobin departs Beijing for Cuba
heading an economic and trade delegation.
NOVEMBER 27 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Chinese Minis-
ter of Economic Relations and Foreign Trade Tuobin
to discuss bilateral relations and to exchange im-
pressions regarding the work to be done for the
creation of the intergovernmental commission.
NOVEMBER 29 Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and
Chinese Minister for Economic Relations Zheng
Tuobin sign a trade protocol for 1988 and agree to
establish a joint ministerial commission for
economic cooperation.
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FEBRUARY 23
APRIL 23
JULY 09
COLOMBIA
In a report for Radio Cadena Nacional, Fidel
Castro says the US is solely responsible for drug
trafficking, as it is the largest drug consumer in
the world. He also says that Cuba's relations with
Colombian guerrillas are eminently political.
The Director of the Colombian Foreign Trade
Institute visits Cuba and says Cuba and Colombia
have begun exchanging trade information even
though diplomatic relations have not yet been
established.
A Colombian Government commission of experts on
violence recommends renewed diplomatic relations
with Cuba, claiming it might be helpful in attain-
ing peace and provoking "a change of attitude" in
the M-19 movement.
AUGUST 03 The Washington Times reports that eight Colombian
guerrillas who defected to Army troops last week
say they were trained by Cuban instructors and
were supplied arms by the Soviet Union.
DECEMBER 22 President of the political coalition Patriotic
Union of Colombia and member of the Chamber of
Representatives Bernardo Alfonso Jaramillo arrives
in Havana at the invitation from the PCC.
DECEMBER 24 Politburo member Jorge Risquet receives Bernardo
Alfonso Jaramillo Osa, President of the Patriotic
Union coalition of Colombia, to discuss the inter-
national situation and Latin America.
DECEMBER 25 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Bernardo
Jaramillo Osa to discuss international politics
and economics, especially the foreign debt.
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DECEMBER 23
DECEMBER 26
DECEMBER 28
CONGO
Congolese Forestry Minister Ossebi Douniam arrives
in Cuba at the invitation of Agriculture Minister
Adolfo Diaz.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas arrives in
Brazzaville to participate in the seventh meeting
of the Cuban-Congolese Joint Intergovernmental
Committee. He meets with his counterpart Alphonse
Poaty-Souchlaty to discuss trade relations.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas meets with
Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso to
discuss the economic and political situation and
the need for developing countries to expand coop-
eration.
The seventh session of the joint Cuban-Congolese
Joint Intergovernmental Committee ends with the
signing of a protocol for cooperation in health,
education, agriculture, and sports cooperation
for 1988-89.
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COSTA RICA
Pedro Chavez, President of the Havana City Pro-
vince, meets with members of the San Jose council
to explain the scheduled construction of 50 day-
care centers, 10,000 houses, 10 polyclinics, and
10 offices for doctors.
At a foreign policy seminar on the Central Ameri-
can crisis in Costa Rica, Juan Valdes Paz, offici-
al of the Cuban center for American Studies, says
Cuba supports the Nicaraguan principles of poli-
tical pluralism, mixed economy, and nonalignment.
Vice Foreign Minister Alarcon arrives in Bonn to
participate in a seminar on Cuban-West European
relations. He says Cuba believes Costa Rican
President Arias' Central American peace plan is
still alive.
Acting Costa Rican President Jorge Manuel Dengo
and Foreign Minister Carlos Rivera Bianchini agree
to invite Fidel Castro to visit Central America to
participate in an analysis of the Central American
situation "and help settle it."
Costa Rican President Oscar Arias says he opposes
inviting Fidel Castro to a Central American summit
meeting in Costa Rica in January 1988, but he
would consider meeting him on another occasion.
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JANUARY 01 Leaders from around the world send greetings to
Fidel Castro on the occasion of National Day.
? JANUARY 05 First Secretary of the Communist Party in Pinar
del Rio Province Orlando Lugo Fonte announces that
because of the recent heavy rains, the sugar
harvest is at a complete standstill and the
tobacco crop has suffered severe losses.
JANUARY 06
JANUARY 07
JANUARY 08
JANUARY 09
Havana press reports that the rains and wind of
the past few days have caused great destruction
of the plantain crop in Artemisa.
The State Committee for Prices reports that prices
in the parallel market are to be modified for
rice, milk, and yogurt products. Rice increased
$7.50 for a five-pound package to $9.37. Milk
increased from $1.00 to $1.25.
Fidel Castro presides over the information and
orientation meeting on the principal activities of
1987. First Secretary of the Havana City Provin-
cial Party Committee Jorge Lezcano Perez talks of
the advancement in public health.
Fidel Castro addresses the Havana Provincial
Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba.
Havana TV reports that Fidel Castro sees 1986 as
"a turning point in history." Fidel believes the
party has played an important role of confronting
errors and negative tendencies.
The Domestic Trade Ministry will regulate the
sale of beer beginning 15 January.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet presides over a
ceremony in Havana creating the Cuban Committee
Against Apartheid. The committee's main purpose is
to express a militant and permanent solidarity
with the black people of South Africa.
Fidel Castro attends the Third Congress of the
Federation of University Students. The main report
notes that criticism, self-criticism, and exigency
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JANUARY 09 must be pillars in the education of the "young as
future professionals and active revolutionaries.
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Havana press announces the opening of a new
foundation and school for cinema in Cuba. The
foundation is headed by Colombian Nobel prize
winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
During a meeting of the Federation of University
Students, Fidel Castro discusses academic fraud
and says the teachers share a great deal of the
blame and responsibility for the cheating.
Fidel Castro closes the Third Congress of the
Federation of University Students and is presented
the golden diploma in recognition of his revolu-
tionary deeds.
Three mountain road construction brigades in Pinar
del Rio receive equipment sent by Fidel Castro to
speed up the work. The central mountain road is
expected to be completed in 1988.
During a news conference in Indianapolis, Presi-
dent of the Cuban Olympic Committee Gonzalez
Guerra, denounces a maneuver to disqualify many
Cuban athletes during the antidoping test for the
Pan-American Games.
The Eighth Latin American Congress of Students
is held in Havana; Politburo member Jose Ramon
Machado Ventura attends.
Havana TV reports that an inspection of the
Candido Gonzalez and Noel Fernandez agro-
industrial complexes in Camaguey show serious de-
ficiencies in work organization and wages.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Antonio
Rodriguez Maurell suggests shutting down sugar
refineries that spend more fuel than what was
allotted for production.
Politburo member Roberto Veiga opens the 53rd
plenum of Cuban Trade Unions. Veiga analyzes the
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participation of the workers movement in the
rectification process being carried out throughout
the country and tasks to be undertaken this year.
The light industry's leather and footwear union
reports that last year's annual plan was not ful-
filled. Some 22,140,600 pairs of shoes were sup-
posed to be manufactured but the output totalled
19,114,800 pairs.
The final session of the 53rd plenum of the
Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions begins
in Havana with Fidel Castro in attendance. Fidel
shows interest in hearing the opinions on using
agricultural machinery in double shifts.
Fidel Castro addresses the closing session of the
53rd plenum of the National Council of the Central
Organization of Cuban Trade Unions. He says the
arrogant US Administration has forced Cuba to
emphasize the defense of the revolution.
Havana TV reports that the Cuban fishing fleet
catch for 1986 was 143,000 tons, exceeding the
annual plan by 20 percent. The North Atlantic and
the South Pacific zones were productive.
Minister President of the State Committee for
Economic Cooperation Ernesto Melendez says that
Cuba currently maintains relations with 72 nations
and 20 international organizations.
Fidel Castro speaks at the National Planning Front
Meeting, telling enterprise administrators and
directors that their obligations are to know that
whenever there is a contradiction it should be
solved in favor of the enterprise.
Jorge Risquet and Manuel Pineiro address a
ceremony in Havana marking the 65th anniversary of
the founding of the Communist Party of Chile. PCCH
Central Committee member Mireya Baltra attends the
ceremony.
JANUARY 20 Cuba exported over $125 million in seafood
products in 1986. The Caribbean Export Enterprise
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of the Ministry of the Fishing Industry fulfilled
100 percent of its plan as a result of the sale of
lobster, shrimp, and other products.
Havana Radio Rebelde reports that a medium-sized
fire destroyed approximately 30,000 railroad
tracks in an unloading zone in the Guillermon
Moncada Port in Santiago de Cuba. There were no
deaths or injuries.
Fidel and Raul Castro attend an Interior Ministry
working meeting that discusses improvement of the
National Revolutionary Police in the struggle
against crime, traffic accidents, improvement of
the penitentiary system, and finance.
Rosa Elena Simeon inaugurates Santiago de Cuba's
solar energy center prototype plant, urging re-
searchers and scientists to develop more projects
aimed at eliminating environmental pollutants and
recover waste products for economic purposes.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet presides over the
closing ceremony marking the day of solidarity
with the Salvadoran people held in Havana's
Cubana de Acero factory.
Havana Radio Progreso announces that on
28 January, the new newspaper El Habanero will
begin publishing from Tuesday to Sunday with a
circulation of 30,000.
Fidel Castro tours a steelmrorking industry
exposition at the Youth Fairgrounds where he is
given detailed information on equipment and parts
manufactured in Cuba which substitute imports or
constitute export goods.
Havana Radio Progreso announces that effective
1 February, 186,000 laborers, and administrative
and service workers will receive wage increases.
Havana Radio Rebelde announces that the State
Committee for Labor and Social Security says
retirees will receive an increase in their pen- -
sions. The supplemental pension allowance is based
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JANUARY 23 on a worker's age, total disability, or death.
JANUARY 26 Fidel Castro visits the residence of Spanish
Ambassador to Cuba Mr. Antonio Serrano de Haro.
Fidel meets with Luis Yanez-Barnuevo, Spanish
Secretary of State for International Cooperation
with Latin America.
JANUARY 27
JANUARY 28
JANUARY 30
JANUARY 31
The First International Congress on Natural
Disasters begins in Havana. Academy of Science
President Dr. Rosa Elena de Diaz Simeon Negrin
makes an appeal for the prevention of disasters
and to struggle against the arms race.
Fidel Castro, Isidoro Malmierca, and Ricardo
Alarcon meet with Contadora representatives in
Havana. Fidel reiterates Cuba's support for the
Contadora Group.
The Light Industry Leather and Footware Union
reports that over 40,000 pairs of finished and
unpacked shoes are stored in warehouses because of
lack of boxes.
Fidel Castro presides over the annual meeting of
directors of the Basic Industry Ministry.
Havana TV reports that police schools are conduct-
ing courses for reserves to train men capable of
leading small units of the territorial militia
and other units to wage, if necessary, the war of
all the people.
Fidel Castro presides over the first monthly
meeting in 1987 of the central group. The group
made an analysis of the current sugar harvest and
Fidel says it is important to find out what fac-
tors have adverse effects on the sugar industry.
Cuban political dissident Ricardo Bofill tells
the press that he left the French Embassy today
"of his own volition." He entered the Embassy on
27 August 1986.
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JANUARY 31 Havana press announces that production of the
sugarcane by-products alcohol, artificial woods,
animal feed, and other products, have exceeded the
1986 plan.
FEBRUARY 03 The I 1 th National Education Seminar begins in
Havana with some 3,700 participants. The seminar
is being held as a result of proposals made by
Fidel Castro. The students' learning process and
the evaluation system are discussed.
FEBRUARY 04 Executive Secretary of the Nuclear Energy
Commission Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart delivers the
closing remarks at an assessment meeting describ-
ing 1986 as a consolidation period for the organ-
ization.
FEBRUARY 05
FEBRUARY 06
Havana Radio reports the discovery of copper
deposits in Pinar del Rio near the Matahambre
mine.
Division General Senen Casas Regueiro makes the
closing remarks at the 1986 annual assessment
meeting of the Cuban-Polish Friendship Associa-
tion.
Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart says strict controls will
guarantee safety at Cuba's Soviet-built nuclear
power plant, scheduled to go into operation in
1990. Technicians from the USSR and East Germany
have inspected the plant.
The National Institute of Tourism fulfilled its
income plan by 103 percent in 1986. This repre-
sents an $8 million increase in convertible
currency compared to 1985.
Lima TV reports that three Cuban refugees seeking
asylum at the Peruvian Embassy in Havana have
begun a fast.
Fidel Castro speaks at the closing session of the
11th National Education Seminar, underscoring the
great working spirit of teachers and professors
and stressing the fundamental role they play in
the effort to improve quality in teaching.
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FEBRUARY 09
FEBRUARY 10
FEBRUARY 11
CUBA
The Cuban Movement for the Peace and Sovereignty
of the Peoples condemn the Reagan administration's
renewal of nuclear testing and express its concern
and repulsion over that action.
Radio Rebelde reports that Cuba's sugar
mills once again show low manufacturing
efficiency because of rains and low yields.
The Cuban Government suspends an offer to the
three Cubans who have lived as refugees in the
Peruvian Embassy since 1980, which would have
allowed them to return to their homes without
facing any charges.
The Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions
announces that the main changes in the conceptual-
ization and development of the socialist emulation
will become effective in March, the main objective
being to increase service to the public.
The Council of State approves the creation of the
Ministry of the Construction Materials Industry
which will execute the policy of the state and
government. Minister Without Portfolio Levi Farah
will head the new ministry.
Havana Radio Progreso reports that, according to
the Transportation Administration of the National
Revolutionary Police, state-owned vehicles were
involved in 69 percent of the accidents occurring
in 1986.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with UNESCO General
Deputy Director Henry Lopez to discuss relations
between that international organization and Cuba
and the activities of the regional UNESCO cultural
office.
Fidel Castro tours the San Cristobal precooked
rice plant, the only one of its kind in Cuba. The
precooked rice will be sold on the parallel
market.
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The Builders of the Future--a contingent of youths
discharged from military service or without jobs,
and others preparing to serve laborers in CEM A
member countries--begin training in Guantanamo.
Radio Rebelde reports that the last war veteran
died at the age of 106. He lived in Guantanamo
Province.
Fidel Castro hosts a reception for participants of
the House of the Americas Literary Award. Culture
Minister Armando Hart, House of the Americas First
Deputy Director Roberto Fernandez Retamar, and
Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez attend.
At the closing session of the annual radio broad-
casting assessment meeting in Havana, Ismael
Gonzalez, President of the Institute of Radio and
Television, expresses the need for more efficient
radio programming.
An announcement is made at the headquarters of the
State Committee for Prices that from 17 February
to 17 March, for the first time in the country,
workers linked to production will discuss and
approve their enterprises' 1987 costs and profits.
Havana radio reports that over 300 physicians from
the Vladimir Il'ich Lenin Provincial Hospital will
forgo collecting per diem payments that the state
provides doctors on night duty in order to support
economic measures.
Havana press announces that the workers building
the Cuban electronuclear plant in Cienfuegos
finished pouring cement, the first phase of the
project, six months ahead of schedule.
Politburo member Pedro Miret presides over the
meeting checking the progress of the construction
schedule of the electronuclear center in
Cienfuegos. Miret notes the need to have reserve
supplies for unexpected situations.
Havana Tele-Rebelde announces that the Fifth
Congress of Union of Young Communists will be held
in Havana from 1-4 April.
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FEBRUARY 19
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The construction plan for 1987 in the state,
civil, and livestock-agricultural cooperative
sectors amounts to over 39,000 housing units for
the sugar industry and agriculture ministries for
peasants and microbrigade workers.
A 3-day international conference on housing and
urbanism begins in Havana with delegates from
Europe, socialist Europe, and Latin America
participating.
Chief of the Young Workers Department of the
Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions Rafael
Hernandez reports that a new young-workers drive
will begin in Havana so that the youth will be
able to take over the working class.
US Ambassador Vernon Walters says the US plans to
introduce a resolution before the UN Human Rights
Commission focusing on the plight of an estimated
15,000 political prisoners in Cuba.
FEBRUARY 20 Radio Rebelde reports that general assembly meet-
ings will be held throughout the country from
15 March to 15 April to announce the 1987 economic
plan guideline figures.
FEBRUARY 23 Havana Radio Reloj reports that a serious water
shortage continues in Havana. In January, 21
million cubic liters were delivered to the popula-
tion out of the 36 million that should have been
distributed.
FEBRUARY 24 Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a bilateral coop-
eration agreement in Havana in the electro-energy
field. The Juragua electro-nuclear center is one
of the main projects in the cooperation agreement.
Havana Radio Periodico del Aire reports that a
milk quota will go into effect in the city of
Havana on 4 March because of the economic situa-
tion Cuba is experiencing.
FEBRUARY 26 During a meeting of the National Committee of the
National Iron and Steelworker Union, First Vice
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Minister Ignacio Gonzalez reports that in January
the ministry obtained approximately 40 million
pesos in revenue, 85 percent of the estimate.
Nicaraguan Colonel Hugo Torres Jiminez of the
Sandinist People's Army opens an exhibit in
Havana on the US role in Nicaragua. On display
were propaganda leaflets dropped by the "contra"
army and statistics of Nicaraguan casualties.
Madrid press reports that Cuba is planning to
develop "the best economic plan, with the best
possible basis, impartiality, and efficiency."
according to Jose Lopez Moreno, Minister President
of the Central Planning Board.
Havana Radio Reloj announces that the Communica-
tions Ministry will establish greater demands and
improve supervision over the quality of the
scheduled maintenance programs of domestic and
international service.
The Cuban section of the Cuban-Spanish Economic
Trade Cooperation Committee is created during a
ceremony in Havana. The group plans to boost Cuban
exports to the Spanish market and to send Cubans
to Spain for familiarization and trade training.
Minister President of the State Committee for
Labor and Social Security Francisco Linares says
there is a possibility there will not be a single
laborer this year who remains on the payroll while
being without work.
Havana Radio Rebelde announces that Cuba has
launched a coffee recovery program that includes
the development of new areas and permanent in-
corporation of hundreds of agronomic engineers.
Havana TV reports one death and estimated damages
amounting to $2 million were the result of a rail-
road accident at the Jayama Crossing in the out-
skirts of Camaguey.
Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura
presides over a Union of Young Communists meeting
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in Havana where discussions were held on setting a
good example, economic education, and the rectifi-
cation process.
Speaking at a prevention and social assistance
commission meeting in Santiago de Cuba, PCC member
Esteban Lazo Hernandez reports that the crime rate
in the province fell during 1986, but crimes
continue to damage the economy and society.
The Ministry of Domestic Trade issues an official
report indicating that additional amounts of rice
will be supplied during March, April, and May to
workers and school lunchrooms and others in the
western part of Cuba.
The Ministry of Construction Enterprises in
Camaguey announces the increase in their cement
consumption. This evaluation was taken at the end
of January and compares consumption with the 1986
average.
The third national seminar on agitation and propa-
ganda and young workers begins in Havana to
discuss the national workers movement's
performance in those areas.
Havana Radio Reloj reports a low rate of sugar
production in Matanzas Province during February.
Yields diminished, losses increased, and sugarcane
harvest was late.
Havana Radio Reloj reports that audits by the
State Committee for Finance show low productivity,
singling out the Ministry of the Steelworking
Industry.
In Sancti Spiritus, PCC member Jaime Crombet urges
all commerce, food industry, and service workers
to deal energetically with mistakes and negative
tendencies currently affecting the sector.
Interior Minister Brigadier General Luis Felipe
Denis Diaz dies at age 53. He was the former
Deputy Chief of the Central Committee of the
Military Department of the Cuban Communist Party.
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Vilma Espin, President of the National Social
Prevention and Attention Commission, reports a
gradual decrease in crime in 1986. Recreational
options for youth will include opening 3,000 dance
locations and nine video halls.
At a news conference in Havana, Minister of
Construction Levi Farah says that 60,000 tons of
white cement--which is currently imported--will
become available annually when a production line
in Siguaney, Sancti Spiritus, becomes operational.
Pinar Del Rio Province's state and private sector
farmers collect a total of 9,440,000 tobacco leaf
bundles; 80 caballerias are left before the area's
planting plans are fulfilled. Recent rains have
increased the delays in sugar production.
Holguin Province reaches the fourth step of the
730,000 tons of sugar planned for the current
sugar harvest cycle 4 days before the schedule to
greet 8 March, International Women's Day and the
Union of Young Communists provincial assembly.
The oil center enterprise, which will provide Cuba
with more than 1 million tons of oil in the year
1990, is planning on ocean drilling and incorpor-
ating new wells. Thirty-five oil wells will be
drilled this year, in 1990, 325 will be drilled.
Fidel Castro presides over the honorary committee
for the Third International Medical Technology
Fair: Health for All. The fair will take place
? from 23-30 April and will inaugurate the Palace of
Conventions exhibit hall.
Raul Castro and Division Generals Rogelio Acevedo
Gonzalez and Sixto Batista Santana meet with
Soviet General Lizichev, who visits Guantanamo and
Holguin.
The sugarcane harvest analysis covering the last
10 days of February shows some reports of lost
time in the sugar industry because of the lack of
sugarcane, especially in the provinces of Las
Tunas and Guantanamo. Drought could be a factor.
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Fidel Castro decorates Dr. Albert Jacques Kunh,
Natural Medicine Practitioner, with the Order of
Solidarity for his research in natural medicine,
his struggle for peace, and his concern for scien-
tific-technical development of Cuban medicine.
Heavy rains interrupt the supply of sugarcane to
Holguin province sugar mills hindering sugar
industry workers efforts to maintain over 90 per-
cent grinding levels.
Havana Radio Rebelde reports that the country's
state plan for electricity consumption distribu-
tion is showing extensive delays. Sancti Spiritus,
Las Tunas, and Villa Clara are provinces with a
critical situation.
Havana Radio Periodico del Aire announces that the
Ministry of the Food Industry will increase butter
sales approximately 30 tons in Havana Province
during March.
Vice Foreign Minister Raul Roa Kouri reports to
the Spanish press EFE that Cuba is confident that
Latin America will not yield to US maneuvers and
pressures to approve an anti-Cuban resolution at
the UN meeting on human rights in Geneva.
The Politburo of the Communist Party approves a
national nutrition program to promote an adequate
diet for the people. The Ministry of Public Health
is the program coordinator.
Havana TV reports that the northern and central
areas of Camaguey Province have faced a severe
drought for over two years. This has mainly hurt
the Camaguey cattle industry, which has over 1
million head of cattle.
The Interior Ministry reports the attempted hi-
jacking to the US of Cubana Airlines Flight 706
departing from Rancho Boyeros Airport to Nueva
Gerona, Isle of Youth. The would-be hijacker, Juan
Carlos Jimenez Gonzalez, is killed.
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Havana Radio Progreso announces that specialized
commissions in every enterprise in Cuba have been
created in each of the provinces to analyze the
possible placement this year of workers who have
not been included in the national economic plan.
MARCH 12 Fidel Castro tours various areas of social and
economic interest in Camaguey Province.
MARCH 13
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo
conducts an inspection of Granma Province in
Vayamo to detect deficiencies, improve work, and
to become aware of the country's current
situation.
Vilma Espin, Jaime Crombet, and Fidel Castro
Diaz-Balart attend the opening of a food radiation
plant, the only one of its kind in Cuba and in the
Caribbean. Cuba is the 10th country in the world
capable of radiating goods at a commercial level.
Fidel Castro visits the Camaguey School of Medical
Sciences, where he receives a report on the pro-
gress of the educational center and the Carlos J.
Finlay detachment. He speaks with a variety of
students attending the institute.
Fidel Castro speaks at a ceremony commemorating
the 30th anniversary of the attack on the palace
and the death of Jose Antonio Echeverria.
Havana Radio Progreso reports that representatives
from the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Cuba
have signed a cooperation agreement for the steel
industry in Havana.
During a Communist Party assessment meeting in
Pinar del Rio, it was reported that over 580
caballerias of tobacco have been damaged in that
territory.
Central Committee member Jorge Lezcano presides
over an education meeting saying that the two main
educational problems that must be resolved are
that teachers must give better classes and that
students must study and assimilate lessons.
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Fidel Castro, accompanied by Brazilian Foreign
Minister Abreu Sodre, lay the cornerstone for the
future Brazilian Embassy, located in Miramar. The
ambassador's residence will be in Cubanacan.
Fidel Castro and a Brazilian delegation headed by
Sodre visit the Cesar Escalante Primary School to
exchange greetings with students and professors.
A delegation of the Planning Commission headed by
vice-premier, the commission's chairman, Manfred
Gorywoda and the Central Planning Board of Cuba
JUCEPLAN President Jose Lopez Moreno discuss trade
exchange and other forms of economic cooperation.
Vilma Espin and Interior Minister Abrantes address
a crime prevention seminar at the Nico Lopez
School in Jaimanitas stressing the need for crime
prevention work, and for joint efforts by all
sectors.
Fidel Castro opens a home for the elderly in
Guanabacoa.
Havana press reports that a thermoelectric plant
being built with the cooperation of French experts
on the outskirts of Matanzas is nearing comple-
tion. The plant will be the largest one in Cuba,
costing nearly $200 million.
Havana Radio Periodico del Aire announces that the
implementation and dissemination of the "Meteo-
Cuba" scientific analysis system, designed to make
ocean travel time shorter, safer, and more cost-
efficient, is approved.
Division Generals Senen Casas, Sixto Batista, and
Rafael Valdes chair the first national meeting
on the methods of the new military recruitment
system in Ciego de Avila Province.
The joint Spanish-Cuban Economic and Industrial
Commission begins talks in Havana at the Sierra
Maestra Hotel. Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez of
Spain and Ernesto Melendez preside.
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MARCH 21
MARCH 22
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Jesus Escandel, Cuba's delegate to the bureau
meeting of the Permanent Congress for Latin
American Workers Trade Union Unity reiterates
Cuba's support to Brazil in its decision to not
make foreign debt service payments.
Fidel Castro meets with Brazilian journalists in
Havana. He tells them that his ties to Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev are excellent, but that
the road chosen by Gorbachev does not necessarily
apply to Cuba.
Fidel Castro tells Brazilian journalists that the
Third World as a whole, not only Latin America,
is in no condition to pay its foreign debt. He
also says there are no dissidents imprisoned in
Cuba.
Havana Tele-Rebelde reports that a French
construction firm will begin building a deepwater
harbor at Matanzas Bay that will have a capacity
to service ships of 150,000 tons.
Havana Radio Periodico del Aire reports that mem-
bers of the National Association of Small Farmers
have incurred a deficit of 76.4 million arrobas in
the delivery of sugarcane to the country's sugar
industry during the present harvest.
Central Committee Secretariat member Jose Ramon
Balaguer presides over the opening of the 1986
Ministry of Public Health evaluation assembly. The
delegates attending are examining in depth the
MINSAP's results, achievements, and deficiencies.
Radio Progreso reports that the 1986 mortality
rate caused by infestious and parasitic diseases
has dropped to 1.5 percent. The infant mortality
rate was 13.6 percent per every 1,000 live births
--a 50 percent drop in the last 11 years.
Minister of Higher Education Fernando Vecino
Alegret receives Jose Francisco Pena Gomez.
Alegret explains that Cuba has 14 higher education
centers and 32 others under other organizations
and approximately 300,000 university students.
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MARCH 24
MARCH 25
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Fidel Castro presides over the opening session of
the Sixth Conference of the Latin American and
Caribbean Planning Ministers and Chiefs.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Pedro
Miret Prieto delivers the welcoming speech at the
Sixth Meeting of the CEMA Commission for Machine
Building in Havana.
The Cuban delegation to the first Latin American
and Caribbean Interparliamentary Conference on the
Environment condemns the arms race. Blanco Fong
Lam, head of Cuba's delegation, reports Cuban life
expectancy is 74.2 years.
Fidel Castro meets with the heads of the delega-
tions attending the Sixth Conference of the Latin
American and Caribbean Planning Ministers and
Chiefs to discuss economic problems and Cuba's
economic and political development.
Havana Radio Periodico del Aire reports that
several prisoners were treated for ingestion of
methanol alcohol at the Cubican Jail Medical
Center on 20 March. To date, 7 have died and 118
are in serious condition.
The Isle of Youth Tercer Congreso ceramic plant
is officially inaugurated in the presence of
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, East German official
Gunther Kleiber, and Algerian official Mohamed
Cherif Messaadia.
CEMA support to the industrial development of
Vietnam, Cuba, and Mongolia represents one of the
main topics on the work agenda of the CEMA
Machine Building meetings. Fidel Castro meets with
the delegates attending the meeting.
Fidel Castro meets with the Director of the
Pan American Health Organizations, Dr. Guerra de
Massedo, to discuss the family physician program.
MARCH 26 Minister of Culture Armando Hart presides over the
Third Cultural Workers Congress. The slogan of the
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MARCH 26 congress is "The Grandest Cultural Work is the
Revolution Itself."
MARCH 27
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MARCH 31
APRIL 01
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and East
German official Gunther Kleiber attend the
inauguration of a knitting mill in eastern Havana.
Fidel talks with workers and leaders of the mill.
The Pinar del Rio Provincial PCC agrees to relieve
Orlando Lugo Fonte from his position as first
secretary of the province so that he may preside
over the committee organizing the Seventh Congress
of the National Association of Small Farmers.
At the request of the Holguin Energy Savings
Commission, seven enterprises are fined for using
more than the established amount of energy.
This situation affects the profit-making system
of an enterprise.
During a special speech at the Third Congress of
the National Cultural Workers Trade Union, Armando
Hart says the greatest requirement of the culture
sector should be quality.
UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar
reports that Cuba is appointed, among other
countries of the international community, to
compose the intergovernmental group in charge of
monitoring the South African oil embargo.
The sixth meeting of the joint CEMA-Mexico Coop-
eration Commission is held in Havana for the first
time. Cooperation in agriculture, fisheries,
industrial development, and foreign, trade is dis-
cussed, and a cooperation agreement is signed.
The Fifth Congress of the Union of Young Commu-
nist (UJC) opens in Havana. Fidel Castro attends
and speaks about the work stability of youth, its
role in the sugar industry, and the introduction
of scientific findings in the sugar harvest.
Sugar Industry Minister Juan Herrera says that
one third of the 150,000 sugar industry workers is
under 29 years of age.
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Fidel Castro attends the second day of the Fifth
UJC Congress. He speaks of the family doctor pro-
gram and a training program implemented in the
Guantanamo mountains, attended by doctors with the
best records. Vilma Espin speaks on sex education.
Havana Radio Reloj reports the 16 agroindustrial
complexes in Havana Province have reached only
51 percent utilization of their grinding capa-
cities.
APRIL 03 Fidel Castro attends the third day of sessions
of the Fifth UJC Congress.
APRIL 04
APRIL 05
APRIL 07
The UJC Congress approves amendments: the change
of the minimum age for membership from 14 to 16, a
preparatory plan unnecessary for membership, and
when requested, a member can be dismissed before
the age of 30.
Havana Radio Progreso reports that Cuba's elec-
tronics industry will increase specialization in
production of displays and keyboards as part of
the CEMA cooperation program for this five-year
period.
The Interior Ministry reports that state security
has discovered, detained, and placed at the dis-
position of the courts, citizens Gladys Juana
Oliva Garcia Hernandez and Nestor Norberto Garcia
Hernandez, alleged CIA spies.
Fidel Castro addresses the closing session of the
UJC Congress, calling on youth to prepare them-
selves for the realities of the world and to
further revolution, socialism, and Communism.
Pedro Chavez, President of the Havana City Pro-
vince, meets with members of the San Jose council
to explain the scheduled construction of 50 day-
care centers, 10,000 houses, 10 polyclinics, and
10 offices for doctors.
The Latin American and Caribbean youth organiza-
tions end their regional meeting in Havana, at
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APRIL 08
APRIL 10
APRIL 13
APRIL 14
APRIL 17
APRIL 18
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which members stressed the need for more concrete
anti-imperialist action and decisive support for
countries struggling for independence.
Cuba's reprsentative to the 40th session of the UN
Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Raul Roa Kouri,
says the Cuban people have fully exercised the
right to self-determination at crucial times in
their history.
Politburo alternate member Jose Ramon Fernandez
announces that the number of students graduating
from the high schools and mid-level technical
schools who will be called to active military
service will increase.
Secretary of the PCC Jose Ramon Balaguer attends a
meeting of the Union of Young Communists in Moa,
Holguin Province. He says higher education can
contribute to the process of rectifying errors by
elevating its standards when forming the cadres.
Havana TV reports that the study of computer tech-
niques will be introduced in mid-level education
by 1990.
Granma and Trabajadores issue a message from the
CTC calling on all members to commemorate Inter-
national Workers Day by performing an indepth
process of rectifying errors and by struggling
against negative trends that hinder socialism.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas, in an
interview on the Group of 77 meeting, says the
most important topic of the meeting is inter-
national trade, the resources for development,
and availability of staple goods.
Secretary General of the Central Organization of
Cuban Trade Unions Roberto Veiga speaks of the
importance of the cadre's integrity and the need
for adequate work methods during a union meeting
in Ciego de Avila.
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APRIL 20
APRIL 23
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Fidel Castro tells reporters in Havana that Cuba
is well prepared to battle AIDS as the Ministry
of Public Health reports 108 Cubans are carriers
of the disease.
Havana hosts representatives from 17 countries
attending the international meeting of leaders of
friendship associations with the Soviet Union.
Fidel Castro attends the ministerial meeting of
the Group of 77 in Havana. He lists reasons that
have made it impossible for the underdeveloped
world to pay its debt.
Havana press reports that the book "On the Correct
Road" appears on newsstands, commemorating the
26th anniversary of the victory in Playa Giron.
Archbishop of Havana Jaime Ortega says the process
of openness and sincere dialogue in relations
between the Catholic Church and the Cuban Govern-
ment continues, although it is not moving as fast
as it did at the beginning.
Fidel Castro addresses the opening of the Sixth
Ministerial Meeting of the Group of 77. He says
the United States continues manipulating the value
of the dollar for the exclusive purpose of satis-
fying its own interests.
Fidel Castro attends the Third International
Medical Equipment Fair, entitled Health for All.
President of the Chamber of Commerce Julio Garcia
Olivera stresses the high priority Cuba gives to
the field of health.
Foreign Minister Malmierca presents the UN Inter-
national Year of Peace commemorative medal to
Orlando Fundora, President of the Cuban Movement
for the Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples.
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APRIL 26
CUBA
Fidel Castro visits the international fair, Health
For All. He talks with technicians and specialists
expressing much interest in the modern technology
and medications on display. The first Cuban arti-
ficial heart was on display.
Cuba celebrates the 20th anniversary of the crea-
tion of the Intercosmos program by holding news
conferences to discuss such scientific work as the
discovery of seismic zones, areas of intense
salinity, and new fishing areas.
Havana press announces that Blas Roca, long-time
Communist Party leader who wrote the country's
first post-revolutionary constitution, died on
25 April. Throughout the night, thousands of
Cubans paid him their respects.
Fidel Castro eulogizes Blas Roca calling him an
exceptional man who had singular virtues, extra-
ordinary talent, and who was an exemplary revolu-
tionary, and a fighter, having led the first
Marxist-Leninist party in Cuba for over 3 decades.
APRIL 27 Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas closes the Group
of 77 conference.
APRIL 30
Havana TV reports that the first Cuban neurotrans-
plant was performed on 26 April at the Neurology
and Neurosurgery Institute on a male patient from
Villa Clara who had Parkinson's disease. The team
of doctors was headed by Dr. Hilda Molina.
Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura closes
the first UJC-sponsored national meeting of young
jurists, in which nearly 400 law students and
professionals participated.
Fidel Castro speaks to journalists during a
reception marking the end of the medical fair,
Health for All. He tells them that the US economic
embargo was partly responsible for Cuba's impres-
sive development in the field of medicine.
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MAY 04
MAY 06
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Secretary General of the Central Organization of
Cuban Trade Unions Roberto Veiga speaks in Revolu-
tion Square in commemoration of International
Workers Day. He stresses strength and giving of
oneself to carry out tasks.
Fidel Castro, Roberto Veiga, Jorge Risquet, Vilma
Espin, Juan Almeida, and other Communist Party
officials attend the International Workers Day
(May Day) parade in Havana.
Raul Castro attends the May Day parade in Pinar
del Rio Province.
Vice President of the National Assembly of the
People's Government Severo Aguirre del Cristo
meets in Havana with Lucio Lara, First Secretary
of the Angolan People's Assembly, to discuss the
Cuban parliament.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets with members
of the US Venceremos Brigade visiting Cuba. The
brigade is composed of members of religious
groups, labor unions, and intellectuals from 26
cities.
The first regular Havana-Moscow weekly flights
begin. The Havana-Moscow flight will stopover in
Madrid and the returning flight will stop in
Gander.
Secretariat member Jose Ramon Balaguer presides
over the opening session of Orthopedia-87 in
Havana. Some 1,220 specialists from 43 countries
participate.
Trabajadores accuses the Central Intelligence
Agency of meddling in labor affairs in El Salvador
and Guatemala.
Radio Progreso reports that the workers of the
Antonio Guiteras agroindustrial complex in Las
Tunas surpassed their sugar production program
during this harvest by producing 200,000 tons of
sugar--1,342 tons over the amount planned.
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MAY 08
MAY 09
MAY 11
MAY 12
MAY 13
MAY 14
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Havana TV reports that Cuba has 16 Camilo
Cienfuegos Military Vocational Schools that were
designated pre-university centers for the exact
sciences last September. Computers have been
introduced into the program of studies.
Havana TV reports on a large fire that broke out
on 6 May at an open air storage area in El Cerro
Municipality, Havana. The storage area contains
"hundreds of spools" of telephone cable, "most of
which were recently imported from Argentina."
Fidel Castro presides over a central group meet-
ing in Havana called to analyze the national
economy during the first three months of this
year. He insists on strengthening stability and
working to improve salary redistribution.
Fidel Castro presides over the closing ceremony
of the Orthopedia-87 forum. Central Committee
member Jose Ramon Balaguer says the forum marks
a new phase of medical speciality in Cuba.
Felix Herrera, Havana City Provincial Housing Dir-
ector, says there are approximately 526,000 houses
in Havana, 54 percent of which are in average or
poor condition and 24,500 multi-family buildings
which 6,700 small cities are below standard.
Havana hosts the first labor and trade union move-
ment workshop for developing countries. Partici-
pants include 25 trade union organizations from
18 African, Latin American, and Caribbean
countries.
Havana Radio Progreso reports that the Cayo Largo
del Sur Airport is being expanded to increase
airplane landing capacity, parking, and tourist
facilities.
Havana Radio Periodico del Aire announces that
approximately $3,200,000 will be invested in
aqueduct, sewer, and drainage works through the
year 2000 as part of the City of Havana hydraulic
development plan.
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MAY 15
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Havana Radio Periodico del Aire reports that the
first phase of the Jose Marti Airport is scheduled
to be completed by late 1988. This phase includes
the construction of a technical maintenance base
big enough to repair four planes at the same time.
Havana Radio Periodico del Aire reports that the
People's Savings Bank has advised its users that
they can sell their Cuban and US demonetized
silver coins at any agency throughout the
country.
The first workshop on the workers and trade union
movement is held in Havana with the participation
of more than 100 students from the Lazaro Pena
national school of trade union cadres. Students
are from Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
First Vice Minister of the FAR Division General
Abelardo Colome Ibarra visits the Training Center
in 10 October Municipality. These students are
junior specialists who will join the FAR.
Havana TV reports that 96,000 secondary students
in Havana City schools maintained close to 90
percent attendance, meaning a significant number
of children are not receiving the proper educa-
tion.
Havana Radio Reloj announces that in cooperation
with East Germany, a banana pulp processing plant
will be built in Ciego de Avila Province and it
will begin operating in the first quarter of 1989.
Fidel Castro attends the Seventh Congress of the
National Association of Small Farmers. PCC member
Orlando Lugo Fonte opens the congress.
Ciego de Avila Province reports 17 deaths and
thousands of injuries during the current sugarcane
harvest. The Sugar Industry and the union will
implement a plan to improve the situation during
the rext sugarcane harvest.
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MAY 16
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Sugar Industry Minister Juan Herrera tells a
radio station that milling sugar with a minimum
of interruptions is a MINAZ goal for future
harvests.
At the Seventh ANAP congress, Fidel Castro
criticizes errors committed in the retirement
policy for the Cuban peasant sector, most of whom
continue to work after retiring, and receive two
incomes.
First FAR Vice Minister Division General Ulises
Rosales del Toro presides over a ceremony
commemorating the 25th anniversary of the founding
of the Isle of Youth military region. Raul Castro
sends a message praising the military region.
Havana Radio Reloj reports that the new Radio
Florida building in Camaguey Province will be
inaugurated to commemorate the 25th anniversary
of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television on
24 May.
MAY 17 Fidel Castro addresses the closing session of the
National Association of Small Farmers Congress.
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MAY 19
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The provincial People's Court in Cienfuegos
sentences seven defendants to jail for failing to
prevent the oil spill in the Cienfuegos Bay in
June 1986.
Central Committee members Jorge Enrique Mendoza,
Diodes Torralba, and Jose Felipe Carneado receive
the Romarico Cordero medal, the highest National
Association of Small Farmers decoration. Fidel
Castro attends the ceremony.
Minister of Construction Materials Industry Levi
Farah speaks at the Group of 77 meeting in
Havana. He says creation of Third World construc-
tion forces with independent resources is
necessary for economic development.
At the 33rd general assembly of International
Organization of Radio and Television, Jose Ramon
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MAY 20
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Fernandez says the new information organization
will provide the capability to use massive broad-
casting methods and satellites in programming.
The CEMA scientific-technical council begins its
22nd meeting in Santiago de Cuba. A document is
signed on the manufacturing of biomedical equip-
ment for use in research and clinical medicine.
PCC members Pedro Miret Prieto and Jaime Crombet
attend the reopening of the Vladimir Il'ich Lenin
Aluminum Casing Factory, which was damaged after
an explosion on 12 May. The repairs will improve
the factory's technical and working efficiency.
Secretary General of the Central Organization of
Cuban Trade Unions Roberto Veiga speaks in Granma
on the rectification process in the CTC, saying
the union should fulfill its obligations in
rectifying errors and negative tendencies.
Fidel Castro sends a floral wreath on the
occasion of the 92nd anniversary of the death of
Jose Marti.
Programming specialists from socialist countries
participate in a demonstration of two Cuban com-
puter programming technologies--Dosmultic and
Dosmultic G--created to automate inventory, trade,
accounting, and planning activities.
Vice President of the National Assembly Severo
Aguirre del Cristo attends a meeting in Ciego de
Avila noting that agricultural and livestock pro-
duction must be a priority for local authorities.
The International Radio and Television Organiza-
tion ends its 33rd meeting in Havana. Agreements
include providing propaganda and support on behalf
of the USSR and other countries in regard to
disarmament and world cooperation.
Radio Rebelde announces that one of the unresolved
problems of Cuba's economy is the accumulation of
goods in warehouses. Enterprise officials are not
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MAY 22 just trying to ensure a reserve, they use these
goods in some sort of operation of their own.
MAY 23
MAY 25
MAY 26
Fidel Castro attends the main ceremony marking the
25th anniversary of the Cuban Institute of Radio
and Television.
UPI reports that after 28 years of revolution,
Cubans are relying on the profit motive to breathe
life into a stagnant economy. A little cash in the
right hand can spring loose the housing, cars,
and clothes the system never seems to find.
UPI reports that Cuban diplomats and some govern-
ment officials say the public mood in cuba is
slowly souring. Young people hate socialism. Some
of the younger generation are finding Fidel Castro
irrelevant.
The Construction Ministry celebrates its 25th
anniversary. Some 100,000 construction workers
participate in a massive volunteer workday.
UPI reports that 20,000 Cubans were baptized in
Cuba last year and 20,000 Bibles were imported.
Religious leaders attended the 1985 Third World
debt conference, and discussions are underway to
find a rabbi for 1,200 Cuban Jews.
The Christian Conference for Peace in Latin
America and the Caribbean begins its third
continental congress in Havana. Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez and PCC member Jose Felipe Carneado
attend.
Fidel Castro participates in the third special
plenum Communist Party meeting in Guanabacoa. The
meeting's main objective is to analyze political
work conducted in response to Fidel's request.
PCC member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura addresses a
meeting of first secretaries of the Union of
Young Communists. He stresses solutions must be
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MAY 26 found at the community level by adjusting
activities.
CEMA representatives to the 23rd meeting of bio-
medical and clinical medical equipment being held
in Santiago de Cuba visit the Retomed medical
equipment factory under construction.
MAY 27 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives CEMA Secretary
Vyacheslav Sychev.
MAY 28
MAY 29
Minister of Culture Armando Hart participates in
the Christian Conference for Peace in Latin
America and the Caribbean being held at the Palace
of Conventions. Brazilian theologian Frei Betto
delivers a lecture on peace and justice.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez lectures on international
politics during the seminar for first and second
secretaries of the Union of Young Communists. He
explains how President Reagan's credibility has
dwindled because of the Iran issue.
Air Force Brigadier General Rafael del Pino Diaz,
his wife and three children, escape to the United
States aboard a Cessna aircraft, piloted by del
Pino. The aircraft landed at the Key West Naval
Air Station in Florida.
Granma reports of the desertion of Brigadier
General Rafael del Pino Diaz. It says he distin-
guished himself in 1961 as a pilot in the battles
of Playa Giron and subsequently carried out an
internationalist mission in Angola.
Fidel Castro presides over the third special
plenum of the PCC municipal committee in Diez de
Octubre, Havana City Province. The work performed
by the municipality in the rectification process
is being analyzed.
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Granma also reports that deserter Rafael del Pino
Diaz has not been working as a combat pilot since
January 1987 because he was suffering from eye
problems and recurring states of physical stress.
Radio Progreso reports that the mother of minor
Rafael del Pino Lopez (age 15) sent a letter
asking the Cuban Government to demand the US
return her son, who was kidnaped by his father,
former Cuban Air Force General Rafael del Pino.
Radio Reloj reports that Malmierca signed a proto-
col on foreign policy coordination within the Non-
aligned in Iran. The protocol also covers economic
and technical cooperation in public health, phar-
maceutical products, industry, and agriculture.
Cuba signs bilateral agreements with CEMA dele-
gations from the USSR, Bulgaria, and Poland for
the exchange of medical equipment, including
equipment used in physiotherapy and rehabilita-
tion.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart attends ceremony
for Wole Soyinka, winner of the 1986 Nobel Prize
for Liberature, who is presented with the Golden
Insignia as guest of the City of Havana. Soyinka
is the first African to receive a Nobel Prize.
The PCC considered the advisability of merging
several institutions at a meeting on 28 May.
Director of Granma Jorge Enrique Mendoza Reboredo
will head the new institute. Enrique Roman
Hernandez is promoted to Director of Granma.
Fidel Castro bestows the Feliz Varela Order, first
degree, on African Wole Soyinka, winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature. Soyinka is attending
the 22nd Congress of the International Theater
Institute and the Palace of Conventions.
Havana's Radio Rebelde reports that approximately
600 tons of unrefined sugar spilled alongside the
railroad tracks near the community of Placetas,
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CUBA
JUNE 02 Villa Clara Province, when a railroad car pin
broke and several cars derailed.
JUNE 03
The Eighth Cuba-87 Tourism Convention begins in
Varadero. President of the National Institute of
Tourism Rafael Sed Perez reports that internation-
al tourism in Cuba has grown annually by 10 per-
cent during the past few years.
Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura
addresses the special plenum of the PCC Central
Committee in Pinar del Rio. He says great progress
can be seen in rectifying mistakes and negative
tendencies in the economy during the past year.
Politburo member Roberto Veiga participates in a
labor leaders meeting in Guantanamo Province call-
ing for the revitalization of the voluntary work
program, which contributes to economic development
and strengthens revolutionary consciousness.
The 30th anniversary of the Fifth September Upris-
ing maneuvers are held in Cienfuegos, Matanzas,
Sancti Spiritus, and Villa Clara as part of the
activities to prepare the country for its defense.
Raul Castro attends ceremonies in Matanzas.
A State Department official announces that Rafael
del Pino Lopez, the 15-year-old son of defector
Rafael del Pino Diaz, will be allowed to decide
for himself whether to remain in the United States
or return to Cuba.
Havana Tele-Rebelde announces that Cuban and
Soviet specialists will build an oil pipeline from
the supertankers' base in Matanzas to the oil
refinery in Cienfuegos Province.
Havana Radio Progreso announces that a new
peoples' watch network begins operating this month
in 300 Committees for the Defense of the Revolu-
tion zones and expects to cover all CDR zones by
October.
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JUNE 09
JUNE 10
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Vice Minister of Foreign Trade Manuel Estefania
reports the need to improve the quality of Cuban
exports because the lack of adequate finishing or
presentation has caused serious export losses.
A National Assembly member from Havana writes a
letter to the US Congress asking that the mother
of Rafael del Pino Lopez be granted permission to
talk to her son on the telephone.
Fines are imposed on the preserves and vegetables
enterprise in Villa Clara for violations committed
by the San Diego del Valle factory. The parallel
market in Santa Clara and other stores were found
to have products higher than the official list.
Havana Radio Progreso announces Cuba's election
as full member and Nicaragua alternate to the
International Labor Organization. Cuba is elected
despite US opposition.
Reuters reports that Cuba will release more than
300 political prisoners to American Catholic
bishops in the near future. A member of the US
Catholic Conference visiting Cuba in May held two
meetings with Fidel Castro.
Gladys Juana Oliva Garcia Hernandez and Nestor
Norberto Garcia Hernandez, arrested alleged US
agents, are interviewed on Cuban television.
Havana Radio Rebelde reports that Cuba objects to
Grenada's participation in the second meeting of
information ministers of the Nonaligned Movement,
which begins 10 June in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura and
Justice Minister Juan Escalona Reguera preside
over sessions of the third congress of the
National Union of Cuban Lawyers in Havana.
The Third Congress of the National Union of Cuban
Lawyers approves juridical guidelines. Politburo
members Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Jose Ramon
Machado Ventura preside at the closing session.
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JUNE 11
JUNE 12
JUNE 13
JUNE 14
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Havana Radio Rebelde announces that one of the
worst droughts in the last 42 years could become a
serious problem in Camaguey Province. Camaguey's
three main water reservoirs are only at 11.36
percent of their capacity.
Havana Tele-Rebelde reports that Cuban authorities
broke up a crowd of would-be emigrants who flocked
to the French Embassy in Havana seeking visas.
Several dozens of these stateless people have been
detained.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the Executive
Director of the International Sugar Organization
Alfredo Ricar in Havana. They exchange opinions on
the organization's activities, the sugar market,
and negotiations for a new sugar agreement.
Fidel Castro presides over the plenum of the PCC
provincial committee in Havana. The main topics
discussed are economic deficiencies, the use of
construction materials to build and repair houses
and other projects.
An advanced edition of the newspaper Bastion,
official organ of the Revolutionary Armed Forces,
dedicates its frontpage to the recently concluded
maneuvers, "30th Anniversary of the 5 September
Uprising." It will begin circulation in July.
Havana Radio Reloj announces that the national
commission on water conservation has defined the
water reserves situation in Matanzas Province as
critical. The 57 millimeters of rain reported
constitute only a third of the average.
Havana Radio Progreso announces that Vietnam,
Cuba, and Mongolia will receive energy programs
from East European CEMA members during the next
five years, according to a protocol signed at the
72nd CEMA energy meeting.
Granma announces the year of Ernesto "Che"
Guevara, on the 59th anniversary of his birth.
The celebration marks a stage in Fidel Castro's
"Process of Rectification" campaign.
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JUNE 17
JUNE 18
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Havana Radio Rebelde announces that more than
5,000 heads of cattle died at the Rectangulo agri-
cultural-livestock enterprise in Camaguey Province
early this year. This figure exceeds the anti-
cipated drought loss by 38 percent.
Politburo member Pedro Miret welcomes the
delegates to the fourth meeting of the CEMA
Committee for Machine Building. The delegates will
analyze scientific-technical cooperation.
The Ministry of Interior and National Revolution-
ary Police in Ciego de Avila meet with members of
the National Association of Small Farmers to dis-
cuss perfecting the peasant revolutionary patrols
to guard against all forms of crime.
Havana Tele-Rebelde announces that the President
of the Cuban Civil Aeronautics Institute Luis
Orlando Dominguez is replaced for corruption.
First Vice President Orlando Interian has been
appointed acting president.
Havana Radio Reloj reports that seven companies in
Camaguey Province were fined in May because they
consumed excessive electricity during peak hours
from 1800 to 2200.
The Interior Ministry reports on 15 June that
fishing vessels from Punta Alegre in Ciego de
Avila Province recovered 22 bales of marijuana
from the water, and immediately notified Cuban
authorities.
Havana Radio Progreso reports of severe drought
in the southern region of Pinar del Rio where the
rice fields are located and over 1,600 caballerias
of land are dry.
Granma announces that the local Committees for
Defense of the Revolution will choose guards,
called "night vigilantes," to watch counter-
revolutionaries and delinquents from 1 a.m. to
6 a.m.; 7,000 guards will work in Havana.
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JUNE 22
JUNE 23
CUBA
Havana TV announces that a new airport is being
built near Varadero as an alternate to the Jose
Marti International Airport, to facilitate the
development of international tourism in Varadero
Beach.
Cuban delegate to the UN Information Committee in
New York Sergio Montane denounces the broadcasts
against Cuba by US-sponsored radio stations.
Secretary General of the Central Organization of
Cuban Trade Unions Roberto Veiga presides over a
meeting which discusses insufficient training of
personnel and the lack of thoroughness in the
evaluation of technicians and absenteeism.
CEMA's Permanent Committee for Machine Building
decides that during the next few years Cuba will
replace drills and crown blocks made by capitalist
countries with those made by socialist countries.
Havana International Service reports that a Cessna
light plane with two passengers aboard crashed on
19 June in El Muro, in Guantanamo Province. Cuban
authorities found nine bags of cocaine, and are
trying to identify the passengers.
Secretary General of the Central Organization of
Cuban Trade Unions Roberto Veiga attends the
closing of the plenary meeting on labor organiza-
tion in Havana. He asserts that the labor movement
must solve problems and not only report them.
Havana Radio Reloj announces that Cuba will
introduce an automated airline reservations
system in 1989 that will allow seat reservations
to be made on any airline in the world.
Fidel Castro presides over an Interior Ministry
meeting dedicated to analyzing the progress of the
principal tasks of the MININT. Raul Castro also
attends the meeting.
Havana Radio Progreso announces that the usable
volume of water stored in dams for rice crops is
only 22 percent of its total capacity.
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JUNE 24
JUNE 25
JUNE 26
JUNE 27
CUBA
Havana Radio Reloj reports that the Nuevo Mundo
Dam, when completed, will have a capacity for 141
million cubic meters of water and will be part of
a large-scale hydraulic network that includes a
water-treatment plant.
Fidel Castro says during a televised speech that
measures are being taken to guard Cuba's military
secrets after former Air Force General del Pino
defected to the United States. Fidel describes del
Pino as a vain man of questionable morality.
Fidel Castro, during a televised speech, says a
battle must be waged "to end the manifestation of
privileges and the unlawful use of government re-
sources." He tells how former head of the Civil
Aeronautics Agency Dominguez embezzled $250,000.
Fidel Castro also calls for closer surveillance of
officials by party and security apparatus, during
his live televised speech.
Fidel Castro presides over an Enterprise meeting
in Havana that discusses the problems affecting
the progress of production and services. PCC
member Jorge Lezcano speaks to over 3,400 repre-
sentatives of enterprise unions.
UNITA reports that 100 MPLA soldiers and 9 Cubans
were killed in two days of fighting in northern
and central Angola.
Fidel Castro calls for more rational use of human
resources through reassessment, use of mini-
brigades, and the relocation of workers during the
second meeting of Havana Enterprises.
Fidel Castro closes the second meeting of Enter-
prises in Havana saying the most important thing
is to appreciate steps toward advancement.
Havana Radio Progreso reports open rallies
throughout Cuba expressing rejection of corruption
and treason, and at the same time, demonstrating
support for Fidel Castro's statements on 24 June
about the recent defections.
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JULY 01
JULY 02
JULY 03
JULY 04
JULY 06
CUBA
The Science and Technology Information Center of
the Ministry of the Steelworking Industry installs
a remote data terminal that allows access via sat-
ellite to valuable and distant data bases in other
countries through the central data bank in Moscow.
The Washington Times reports Cuban defector
General del Pino says during an interview on
Radio Marti that 300 to 400 Cuban advisers in
Nicaragua are actually part of an intelligence
operation.
Radio Reloj announces that Cuba produced 481
thousand tons of crude petroleum in the first
half of this year, which indicates that Cuba will
produce over one million tons this year.
Fidel Castro visits the scene of an accident where
a four-story apartment building partially collap-
sed in central Havana, killing at least one and
injuring 16 persons.
Tele-Rebelde announces that a new form of micro-
brigade made up of drivers and clerical personnel
of the transportation department, working after
their regular working hours, is in place at the
Arroyo Naranjo Municipality, Havana City.
Vice Minister of Domestic Trade Rigoberto
Fernandez says the new industrial products cards
will be in effect on 10 August and that they are
being distributed at food stores.
The 25th coordination meeting of the national
UNESCO commission of the socialist countries be-
gins in Havana. Foreign Minister Malmierca says it
is necessary for the organization to intensify and
multiply its efforts for the benefit of peoples.
Radio Periodico del Aire reports on Fidel Castro's
address to Havana Assembly, which expressed
interest in the plan for supermarkets in Havana
and child-care centers within two years.
JULY 07 Cuba's Ambassador to the United Nations Oscar
Oramas states at the United Nations that the
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JULY 07 United States has no right to interfere in
Panama's internal affairs.
JULY 08
JULY 09
JULY 10
Havana television broadcasts the first of a series
of programs entitled "the CIA's War Against Cuba,"
showing film clips of the activities of CIA agents
conducting intelligence-gathering activities in
Cuba.
Havana television reports that Cuban infiltration
activities--some as long as 15 years--have been
able to identify 179 CIA agents, 27 lie detector
technicians, 28 communications technicians, and
18 aides.
Fidel Castro actively participates in debates at
the second plenum of the National Committee of the
Union of Cuban Journalists. The plenum agrees to
send greetings to the state security members for
their work in uncovering CIA actions against Cuba.
Fidel Castro describes the United Nations Confer-
ence on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)--currently
meeting in Geneva--as the most universal forum of
world economy since underdeveloped, socialist, and
capitalist countries participate.
Cuba resumes talks with a delegation from the
? Paris Club on rescheduling debts falling due in
1987. Cuba rescheduled $250 million in debts for
1984 and $156 million for 1985. Figures for 1986
are not known.
The Washington Times reports that Havana tele-
vision announced on 8 July that a Cuban secret
agent infiltrated a US Central Intelligence Agency
ring on the island and quashed plans to assassin-
ate Fidel Castro.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives in Havana the
head of the delegations to the 25th meeting of
UNESCO national coordinating commissions from
socialist countries to discuss fundamental topics
related to the country's situation.
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JULY 13
JULY 15
JULY 16
JULY 17
CUBA
Havana television reports on Fidel Castro's work-
ing visit to Pinar del Rio on 6-8 July. He toured
several industrial and health centers and water
resources industries under construction.
Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura closes
the second provincial meeting of Guantanamo and
declares that management performance must improve.
Fidel Castro presides at the closing session of
the fourth plenum of the Communist Party of Cuba
Central Committee, which discussed the rectifica-
tion process and Cuba's economic development.
Fidel Castro presides over the first regular meet-
ing of the third legislative session of the
National Assembly of the Peoples Government.
Members of the foreign press accredited in Cuba
visit the main women's and men's prisons in Cuba.
Cuban officials give a detailed briefing on the
organization of the penitentiary system.
Havana TV reports that the use of fuel has risen
to 39,000 tons more than what was planned for the
first 6 months of 1987 as a result of energy over-
consumption.
The fourth plenum session of the PCC Central
Committee continues and is presided over by Fidel
Castro. The subjects of better use of the work
day, the causes that weakened labor discipline,
and ecological conditions are discussed.
The Central Bank of Cuba reports Cuba's foreign
debt in convertible currency amounted to $5.24
billion at the end of March, a rise of $1.57
billion in one year.
In an interview with Radio Marti, Cuban defector
Brigadier General Rafael del Pino says "Cuba is a
dead-end street," and there is great resentment
among Cuba's military officers toward the corrup-
tion of high-level Communist Party officials.
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JULY 18
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Fidel Castro attends a baseball game between the
Cuban team and the US Pan American team before
30,000 people in Havana. He greets the US coa:h
and shakes hands with each of the US players.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry describes the US deci-
sion to expel two Cuban diplomats from Washington
as a crude reprisal for Cuba having proven that
several employees at the US Interests Section in
Havana have engaged in espionage and subversion.
Havana TV announces that according to studies made
by the National Bank of Cuba in 1982, the US eco-
nomic blockade against Cuba has cost Cuba over $9
billion. Cuba accuses the US of violating all
international trade laws with the blockade.
The National Assembly approves a new civil code
providing for the freedom to make a will in favor
of whoever the testator chooses, but it requires
that half of the inheritance be ceded to specially
protected heirs.
Fidel and Raul Castro participate in debates at
the National Assembly meeting. An agreement passed
states that those persons who have abandoned the
country will lose their inheritance rights, and it
forecloses real estate mortages.
Fidel Castro participates in the second day work
session of the National Assembly, making reference
to the need to manage prices in accordance with
production and the need for state enterprises to
design a production program for tomatoes.
In an interview with a Tele-Rebelde reporter,
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says Cuba's most important
relations with CEMA are bilateral.
The Fourth plenum of the Communist Party of Cuba
Central Committee ends. Fidel Castro reiterates
it is important to keep advancing without regres-
sing to stages already overcome and without mak-
ing concessions to demagoguery or extremism.
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JULY 20
JULY 21
JULY 22
JULY 24
CUBA
The fourth plenum of the Communist Party of Cuba
Central Committee decides unanimously to expel
Luis Orlando Dominguez, former President of the
Civil Aeronautics Institute.
Politburo member Roberto Veiga and Jorge Lezcano,
PCC Central Committee member attend the review of
Havana mini-brigades. Lezcano says that one of the
most important results of the rectification pro-
cess is the resurgence of the mini-brigades.
Rome's La Republica reports an interview with
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez in which he says good
Cuban-US diplomatic relations are not possible
under the Reagan Administration.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez tells Rome's La Republica
that there have been problems with Cuba's economy
--a lack of vigilence, old rules must be changed,
exports are weak, dealing with the international
situation--but there is no poverty in Cuba.
Radio Progreso reports that the first equipment
constructed in Cuba for computer communications
via telephone has become operational in Matanzas.
It has the capacity for 24 channels and can
transmit more than 7,000 characters a minute.
Fidel Castro chairs the second family doctor's
meeting at the Central , Organization of Cuban Trade
Union discussing the possibility of having married
family doctors working together and the better use
of professors who have graduated in geriatrics.
A contract for machinery and equipment is signed
in Havana after the inauguration of the first
technical and commercial center of the Soviet
(Autoexport) company in Cuba that is located in
Valle Grande, in La Lisa municipality.
Havana implements an emergency plan to deal with
the critical water supply situation. Water sup-
plies for large consumers will be strictly regula-
ted and a rehabilitation plan will begin next year
for Havana's aqueduct.
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JULY 24 Fidel Castro tours a thermoelectric power plant in
eastern Havana.
JULY 26
AUGUST 03
AUGUST 04
AUGUST 05
Politburo member Roberto Veiga attends the third
plenary meeting of the Las Tunas Province Central
Organization of Cuban Trade Unions. He says the
main focus for 1988 should be increased quality
and fulfillment of plans.
Fidel Castro speaks on the 34th anniversary of the
assault on the Moncada Barracks about the positive
achievements of the revolution in the fields of
education, public health, and social welfare.
Fidel Castro alludes to Cuban defector del Pino in
his 26th July speech by saying "there will always
be rats who abandon the ship when there's a little
turbulence."
Yugoslav press in Havana reports that Cuba has
officially announced that its intelligence service
was forced to reveal its double agents working
with the CIA because a Cuban security agent had
recently defected from Czechoslovakia to Austria.
Fidel Castro and Angolan President dos Santos
issue a communique after talks in Havana agreeing
to make "their common position more flexible,"
regarding southern Africa and their commitment to
support Namibia's independence.
Havana Radio Rebelde reports that the drought in
Sancti Spiritus is hampering feed and forage
planting plans. Up to July, only 58 percent of
these plans have been fulfilled.
The National Bank of Cuba releases its 1986 econo-
mic report: the foreign debt in convertible cur-
rency amounted to about $3.87 billion, economic
growth increased by 1.4 %, personal consumption
grew by 3%, and investments decreased by 2.2%.
Cuba denounces a Venezuelan court for upholding a
decision absolving exile Orlando Bosch for the
1976 sabotage bombing of a Cuban airliner taking
off from Barbados on a flight to Havana.
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AUGUST 07
AUGUST 09
AUGUST 10
AUGUST 11
AUGUST 12
CUBA
Havana press reports that human rights activist
Ricardo Bofill believes Fidel Castro may be taking
a more liberal attitude toward human rights.
President of the National Institute of Sports,
Physical Education, and Recreation Conrado
Martinez announces that Fidel Castro will head the
committee organizing the 1 1 th Pan-American Games
in Havana in 1991.
Havana Juventud Rebelde reports heavy rains
fell throughout Cuba in the first week of August.
Cuba has suffered a four-year shortfall of rain
causing critical water shortage and costly damage
to crops.
Havana Radio Rebelde announces that a contingent
of nuclear construction workers will be inaugurat-
ed on 13 August whose objective will be to achieve
greater stability among the work force and that
workers have the necessary experience to perform.
Havana Radio Periodico del Aire announces talks
are underway with the USSR for establishing a
factory to produce distribution transformers in
Cuba for domestic consumption and perhaps to
export.
Havana Tele-Rebelde announces that Council of
State member Lazaro Trencilio Fis, born in 1956,
was buried on 9 August in Camaguey Province. He
was a member of the Youth Labor Army and a member
of the National Sugar Industry Workers Union.
Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Oscar
Oramas denounces the appointment of Armando
Valladares as US representative to the UN Human
Rights Commission.
PCC member Pedro Chavez Gonzalez urges increase in
mini-brigade efforts. He reports that more than
13,000 men and women have been incorporated into
the mini-brigade movement and that this figure is
expected to reach 30,000.
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AUGUST 14
AUGUST 15
AUGUST 18
AUGUST 26
CUBA
Fidel Castro and Nicaraguan President Ortega agree
that a regional agreement for an end to foreign
military presence in the countries of the region
would be an important contribution to peace.
Reuters announces that Cuba endorsed the Central
American peace plan approved in Guatemala City
last week and says Nicaraguan President Ortega
has left the island after all-night talks with
Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro gives Ortega full support for a
search for peace in the region and says Cuba
will cooperate with Nicaragua in every way
possible.
Fidel Castro celebrates his 61st birthday. Workers
of the Hermanos Diaz Refinery send Castro a letter
telling him crude oil has begun to flow at the
main installation of the new refinery under con-
struction at Santiago de Cuba.
Cuban and Soviet workers begin their first stage
of oil refinery operations in Santiago de Cuba.
The new refinery is the first constructed in Latin
America with the assistance of the USSR.
Havana Radio Reloj reports that. Granma Province
recorded only 635 millimeters of rain in the pro-
vince during this year's first seven months, which
is 98 percent of the usual accumulated average.
Havana's water supply levels continue to drop.
Havana TV reports that Camaguey Province's north-
ern and central regions are currently being affec-
ted by the worst drought in the last 40 years.
Foreign Minister Malmierca says that more than $2
billion a day is squandered for military purposes
while 100,000 people die of curable diseases and
more than 40 million starve, at a United Nations
Conference on Disarmament and Development.
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SEPTEMBER 04
SEPTEMBER 05
CUBA
Havana Radio Reloj reports on Foreign Minister
Malmierca's comments at the UN meeting on disarma-
ment where he described the accumulation of
weapons, especially nuclear weapons, as a Dantean
scene.
The trial of former President of the Cuban Civil
Aeronautics Institute Luis Orlando Dominguez be-
gins. Dominguez is charged with embezzlement,
forgery, improper use of financial resources, and
abuse of authority. He pleads guilty as charged.
Fidel Castro opens the 1987-88 school year in
Havana by visiting the newly inaugurated Uruguay
Basic Secondary School, which has more than 1,000
students.
Fidel Castro tours the installations of a child
care center under construction in Centro Habana
municipality that will have a capacity for 180
children and that already has a registration of
210.
The US Interests Section in Havana celebrates its
10th anniversary.
Fidel Castro announces that swimming pool com-
plexes and many other sports facilities will begin
to be built soon, during the opening ceremony of
the Obreritos de Acero child care center. He
praises the Cuban delegation to the PanAm Games.
Havana press announces that Washington has named
John J. Taylor to replace Curtis Kamman, who was
abruptly withdrawn as chief of the US Interests
Section in Havana in January.
Havana Radio Progreso reports that former presi-
dent of the Civil Aeronautics Institute Luis
Orlando Dominguez was sentenced to 20 years in
prison.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, speaking at the 30th
anniversary of the Cienfuegos uprising and the Day
of the Revolutionary Navy, calls President Reagan
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SEPTEMBER 05 the most dangerous and obstinate of today's
reactionaries.
SEPTEMBER 06
SEPTEMBER 07
SEPTEMBER 11
SEPTEMBER 14
SEPTEMBER 15
Fidel and Raul Castro preside over an Interior
Ministry meeting to analyze the work of the
National Revolutionary Police. Fidel urges the PNR
to strengthen and increase their work capacity and
to excel technically and professionally.
The Institute of Forensic Medicine reports that
the current mortality in Cuba from auto accidents
has increased. One out of every three victims of
the approximately 500 deaths resulting from auto
accidents had consumed alcoholic beverages.
Fidel Castro speaks at the inauguration of the
Julio Trigo Surgical Hospital in the Arroyo
Naranjo. He says the scientific research program
is progressing, the family doctor program is being
extended, and some hospitals will be expanded.
Fidel Castro and Jose Felipe Carneado, Chief of
the Religious Matters Department of the PCC meet
in Havana with Dr. Emilio Castro, Secretary Gen-
eral of the World Council of Churches. Dr. Castro
tours Santiago de Cuba and the Isle of Youth.
Fidel Castro speaks at the inauguration of the
Immunology Research Center in the Siboney area of
Havana.
The first session of the Joint Cuban-Argentine
Commission for Scientific and Technical Coopera-
tion begins in Havana. Delegates discuss coopera-
tion in health, energy, sugar, agriculture, and
food industries.
Tele-Rebelde announces that Eugenio Nerey Andreu
will head the new Micons (Ministry of Construc-
tion) to supervise construction projects in pro-
gress in Havana City Province.
Prensa Latina reports that Fidel Castro decorated
27 Cuban double agents who infiltrated the US
Central Intelligence Agency for several years.
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Tele-Rebelde reports that Holguin Province report-
ed a loss of approximately 400 million arroba of
sugarcane in July and that only 33 millimeters of
rain fell during the month of August.
SEPTEMBER 16 John J. Taylor, the new head of the US Interests
Section in Havana, arrives in Cuba.
SEPTEMBER 17
US delegates attending the International Confer-
ence of Jurists in Havana tour a minimum security
prison in the Alamar district, east of Havana and
praise conditions.
Fidel Castro speaks at the American Lawyers Con-
ference in Havana giving a detailed analysis of
the progress made in Cuba in education, public
health, social security, the erradication of unem-
ployment, prostitution, drugs, and poverty.
Fidel Castro tells the eighth conference of the
American Association of Lawyers that he deplores
the inability of Latin American politicians to
face foreign debt problems in a united manner and
warns of new economic threats.
Fidel Castro tells the American Association of
Lawyers that President Reagan is either the
biggest fool in the world or the biggest liar in
the world.
Justice Minister Juan Escalona says the process of
penal adjustments that will soon be in effect in-
cludes 60 crime categories that are no longer used
because the severity of the crime does not reflect
the times in which we live.
Justice Minister Juan Escalona states there are no
political prisoners in Cuba and that the to-called
political prisoners issue was created by the
imperialist news media. He says there are 14 US
citizens in Cuban prisons for drug trafficking.
Fidel Castro praises athletes who attended the
10th Pan American games in Indianapolis for not
succumbing to pressure and harassment to defect
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SEPTEMBER 17 to the United States and commends them for winning
75 gold medals.
SEPTEMBER 18
SEPTEMBER 19
SEPTEMBER 23
SEPTEMBER 24
The Cuban sugar industry expresses concern over US
protectionism and its new reduction in the sugar
import quota. Washington reduced its quota from
more than 5 million tons in 1981 to 1.15 million
in 1986.
Raul Castro presides over the fifth congress of
the National FAR Civilian Workers Union in Havana.
Topics discussed are quality control production
and efficient services.
Fidel Castro tells Ecuadoran journalists that the
Esquipulas II Agreement, signed on 7 August in
Guatemala, is an objective and true hope for peace
in the region.
Foreign Minister Malmierca addresses the UN
General Assembly; he supports Bolivia's claim for
an outlet to the sea and condemns Chile's intran-
sigience in the matter.
Havana Radio Progreso announces that Soviet
Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze will visit
Cuba in the first half of October.
Fidel Castro inaugurates the Obrerito Child Care
Center in Havana, which is the second of 50
centers to be constructed by the minibrigade
system.
SEPTEMBER 25 Fidel and Raul Castro preside over the fifth PCC
Central Committee plenum.
Radio Progreso reports that the PCC in Havana
calls on Cubans to conduct "100 days of decisive
efforts for the development of the capital" by
increasing productivity, improving worker
discipline, and production quality.
Havana Radio Rebelde reports on Cuba's election
to the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of
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SEPTEMBER 28
OCTOBER 01
OCTOBER 02
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Governors. Cuba and Colombia were appointed to two
of the six posts assigned to Latin America this
year.
Granma reports that Cuba is bolstering its anti-
AIDS drive with a series of daily television
programs. Health authorities say four Cubans have
died from AIDS and 143 have been infected with the
virus.
Havana Radio Reloj announces that a new revolu-
tionary watch system will be implemented on
28 September, the 27th anniversary of the
Committees for the Defense of the Revolution.
Fidel Castro addresses the National Assembly of
the People's Government speaking of the hazards
of drinking and driving.
Flavio Bravo addresses the National Assembly of
the People's Government meeting, telling the part-
icipants to wake up and feel responsible for all
the tasks of the revolution.
Fidel Castro presides over the first incentives
meeting of the Havana minibrigades. The mini-
brigades are building housing units and important
projects of social interest in the capital.
Officials from the Cuban Interior and Justice
Ministries sign a joint announcement that identi-
fication cards will reflect more updated informa-
tion on the civil status and birth certificates of
Cubans.
Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon says that
a thaw in Cuban-US relations depends heavily on
US renewal of the immigration agreement and per-
mission for Cuba to broadcast to the US.
OCTOBER 06 The American Coalition of Commissions for the
Respect of Human Rights in Cuba asks President
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OCTOBER 08
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OCTOBER 13
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Mitterrand to mediate with Fidel Castro to free
Cubans who sought asylum at the French Embassy in
Havana on 10 June 1987.
Cuban delegate to the United Nations Juana Servera
urges the UN to adopt strict international
measures to curb mercenary activities.
Havana Tele-Rebelde reports that the State
Committee for Labor and Social Security has
adopted a resolution which establishes wage
increases for manual agricultural workers,
effective 1 October.
Fidel Castro unveils a bust of Che Guevara which
is placed at the entrance of Pinar del Rio's
semiconductor and integrated circuit factory.
The factory will bear Che's name.
Fidel Castro inaugurates Pinar del Rio's Abel
Santamaria Clinical Surgical Hospital, which has
730 beds.
Raul Castro makes the closing remarks marking the
25th anniversary of the founding of the military
industrial enterprise located in Villa Clara,
which will be called the Commander Ernesto Che
Guevara Military Industrial Center.
Foreign Minister Malmierca tells Prensa Latina he
rates highly the recent talks between Soviet
official Shevardnadze and George Schultz, stress-
ing they created a different atmosphere for the
42nd UN General Assembly.
Vice Minister of the Council of Ministers Antonio
Rodriguez Maurell speaks about more diversity in
the sugar industry at the 23rd meeting of the
Group of Latin American and Caribbean Sugar
Exporting Countries (GEPLACEA).
Havana Tele-Rebelde announces that a territorial
defense exercise called 5 September will be held
in Cienfuegos Province during the second half of
November.
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OCTOBER 14
OCTOBER 15
OCTOBER 16
OCTOBER 18
OCTOBER 19
OCTOBER 20
OCTOBER 21
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Minister President of the State Committee for
Labor and Social Security Francisco Linares in-
augurates an international seminar in Havana on
systems for professional training in production
and its ties to labor education.
Havana Radio Reloj reports that millions of
dollars worth of idle consumer goods were confis-
cated through September from the City of Havana--
The Ministry of Public Health and INTUR were among
the enterprises.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas speaks at
the closing session of the GEPLACEA meeting sum-
marizing plans to be followed on sugar exports to
the US markets and other markets of the world and
in drafting new international sugar agreements.
Raul Castro presides over the first meeting of
leaders and members of the Union of Young
Communists in the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
The fourth Cuba-USSR youth friendship festival is
inaugurated, in Pinar del Rio.
The second national forum on energy begins in
Havana.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry says the increased
presence of US military forces and NATO allies in
the Persian Gulf have made it more difficult to
find a peaceful and just solution to the Iran-
Iraq conflict.
Tehran press reports Foreign Minister Velayati met
in Havana with Ernesto Melendez, Minister Presi-
dent of the State Commission for Economic Coopera-
tion. Melendez says Cuba condemns US actions in
the Persian Gulf.
Cuba's Ambassador to the United Nations Oscar
Oramas Olivia says the only thing needed to ban
nuclear tests , indefinitely is a true political
will by all countries.
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OCTOBER 23
OCTOBER 24
OCTOBER 25
OCTOBER 26
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Cuba is elected a member of the Economic and
Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.
The ECOSOC is composed of 54 countries.
Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura
speaks at the first day of sessions of the second
national plenum of the National Association of
Small Farmers in Havana calling for solutions to
the problems the peasant organization is facing.
Vilma Espin presides over a meeting of the
National Commission of Social Prevention. Polit-
buro member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura says posi-
tive results have been evident in the work carried
out to prevent criminal conduct.
Delegates to the Fourth Cuban-Soviet Youth Friend-
ship Festival close the event with a message to
Mikhail Gorbachev, proclaiming they will continue
the heroic revolutionary traditions of the two
countries.
President of the Academy of Sciences Elena Simeon
denounces continuous US Government anti-UN actions
at UNESCO's plenary meeting in Paris.
Politburo member Ramon Machado Ventura attends
the PCC municipal meeting in Habana Vieja where
workers contributed 900,000 hours of volunteer
work for the completion of construction projects.
Reuters reports that Cuba's human rights committee
staged its first public meeting at a Catholic
Church in Havana. Committee leader Ricardo Bofill
says it is the first of planned weekly public
meetings at Havana churches.
Raul Castro and Nicaraguan Army General Humberto
Ortega tour several Regla municipality areas where
training exercises are being held on the occasion
of Defense Day.
Soviet Cosmonaut Yuriy Romanenko and Cuban Cosmo-
naut Arnaldo Tamayo establish the first Cuba-
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OCTOBER 27
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Cosmos radio linkup, thus allowing Cuban scienti-
sts and reporters to contact the Soviet space
complex currently in orbit.
Havana Radio Periodico del Aire reports that over
35,000 people attended the exposition "Cuba De-
nounces the CIA," during the five days it was open
to the public in Cienfuegos. Cuban agents answered
the public's questions and signed autographs.
Director General of the International Atomic
Energy Agency Dr. Hans Blix arrives in Havana and
meets Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca to
discuss the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Jose
Ramon Fernandez and Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart,
Executive Secretary of Cuba's Atomic Energy Com-
mission, discuss the use of the atom for peace and
the work of the organization to promote this idea.
Granma reports that Ramon Lopez Isla, the first
Cuban to live with a transplanted liver, was
released on 24 October from the Medical-Surgical
Research Center where he underwent a successful
liver transplant on 17 July.
Fidel Castro visits the Blas Roca Calderio
contingent which is building the east-west highway
in Havana.
Fidel Castro makes the closing remarks at a
central group meeting analyzing the complex inter-
national economic situation affecting Cuba and
cautions on the need to save resources and raw
materials that could be used next year.
Fidel Castro underscores, at a Central Committee
group meeting, the importance of improving invest-
ments in agriculture and criticizes noncompliance
and delays caused by inefficiencies and poor
planning.
At the closing of the Union of Young Communist
National Committee plenum, PCC member Jaime
Crombet says the battle of poor quality of
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OCTOBER 29 services is complex, difficult, and the youths
need to definitely take it in their own hands.
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NOVEMBER 08
NOVEMBER 11
Havana Tele-Rebelde reports that a Cuban combat
plane was shot down in the eastern area of Angola
and that two Cuban pilots have been taken
prisoner.
Angolan press reports that two high-ranking Cuban
pilots Lt. Colonel Manuel Rojas and Captain Ramon
Quesada were shot down by UNITA forces and
captured after bailing out of their MIG at Luvuei
in eastern Angola on 28 October.
Dr. Hans Blix, Director General of the Inter-
national Atomic Energy Agency, tells a news con-
ference that the Soviet-built Juragua nuclear
power plant in Cienfuegos is a sound project,
using a low risk, well proven technology.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez welcomes participants in
the 35th meeting of the CEMA scientific council of
International Institute for Economic Problems.
The 18th Latin American Energy Organization
ministerial meeting is held in Havana. Vice Presi-
dent of the Council of Ministers Joel Domenech,
President of the National Energy Commission Fidel
Castro Diaz-Balart, and Ernesto Melendez attend.
Fidel Castro speaks at the main event marking the
70th anniversary of the Great October Socialist
Revolution in Havana.
Fidel Castro returns from Moscow and is interview-
ed by a television reporter at Havana Internation-
al airport. He describes as excellent the atten-
tion he received in Moscow and his meetings with
Gorbachev on a wide range of topics.
Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson tells re-
porters in Havana that Fidel Castro supports the
Central American peace treaty and is ready to pull
Cuban military advisers out of Nicaragua if the
Sandinista government requests it.
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NOVEMBER 17
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Havana Radio Progreso reports a new gold proces-
sing plant has begun operations in Aguas Claras,
Holguin. The plant was built with Cuban technology
and is the only one of its kind in the country.
Stockholm International Press quotes Swedish
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sten Andersson's
statement that Fidel Castro has given permission
to the International Red Cross to inspect all
prisons in Cuba.
Reuters reports that an official of the US
Interests Section said two hundred Cubans, former
political prisoners and their families, are await-
ing final approval from Cuban authorities to leave
the United States.
Radio Reloj reports that an eating habits plan has
been implemented in areas and cooperatives of
Granma Province aimed at promoting the consumption
of vegetable and orchard products and decreasing
the use of salt, fats, and sugar.
Havana Radio Rebelde reports that computer
laboratories will be available at pre-university
and middle schools in Cuba.
Havana Radio Reloj reports Lt. Col. Manuel Rojas
Garcia and Captain Ramon Quesada Aguilar, shot
down in Angola on 28 October, were interviewed by
the press in Jamba. Rojas says he and Quesada were
on a reconnaissance mission when shot down.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet attends the 15th
Congress of the International Union of Students,
which opens at the University of Havana.
New officials are elected as first secretaries at
the provincial PCC assessment meetings: Francisco
Garcia Ferrer in Las Tunas, Humberto Miguel
Fernandez in Cienfuegos, and Jorge Valdes
Rodriguez in Sancti Spiritus.
Havana Tele-Rebelde reports that First Secretary
of the PCC in Ciego de Avila, Rafael Valdes
Valdes, has been reassigned to other tasks.
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NOVEMBER 17 Honda! Gonzalez, First Secretary of the PCC
Committee in Las Tunas, will replace him.
Havana Radio Reloj reports that Cuba was elected
to a four-year term on the UNESCO committee for
international programs for communications develop-
ment. Cuba is also elected to the intergovern-
mental committee on cultural development.
NOVEMBER 18 The Cuban Foreign Ministry releases a note
condemning South Africa's new attacks against
Angola.
NOVEMBER 19 Fidel Castro meets with delegates and guests
attending the 15th Congress of the International
Union of Students (UIS).
NOVEMBER 20 The State Department says the United States and
Cuba have resumed an immigration agreement sus-
pended in 1984 allowing up to 27,000 Cubans to em-
igrate to the US annually; Cuba agrees to repatri-
ate the 2,700 unwanted Cubans who came in 1980.
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Cuba is reelected as one of the vice presidents of
the International Union of Students.
Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon describes
the resumption of the 1984 immigration agreement
with the United States as positive and says talks
on medium-wave radiobroadcasts will continue.
Granma reports that Cubans welcomed a new immigra-
tion agreement with the United States but the gov-
ernment response focused on its implications for
ending propaganda broadcasts beamed at the island
from Radio Marti.
Fidel Castro addresses the closing session of the
17th Latin American Congress of Railmen, emphasiz-
ing the need to end the arms race, ,the need to
establish a new economic order, and the importance
of further developing railways in Cuba.
Vice Foreign Minister Alarcon says, as the result
of riots in US prisons, the Cuban Government
promises not to impose reprisal against the people
who return to Cuba because of resumption of the
immigration agreement with the United States.
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NOVEMBER 24
NOVEMBER 25
NOVEMBER 26
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Havana Tele-Rebelde reports that the Council of
State has replaced Minister of Construction Raul
Cabrera Nunez with First Vice Minister of Con-
struction Homero Crabb Valdes.
Fidel Castro tells participants at the Inter-
national Students Conference in Havana that 1987
represented one of Cuba's most difficult years
because of a 50-percent reduction in imports from
$1.5 billion to $600 million.
Paris AFP reports that a Cuban Government source
told AFP that Havana will handle the Marielitos
in US prisons according to the new immigration
agreement between Cuba and the United States on a
case-by-case basis.
Cuba's UN Ambassador Oscar Oramas asks the UN
Security Council to initiate dramatic efforts for
peace in South Africa and to adopt the necessary
measures against South Africa because of its
military aggression against Angola.
Fidel Castro is interviewed during his visit to
the Blas Roca Calderio Construction Contingent
on the work and problems encountered during the
construction process.
Foreign Minister Alarcon announces that Havana
will pardon Cubans currently in US jails for the
illegal activities committed prior to leaving
Cuba, but it is Cuba's duty to punish those who
committed crimes in the United States.
Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon says that
the Marielitos who will return to Cuba will be
treated in accord with their conduct after leaving
Cuba and it is Cuba's duty to punish those persons
who may have committed crimes while in the US.
Fidel Castro inaugurates three child care centers
and says three more centers will be built next
year.
Cuban UN Ambassador Oscar Oramas signs documents
confirming Cuba's participation in the inter-
national sugar agreement reached on 11 October.
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DECEMBER 01
DECEMBER 02
DECEMBER 04
DECEMBER 05
CUBA
The PCC members of Havana City, the youth, the
mass organizations, and all the workers are paying
exceptional attention to the party's provincial
assembly meeting held to discuss the rectification
of errors and goals for the year.
The Havana Province PCC Assessment Meeting is
held. PCC Central Committee member Jorge Lezcano
Perez is elected First Secretary. Fidel Castro
discusses construction projects.
Fidel Castro suggests, during the ANPP meeting,
the sanction of deprivation be increased to 2 to
10 years and the 2 to 5 year sentence be eliminat-
ed for the mother who kills her child within 72
hours after birth.
Havana Radio Reloj reports investment of more than
$43 million through 1990 to construct social pro-
jects and develop forestry and coffee sectors in
Pinar del Rio under the Turquino Plan, which will
develop mountain areas.
Raul Castro receives greetings from foreign
leaders on the 31st anniversary of the founding
of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.
Havana hosts the Seventh Congress of the Federa-
tion of Mid-Level School Students and Fidel Castro
presides over the first day of meeting.
Havana Radio Reloj reports that a watchman was
killed and one was injured in a knife attack in
Villa Clara. The National Revolutionary Police
with the assistance of the FAR and the CDR found
and detined the assailants.
Fidel Castro inaugurates a 200-bed unit of the
Julio Diaz Rehabilitation Hospital in Boyeros
Municipality, Havana City Province.
Fidel Castro speaks at the Seventh Congress of the
Federation of Mid-Level School Students in Havana.
DECEMBER 06 National Defense Day in Cuba coincides with the
last day of the Victoria-87 military exercise,
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DECEMBER 06 which allowed the Isle of Youth residents to
strengthen their territorial defense plan.
DECEMBER 07
DECEMBER 08
DECEMBER 09
DECEMBER 10
Fidel Castro announces that Cuba will build a
medical center for victims of El Salvador's civil
war. The 620-bed center will be part of the re-
modeled Julio Diaz Hospital. Ninety-eight wounded
guerrilla fighters arrived in Havana last June.
Reuters reports that Cuba welcomes the US-Soviet
summit meeting and it favors total nuclear dis-
armament.
Health Ministry officials report more than 1.3
million Cubans tested for AIDS and 166 found to be
carriers of the virus. Health Vice Minister Terry
says Cuba plans to test its entire population of
10 million for AIDS.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives leaders of CEMA-
member delegations who are participating in the
48th meeting of the Permanent CEMA Commission for
Monetary and Financial Affairs.
Raul Castro completes a tour to inspect the pro-
gress of the construction projects in Santiago de
Cuba which will support the activities of the
Fourth PCC Congress in 1990 and visits the hydro-
ponic center.
Foreign Minister Malmierca tells TASS that the
short and medium-range missile limitations agree-
ment signed by Soviet leader Gorbachev and Presi-
dent Reagan is the result of the USSR's persistent
peace policy.
Fidel Castro inaugurates the first three child-
care centers built by the minibrigades in the
Habana Vieja Municipality. A total of 11 child-
care centers are inaugurated today in Havana.
Fidel Castro says the agreement signed by Soviet
leader Gorbachev and President Reagan is "a small
but very important step," because "it might be the
preamble to a future arrangement to destroy
strategic weapons by 50 percent."
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DECEMBER 11
DECEMBER 12
DECEMBER 14
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Cuba's Human Rights Committee asks the Cuban
Government to abolish the death penalty on Inter-
national Human Rights Day.
Fidel Castro sends a letter to eight Latin
American presidents welcoming their statement
calling for the readmission of Cuba to the
Organization of American States during their 30
November Group of Eight summit meeting in Mexico.
On his 4th day in Santiago de Cuba, Raul Castro
visits the Contramaestre Hospital accompanied by
Vilma Espin and Esteban Lazo, PCC Politburo mem-
ber.
Raul Castro meets with the Youth Labor Army in the
mountains of Tercer Frente Municipality in
Santiago de Cuba to discuss the Turquino plan.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives A. N. Belichenko,
Chairman of the CEMA International Investment
Bank, founded in 1970 and joined by Cuba in
January 1974. They discuss the international
financial situation and Cuba's economy.
Cuban National Bank President Hector Rodriguez
Llompart and CEMA Investment Bank Chairman Albert
Belichenko sign an agreement granting Cuba the
equivalent of $31 million in freely convertible
currency.
The fifth congress of the National Trade Union of
Public Administration Workers begins in Havana.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and PCC member Jose Ramon
Machado Ventura preside over the inauguration of
the fifth congress of the National Trade Union of
Public Administration Workers.
Granma states "Mankind has welcomed the agreement
signed in Washington by Mikhail Gorbachev and
Ronald Reagan as an unprecedented historic step."
It is a victory for mankind and a cause of peace.
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DECEMBER 17
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CUBA
Foreign Minister Malmierca opens the 18th regional
seminar for Latin America on the Palestinian
question in Havana. Malmierca says Cuba has been,
is, and will always be a sister in the struggle
and combat of the Palestinian people.
Justice Minister Juan Escalona claims Cuba
carried out four executions in 1986, but it has
been years since anyone was executed for crimes
against the security of the state.
Granma reports that in order for Cuba to increase
hard currency income, Cuba must continue to find
substitutes for Western imports and increase its
exports from the island.
Raul Castro visits the great unit of the Eastern
Army's 50th Division during his 8th day of
activities in Santiago de Cuba. Raul is
accompanied by PCC Politburo members Vilma Espin
and Esteban Lazo.
Fidel and Raul Castro preside over the sixth
plenum of the PCC Central Committee. The agenda
includes the results of the economic and social
development of the country for 1987 and discussion
and approval of its guidelines for 1988.
Fidel Castro closes the sixth PCC Central Commit-
tee plenum. The reports are positive on economic
and social development, showing deficiencies and
difficulties exist in production organization and
control.
Fidel Castro speaks at the closing of the sixth
PCC plenum, saying the country is experiencing an
intensification process of perfecting work in all
fields and discussing the recent intervention of
South African troops in Angola.
The Cuban Government denies reports that it held
official talks with representatives of Israel to
discuss renewing diplomatic relations.
Raul Castro presides over the main event of the
Interior Ministry marking the 70th anniversary of
the Soviet Union's state security organs. Division
General Abrahantes gives the main speech at the
ceremony.
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DECEMBER 24
DECEMBER 25
DECEMBER 26
DECEMBER 28
CUBA
Milan L'UNITA reports that Jorge Risquet said the
Gorbachev-Reagan Summit of 7 December is of
supreme importance to Cuba to link the peace
struggle with the development struggle.
Fidel Castro celebrates Teachers Day by inaugurat-
ing the Pequenos Forjadores Child Care Center. He
says life expectancy has been raised to 74 years,
all unemployment and educational problems have
been solved, and there is medical care for all.
Fidel Castro speaks at the dedication of the El
Gato Aqueduct that was built in less than two and
a half years with the assistance of a youth con-
tingent that was created by the party at the end
of 1986.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry denounces genocide by
the Israeli invaders against residents of the
Jordan West Bank and the Gaza Strip and declares
Cuba's solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Fidel Castro addresses the closing session of the
national meeting on developing water resources
telling the group they can accomplish great things
when they work together. We don't have to change
men, what we have to change are concepts, he says.
Fidel Castro closes a water conservation meeting
saying that this year has been an unusual,
decisive year for water conservation and next year
will be better. He says the best habits were lost
in the economic sphere.
An official of the US Interests Section reports
that about 40 of 700 Cuban former political pri-
soners and their families are expected to leave
Havana on 5 January 1988 to start a new life in
the United States.
The computer center of the Executive Secretariat
for Nuclear Affairs is inaugurated in Havana. The
computer was acquired in the Soviet Union and is
the most powerful in the country--capable of car-
rying out up to two million operations per second.
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DECEMBER 29
DECEMBER 30
DECEMBER 31
CUBA
Fidel Castro attends the second period of sessions
of the National Assembly of the People's Govern-
ment. President Flavio Bravo excuses himself from
the meeting for health reasons and Severo Aguirre
chairs the session.
Fidel Castro attends the ANPP meeting, where a
document on the National Sports, Physical Educa-
tion, and Recreation Institute critically reflects
the achievements and weaknesses of the sports
organization. Fidel debates the report.
Two new crimes are added to the penal code at the
ANPP session. One is gaining wealth illegally, the
other is not fulfilling obligations derived from
commiting infringements.
Two new principal sanctions are proposed at the
ANPP meeting dealing with the penal code: correc-
tional work with internment and correctional work
without internment.
Fidel Castro closes the ANPP meeting in Havana
saying that crime does not occupy a prominent
place in Cuba as compared to the rest of the
world.
Havana Radio Reloj reports the inauguration of the
following child care centers: The Ninos de Lidice
in Marianao, the Relevos del 2000 in El Cerro, and
the Pequenos Titanes in Arroyo Naranjo Province.
Raul Castro tours the border brigade units of
Guantanamo Province awaiting the New Year and the
29th anniversary of the Cuban revolution alongside
the fighters of the Guantanamo border forces.
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FEBRUARY 05
FEBRUARY 24
CYPRUS
Nicosia press announces that President Spiros
Kiprianou will pay an official visit to Cuba
24-27 February at the invitation of Fidel Castro.
Cypriot President Spiros Kiprianou arrives in
Havana and is greeted by Fidel Castro, Jorge
Risquet, Osmani Cienfuegos, Jose Ramon Machado,
Isidoro Malmierca, and Jose Ramon Fernandez.
Fidel Castro tells President Kiprianou that Cuba
will continue its firm support for Cyprus's
struggle for freedom and vindication. Kiprianou
briefs Fidel on developments in Cyprus.
FEBRUARY 25 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez bestows the Jose Marti
Order on Cypriot President Spiros Kiprianou.
Kiprianou praises relations between the two
countries.
FEBRUARY 27 Foreign Minister Malmierca and his Cypriot
counterpart, George Iacovou, sign a cooperation
protocol laying the foundation for broadening
trade and considering the exchange of 33 agricul-
tural and industrial goods.
MAY 30 Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca arrives in
Cyprus and tells the press he hopes the Iran-Iraq
war will end soon.
JUNE 02
Foreign Minister Malmierca and Cypriot President
Spiros Kiprianou discuss the international situa-
tion, the Cyprus issue, and the Nonaligned Move-
ment.
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Antonin Kapek, member of the Communist Party of
Czechoslovakia, arrives in Havana and is met at
the airport by PCC member Jorge Lezcano. Kapek
will discuss party relations and visit places of
historical, political, and social interest.
JANUARY 24 Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets with Antonin
Kapek to discuss bilateral relations.
MARCH 04
MARCH 13
APRIL 17
MAY 14
MAY 19
MAY 25
A working agreement on scientific and technical
cooperation during the 1987-88 period is signed in
Havana by PCC member Pedro Chavez and Frantisek
Stafa, Czechoslovak Communist Party member and
mayor of Prague.
Czechoslovak President Gustav Husak receives
Interior Minister Jose Abrantes Fernandez to
discuss strengthening bilateral relations. Husak
decorates Abrantes with the Order of the Red Star
for his contribution to deepening cooperation.
Havana Radio Progreso reports that representatives
from the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Cuba
have signed a cooperation agreement for the steel
industry in Havana.
Cuban Ambassador to Czechoslovakia Rodriguez
Martinez and Josef Pravda, Chairman of the Czech
Geological Bureau, sign an agreement in the CSSR
on changes and supplements to the 31 May 1980
agreement on cooperation in geological research.
Czechoslovak Foreign Trade Minister Bohumil
Urban and his Cuban counterpart Ricardo Cabrizas
sign, in Prague, agreements on economic coopera-
tion for 1986-90 and a protocol on the exchange of
of goods for 1987.
The Cuban Institute of Radio and Television and
the Czechoslovakian delegation attending the meet-
ing of the International Organization of Radio
and Television sign a cooperation protocol.
The Czechoslovak-Cuban Committee for Economic and
Scientific-Technical Cooperation begins the 1 1 th
session in Prague. The Cuba delegation is headed
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CZECHOSLOVAKIA
MAY 25 by President of the Energy Commission Joel
Domenech.
MAY 27
MAY 29
JUNE 04
JUNE 22
OCTOBER 30
OCTOBER 31
Czechoslovak Premier Lubomir Strougal meets with
the President of Cuba's Energy Commission Joel
Domenech to discuss extending political, economic,
and cultural relations between the two countries.
President of Cuba's Energy Commission Joel
Domenech heath a delegation visiting the largest
nuclear power station under construction in
Tameli, South Bohemia.
Czechoslovakia's Minister of Fuel and Power
Vlastimil Ehrenberger and Chairman of Cuba's
Energy Commission Joel Domenech discuss bilateral
cooperation in the construction of nuclear power
plants and cadres to work in those facilities.
Czechoslovakia's Deputy Premier Miroslav Toman
and the Chairman of Cuba's Energy Commission Joel
Domenech sign a protocol at the 1 1 th session of
the Intergovernmental Commission for Economic and
Scientific-Technical Cooperation in Prague.
Czechoslovak Central Committee Secretary Josef
Havlin receives delegations of the Sandinista
'National Liberation Front and the Cuban Communist
Party, which have been taking part in a symposium
in Prague.
Secretary of Cuba's Atomic Energy Commission Fidel
Castro Diaz-Balart attends a CEMA nuclear energy
meeting in Prague. He meets with Milos Jakes,
Czechoslovakia's Central Committee Secretary.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and Czech-
oslovak Foreign Trade Minister Bohumil Urban sign
a trade protocol for 1988. Cuba will export crude
sugar, citrus, copper, and electronic products.
Prague will export malt, hops, and shoes.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Czechoslovak
Minister of Foreign Trade Bohumil Urban in Havana
to discuss trade relations.
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NOVEMBER 06
NOVEMBER 12
DECEMBER 10
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Havana Radio Rebelde announces that Czechoslovakia
has donated 15 tons of canned beef for the mini-
brigades of Cuba.
Cuban Attorney General Ramon de la Cruz Ochoa
arrives in Prague and meets with Czechoslovakian
leader Jan Marko, First Deputy Chairman of the
Presidium, to discuss judicial order and crime
prevention.
Czechoslovak Deputy Foreign Minister Dusan Ulcak
and the Director of the Latin American and
Caribbean Department Marian Masarik arrive in
Havana.
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MAY 27
DENMARK
Havana Radio Reloj reports that a Cuban delegation
of cattle breeders headed by Ramon Castro, Direc-
tor of the Valles de Picadura genetic plan,
returns to Havana following a working visit to
Sweden, Denmark, France, and Spain.
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MARCH 20
MARCH 22
MARCH 23
MARCH 27
APRIL 23
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Dominican President Joaquin Balaguer, speaking
with agricultural producers in Palmar de Ocoa,
expresses his admiration for Fidel Castro and
announces his country will continue in cultural
and sports exchanges with Cuba.
President of the opposition Dominican Revolu-
tionary Party Dr. Jose Francisco Pena Gomez
heads an 111-member delegation that arrives in
Havana to visit areas of economic, social, and
historic interest.
Minister of Higher Education Fernando Vecino
Alegret receives Jose Francisco Pena Gomez.
Alegret explains that Cuba has 14 higher education
centers and 32 others under other organizations
and approximately 300,000 university students.
Fidel Castro grants an extensive interview to
Francisco Pena Gomez and hosts a reception for him
before his departure.
Fidel Castro meets in Havana with Dominican
Technical Secretary of the Presidency Guillermo
Caram to discuss the international economic
situation, especially in Latin America.
Havana Radio Progreso reports that the Dominican
Republic Government does not oppose establishing
trade relations with Cuba, according to Dominican
Agriculture Minister Norberto Quezada.
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MARCH 18
MAY 29
SEPTEMBER 14
ECUADOR
Fidel Castro receives the Ecuadoran commemorative
medal of the canoe trip "from the Amazon to the
Caribbean."
Havana Radio Reloj announces that Cuba has
donated 18 tons of foodstuffs to the 75,000
Ecuadoran people left homeless as a result of the
earthquakes that struck two weeks ago.
Havana Radio Progreso announces that documents for
a commercial treaty between Ecuador and Cuba were
exchanged at the Ecuadoran Foreign Ministry.
Cuba's Vice Minister of Health Hector Terry
attends the World Health Organization conference
on AIDS in Ecuador. He says Cuba has tested 1.1
million inhabitants for AIDS and that 147 indivi-
duals tested positive.
SEPTEMBER 16 Fidel Castro, Vilma Espin, and Jose Ramon Fernan-
dez, Vice President of the Council of Ministers,
greet Eugenia Cordoves de Febres Cordero, the wife
of Ecuadoran President Febres Cordero.
SEPTEMBER 23 Fidel Castro tells Ecuadoran journalists that the
Esquipulas II Agreement, signed on 7 August in
Guatemala, is an objective and true hope for peace
in the region.
SEPTEMBER 25 Fidel and Raul Castro bid farewell at Jose Marti
Airport to Eugenia Cordoves Febres Cordero.
OCTOBER 01
OCTOBER 19
Havana Radio Rebelde reports that a Cuban delega-
tion headed by Dr. Jose Sordina, zoologist,
arrives in Ecuador to provide technical and
financial assistance to the fishery and agroin-
dustrial programs in the Galapagos Islands.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with an Ecuadoran
Foreign Ministry official in Havana to discuss
bilateral relations and the international situa-
tion, especially in Central America and the
Persian Gulf.
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OCTOBER 24
OCTOBER 26
ECUADOR
Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon and
Dr. Roque Canadas Portilla, Deputy Political Sec-
retary of the Ecuadoran Foreign Ministry, sign an
economic, scientific-technical, and trade coopera-
tion agreement in Havana.
President of the National Ecuadoran Congress Dr.
Jorge Zabala Baquerizo visits Havana. He visits
areas of economic and social interest in Havana,
Cienfuegos, and the Isle of Youth.
Dr. Jorge Zabala Baquerizo meets with Flavio
Bravo, President of the National Assembly, to
invite Cuba to attend the meeting of presidents of
Latin American parliaments in Quito in November.
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JUNE 10
JULY 12
AUGUST 09
DECEMBER 12
EGYPT
Cairo press reports that the Cuban Government has
invited Egyptian Dr. Ahmad Shafiq, professor of
surgery at Al-Qasr al-Ayni Hospital, to treat a
senior and important person in Cuba. Shafiq is
noted for treating incurable cases.
Cairo press Al Ahram reports that Dr. Ahmad Shafiq
"successfully" operated on Fidel Castro in Havana
in June.
Cairo press reports that Dr. Ahmad Shafiq said he
. recently operated on Fidel Castro for a minor
proctological procedure and that the operation was
a success.
Egyptian President Muhammad Husni Mubarak receives
credentials of Cuban Ambassador to Egypt Jorge
Cubiles Hernandez.
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JUNE 29
OCTOBER 08
DECEMBER 07
EL SALVADOR
Politburo member Jorge Risquet presides over the
closing ceremony marking the day of solidarity
with the Salvadoran people held in Havana's
Cubana de Acero factory.
Havana Tele-Rebelde announces that ninety-eight
Salvadoran wounded and disabled guerrilla members
arrived in Cuba on 28 June to receive medical
treatment.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet and Central Commit-
tee members Manuel Pineiro, Jesus Montane, and
Jorge Mendoza preside over a ceremony in the Caca-
hual camp for the Salvadoran war injured marking
the 20th anniversary of Che Guevara's death.
? Fidel Castro announces that Cuba will build a
medical center for victims of El Salvador's civil
war. The 620-bed center will be part of the re-
modeled Julio Diaz Hospital. Ninety-eight wounded
guerrilla fighters arrived in Havana last June.
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MARCH 17
MARCH 18
MARCH 19
MARCH 23
MAY 20
AUGUST 12
DECEMBER 17
ETHIOPIA
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and Wollie
Chekol, Ethiopian party official, sign a trade
protocol for 1987-88 which includes Cuban shipment
of medications, pharmaceutical raw materials,
fruit juices, and sports goods.
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Berhanu Bayeh is met at
the Havana airport by Politburo member Jorge
Risquet. Berhanu and Foreign Minister Malmierca
discuss bilateral relations, Central America, and
international affairs.
Fidel Castro receives Ethiopian Foreign Minister
Berhanu Bayeh. Berhanu conveys a message? to Fidel
from President Mengistu Haile Mariain.
Vice Foreign Minister Mazola accompanies Berhanu
Bayeh to Santiago de Cuba, where they visit the
Siboney farm and Moncada Barracks as well as the
300 Ethiopian students studying at Oriente Univer-
sity and the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences.
Raul Castro, Isidoro Malmierca, Giraldo Mazola,
and Antonio Perez Herrero bid farewell to
Ethiopian Foreign Minister Berhanu Bayeh at the
airport.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets in Addis
Ababa with Ashagre Yigletu, Secretary of the WPE
Central Committee, to discuss matters of interest.
Granma reports that Cuba will help Ethiopia set up
a second production line at the cement factory in
New Mugher, 100 kilometers from Addis Ababa.
Machinery will come from East Germany.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and Tedese
Gebre Kidan, member of the WPE Central Committee,
sign an agreement in Addis Ababa to further
strengthen trade relations. A one year protocol
based on this agreement will be signed in 1988.
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FEBRUARY 07
MARCH 17
MARCH 20
APRIL 14
APRIL 17
MAY 27
MAY 29
FRANCE
Fidel Castro meets in Havana with Georges
Marchais, Secretary General of the French
Communist Party, to discuss bilateral party rela-
tions and the need to continue struggling for
peace in the face of the arms buildup by the US.
Paris press announces that Enrique Hernandez,
Adolfo Rivero, and Samuel Rodriguez, arrested
months ago for being linked to the self-proclaimed
"Human Rights Committee," were released from
prison. Elizardo Sanchez remains under arrest.
Havana press reports that a thermoelectric plant
being built with the cooperation of French experts
on the outskirts of Matanzas is nearing comple-
tion. The plant will be the largest one in Cuba,
costing nearly $200 million.
Havana Tele-Rebelde reports that a French
construction firm will begin building a deepwater
harbor at Matanzas Bay that will have a capacity
to service ships of 150,000 tons.
Paris AFP reports Angolan President dos Santos
reportedly requested North Korea to "play an
essential role" in Angola and be ready to replace
the Cubans "imminently."
Cuba and France sign a new technical cooperation
agreement in Havana for standardization and
quality control. Ramon Darias, Minister President
of the State Committee for Standardization
represents Cuba.
Havana Radio Reloj reports that a Cuban delegation
of cattle breeders headed by Ramon Castro, Direc-
tor of the Valles de Picadura genetic plan,
returns to Havana following a working visit to
Sweden, Denmark, France, and Spain.
Fidel Castro grants an interview to L'Humanite.
He condemns US aggression against Nicaragua, and
says the Soviet Union's peace-loving policy gener-
ates great interest in Latin America because it is
a serious and consistent policy.
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JUNE 22
JUNE 23
OCTOBER 06
NOVEMBER 24
DECEMBER 05
DECEMBER 08
FRANCE
Havana Tele-Rebelde reports that Cuban authorities
broke up a crowd of would-be emigrants who flocked
to the French Embassy in Havana seeking visas.
Several dozens of these stateless people have been
detained.
Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Paris. He
meets with his counterpart Jean-Bernard Raimond to
review bilateral relations and to discuss the
situation in South Africa, Central America, and
the Iran-Iraq war.
Foreign Minister Malmierca reasserts Cuba's
solidarity with Nicaragua at a news conference in
Paris, and the need for supporting Contadora
efforts to find a just solution to the Central
American situation.
The American Coalition of Commissions for the
Respect of Human Rights in Cuba asks President
Mitterrand to mediate with Fidel Castro to free
Cubans who sought asylum at the French Embassy in
Havana on 10 June 1987.
Paris AFP reports that a Cuban Government source
told AFP that Havana will handle the Marielitos
in US prisons according to the new immigration
agreement between Cuba and the United States on a
case-by-case basis.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet and Soviet
Communist Party Politburo member Igor Ligachev
discuss the international situation and attend
the 26th French Communist Party Congress.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet tells the press in
Paris that the road of the Haitian people to
eliminate Duvalerism will be hard and difficult
and the US will interfere in the process.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet in Paris denies
news ?reports from South Africa on alleged clashes
between South African troops and Cuban inter-
nationalists in Angola.
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FEBRUARY 03
FEBRUARY 11
FEBRUARY 25
GERMANY, EAST
Dr. Georg Sitzlack, State Secretary for the East
German Office for Nuclear Safety and Radiation
Protection, visits Havana to discuss bilateral co-
operation in nuclear energy, meet with Jose Fer-
nandez, and visit the Nuclear Affairs Institute.
East German official Georg Stizlack signs a pro-
tocol following talks with Atomic Energy chief
Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart on Cuba's nuclear devel-
opment, the results of scientific-technical coop-
eration, and cooperation in nuclear safety.
Vice Foreign Trade Minister Jose de la Fuente and
his East German counterpart Dietrich Lemke sign a
goods exchange protocol for 1987. Cuba will export
raw and refined sugar, nickel, citrus, coffee, and
other goods.
National Coordinator of the Committees for the
Defense of the Revolution, Armando Acosta Cordero
stops in East Germany enroute to Libya. He meets
with National Front President Lothar Kolditz to
exchange views on domestic and foreign policy.
FEBRUARY 26 Cuba and East Germany sign a cooperation agreement
to develop the Cuban electronics industry,
including electronic calculation techniques and
the manufacture of micro-electronic elements.
MARCH 04 Dr. Herbert Weiz, Deputy Chairman of the East
German Council of Ministers, receives Ismael
Clark, head of the Cuban delegation to the 18th
session of the subcommission for scientific-
technical cooperation.
MARCH 05 National Coordinator of the Committees for the
Defense of the Revolution Armando Acosta arrives
in Berlin to discuss bilateral relations.
?
MARCH 19
East Germany's Minister of Foreign Trade Gerhard
Beil receives Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Jose
de la Fuente to discuss the commodity exchange in
1987 and the implementation of cooperation pro-
jects in the field of light industry.
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MARCH 25
MARCH 26
MARCH 27
MARCH 28
APRIL 14
APRIL 23
GERMANY, EAST
President of the Federation of Cuban Women Vilma
Espin arrives in Berlin heading a delegation that
will attend a preparatory meeting of the upcoming
World Women's Congress which will be held from
24 to 26 March.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Pedro Miret greet
Gunther Kleiber, Politburo member of the German
Socialist Unity Party. Kleiber will visit places
of economic and social interest while in Cuba.
Vice Minister of Communications Manuel Garcia
Fernandez tells journalists in Brazil that Brazil
will participate with the USSR, East Germany,
Yugoslavia, and Hungary in installing 130,000 new
telephone lines in Cuba.
Fidel Castro receives East German official
Gunther Kleiber who conveys a personal message
from Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the SED
Central Committee, and they discuss domestic and
foreign policy issues.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and East
German official Gunther Kleiber attend the
inauguration of a knitting mill in eastern Havana.
Fidel talks with workers and leaders of the mill.
Carlos Rafael Rodrigues and Gunther Kleiber sign
an economic protocol on further instances of coop-
eration, such as the setting up of a brewery and
a plant for the production of basic materials for
chip board manufacture in Cuba.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez bids farewell to Gunther
Kleiber. Kleiber attended the sixth meeting of the
CEMA Committee for Cooperation in Mechanical
Engineering and the Joint Committee for Economic
and Scientific-Technological Cooperation.
The Cuba-East German joint commission for coopera-
tion in the field of higher education begins its
fifth meeting at the University of Las Villas.
Cuban Trade Union official Rene Penalver speaks at
a labor conference in East Germany calling for
broad unity of the world labor and trade union
movement.
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MAY 29
JULY 10
JULY 18
AUGUST 26
OCTOBER 05
OCTOBER 07
OCTOBER 20
GERMANY, EAST
Havana Radio Reloj announces that in cooperation
with East Germany, a banana pulp processing plant
will be built in Ciego de Avila Province and it
will begin operating in the first quarter of 1989.
East Germany's State Committee for Radio and Tele-
vision and the Cuban Institute of Radio and Tele-
vision sign a working protocol for 1987-88.
President of ICRT Ismael Gonzalez receives the
Gerhard Eisler medal during a ceremony.
East Germany's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Bernhard Neugebauer, briefs Foreign Minister
Malmierca in Havana on the Fourth SED Central
Committee Session. Neugebauer is visiting Havana
to prepare for the coming UNESCO meeting.
The seventh session of the Cuban-GDR electronic
and electrotechnology subcommission begins in
Havana to analyze new ideas of encouraging Cuban
exports to the GDR of electronic components and
of conducting joint radio and TV productions.
Fidel Castro sends congratulations to East German
leader Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the
East German Communist Party Central Committee and
Chairman of the State Council, on his 75th
birthday on 25 August.
Rear Admiral Pedro Miguel Perez Betancourt, Deputy
Minister of the Armed Forces and Navy Commander,
heads a delegation to East Germany to meet with
Army General Heinz Kessler, Minister of National
Defense.
Fidel Castro sends a message congratulating
Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the East
German Communist Party, on National Day and the
750th anniversary of the founding of Berlin.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez presents his East German
counterpart Gunther Kleiber with the one millionth
integrated circuit exported by Cuba which repre-
sents a friendship bridge between the two
electronic industries.
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OCTOBER 20
OCTOBER 21
OCTOBER 22
NOVEMBER 19
GERMANY, EAST
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez participates in the 14th
meeting of the joint Cuban-East German Commission
in Berlin. He and Erich Honecker state that micro-
electronics and biotechnology will boost the
economies of both countries.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and East German Prime
Minister Willi Stoph discuss bilateral coopera-
tion.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and East German leader
Erich Honecker confirm the depth and fraternal
ties of the two countries during a meeting in
Berlin. Rodriguez conveys greetings from Fidel
Castro to Honecker.
East German Minister of National Defense General
Heinz Kessler meets Cuban Deputy Defense Minister
Brigadier General Irving Ruiz Brito to discuss
bilateral relations.
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JUNE 24
JUNE 27
JUNE 29
JULY 02
JULY 03
GERMANY, WEST
Vice Foreign Minister Alarcon arrives in Bonn to
participate in a seminar on Cuban-West European
relations. He says Cuba believes Costa Rican
President Arias' Central American peace plan is
still alive.
Carlos Martinez Salsamendi, adviser to Carlos
Rafael Rodriguez, states in Bonn that the United
States pressure Western European countries to join
the blockade against Cuba.
Vice Foreign Minister Alarcon says in Bonn that
Cuba will continue playing an active role to
support development and cooperation among Third
World countries.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets in Havana
with Dr. Hans Stercken, President of the IPU and
Chairman of the FRG Parliament Foreign Relations
Committee, to discuss topics of mutual interest,
including Latin American economic integration.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Dr. Hans Stercken,
President of the IPU and Chairman of the FRG
Parliament Foreign Relations Committee, exchange
views on the development of the IPU and bilateral
relations with the FRG Parliament.
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MARCH 07
MARCH 09
APRIL 03
MAY 12
MAY 14
MAY .19
GHANA
Cuba and Ghana celebrate the 30th anniversary of
Ghanaian independence in a ceremony at the Kuame
Nkrumah rural school on the Isle of Youth.
The 30th anniversary of Ghana's independence is
commemorated at the Communist Party of Cuba Nico
Lopez National School in Havana.
Accra press reports that ? a three-member government
delegation returned from the third session of the
Ghana-Cuba Joint Commission for Economic,
Scientific, and Technical Cooperation in Havana.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet presents Ghana's
Kojo Tsikata with the Combative Fraternity Medal
at the end of his visit to Cuba for his outstand-
ing contribution to the African peoples' libera-
tion struggle.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Justice D. F.
Annan, member of Ghana's Provincial National
Defense Council, to discuss international affairs,
especially the situation in southern Africa and
Central America.
Vice President of the National Assembly Sever?
Aguirre del cristo bids farewell to Justice Annan,
who tells the press his visit to Cuba was very
productive because of meetings with high-level
officials on international issues.
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JANUARY 10
JANUARY 14
MAY 12
MAY 16
MAY 19
GREECE
Secretary General of the Greek Communist Party
Kharilaos Florakis arrives in Havana and is met
by Politburo member Jorge Risquet.
Fidel Castro meets with Kharilaos Florakis,
Secretary General of the Greek Communist Party, to
discuss the situation in the two countries and to
identify the struggle of the Cuban and Greek
peoples for independence and development.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet attends the 12th
Communist Party of Greece Congress in Athens. He
speaks of the US blockade on Cuba and says the US
occupation of the Guantanamo Naval Base is a thorn
in the side of Cuba.
Jorge Risquet presents the Greek Communist Party
with a scale-model of the Granma boat. Risquet
says that Cuba and Greece together need to demand
that US military bases be removed from Cuba and
Greece.
Jorge Risquet and Greek Prime Minister Andreas
Papandreou exchange views on peace, disarmament,
and other current international matters. Risquet
also delivers a message from Fidel Castro to
Papandreou, inviting him to visit Cuba.
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JANUARY 29
JUNE 09
GRENADA
The Grenada Court of Appeal dismisses Cuba's com-
pensation claims for payment of construction
equipment and an airplane lost during the 1983
US-led invasion of the island.
Havana Radio Rebelde reports that Cuba objects to
Grenada's participation in the second meeting of
information ministers of the Nonaligned Movement,
which begins 10 June in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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JANUARY 17
MAY 11
GUATEMALA
Fidel Castro sends a message to the SELA meeting
underway in Guatemala City in which he stresses
that only by strengthening unity can Latin America
be economically independent of the West and ensure
the new international economic order.
Guatemala City Radio Nuevo Mundo reports the
Governments of Guatemala and Cuba are studying the
possibility of establishing trade relations.
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NOVEMBER 21
GUINEA
Guinea's Minister of Planning and International
Cooperation Edouard Benjamin departs Conakry for
Cuba to participate in the sixth meeting of the
Cuba-Guinea Joint Cooperation Commission scheduled
to take place in Havana from 23-26 November.
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FEBRUARY 03
DECEMBER 22
GUINEA-BISSAU
Havana TV announces that a Cuban delegation
headed by Justice Minister Juan Escalona Reguera
participated in the seventh session of the joint
Cuban-Guinea-Bissau Commission on Economic, Scien-
tific, and Technical Cooperation on 25-30 January.
Lisbon Africa Confidential reports that since Nov-
ember 1980, President Vieira has gradually in-
creased the number of Cuban "internationalists" in
Guinea-Bissau to about 300--some 200 are assigned
to the political police and the Armed Forces.
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MARCH 13
MARCH 23
MARCH 27
MARCH 28
MAY 22
MAY 30
JUNE 18
JUNE 19
GUYANA
Foreign Minister Malmierca delivers a message
of greetings from Fidel Castro to Guyanese
President Desmond Hoyte.
? In Guyana, Isidoro Malmierca speaks on behalf of
Latin America and the Caribbean, calling on the
United States to give due respect to the peoples
who struggle for their total independence, and to
cease its policy of hostility toward Nicaragua.
Minister President of the State Committee for?
Economic Cooperation Ernesto Melendez arrives in
Georgetown to attend the 12th session of the
Cuba-Guyana Intergovernmental Mixed Commission
meeting being held from 18 to 25 March.
Economic Cooperation Minister Ernesto Melendez
signs a new trade agreement with Guyana at a joint
commission meeting in Georgetown. Cuba will also
increase the presence of its medical personnel.
Guyana's President Desmond Hoyte says in Caracas
that his country has had cordial economic,
diplomatic, and political relations with Cuba
since 1972, and adds that these will increase.
Bridgetown press announces that Guyana and Cuba
have signed, in Georgetown, a cooperation agree-
ment in the mining of Kaolin and gold. Details of
the agreement will be worked out in a meeting to
be held in Havana in six weeks.
Georgetown press reports that a team of 12 Cuban
doctors and technicians arrived in Guyana earlier
this week for a two-year tour under the Guyana-
Cuba assistance program.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez arrives in Guyana at the
invitation of President Desmond Hoyte. He praises
Guyana for its role in the Nonaligned Movement and
for its position on the Latin American and
Caribbean integration and cooperation .
Guyanese President Desmond Hoyte bestows the
Roraima Order on Carlos Rafael Rodriguez for his
untiring struggle for peace.
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JUNE 21
DECEMBER 09
GUYANA
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Guyanese Prime
Minister Hamilton Green and Vice President Viola
Burnham. He also visits the ruling National
People's Congress headquarters, and meets with PNC
official and Deputy Prime Minister Chandisingh.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and his
Guyanese counterpart Winston Murray meet in
Georgetown to discuss trade and to exchange views
on expanding trade and cooperation in sugar, min-
ing, and cardboard container production.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Guyanese President
Desmond Hoyte analyze the political and economic
situation of the Caribbean and Latin America.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez criticizes President Rea-
gan's "aggressive plan" against Nicaragua during a
press conference in Guyana. He says Nicaragua does
not have MIG planes, and Cuba is not training
Nicaraguan pilots to fly "nonexistent" planes.
Cuban envoy to Guyana Mr. Lazaro Cabezas tells
newsmen in Georgetown that there was no change in
Cuba-Guyana relations under President Desmond
Hoyte compared to what existed during the regime
of the late president Forbes Burnham.
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DECEMBER 03
DECEMBER 08
HAITI
The Cuban Foreign Ministry declared its deep con-
cern over the recent events in Haiti and says the
Haitian people have continued to be denied the
right to exercise their democratic will since the
Duvalier left the country.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry warns about a possible
US invasion of Haiti under the pretext of normal-
izing the Haitian internal situation.
The Cuban Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of
Peoples urges the international community to pre-
vent US armed intervention in Haiti and accuses
the National Government Council of Haiti of trying
to crush the people's aspirations for freedom.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet tells the press in
Paris that the road of the Haitian people to
eliminate Duvalerism will be hard and difficult
and the US will interfere in the process.
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MARCH 25
MARCH 27
APRIL 14
MAY 20
MAY 21
MAY 27
HUNGARY
Lajosne Duschek, Hungarian Central Committee mem-
ber and President of the National Hungarian
Women's Council, arrives in Havana at the invita-
tion of the Federation of Cuban Women.
Vice Minister of Communications Manuel Garcia
Fernandez tells journalists in Brazil that Brazil
will participate with the USSR, East Germany,
Yugoslavia, and Hungary in installing 130,000 new
telephone lines in Cuba.
Hungarian Deputy Prime Minister Frigyes Berecz
presents the Order of Banner, adorned with
diamonds of the Hungarian People's Republic, to
Fidel Castro in Havana on the occasion of his 60th
birthday.
Domestic Trade Minister Manuel Vila Sosa meets
with his Hungarian counterpart, Zoltan Juhar, and
attends CEMA's ministerial meeting in Budapest.
Sosa will inaugurate an exhibit of Cuban products
at the Konsumex Enterprise and sign a protocol.
Cuba and Hungary sign a radiobroadcasting coop-
eration protocol in Havana, marking the extensive
and lengthy relations between Cuba and Hungary in
the scientific-technical field.
Justice Minister Juan Escalona Reguera returns to
Cuba from Hungary where he attended the Ninth
Conference of Justice Ministers from 12-15 May. In
the final declaration, the 16 justice ministers
condemned all forms of terrorism.
A delegation of the Cuban Revolutionary Defense
Committees headed by National Coordinator Armando
Acosta visits Budapest. A cooperation and exchange
agreement is renewed between the CDR and the
People's Patriotic Front.
Forign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas meets with
Hungarian Minister of Foreign Trade Peter Veress
in Budapest to discuss bilateral trade relations.
Cabrizas also meets with Jozsef Marjai, Deputy
Chairman of the Hungarian Council of Ministers.
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JUNE 05
AUGUST 17
SEPTEMBER 02
HUNGARY
The Council of State appoints Faustino Manuel
Beato Morejon, member of the Cuban Communist
Party's Central Committee, as ambassador to
Hungary.
Talks between Hungarian Domestic Trade Minister
Zoltan Juhar and Cuba's Domestic Trade Minister
Manuel Vila Sosa conclude in Budapest with the
signing of a bilateral trade and technical and
scientific cooperation agreement.
Hungarian Socialist Workers Party member Gyula
Horn visits Cuba and meets with Central Committee
Secretary Jaime Crombet and Foreign Ministry offi-
cials Isidoro Malmierca and Jose Viera, to discuss
bilateral relations and international issues.
SEPTEMBER 03 First Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Jose Raul
Viera Linares meets in Havana with his Hungarian
counterpart Gyula Horn to discuss bilateral
interests and the international situation.
SEPTEMBER 30 Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party Central and
Political Committee member Janos Berecz arrives in
Cuba and is met at the airport by Carlos Aldana,
secretary of the PCC Central Committee.
OCTOBER 01 Raul Castro, Politburo member Jorge Risquet, and
PCC secretaries Lionel Soto and Carlos Aldana
meet with Janos Berecz, Hungarian Communist Party
member, to discuss bilateral party relations.
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APRIL 29
MAY 02
INDIA
Indian Deputy Prime Minister Y. S. Das and Vice
Foreign Minister Giraldo Mazola sign a cooperation
protocol for 1987-1989 in Havana to include
culture, education, science, radio, television,
and sports.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets in Havana
with C. Rajeswara Rao, General Secretary of the
Communist Party of India. Rao speaks of the posi-
tive impressions he has received during his visit
to several provinces in Cuba.
Fidel Castro receives Rajeswara Rao, General
Secretary of the Communist Party of India, to
discuss expanding shared goals including strength-
ening Nonaligned ties and increasing economic and
social development.
JULY 24 The Council of State appoints Sonia Diaz Llera
Ambassador to India.
DECEMBER 05
DECEMBER 07
Fidel Castro meets with Indian Minister of State
for External Affairs Eduardo Faleiro in Havana,
who delivers a message from Prime Minister Gandhi
assessing future bilateral relations and the
current international situation.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with India's
Minister of State for External Affairs Eduardo
Faleiro to discuss the current international
situation, especially the upcoming Gorbachev-
Reagan summit in Washington.
India's Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi renews an
invitation to Fidel Castro to visit India. Fidel?
accepts, dates are to be finalized.
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JANUARY 29 Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca greets Iranian
Deputy Prime Minister of Political Affairs Ali-
Reza Moyeri upon his arrival at Jose Marti Inter-
national Airport.
JANUARY 30 Fidel Castro and Iranian Deputy Prime Minister of
Political Affairs Ali-Reza Moyeri analyze the
international situation, especially in their
respective regions, the activities carried out by
the Nonaligned Movement, and bilateral relations.
JANUARY 31 Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas and Iranian
Ali-Reza Moyeri discuss expanding bilateral
relations.
APRIL 22
MAY 27
MAY 29
MAY 30
SEPTEMBER 21
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Iranian
official Larijani, who is attending the Group of
77 meeting, to discuss the international condemna-
tion of the use of chemical weapons.
Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Iran and
meets with Prime Minister Mir Hosein Musavi-
Khamenei and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Akbar
Velayati to discuss the Persian Gulf, Central
America, the Nonaligned, and bilateral relations.
Foreign Minister Malmierca tells the press that
Cuba opposes Iraq's repeated use of chemical
weapons.
Radio Reloj reports that Malmierca signed a proto-
col on foreign policy coordination within the Non-
aligned in Iran. The protocol also covers economic
and technical cooperation in public health, phar-
maceutical products, industry, and agriculture.
Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca arrives in
Cyprus and tells the press he hopes the Iran-Iraq
war will end soon.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meet ? with Iranian
Foreign Minister Velayati at the UN to discuss de-
velopments in the Persian Gulf. Malmierca says the
presence of US warships and NATO members in the
Gulf threatens regional security and world peace.
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OCTOBER 19
OCTOBER 20
OCTOBER 22
IRAN
Foreign Minister Malmierca greets Iranian Foreign
Minister 'Ali Akbar Velayati at Jose Marti Inter-
national Airport and later discuss bilateral,
regional, and international issues.
Tehran press reports Foreign Minister Velayati met
in Havana with Ernesto Melendez, Minister Presi-
dent of the State Commission for Economic Coopera-
tion. Melendez says Cuba condemns US actions in
the Persian Gulf.
Fidel Castro and Iranian Foreign Minister 'Ali
Akbar Velayati discuss bilateral relations and the
international situation, especially the recent US
attack against two Iranian oil platforms in the
Persian Gulf.
Fidel Castro tells Iranian Foreign Minister
Velayati that the US Administration will pay a
high cost for its aggression in the Persian Gulf.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and his Iranian
counterpart 'Ali Akbar Velayati sign a memorandum
of understanding on economic and trade cooperation
in technology, industry, sugar, fisheries, and
road construction.
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MARCH 18
MARCH 19
MARCH 21
MAY 29
MAY 30
JUNE 03
JUNE 05
JUNE 06
SEPTEMBER 30
IRAQ
Politburo member Jorge Risquet receives a Ba'th
delegation from Iraq presided over by Taha al-
Basri, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Bureau
of the National Command of the Ba'th Party.
Jorge Risquet and Taha al-Basri study ways to
reactivate and develop relations between the two
parties in all fields in preparation for signing
a joint cooperation protocol.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet and Yasin al-Basri,
head of the Ba'th Party National Command Foreign
Relations Bureau, sign cooperation accords for
1987 and 1988 between the PCC and Iraqi party.
Foreign Minister Malmierca tells the press that
Cuba opposes Iraq's repeated use of chemical
weapons.
Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca arrives in
Cyprus and tells the press he hopes the Iran-Iraq
war will end soon.
Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca arrives in
Baghdad and is met by Iraqi Minister of Foreign
Affairs Tariq Aziz.
Iraqi First Deputy Prime Minister Taha Yasin
Ramadan meets with Isidoro Malmierca to discuss
bilateral relations. Malmierca presents Ramadan
a message from Carlos Rafael Rodriguez on
bilateral cooperation .
Isidoro Malmierca and Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein discuss bilateral relations and the
situation in the Middle East.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Iraqi Deputy
Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tariq 'Aziz at
the UN in New York to discuss the Iraq-Iran war,
UN efforts to implement UN Security Council Re-
solution 598, and issues of mutual interest.
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MAY 04
MAY 06
IRELAND
Irish parliamentary official Liam Hyland arrives
in Havana at the invitation of the National
Assembly of the People's Government. He will visit
economic and cultural sites.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet receives an Irish
parliamentary delegation. Risquet briefs about the
Cuban revolutionary process and reasons for its
struggle.
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JULY 15
DECEMBER 07
DECEMBER 22
ISRAEL
Israeli newspaper Ksafim reports that Israelis
will be granted entry visas to Cuba if they make
applications abroad.
A Tel Aviv press report announces a meeting
between a Cuban and an Israeli representative in
Mexico City to discuss establishing informal
economic and trade relations between the two
countries.
The Cuban Government denies reports that it held
official talks with representatives of Israel to
discuss renewing diplomatic relations.
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MARCH 12
JULY 21
ITALY
Culture Minister Armando Hart meets in Havana with
Italian Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs
Agnelli, who is in Cuba presiding over the Italian
delegation to the fifth Bilateral Economic-Indus-
trial Meeting.
Rome's La Republica reports an interview with
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez in which he says good
Cuban-US diplomatic relations are not possible
under the Reagan Administration.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez tells Rome's La Republica
that there have been problems with Cuba's economy
--a lack of vigilence, old rules must be changed,
exports are weak, dealing with the international
situation?but there is no poverty in Cuba.
SEPTEMBER 20 Italian newspaper L'Espresso publishes correspon-
dent Gianni Mina's interview with Fidel Castro in
Havana on 28 June. Castro claims Cuba has never
tortured prisoners and President Reagan has no
ethics.
OCTOBER 07 President of the Cuban Institute of Friendship
with the Peoples Rene Rodriguez meets with Italian
officials of the Piemonte region in Italy to mark
Cuban-Italian Friendship Week commemorating the
20th anniversary of Che Guevara's death.
DECEMBER 08 Politburo member Jorge Risquet arrives in Rome at
the invitation of the Italian Communist Party.
DECEMBER 10 Politburo member Jorge Risquet and Italian Foreign
Minister Giulio Andreotti agree that the accord to
destroy medium- and long-range missiles, signed by
Soviet leader Gorbachev and President Reagan is a
historic step.
DECEMBER 11
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets in Rome with
an Italian Communist Party delegation headed by
Giorgio Napolitano. Both parties emphasize the
positive aspects of the agreement signed by Presi-
dent Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington.
DECEMBER 12 Politburo member Jorge Risquet and Alessandro
Natta, General Secretary of the Italian Communist
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DECEMBER 12
DECEMBER 22
ITALY
Party, end talks in Rome on peace, disarmament,
and political solutions to regional conflicts.
Natta accepts Risquet's invitation to visit Cuba.
Milan L'UNITA reports an interview with Politburo
member Jorge Risquet by Nuccio Ciconte. Risquet
says President Reagan is obsessed with the
Nicaraguan problem.
Milan L'UNITA reports that Jorge Risquet said the
Gorbachev-Reagan Summit of 7 December is of
supreme importance to Cuba to link the peace
struggle with the development struggle.
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MAY 26
JAMAICA
Jamaica's Prime Minister Edward Seaga says that 9
of 25 people chosen by the youth arm of the
People's National Party had left for Cuba to
receive training in electioneering tactics.
Jamaica's People's National Party Chairman Patter-
son denies charges by Prime Minister Seaga that
party youth members had been sent to Cuba for
training in campaign tactics. He says 25 members
were going to Cuba for educational opportunities.
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JAPAN
PCC member Jose Felipe Carneado addresses an
international symposium in Tokyo on the struggle
to prevent a nuclear war and to eliminate nuclear
weapons.
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KENYA
Nairobi press reports that Ugandan President
Museveni is looking to Libya and Cuba for arms and
military assistance. A first group of 50 to 100
Cuban advisers is said to have arrived recently,
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APRIL 13
APRIL 14
APRIL 16
KOREA, NORTH
Vice President of the National Assembly Severo
Aguirre del Cristo heads a delegation to Pyongyang
to attend a consultative meeting from 6-10 March.
Foreign Ministers Kim Yong-nam of North Korea,
Witness Mangwende of Zimbabwe, and Leandre
Bassolet of Burkina arrive in Havana to talk and
visit areas of economic, scientific, and
historical interests.
North Korea's Foreign Minister Kim Yong-nam meets
with ICAP President Rene Rodriguez Cruz.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Foreign
Minister Kim Yong-nam to discuss the preparations
for the special ministerial conference of the
Nonaligned Movement which will be held in
Pyongyang.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets North Korea's
Foreign Minister Kim Yong-nam to discuss bilateral
relations, the international situation, and the
recent meeting of the Cooperating Bureau of the
NAM on Latin America and the Caribbean in Guyana.
Fidel Castro and North Korean Foreign Minister Kim
Yong-nam discuss economic cooperation and prepara-
tions for the meeting of representatives of non-
aligned countries to be held in Pyongyang in June.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet arrives in
Pyongyang to celebrate the 75th birthday of North
Korean President Kim Il-sung.
Paris AFP reports Angolan President dos Santos
reportedly requested North Korea to "play an
essential role" in Angola and be ready to replace
the Cubans "imminently."
Fidel Castro sends a congratulatory message to
North Korean President Kim Il-song on the occasion
of his 75th birthday. The message says Kim Il-song
will receive the Playa Giron Order from the
Council of State.
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APRIL 21 Jorge Risquet delivers a gift from Fidel Castro to
North Korean Politburo member Kim Chong-il.
MAY 28
MAY 30
JUNE 10
JUNE 11
JUNE 13
JUNE 14
Fidel Castro meets with North Korea's Minister of
Foreign Trade Choe Chong-kun, who is heading a
delegation to the Sixth Ministerial Meeting of the
Group of 77.
Pedro Castillo, Secretary General of the National
Trade Union of Cuban Tobacco Workers heads a
delegation of Trade Union Workers in Pyongyang.
During an interview, he says Cuba will boycott the
Olympics if cohosting is not realized.
Politburb member Jorge Risquet meets in Havana
with a North Korean delegation headed by Chu Jong-
ok, member of the Korean Workers' Central Commit-
tee.
Foreign Minister Malmierca states that cooperation
is vital for emergence from underdevelopment, dur-
ing the 2nd day of the South-South cooperation
conference of the Nonaligned in Pyongyang.
Foreign Minister Malmierca addresses the Nonalign-
ed meeting on South-South cooperation in Pyong-
yang. He says that if the industrialized countries
would reduce military spending, enough resources
could be freed to cancel the foreign debt.
Fidel Castro sends a message to the Nonaligned
meeting on South-South Cooperation in Pyongyang.
He asserts that the foreign debt cannot be paid
and that solutions must be sought to alleviate
the problem.
The Nonaligned meeting on South-South cooperation
ends in Pyongyang, agreeing to create a permanent
committee for economic cooperation among those
nations.
President of North Korea Kim Il-song conveys to
Foreign Minister Malmierca his personal greetings
to Fidel Castro.
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DECEMBER 08
DECEMBER 25
KOREA, NORTH
North Korea's President Kim Il-song receives
Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida, who has
been visiting for the past two weeks. Vice Presi-
dent Pak Song-chol decorates Almeida with the
Order of Friendship.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and his
North Korean counterpart Choe Chong-kun sign a
protocol in Pyongyang of the 11th meeting of the
Intergovernmental Economic, Scientific and Tech-
nological Consultative Committee.
Cuba and North Korea sign an exchange of commo-
dities agreement for 1988.
Cuban Ambassador to North Korea Ricardo Sigas
Danza denounces US maneuvers against North Korea
on the pretext of the 24th Olympics in South Korea
and stresses that Cuba will not participate in the
Olympics unless they are cohosted by North Korea.
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SEPTEMBER 21
SEPTEMBER 30
KOREA, SOUTH
The Cuban Committee supporting the reunification
of Korea meets in Cuba during June and July on
its 25th anniversary.
President of the International Olympic Committee
Juan Antonio Samaranch receives a letter from
Fidel Castro expressing his wish to cooperate in
resolving the conflict between the two Koreas
over the Seoul Olympic Games.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets with a South
Korean National Democratic Front delegation to
discuss the overthrow of the Chun Doo Hwan govern-
ment and withdrawal of US troops from South Korea.
Pyongyang's Voice of National Salvation announces
the opening of the South Korean National Democra-
tic Front mission in Havana on 17 September. North
Korean Vice Chairman of the ruling party Central
Committee Chong-Sang attends the meeting.
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MARCH 29 Foreign Minister Malmierca greets Olympic Chair-
man, al-Shai Jabat Radmud. A sports agreement is
signed to assist Kuwait in basketball, waterpolo,
volleyball, and boxing.
JUNE 09 Kuwaiti press reports that an official of Cuba's
Ministry of Foreign Relations Estrada briefed a
Kuwaiti official on the outcome of Isidoro
Malmierca's talks in Baghdad and Tehran, and also
discussed bilateral economic relations and trade.
JULY 05
OCTOBER 29
Kuwaiti Deputy Foreign Minister Sulayman Majid al-
Shahin arrives in Havana and meets with Vice
Minister of Foreign Relations Giraldo Mazola to
discuss the international situation, especially
the Middle East, and bilateral relations.
A Kuwaiti newspaper editorial claims that Cuba,
Korea, China, and other countries sell arms to
Iran.
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JULY 01
JULY 02
AUGUST 05
LAOS
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Soulivong
Phasitthidet, Laotian Deputy Minister of Foreign
Affairs, to discuss international politics, espe-
cially of Asia and Central America, the Nonaligned
Movement, and bilateral relations.
Vice Foreign Minister Giraldo Mazola arrives in
Vientiane for a six day visit; he discusses
regional and global issues with Lao Minister of
Foreign Affairs Phoun Sipaseut and bilateral rela-
tions with Deputy Minister Phasitthidet.
Lao Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Pong Kha-
anavong leads a delegation that departs for Havana
to attend a conference of the foreign ministers of
the Group of 77, which will meet from 20 to 24
April.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet receives Inphoun
Kae Navon, Vice Foreign Minister of Laos, to
discuss matters of common interest.
The Cuban-Laotian Inter-Governmental Commission
signs the final protocol of its fourth session in
Havana. Laos asks Cuban experts to participate in
new projects financed by the international organi-
zations.
A delegation of the Lao National Commission for
UNESCO led by its President Bountiam Phitsamai
departs for Havana to participate in the 25th
coordinating meeting of UNESCO from 6-10 July.
Acting President of the Lao People's Democratic
Republic Phoumi Vongvichit receives outgoing Cuban
Ambassador Mario U. Garcia Vazquez.
NOVEMBER 20 Jose Manuel Garcia Torres, the new Cuban Ambas-
sador to Laos, meets in Vientiane with Sali
Vongkhamsao, Politburo member and Secretary of the
Lao Communist Party.
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SEPTEMBER 17 The Council of State appoints Orlando Lanci
Suarez as Cuban Ambassador to Lebanon.
DECEMBER 21
DECEMBER 24
Politburo member Jorge Risquet receives George
Hawi, Secretary General of the Lebanese Communist
Party, to discuss the Cuban revolution and the
situation in Latin America and Africa and to
reiterate Cuba's solidarity with the Arab people.
Secretary General of the Lebanese Communist Party
George Hawi meets with representatives of leftist
parties, organizations, and national liberation
movements in Cuba.
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LIBERIA
The Council of State appoints Dinorah Valenzuela
Cuban Ambassador to Liberia, with residence in
Freetown, Sierra Leone, where she also serves as
ambassador.
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FEBRUARY 25
LIBYA
National Coordinator of the Committees for the
Defense of the Revolution, Armando Acosta Cordero
stops in East Germany enroute to Libya. He meets
with National Front President Lothar Kolditz to
exchange views on domestic and foreign policy.
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MADAGASCAR
The Council of State appoints Luis Reyes Mas
Ambassador to the Comoros, with residency in
Antananarivo, Madagascar.
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MALI
JULY 07 The Council of State appoints Alberto Suarez
Ortega Ambassador to Mali.
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MAURITANIA
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas meets in
Havana with Beergoonath Ghurburrun, Mauritian
Trade and Navigation Minister, to discuss estab-
lishing trade relations.
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JANUARY 24
MEXICO
Ernesto Melendez, chief of the Cuban delegation
attending the ECLA final session, announces that
the Latin American nations are losing approximate-
ly $40 billion annually as a result of net
transfers of financial resources abroad.
FEBRUARY 14 The Cuban Government bestows the 30th Revolution-
ary Medal on Mexico's Secretary of Defense General
Juan Arevalo Gardoqui, and Secretary of the Navy
Admiral Miguel Gomez Ortega.
FEBRUARY 16 The ninth plenary meeting of the Cuban-Mexican
Commission on Scientific-Technical Cooperation
begins in Havana. Minister President of the State
Committee for Economic Cooperation Melendez and
Hector Mayagotia, Mexico representative, meet.
FEBRUARY 19 Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and
Mexican Commerce and Industrial Development
Secretary Hector Hernandez sign documents to
increase trade relations.
FEBRUARY 21 The final document of the ninth meeting of the
Cuban-Mexican joint commission for scientific and
technical cooperation is signed in Havana by
Hector Mayagoitia and Ernesto Melendez of the
State Committee for Economic Cooperation.
MARCH 06 Vice Minister of the Fishing Industry Enrique
Oltuski reports that Mexico and Cuba are conduct-
ing negotiations to maximize exploitation of their
common fishing waters.
MARCH 18 Jesus Escandel, secretary for international rela-
tions of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade
Unions, meets in Mexico City with Mexican trade
union leaders to discuss bilateral cooperation.
MARCH 31 The sixth meeting of the joint CEMA-Mexico Coop-
eration Commission is held in Havana for the first
time. Cooperation in agriculture, fisheries,
industrial development, and foreign trade is dis-
cussed, and a cooperation agreement is signed.
APRIL 27 Cuba and Mexico sign two agreements dealing with
social security and cooperation and social
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MEXICO
solidarity. The agreements were signed by Ricardo
Garcia Sainz, Director of the Mexican Social
Security Institute.
Ricardo Garcia Sainz, General Director of the
Mexican Social Security Institute, signs a trade
and cooperation agreements with the Cuban State
Committee for Labor and Social Security and the
Public Health Ministry, during his visit to Cuba.
Mexico signs an agreement with the Cuban National
Institute of Sports, Physical Education, and
Recreation.
Garcia Sainz, General Director of the Mexican
Social Security Institute, tours a polyclinic and
learns of the new Family Doctor Program in Cuba.
He meets with Osmani Cienfuegos, Vice President of
the Council of Ministers.
The National Polytechnical Institute of Mexico and
the Jose Antonio Echeverria Higher Polytechnical
Institute of Cuba sign in Mexico City a technical
cooperation agreement in engineering, metallurgy,
computerization, electronics, and other areas.
Mexico's Secretary of Energy, Mines, and Parastate
Industry Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez arrives in
Havana to attend the Fourth Cuba-Mexico Intergov-
ernmental meeting on Economic-Industrial Coopera-
tion.
Minister President of the State Committee for
Economic Cooperation Ernesto Melendez meets with
Mexican, Secretary Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez.
The final protocol of the fourth Cuba-Mexico
Inter-governmental Meeting on Economic-Industrial
Cooperation is signed by Mexican Secretary Alfredo
del Mazo Gonzalez and Minister President of the
State Committee for Economic Cooperation Melendez.
Mexico's Secretary of Energy, Mines, and Para-
statal Industries Alfredo del Mazo Gonzalez meets
Fidel Castro.
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JUNE 23
MEXICO
EL DIA publishes 'Latin America Gets Ahead With
its Poor or Does Not Get Ahead at All' by Carlos
Rafael Rodriguez. The article discusses confronta-
tion with the US, foreign debt, and the situation
in Latin America.
JUNE 24 Interior Minister Jose Abrantes arrives in Mexico
City.
JULY 07 Deputy Secretary General of the Mexican Chamber of
Deputies Jorge Montufar meets in Havana with
Severo Aguirre, Vice President of the National
Assembly to discuss topics of mutual interest and
bilateral parliamentary relations.
AUGUST 25
SEPTEMBER 12
OCTOBER 10
NOVEMBER 05
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DECEMBER 18
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Mexican Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor
meets with Foreign Minister Malmierca at the UN
Conference on Disarmament and Development.
Cuba's Vice Minister of the Armed Forces General
Irving Ruiz attends the 170th anniversary of
Mexico's independence. He says Cuba will support
Nicaragua in the event of foreign intervention and
concedes that Cuba has military advisers there.
Minister President of the National Bank of Cuba
Hector Rodriguez Llompart visits Mexico and meets
with Miguel Mancera, Director of Mexico's Central
Bank, to exchange views on financial and banking
relations.
Mexican Deputy Secretary of Energy Jose Luis
Alcudia departs for Havana to attend the 18th
Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE)
Ministerial Meeting.
The presidents of eight Latin American countries
meet in Acapulco for their first summit conference
and announce that Cuba should be invited to rejoin
the Organization of American States and the
hemisphere's two major economic groups.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Komplektov
holds a news conference in Mexico City before de-
parting for Cuba. He says the USSR and the US have
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DECEMBER 18 to come out jointly in support of the Esquipulas
II agreements to achieve peace in Central America.
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JUNE 13
MONGOLIA
Cuba and Mongolia sign in Havana agreements that
include cooperation in medical information,
creation of cadres, and health assistance.
Havana Radio Progreso announces that Vietnam,
Cuba, and Mongolia will receive energy programs
from East European CEMA members during the next
five years, according to a protocol signed at the
72nd CEMA energy meeting.
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MAY 18
MAY 31
MOZAMBIQUE
Politburo member Jorge Risquet presides over a
ceremony in Havana commemorating the 1 1 th
anniversary of the Frelimo party.
The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples
signs a bilateral friendship and cooperation
agreement in Havana with similar institutions from
Angola and Mozambique.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet greets Marcelino
dos Santos, President of the National Mozambican
People's Assembly, upon his arrival in Havana.
Risquet and dos Santos discuss bilateral rela-
tions.
Vice President of the National Assembly Severo
Aguirre del Cristo and Marcelino dos Santos
discuss the tasks and functions of the ANPP
deputies and local organizations.
President of the National Mozambican People's
Assembly Marcelino dos Santos and his delegation
visit the Isle of Youth. Over 2,000 Mozambican
students live on the island.
Marcelino dos Santos meets with Ernesto Melendez,
Minister President of the State Committee for
Economic Cooperation, to analyze the international
political situation and the economic crisis in
underdeveloped countries.
Fidel Castro receives Marcelino dos Santos,
President of the Mozambique People's Assembly, to
discuss the development of bilateral relations and
exchange views on events in southern Africa.
Dos Santos returns home after 7 days in Cuba.
Cuba condemns the recent attack by South African
commandos against a residential neighborhood in
Maputo, Mozambique. The attack killed three people
and caused heavy property damage.
JULY 01 The Joint Cuban-Mozambican Commission on Coopera-
tion begins in Havana.
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JULY 10
OCTOBER 12
MOZAMBIQUE
Cuba and Mozambique sign a technical cooperation
protocol for 1987-88, which includes health,
fisheries, education, radiobroadcasting, culture,
sports, construction, agriculture, and the con-
struction industry.
Central Committee member Omar Mojena arrives in
Mozambique to exchange experiences and to reaffirm
Cuba's support for Mozambique.
President of the People's Assembly of Mozambique
Marcelino dos Santos reports that 6,591 students
have passed through the Mozambican schools in Cuba
from 1977 to present--4,610 students, have grad-
uated at the ninth-grade level.
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MARCH 29
NAMIBIA
President of the South-West African People's
Organization Sam Nujoma arrives in Havana and is
welcomed , by Jorge Risquet. Nujoma says South
Africa has heightened actions against Namibia by
using biological warfare.
MARCH 31 Sam Nujoma visits the Isle of Youth. He is greeted
by almost, 1,200 Namibian children studying there.
APRIL 08
APRIL 09
APRIL 11
APRIL 12
JULY 15
The SWAPO mission in Havana holds a reception for
SWAPO President Sam Nujoma, who has lengthy and
friendly talks with Foreign Minister Malmierca and
with representatives of African liberation move-
ments.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet and President of
the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples
Rene Rodriguez receives SWAPO President Sam
Nujoma, and a reception is held at the ICAP
gardens in his honor.
Raul Castro presides over the final session of
talks with SWAPO official Nujoma. He reiterates
Cuba's total support for SWAPO and the indepen-
dence of Namibia. Nujoma departs Cuba.
Foreign Minister Malmierca holds a press confer-
ence on his arrival in Harare and says Cuba will
not withdraw its troops from Angola until SWAPO
Namibia is granted its independence.
US Assistant Secretary of State Crocker visits
Luanda to discuss the withdrawal of Cuban troops
in exchange for Namibian independence.
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NETHERLANDS
The Cuba-Dutch joint governmental commission for
economic cooperation opens its third meeting in
Havana. The commission will analyze the financial
situation, trade, and industrial and agricultural
cooperation.
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NICARAGUA
Nicaragua's Commander of the Revolution Henry Ruiz
opens the intergovernmental Cuban-Nicaraguan Joint
Commission meeting in Managua.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo
departs for Managua to attend the constitution
proclamation ceremony. He underscores how impor-
tant the first Nicaraguan political constitution
is for the rest of Latin America.
JANUARY 09 Minister President of the State Committee for
Economic Cooperation Ernesto Melendez and Henry
Ruiz sign a cooperation program for economic and
scientific-technical cooperation.
JANUARY 13 Flavio Bravo returns from Nicaragua and praises
the Nicaraguan constitution, saying it demon-
strates that the Sandinista government is making
an effort to govern in the most democratic method
permitted by the situation.
JANUARY 14 The Eighth Inter-Governmental Session for Bilater-
al Cooperation ends in Managua. Cuba will provide
Nicaragua with assistance in over 700 plans
grouped under nearly 20 sectors. Cuba feels this
solidarity with Nicaragua is a basic duty.
FEBRUARY 15 The Los Angeles Times reports .that Cuba has sent
several hundred more military advisers to help
the Nicaraguan Government counter rebel attacks.
FEBRUARY 26
APRIL 06
APRIL 23
Nicaraguan Colonel Hugo Torres Jiminez of the
Sandinist People's Army opens an exhibit in
Havana on the US role in Nicaragua. On display
were propaganda leaflets dropped by the "contra"
army and statistics of Nicaraguan casualties.
Havana TV reports that the Cuban merchant ship
Cienfuegos arrived in Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua,
transporting nearly 1,200 tons of black beans,
rice, oil, meat, milk, toothpaste, clothing, and
footwear.
Vice President of the National Assembly Severo
Aguirre del Cristo heads a delegation which
departs for Nicaragua to participate in the 77th
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NICARAGUA
Inter-parliamentary Union Conference being held
between 27 April and 2 May.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez criticizes President Rea-
gan's "aggressive plan" against Nicaragua during a
press conference in Guyana. He says Nicaragua does
not have MIG planes, and Cuba is not training
Nicaraguan pilots to fly "nonexistent" planes.
The Washington Times reports Cuban defector
General del Pino says during an interview on
Radio Marti that 300 to 400 Cuban advisers in
Nicaragua are actually part of an intelligence
operation.
Managua Barricada reports on a message that Fidel
Castro sent to President Daniel Ortega on the 8th
anniversary of the victory of the People's
Sandinist Revolution.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega arrives in
Havana and meets Fidel Castro and Politburo
member Jorge Risquet at the airport.
Fidel Castro and Nicaraguan President Ortega agree
that a regional agreement for an end to foreign
military presence in the countries of the region
would be an important contribution to peace.
Fidel Castro gives Ortega full support for a
search for peace in the region and says Cuba
will cooperate with Nicaragua in every way
possible.
Cuba's Vice Minister of the Armed Forces General
Irving Ruiz attends the 170th anniversary of
Mexico's independence. He says Cuba will support
Nicaragua in the event of foreign intervention and
concedes that Cuba has military advisers there.
Raul Castro meets in Havana with Nicaraguan
Defense Minister Army General Humberto Ortega.
Ortega briefs Raul on Nicaragua's current situa-
tion in light of the Esquipulas II Agreements and
the Contadora and Support Groups.
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OCTOBER 31 Prensa Latina reports that Nicaraguan President
Daniel Ortega met with Fidel Castro at Jose Marti
International Airport. Ortega stopped in Cuba on
his way to Moscow to attend celebrations of the
70th anniversary of the Russian revolution.
NOVEMBER 11
DECEMBER 27
Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson tells re-
porters in Havana that Fidel Castro supports the
Central American peace treaty and is ready to pull
Cuban military advisers out of Nicaragua if the
Sandinista government requests it.
Nicaraguan defector Major Roger Miranda Bengoechea
is interviewed on US television. He says 12 Soviet
and 500 Cuban military advisers were helping the
Nicaraguan government battle the Contra rebels as
of 25 October when he left Nicaragua.
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JANUARY 08 Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets with Dapo
Patoun, Director of the Nigerian Organization of
Solidarity and Peace and Director of the Marxist
magazine New Origin, to discuss political situa-
tions in their countries and international issues.
APRIL 23 Nigerian Health Minister Koye Ransome-Kuti
announces at the annual conference of the Nigeria
Medical Association that 30 Cuban doctors are
being hired for government jobs in rural areas
where Nigerian doctors are unwilling to serve.
JUNE 22 Nigeria's King of the Yorubas, Oba Okunade Siju-
wade Olubuse II, arrives in Havana and is met at
the airport by Politburo member Jorge Risquet and
Minister of Culture Armando Hart. Olubuse, who was
throned in 1980, rules over 20 million Yorubas.
JUNE 23 Nigeria's King of the Yorubas, Olubuse, visits the
Foreign Trade Ministry and the State Committee for
Economic Cooperation, expressing interest in the
joint enterprises and importing Cuban goods.
JUNE 26
Fidel Castro meets with Nigerian Yoruba King
? Olubuse II. Olubuse expresses his interest in
developing a school of Cuban culture at the
University of Ife and in holding a conference in
Cuba.
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FEBRUARY 15
FEBRUARY 17
MARCH 16
MARCH 19
MARCH 20
MARCH 30
APRIL 15
NONALIGNED MOVEMENT
Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon arrives in
Lima to coordinate the coming meeting of the
Nonaligned Movement's Executive Council with
Peruvian officials. The meeting will be held in
Guyana 9-12 March.
Peruvian Foreign Minister Alan Wagner meets with
Ricardo Alarcon to discuss the upcoming Nonaligned
Movement meeting and the Central American problems
and international political issues.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Foreign
Minister Kim Yong-nam to discuss the preparations
for the special ministerial conference of the
Nonaligned Movement which will be held in
Pyongyang.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and Minister of Exter-
nal Relations and Cooperation of Burkina Leandre
Bassolet meet in Havana to discuss bilateral rela-
tions, the activities of the Nonaligned meeting in
Guyana, and the international situation.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets North Korea's
Foreign Minister Kim Yong-nam to discuss bilateral
relations, the international situation, and the
recent meeting of the Cooperating Bureau of the
NAM on Latin America and the Caribbean in Guyana.
Fidel Castro and North Korean Foreign Minister Kim
Yong-nam discuss economic cooperation and prepara-
tions for the meeting of representatives of non-
aligned countries to be held in Pyongyang in June.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet welcomes Yugoslav
Central Committee member Marko Orlandic. They
discuss the need to further strengthen Communist
party and political relations, international
issues, and the Nonaligned Movement.
Foreign Minister Malmierca, who attends the Non-
aligned Conference of Ministers in Harare, meets
with POL Chairman Arafat to discuss holding an
international peace conference on the Middle East
with PLO participation.
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MAY 25
MAY 27
MAY 30
JUNE 02
JUNE 09
JUNE 10
JUNE 11
NONALIGNED MOVEMENT
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Algiers with
his counterpart Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi to exchange
information on Central America, Middle East, and
Africa situations and to analyze the work carried
out by the Nonaligned Movement.
Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives :in Iran and
meets with Prime Minister Mir Hosein Musavi-
Khamenei and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ali Akbar
Velayati to discuss the Persian Gulf, Central
America, the Nonaligned, and bilateral relations.
Radio Reloj reports that Malmierca signed a proto-
col on foreign policy coordination within the Non-
aligned in Iran. The protocol also covers economic
and technical cooperation in public health, phar-
maceutical products, industry, and agriculture.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and Cypriot President
Spiros Kiprianou discuss the international situa-
tion, the Cyprus issue, and the Nonaligned Move-
ment.
Havana Radio Rebelde reports that Cuba objects to
Grenada's participation in the second meeting of
information ministers of the Nonaligned Movement,
which begins 10 June in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Foreign Minister Malmierca states that cooperation
is vital for emergence from underdevelopment, dur-
ing the 2nd day of the South-South cooperation
conference of the Nonaligned in Pyongyang.
Foreign Minister Malmierca addresses the Nonalign-
ed meeting on South-South cooperation in Pyong-
yang. He says that if the industrialized countries
would reduce military spending, enough resources
could be freed to cancel the foreign debt.
Fidel Castro sends a message to the Nonaligned
meeting on South-South Cooperation in Pyongyang.
He asserts that the foreign debt cannot be paid
and that solutions must be sought to alleviate
the problem.
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JUNE 12
JUNE 13
JUNE 18
JUNE 22
NOVEMBER 02
NONALIGNED MOVEMENT
The Second Nonaligned Information Ministers Meet-
ing in Harare agrees to hold its next meeting in
Havana in 1990. The meeting ends with a statement
condemning subversive radio broadcasts.
The Nonaligned meeting on South-South cooperation
ends in Pyongyang, agreeing to create a permanent
committee for economic cooperation among those
nations.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez arrives in Guyana at the
invitation of President Desmond Hoyte. He praises
Guyana for its role in the Nonaligned Movement and
for its position on the Latin American and
Caribbean integration and cooperation .
Foreign Minister Malmierca, in Warsaw, says that
defense of peace is the cornerstone of Cuba's
foreign policy and the Nonaligned Movement is
becoming a large and independent force, which may
help solve the world's basic problems.
Foreign Minister Malmierca holds talks with
Yugoslav Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs
Raif Dizdarevic to discuss bilateral relations and
the Nonaligned Movement.
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MARCH 23
MARCH 24
MARCH 25
APRIL 15
JUNE 11
JULY 02
DECEMBER 15
PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION
Foreign Minister Malmierca and PLO official Faruq
Qaddumi discuss the Nonaligned Movement, the meet-
ing of the Committee of the Nine for Palestine to
be held in April, and the Central American situa-
tion, particularly US aggression toward Nicaragua.
Chief of the PLO Political Department Faruq
Qaddumi lectures at the African and Middle East
Center, demanding that a UN-sponsored interna-
tional meeting be held to solve the Palestinian
problem.
Faruq Qaddumi and Levi Farah hold talks and tour
the Genetic and Biotechnology Institute.
PLO official Faruq Qaddumi meets with Carlos
Rafael Rodriguez, Interior Minister Abrantes,
and ICAP President Rene Rodriguez. At the end of
his visit to Cuba, Qaddumi describes PLO-Cuba ties
as solid.
Foreign Minister Malmierca, who attends the Non-
aligned Conference of Ministers in Harare, meets
with POL Chairman Arafat to discuss holding an
international peace conference on the Middle East
with PLO participation.
Nayif Hawatmah, leader of the Democratic Front for
the Liberation of Palestine, arrives in Havana
and meets with Politburo member Jorge Risquet.
Risquet reaffirms Cuban solidarity with the
Palestinian struggle.
Fidel Castro meets in Havana with Nayif Hawatimah,
Secretary General of the Democratic Front for the '
Liberation of Palestine.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet welcomes Muflim
Bazlamit, Chairman of the Committee for the
Exercise of inalienable rights of the Palestinian
people, who will also attend the UN's Latin
American seminar on the Palestinian issue.
Foreign Minister Malmierca opens the 18th regional
seminar for Latin America on the Palestinian
question in Havana. Malmierca says Cuba has been,
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DECEMBER 15 is, and will always be a sister in the struggle
and combat of the Palestinian people.
DECEMBER 25
The Cuban Foreign Ministry denounces genocide by
the Israeli invaders against residents of the
Jordan West Bank and the Gaza Strip and declares
Cuba's solidarity with the Palestinian people.
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JANUARY 26
PANAMA
The Panamanian Legislative Assembly delegation,
headed by Ovidio Diaz, departs Cuba after a four-
day visit. The objective of the visit was to ex-
change experiences, learn of the advances made by
the revolutionary process, and to strengthen ties.
FEBRUARY 27 President of the National Institute of Sport,
Physical Education, and Recreation Conrado
Martinez signs a protocol with Panama to exchange
sports specialists, trainers, and umpires.
MAY 29 Former Cuban prisoner Roberto Martin Perez
Rodriguez, jailed in 1959, arrives in Panama.
Havana released Perez, the longest held prisoner
in the world, as a result of the efforts of
Panamanian General Noriega.
JULY 06 The Panamanian Civil Aeronautics Directorate's
information office reports that recently a dele-
gation from the Cuban civil aeronautics office
visited Panama to discuss air traffic between both
countries and the transportation agreement.
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FEBRUARY 09
FEBRUARY 14
FEBRUARY 15
FEBRUARY 16
PERU
Lima TV reports that three Cuban refugees seeking
asylum at the Peruvian Embassy in Havana have
begun a fast.
The Cuban Government suspends an offer to the
three Cubans who have lived as refugees in the
Peruvian Embassy since 1980, which would have
allowed them to return to their homes without
facing any charges.
Three Cubans who sought asylum in the Peruvian
Embassy in Havana in 1980 have ended a hunger
strike they began last month. Lima will continue
to seek jointly with the Cuban Government a
definitive solution to this problem.
Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon arrives in
Lima to coordinate the coming meeting of the
Nonaligned Movement's Executive Council with
Peruvian officials. The meeting will be held in
Guyana 9-12 March.
Ricardo Alarcon tells the Peruvian state-owned
news agency ANDINA that the case of the three
Cubans who have been in the Peruvian Embassy in
Havana "has been misused by those who do not want
Cuba and Peru to promote bilateral relations."
Ricardo Alarcon and Peruvian Foreign Minister
Allan Wagner review bilateral relations and
discuss the three Cubans who have been under the
protection of the Peruvian Embassy in Havana since
1980.
FEBRUARY 17 Peruvian Foreign Minister Alan Wagner meets with
Ricardo Alarcon to discuss the upcoming Nonaligned
Movement meeting and the Central American problems
and international political issues.
MARCH 14 Guillermo Flores, President of the Peruvian
Nuclear Energy Institute, tells Havana Radio that
Peru and Cuba will sign an agreement on technology
exchange concerning food irradiation and nuclear
medicine in the near future.
MARCH 31 Some 100 Cuban fishermen, technicians, and
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APRIL 24
APRIL 28
JUNE 06
DECEMBER 10
PERU
operators return home from Peru after a long stay.
Cuba sent boats with full crews to Peru to carry
out the social project resulting from an agree-
ment.
Jose Gonzalez Torres, Director of the Los Naranjos
Livestock Breeding Enterprise, concludes a visit
to Peru. He met with Agriculture Minister Remigio
Morales Bermudez and signed a protocol of under-
standing on future cooperation.
Cuban National Bank President Hector Rodriguez
Llompart and Peruvian Foreign Trade Minister
Enrique Cornejo sign a banking and finance agree-
ment. Each nation will extend a five-million-dol-
lar credit that will increase to ten million.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and his
Peruvian counterpart Enrique Cornejo sign two
trade agreements. Peru will import medicines, cat-
tle, and techniques for making sugar by-products.
Cuba will import spare parts, zinc, and lead.
The Peruvian Government implements a compensating
market trade agreement signed with Cuba in late
April. The agreement provides for tariff conces-
sions, encourages regional integration, and
expands trade relations.
A Peruvian Parliament delegation ends visit to
Cuba, and Peruvian Ambassador Carlos Alberto
Higueras says increased cooperation and a greater
closeness between parliaments could result.
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POLAND
JANUARY 12 Polish parliamentary official Mieczyslaw Rakowski
and his delegation arrive in Havana and are greet-
ed by Severo Aguirre del Cristo, Vice President
of the National Assembly.
JANUARY 27 Raul Castro meets with a delegation from the
Polish Parliament, which stopped in Havana after
visiting Nicaragua and Mexico. The delegation is
headed by Mieczyslaw Rakowski, Deputy Chairman of
that legislative body.
MARCH 13 Havana Radio Progreso reports that representatives
from the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Cuba
have signed a cooperation agreement for the steel
industry in Havana.
MARCH 16 Jozef Czyrek, member of the Politburo and
Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party,
arrives in Havana and is welcomed by Politburo
member Jorge Risquet.
MARCH 19 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Polish Deputy
Prime Minister Manfred Gorywoda to discuss
economic cooperation to the year 1990 and its
future prospects.
MARCH 20 The delegation of the State Planning Commission,
headed by Polish Vice Premier Manfred Gorywoda,
ends talks with the Central Planning Board.
Economic cooperation and trade exchange in the
years 1986-1990 were discussed.
MARCH 27
APRIL 12
Vice Premier Gorywoda is received by Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez and Vice President of the Council of
Ministers Osmani Cienfuegos to discuss deepening
economic cooperation.
Raul Castro, Jorge Risquet, and Jozef Czyrek,
member of the Political Bureau of the Polish
Communist Party, exchange views on the inter-
national situation and express satisfaction over
the development of Polish-Cuban relations.
Domestic Trade Minister Manuel Vila Sosa visits
Poland and meets with Jozef Koziol, Deputy Chair-
man of the Council of Ministers. Sosa signs a bi-
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MAY 14
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JUNE 17
JUNE 19
JUNE 22
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POLAND
lateral trade agreement and agrees that the Warsaw
Restaurant will open in Havana early next year.
The Cuban Friendship Society holds talks in Warsaw
with the Polish Council of the Friendship Society
to exchange views.
Warsaw press reports that a delegation of the
United Peasant Party (UPP) took part in the 7th
Congress of the National Association of Small
Farmers and met with Orlando Lugo Fonte to discuss
further cooperation between the two parties.
Cuba signs bilateral agreements with CEMA dele-
gations from the USSR, Bulgaria, and Poland for
the exchange of medical equipment, including
equipment used in physiotherapy and rehabilita-
tion.
Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca arrives in
Warsaw and discusses international issues, espec-
ially disarmament, arms control, and Soviet peace
with his counterpart Marian Orzechowski.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and his Polish counter-
part Marian Orzechowski sign an agreement in
Warsaw on cultural, educational, and scientific
cooperation. Orzechowski accepts Malmierca's
invitation to visit Cuba.
Poland's President of the Council of State
Wojciech Jaruzelski meets with Foreign Minister
Malmierca to discuss bilateral relations and to
exchange views on key international problems.
Foreign Minister Malmierca, in Warsaw, says that
defense of peace is the cornerstone of Cuba's
foreign policy and the Nonaligned Movement is
becoming a large and independent force, which may
help solve the world's basic problems.
Raul Castro and Chairman of the Cuban-Polish
Friendship Society General Senen Casas Regueiro
meet in Havana with a 151-member brigade of Polish
youth named after Karol Roloff Mialowski.
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OCTOBER 28
OCTOBER 29
NOVEMBER 12
POLAND
Polish Justice Minister Lech Domeracki arrives
in Havana at the invitation of his counterpart,
Juan Escalona Reguera.
Politburo member of the Polish Communist Party
Marian Wozniak meets in Warsaw with Cuba's Vice
Chairman of the Council of State Pedro Miret
Prieto to discuss economic cooperation.
Polish Minister of Foreign Economic Cooperation
Wladyslaw Gwiazda meets in Warsaw with Vice
President of the Council of State Pedro Miret
Prieto to discuss economic and trade relations,
especially in the sugar industry.
Havana Radio Rebelde reports that Cuba and Poland
signed a scientific-technical cooperation agree-
ment, that includes provisions for Cuban and
Polish specialists to begin the operation of a
cardboard and bristol board factory in Cuba.
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MARCH 28
PORTUGAL
UNITA rebels say they attacked and destroyed a
Cuban military base near the central city of
Huambo on 16 March, killing 15 Cuban soldiers,
according to a statement distributed in Lisbon.
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PUERTO RICO
Ruben Berrios, President of the Puerto Rican Inde-
pendence Party, arrives in Havana. He meets with
Fidel Castro who stresses the principles of the
revolutionary party and government in relation to
Puerto Rico's right to independence.
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MAY 26
JUNE 15
JULY 15 Cuba and Romania sign an agreement in Bucharest
that will provide Cuba with jeeps and spare parts
for light industry equipment. Vice Director of
Cuba's Autoimport Wilfredo Morales signs for Cuba.
ROMANIA
A delegation of Cuban Revolution Defense Commit-
tees headed by National Coordinator Armando Acosta
arrives in Bucharest to meet with officials of the
Socialist Democracy and Unity Front parties and to
tour areas of economic and cultural interest.
The Director of the Consumer and Services Depart-
ment of the Cuba Communist Party Mario Torres
arrives in Bucharest to exchange viewpoints on the
food, manufacturing, and tourism sectors.
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SEYCHELLES
Politburo member Jorge Risquet receives Silvet
Frichot, member of the Seychelles People's Pro-
gressive Front, to discuss the international
situation and bilateral relations.
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SIERRA LEONE
JULY 15 The Council of State appoints Dinorah Valenzuela
as Cuba's Ambassador to Sierra Leone.
JULY 17
The outgoing Cuban Ambassador to Sierra Leone,
Laureano Cardoso Toledo pays a farewell call on
President Momoh.
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MARCH 31
SOUTH AFRICA
UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar
reports that Cuba is appointed, among other
countries of the international community, to
compose the intergovernmental group in charge of
monitoring the South African oil embargo.
? MAY 31 Cuba condemns the recent attack by South African
commandos against a residential neighborhood in
Maputo, Mozambique. The attack killed three people
and caused heavy property damage.
JUNE 28
JULY 02
JULY 20
AUGUST 17
NOVEMBER 24
President of the African National Congress of
South Africa Oliver Tambo arrives in Havana and is
greeted at the airport by Politburo member Jorge
Risquet.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet bids farewell to
Oliver Tambo, President of the African National
Congress, who departs for Jamaica as part of a
tour of the Caribbean.
President of the Executive Committee of the
African National Congress Oliver Tambo arrives in
Havana.
Johannesburg press reports that Angola has pro-
posed withdrawing some 28,000 Cuban troops
stationed south of the 13th parallel within two
years, in a bid to make the Benguela railway
operational.
Cuba's UN Ambassador Oscar Oramas asks the UN
Security Council to initiate dramatic efforts for
peace in South Africa and to adopt the necessary
measures against South Africa because of its
military aggression against Angola.
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SPAIN
Fidel Castro visits the residence of Spanish
Ambassador to Cuba Mr. Antonio Serrano de Haro.
Fidel meets with Luis Yanez-Barnuevo, Spanish
Secretary of State for International Cooperation
with Latin America.
Granma reports that Cuba and Spain have signed a
document which calls for greater technical and
scientific cooperation in the exchange of medical
specialists, and cooperation in fields of tourism,
transportation, and electrical energy.
Fidel Castro discusses traditional Spanish-Cuban
relations of friendship with the participants of
the Third Meeting of the Spanish-Cuban Joint
Commission on Science and Technology.
Minister President of the State Committee for
Economic Cooperation Ernesto Melendez and Luis
Yanez-Barnuevo, Spanish Secretary of State for
International Cooperation, sign the final act of
the Joint Commission on Science and Technology.
Rosendo Canto, Director of the Casa de Cuba in
Madrid, tells the press that the Cuban Government
is planning to free some political prisoners whose
release was requested by Spanish Prime Minister
Gonzalez during his trip to Cuba last November.
Madrid press reports that First Vice Foreign
Minister Jose Raul Viera says "it is time for the
UN to begin concerning itself with the violations
of human rights by the US Government."
Cuba will not allow the US to look into the
question of human rights on the island even though
"we really have nothing to hide," says Jose Raul
Viera to the Madrid press.
Madrid press reports that Cuba is planning to
develop "the best economic plan, with the best
possible basis, impartiality, and efficiency."
according to Jose Lopez Moreno, Minister President
of the Central Planning Board.
The Cuban section of the Cuban-Spanish Economic
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FEBRUARY 27 Trade Cooperation Committee is created during a
ceremony in Havana. The group plans to boost Cuban
exports to the Spanish market and to send Cubans
to Spain for familiarization and trade training.
MARCH 09 Vice Foreign Minister Raul Roa Kouri reports to
the Spanish press EFE that Cuba is confident that
Latin America will not yield to US maneuvers and
pressures to approve an anti-Cuban resolution at
the UN meeting on human rights in Geneva.
MARCH 18 The joint Spanish-Cuban Economic and Industrial
Commission begins talks in Havana at the Sierra
Maestra Hotel. Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez of
Spain and Ernesto Melendez preside.
APRIL 25 Havana Radio Progreso announces that Cuba will
compensate to the amount of $41 million those
Spanish people whose properties were confiscated
in 1959.
MAY 27 Havana Radio Reloj reports that a Cuban delegation
of cattle breeders headed by Ramon Castro, Direc-
? tor of the Valles de Picadura genetic plan,
returns to rHavana following a working visit to
Sweden, Denmark, France, and Spain.
JUNE 17 Madrid press reports that the explosives used by
the ETA terrorist gang could come from Cuba.
SEPTEMBER 13
PCC Secretariat member Jose Ramon Balaguer and his
delegation visit Madrid to meet with members of
the International Committee and to sign a program
of bilateral cooperation. PCE Secretary General
Iglesias conveys greetings to Fidel Castro.
OCTOBER 21 Cuba and Spain sign an energy cooperation agree-
ment in Havana.
NOVEMBER 16
Secretary General for Political Affairs at the
Spanish Foreign Ministry Maximo Cajal y Lopez
arrives in Havana and is greeted at the airport
by First Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Jose
R. Viera.
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NOVEMBER 17
DECEMBER 22
DECEMBER 23
SPAIN
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets in Havana with
Maximo Cajal, Secretary General for Political
Affairs at the Spanish Foreign Ministry, to
discuss current international topics and bilateral
relations.
Spanish Education Minister Jose Maria Maravall
delivers a message from Spanish Prime Minister
Gonzalez to Fidel Castro. Fidel and Maravall dis-
cuss education; political matters, international
affairs, and the situation in Latin America.
Fidel Castro meets with Spanish Education Minister
Jose Maria Maravall to discuss education and
other matters of a political nature. Maravall
delivers a message from Prime Minister Gonzalez to
Fidel Castro.
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NOVEMBER 19
NOVEMBER 20
SUDAN
Rebels captured by the Armed Forces in Kurmuk
reveal information confirming the participation of
Ethiopian and Cuban forces in the recent attacks
on the town.
Sudan television broadcasts statements by five
people arrested by Sudanese security officers
who allege that Ethiopia and Cuba are supporting
southern Sudanese rebels.
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MAY 12
MAY 21
MAY 27
SWEDEN
Embassy Stockholm announces that Foreign Ministry
official Krister Goranson, presently serving in
Guatemala, is the new Swedish Ambassador to Cuba.
Cuba and Sweden sign a bilateral cooperation
agreement in the areas of sugar and basic food
industries, dams, construction material, and
public health. Sweden will study new projects pre-
sented by Cuba in construction, food, and sugar.
Havana Radio Reloj reports that a Cuban delegation
of cattle breeders headed by Ramon Castro, Direc-
tor of the Valles de Picadura genetic plan,
returns to Havana following a working visit to
Sweden, Denmark, France, and Spain.
OCTOBER 11 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Sten Andersson discuss
Cuba's social development policies and inter-
national issues.
NOVEMBER 07 Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson arrives in
Ha'iia. Andersson joins Fidel Castro to inaugurate
a Havana secondary school named after the late
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
NOVEMBER 09 Foreign Minister Malmierca, First Vice Minister
Jose Raul Viera, and Sweden's Foreign Minister
Sten Andersson discuss the international situation
and matters of mutual interest.
NOVEMBER 10 Culture Minister Armando Hart and Sten Andersson
discuss cultural cooperation.
NOVEMBER 11
Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson tells re-
porters in Havana that Fidel Castro supports the
Central American peace treaty and is ready to pull
Cuban military advisers out of Nicaragua if the
Sandinista government requests it.
Fidel Castro and Sweden's Foreign Minister Sten
Andersson discuss current international topics,
primarily the Central American situation, the
peace process in the region, and the fulfillment
of the Esquipulas II agreements.
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NOVEMBER 12
SWEDEN
Stockholm International Press quotes Swedish
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sten Andersson's
statement that Fidel Castro has given permission
to the International Red Cross to inspect all
prisons in Cuba.
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FEBRUARY 23
FEBRUARY 28
MARCH 05
MARCH 17
JULY 09
JULY 10
JULY 28
JULY 31
SWITZERLAND
At the 43rd session of the UN Commission on Human
Rights in Geneva, Vice Foreign Minister Raul Roa
Kouri says the recent remarks by Vernon Walters,
US ambassador to the UN, are totally false.
At the UN Human Rights Commission meeting in
Geneva, Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Viera accuses
the US of widespread human rights violations.
At the UN meeting in Geneva, Raul Roa Kouri, head
of the Cuban delegation to the UN Commission on
Human Rights, says the US never respected human
rights in its international relations and even in
its own territory.
Carlos Lechuga, Cuban ambassador to the UN in
Geneva, and current president of the UN Disarma-
ment Conference, says that in the past 25 years
the arms race has continued uninterruptedly, and
military spending has reached unimaginable levels.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas opens the second
plenum of the seventh UNCTAD session in Geneva,
calling for expanding the flow of trade and
finances and reversing the tendency of falling
prices for basic goods.
Fidel Castro calls on participants of the seventh
UNCTAD session in Geneva to substitute agreements
for confrontation, and accuses the United States
of promoting a galloping arms race.
Foreign Trade Minister and President of the Group
of 77 Ricardo Cabrizas addresses the 7th UNCTAD
Conference in Geneva urging the industrialized
nations to take a constructive position on the
problems of development.
Exiled Cuban sculptor Ramon Amor ends the hunger
strike he began five days ago in Berne as a
protest for the sentencing of his three children
in Cuba to four years in prison last April for
"antisocial behavior."
SEPTEMBER 29 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez departs for Geneva to
participate in the South-South Commission.
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DECEMBER 31
SWITZERLAND
Acting Foreign Minister Jose Raul Viera Linares
and Swiss Ambassador to Cuba Peter Hollenweger
sign a protocol extending the trade agreement
between the two countries.
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MARCH 13
MARCH 17
APRIL 23
SYRIA
Cuban Ambassador to Ankara, I. Tapanes Vento, says
"There are no Cuban soldiers or advisers in
Syria. If any, there may be Cuban personnel such
as doctors, engineers, or nurses."
Cuban Ambassador to Ankara Israel Tapanes Vento
terms the allegations in publications, especially
in Tercuman, of Cuban trainers in Syrian terrorist
camps as nonsensical and entirely false. He says
there are no Cuban soldiers or advisers in Syria.
The deputy chief of the Afro-Asian-Latin American
Peoples Solidarity Organization arrives in
Damascus to participate in the international
seminar to be held 25-27 April to mark the 70th
anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution.
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MARCH 20
MARCH 23
TANZANIA
Julius Nyerere, former President of Tanzania and
President of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi Party
(Revolutionary Party of Tanzania) visits Cuba and
is greeted at the airport by Fidel Castro.
Julius Nyerere, Chairman of the South-South
Independent Commission on Developmental Affairs,
and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discuss and analyze
Nyerere's commission and Nyerere reports on his
Latin American tour.
Fidel Castro and Julius Nyerere examine Third
World problems, particularly those in connection
with industrialized countries, and Castro reiter-
ates that Cuba supports everything involving the
work of the South-South Commission.
JULY 23 Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets with
Tanzanian party official Mwinyi Maryo in Havana to
exchange views on the international situation,
especially in southern Africa.
DECEMBER 15 Prime Minister of Tanzania Joseph Warioba receives
Cuban Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas in
Dar es Salaam to discuss bilateral economic,
scientific-technical, and trade cooperation.
DECEMBER 16 Cuba and Tanzania sign a 5-year bilateral trade
agreement and a 1988 trade protocol in Dar es
Salaam. Tanzania will export beans, hard wood,
mimosa extract, and other agricultural products to
Cuba.
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OCTOBER 09
THAILAND
Vice President of the National Assembly of the
People's Government Severo Aguirre departs for
Thailand to attend the 78th Interparliamentary
Conference on social developments and human
rights, from 12-17 October.
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JUNE 23
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions member
Antonio Lopez heads a delegation to Trinidad and
Tobago to attend the fifth Caribbean Trade Union
Conference.
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MARCH 17
TURKEY
Cuban Ambassador to Ankara Israel Tapanes Vento
terms the allegations in publications, especially
in Tercuman, of Cuban trainers in Syrian terrorist
camps as nonsensical and entirely false. He says
there are no Cuban soldiers or advisers in Syria.
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MAY 20
MAY 21
MAY 25
JUNE 12
OCTOBER 02
UGANDA
Nairobi Sunday Standard reports that Libyan and
Cuban pilots have been accused of bombing
civilians in the rebel-held areas of eastern and
northern Uganda.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet visits Uganda.
He attends a dinner hosted by Prime Minister Eriya
Kategaya, who hails the brotherly and cordial
relations between the two countries.
Jorge Risquet and Ugandan President Yoweri
Museveni discuss bilateral relations and important
aspects of the international situation. Risquet
delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Museveni.
Jorge Risquet departs Uganda after touring several
parts of the country and after talking with Prime
Minister Samson Kisekka, Secretary of State Reiya
Kategaya, Secretary of State for Defense Ronald
Bata, and members of the Resistance Movement.
Uganda's Vice Minister of Industry and Technology
Agrey Suit and Director of the Ministry of
Industry and Technology Jhonattan Kadafi arrive in
Havana. They meet with Politburo member Risquet
and visit industries and technological centers.
Ugandan Foreign Trade Minister George Kanyeihamba
arrives in Havana and is met by his counterpart
Ricardo Cabrizas. He will sign a trade protocol
for 1988 and review current trade agreements.
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UNITED KINGDOM
APRIL 09 The Council of State appoints Oscar Fernandez Me11
Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
APRIL 21
MAY 27
Secretary of the Communist Party Lionel Soto meets
in Havana with Gordon McLennan, Secretary General
of the Communist Party of Great Britain, to
discuss matters of common interest.
Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon attends a
conference in London sponsored by the Latin
American Relations Institute.
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FEBRUARY 08
UNITED NATIONS
At the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, US
representative Jeane Kirkpatrick uses her speech
to try to demonstrate that in socialist
countries--among them Cuba--the people's right to
self-determination is not respected.
FEBRUARY 19 US Ambassador Vernon Walters says the US plans to
introduce a resolution before the UN Human Rights
Commission focusing on the plight of an estimated
15,000 political prisoners in Cuba.
FEBRUARY 20 Cuba's Ambassador to the UN Oscar Oramas asserts
that the Reagan administration's state policies
are based on lies. Oramas is responding to Vernon
Walters, US representative to the UN, regarding
alleged human rights violations in Cuba.
FEBRUARY 23 At the 43rd session of the UN Commission on Human
Rights in Geneva, Vice Foreign Minister Raul Roa
Kouri says the recent remarks by Vernon Walters,
US ambassador to the UN, are totally false.
FEBRUARY 27 Madrid press reports that First Vice Foreign
Minister Jose Raul Viera says "it is time for the
UN to begin concerning itself with the violations
of human rights by the US Government."
FEBRUARY 28
MARCH 05
MARCH 09
Cuba will not allow the US to look into the
question of human rights on the island even though
"we really have nothing to hide," says Jose Raul
Viera to the Madrid press.
At the UN Human Rights Commission meeting in
Geneva, Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Viera accuses
the US of widespread human rights violations.
At the UN meeting in Geneva, Raul Roa Kouri, head
of the Cuban delegation to the UN Commission on
Human Rights, says the US never respected human
rights in its international relations and even in
its own territory.
Vice Foreign Minister Raul Roa Kouri reports to
the Spanish press EFE that Cuba is confident that
Latin America will not yield to US maneuvers and
pressures to approve an anti-Cuban resolution at
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MARCH 09
MARCH 17
MARCH 24
MARCH 31
APRIL 08
APRIL 23
MAY 14
MAY 20
JUNE 01
UNITED NATIONS
the UN meeting on human rights in Geneva.
Carlos Lechuga, Cuban ambassador to the UN in
Geneva, and current president of the UN Disarma-
ment Conference, says that in the past 25 years
the arms race has continued uninterruptedly, and
military spending has reached unimaginable levels.
Chief of the PLO Political Department Faruq
Qaddumi lectures at the African and Middle East
Center, demanding that a UN-sponsored interna-
tional meeting be held to solve the Palestinian
problem.
UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar
reports that Cuba is appointed, among other
countries of the international community, to
compose the intergovernmental group in charge of
monitoring the South African oil embargo.
Cuba's reprsentative to the 40th session of the UN
Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Raul Roa Kouri,
says the Cuban people have fully exercised the
right to self-determination at crucial times in
their history.
Foreign Minister Malmierca presents the UN Inter-
national Year of Peace commemorative medal to
Orlando Fundora, President of the Cuban Movement
for the Peace and Sovereignty of the Peoples.
Cuba accuses US Ambassador to the UN Vernon
Walters of offensive arguments against Latin
American countries that voted in favor of a pro-
cedural motion at the meeting of the Human Rights
Commission in Geneva.
US Ambassador Patricia Byrne renews attacks
against Cuba regarding alleged human rights
violations in Cuba during a speech before the
UN Economic and Social Council.
Minister of Justice Juan Escalona Reguera heads a
delegation to the UN International Conference in
Vienna on the improper use and illegal traffic of
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JUNE 01 drugs.
JUNE 19 Cuban delegate to the UN Information Committee in
New York Sergio Montane denounces the broadcasts
against Cuba by US-sponsored radio stations.
JULY 06
JULY 07
JULY 09
JULY 10
AUGUST 12
AUGUST 25
AUGUST 26
The 25th coordination meeting of the national
UNESCO commission of the socialist countries be-
gins in Havana. Foreign Minister Malmierca says it
is necessary for the organization to intensify and
multiply its efforts for the benefit of peoples.
Cuba's Ambassador to the United Nations Oscar
Oramas states at the United Nations that the
United States has no right to interfere in
Panama's internal affairs.
Fidel Castro describes the United Nations Confer-
ence on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)--currently
meeting in Geneva--as the most universal forum of
world economy since underdeveloped, socialist, and
capitalist countries participate.
East Germany's Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Bernhard Neugebauer, briefs Foreign Minister
Malmierca in Havana on the Fourth SED Central
Committee Session. Neugebauer is visiting Havana
to prepare for the coming UNESCO meeting.
Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Oscar
Oramas denounces the appointment of Armando
Valladares as US representative to the UN Human
Rights Commission.
Mexican Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda Amor
meets with Foreign Minister Malmierca at the UN
Conference on Disarmament and Development.
Foreign Minister Malmierca says that more than $2
billion a day is squandered for military purposes
while 100,000 people die of curable diseases and
more than 40 million starve, at a United Nations
Conference on Disarmament and Development.
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AUGUST 27
SEPTEMBER 21
UNITED NATIONS
Havana Radio Reloj reports on Foreign Minister
Malmierca's comments at the UN meeting on disarma-
ment where he described the accumulation of
weapons, especially nuclear weapons, as a Dantean
scene.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Iranian
Foreign Minister Velayati at the UN to discuss de-
velopments in the Persian Gulf. Malmierca says the
presence of US warships and NATO members in the
Gulf threatens regional security and world peace.
Cuban defector Florentino Aspillaga tells Radio
Marti about Havana's spy recruitment at the United
Nations, the Cuban Interests Section in Washing-
ton, US universities, and US-based Cuban exile
groups.
SEPTEMBER 23 Foreign Minister Malmierca addresses the UN
General Assembly; he supports Bolivia's claim for
an outlet to the sea and condemns Chile's intran-
sigience in the matter.
SEPTEMBER 30 Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Iraqi Deputy
Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Tariq 'Aziz at
the UN in New York to discuss the Iraq-Iran war,
UN efforts to implement UN Security Council Re-
solution 598, and issues of mutual interest.
OCTOBER 07 Cuban delegate to the United Nations Juana Servera
urges the UN to adopt strict international
measures to curb mercenary activities.
OCTOBER 08
OCTOBER 21
OCTOBER 22
Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca says at the
UN that President Reagan's speech to the OAS
reaffirms Reagan's aggression toward Nicaragua
and the Central American states.
Cuba's Ambassador to the United Nations Oscar
Oramas Olivia says the only thing needed to ban
nuclear tests indefinitely is a true political
will by all countries.
Cuba is elected a member of the Economic and
Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations.
The ECOSOC is composed of 54 countries.
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NOVEMBER 24
NOVEMBER 26
DECEMBER 15
UNITED NATIONS
President of the Academy of Sciences Elena Simeon
denounces continuous US Government anti-UN actions
at UNESCO's plenary meeting in Paris.
Cuba's UN Ambassador Oscar Oramas asks the UN
Security Council to initiate dramatic efforts for
peace in South Africa and to adopt the necessary
measures against South Africa because of its
military aggression against Angola.
Cuban UN Ambassador Oscar Oramas signs documents
confirming Cuba's participation in the inter-
national sugar agreement reached on 11 October.
Chairman of the USSR's anti-Zionist committee
Colonel General David A. Dragunskiy arrives in
Havana to attend the scientific conference
"Palestine and Israel--40 Years After UN General
Assembly Resolution 181."
Politburo member Jorge Risquet welcomes Murim
Bazlamit, Chairman of the Committee for the
Exercise of inalienable rights of the Palestinian
people, who will also attend the UN's Latin
American seminar on the Palestinian issue.
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JANUARY 12
JANUARY 14
UNITED STATES
During a news conference in Indianapolis, Presi-
dent of the Cuban Olympic Committee Gonzalez
Guerra, denounces a maneuver to disqualify many
Cuban athletes during the antidoping test for the
Pan-American Games.
A US Defense Department official says the Soviet
Union, Cuba, and East Germany shipped 23,000
metric tons of attack helicopters and other
military equipment to Nicaragua in 1986.
JANUARY 30 Two former Cuban political prisoners arrive in
Miami more than a year after their release was
requested by French explorer Jacques Cousteau. The
two men spent more than 20 years in Cuban jails.
FEBRUARY 03 The Communications Ministry's Postal and Telegraph
Directorate reports that from this month on the
airmail rates to the US, letters and postcards,
will be 50 centavos.
FEBRUARY 07 The Cuban Movement for the Peace and Sovereignty
of the Peoples condemn the Reagan administration's
renewal of nuclear testing and express its concern
and repulsion over that action.
FEBRUARY 08 At the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, US
representative Jeane Kirkpatrick uses her speech
to try to demonstrate that in socialist
countries--among them Cuba--the people's right to
self-determination is not respected.
FEBRUARY 15 The Los Angeles Times reports that Cuba has sent
several hundred more military advisers to help
the Nicaraguan Government counter rebel attacks.
FEBRUARY 18 Two former Cuban political prisoners, Arcadio
Peguero Ceballos and Sixto Nicot Sosavila, arrive
in Miami. They were released from prison last May.
FEBRUARY 19 US Ambassador Vernon Walters says the US plans to
introduce a resolution before the UN Human Rights
Commission focusing on the plight of an estimated
15,000 political prisoners in Cuba.
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FEBRUARY 23
FEBRUARY 27
FEBRUARY 28
MARCH 05
MARCH 09
MARCH 13
UNITED STATES
Cuba's Ambassador to the UN Oscar Oramas asserts
that the Reagan administration's state policies
are based on lies. Oramas is responding to Vernon
Walters, US representative to the UN, regarding
alleged human rights violations in Cuba.
At the 43rd session of the UN Commission on Human
Rights in Geneva, Vice Foreign Minister Raul Roa
Kouri says the recent remarks by Vernon Walters,
US ambassador to the UN, are totally false.
In a report for Radio Cadena Nacional, Fidel
Castro says the US is solely responsible for drug
trafficking, as it is the largest drug consumer in
the world. He also says that Cuba's relations with
Colombian guerrillas are eminently political.
Madrid press reports that First Vice Foreign
Minister Jose Raul Viera says "it is time for the
UN to begin concerning itself with the violations
of human rights by the US Government."
Cuba will not allow the US to look into the
question of human rights on the island even though
"we really have nothing to hide," says Jose Raul
Viera to the Madrid press.
At the UN Human Rights Commission meeting in
Geneva, Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Viera accuses
the US of widespread human rights violations.
At the UN meeting in Geneva, Raul Roa Kouri, head
of the Cuban delegation to the UN Commission on
Human Rights, says the US never respected human
rights in its international relations and even in
its own territory.
Vice Foreign Minister Raul Roa Kouri reports to
the Spanish press EFE that Cuba is confident that
Latin America will not yield to US maneuvers and
pressures to approve an anti-Cuban resolution at
the UN meeting on human rights in Geneva.
In Guyana, Isidoro Malmierca speaks on behalf of
Latin America and the Caribbean, calling on the
United States to give due respect to the peoples
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UNITED STATES
MARCH 13 who struggle for their total independence, and to
cease its policy of hostility toward Nicaragua.
MARCH 15
MARCH 31
APRIL 04
APRIL 15
APRIL 21
APRIL 27
APRIL 30
Fidel Castro tells Veja reporters that Latin
America is different from that of the 1960s
because it is no longer dragged along by the
United States.
Deputy Foreign Minister Alarcon complains at a
news conference of the US refusal to grant visas
to Cubans who were invited to participate in the
Antillean meeting marking the 84th anniversary of
the founding of the University of Puerto Rico.
The Interior Ministry reports that state security
has discovered, detained, and placed at the dis-
position of the courts, citizens Gladys Juana
Oliva Garcia Hernandez and Nestor Norberto Garcia
Hernandez, alleged CIA spies.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Jose
Ramon Fernandez greet US officials responsible for
organizing the Pan-American Games in Indianapolis.
The group meets Cuban Olympic Committee officials
and tours sports areas.
Fidel Castro decorates US scientist Albert Sabin,
who discovered the oral polio vaccine, with the
Carlos J. Finley Medal and he also receives the
title of Distinguished Researcher from Cuba's
Academy of Sciences.
Approximately 180 US citizens, who make up the
Venceremos Brigade's 18th Contingent, arrive in
Cuba to show their solidarity with Cuba and ex-
press their support for Nicaragua and the South
African people.
Fidel Castro speaks to journalists during a
reception marking the end of the medical fair,
Health for All. He tells them that the US economic
embargo was partly responsible for Cuba's impres-
sive development in the field of medicine.
MAY 06 Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets with members
of the US Venceremos Brigade visiting Cuba. The
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brigade is composed of members of religious
groups, labor unions, and intellectuals from 26
cities.
Trabajadores accuses the Central Intelligence
Agency of meddling in labor affairs in El Salvador
and Guatemala.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet attends the 12th
Communist Party of Greece Congress in Athens. He
speaks of the US blockade on Cuba and says the US
occupation of the Guantanamo Naval Base is a thorn
in the side of Cuba.
Cuba accuses US Ambassador to the UN Vernon
Walters of offensive arguments against Latin
American countries that voted in favor of a pro-
cedural motion at the meeting of the Human Rights
Commission in Geneva.
Jorge Risquet presents the Greek Communist Party
with a scale-model of the Granma boat. Risquet
says that Cuba and Greece together need to demand
that US military bases be removed from Cuba and
Greece.
US Ambassador Patricia Byrne renews attacks
against Cuba regarding alleged human rights
violations in Cuba during a speech before the
UN Economic and Social Council.
UPI reports that after 28 years of revolution,
Cubans are relying on the profit motive to breathe
life into a stagnant economy. A little cash in the
right hand can spring loose the housing, cars,
and clothes the system never see, __s to find.
UPI reports that Cuban diplomats and some govern-
ment officials say the public mood in Cuba is
slowly souring. Young people hate socialism. Some
of the younger generation are finding Fidel Castro
irrelevant.
UPI reports that 20,000 Cubans were baptized in
Cuba last year and 20,000 Bibles were imported.
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Religious leaders attended the 1985 Third World
debt conference, and discussions are underway to
find a rabbi for 1,200 Cuban Jews.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez lectures on international
politics during the seminar for first and second
secretaries of the Union of Young Communists. He
explains how President Reagan's credibility has
dwindled because of the Iran issue.
Air Force Brigadier General Rafael del Pino Diaz,
his wife and three children, escape to the United
States aboard a Cessna aircraft, piloted by del
Pino. The aircraft landed at the Key West Naval
Air Station in Florida.
Fidel Castro grants an interview to L'Humanite.
He condemns US aggression against Nicaragua, and
says the Soviet Union's peace-loving policy gener-
ates great interest in Latin America because it is
a serious and consistent policy.
Radio Progreso reports that the mother of minor
Rafael del Pino Lopez (age 15) sent a letter
asking the Cuban Government to demand the US
return her son, who was kidnaped by his father,
former Cuban Air Force General Rafael del Pino.
A State Department official announces that Rafael
del Pino Lopez, the 15-year-old son of defector
Rafael del Pino Diaz, will be allowed to decide
for himself whether to remain in the United States
or return to Cuba.
A National Assembly member from Havana writes a
letter to the US Congress asking that the mother
of Rafael del Pino Lopez be granted permission to
talk to her son on the telephone.
Havana Radio Progreso announces Cuba's election
as full member and Nicaragua alternate to the
International Labor Organization. Cuba is elected
despite US opposition.
JUNE 08 Reuters reports that Cuba will release more than
300 political prisoners to American Catholic
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bishops in the near future. A member of the US
Catholic Conference visiting Cuba in May held two
meetings with Fidel Castro.
Cuban delegate to the UN Information Committee in
New York Sergio Montane denounces the broadcasts
against Cuba by US-sponsored radio stations.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez criticizes President Rea-
gan's "aggressive plan" against Nicaragua during a
press conference in Guyana. He says Nicaragua does
not have MIG planes, and Cuba is not training
Nicaraguan pilots to fly "nonexistent" planes.
Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon accuses the
US Government of being the worst violator of human
rights in the history of the world. Alarcon makes
this statement in response to a statement made by
US official Skoug at a meeting in Bonn.
Carlos Martinez Salsamendi, adviser to Carlos
Rafael Rodriguez, states in Bonn that the United
States pressure Western European countries to join
the blockade against Cuba.
The New York Times reports that Angolan President
dos Santos tells a visiting US congressional dele-
gation that he is willing to negotiate the with-
drawal of Cuban troops from Angola as a way to
improve relations with the United States.
Cuban defector del Pino says widespread domestic
opposition to Cuba's involvement in the Angolan
civil war has prevented Fidel Castro from inter-
vening more forcefully in Nicaragua, during an
interview aired by Radio Marti.
The Washington Times reports Cuban defector
General del Pino says during an interview on
Radio Marti that 300 to 400 Cuban advisers in
Nicaragua are actually part of an intelligence
operation.
Cuba's Ambassador to the United Nations Oscar
Dramas states at the United Nations that the
United States has no right to interfere in
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JULY 07 Panama's internal affairs.
JULY 09
JULY 10
JULY 14
JULY 15
JULY 17
Havana television broadcasts the first of a series
of programs entitled "the CIA's War Against Cuba,"
showing film clips of the activities of CIA agents
conducting intelligence-gathering activities in
Cuba.
Havana television reports that Cuban infiltration
activities--some as long as 15 years--have been
able to identify 179 CIA agents, 27 lie detector
technicians, 28 communications technicians, and
18 aides.
The Washington Times reports that Havana tele-
vision announced on 8 July that a Cuban secret
agent infiltrated a US Central Intelligence Agency
ring on the island and quashed plans to assassin-
ate Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro calls on participants of the seventh
UNCTAD session in Geneva to substitute agreements
for confrontation, and accuses the United States
of promoting a galloping arms race.
A US immigration official reports that five Cuban
refugees were picked up from a rubber raft off the
Florida coast on 13 July. One defector claims to
be a reserve naval officer and another says he was
a petty officer.
The US Government orders the departure of two
officials working at the Cuban Interests Section
in Washington before 25 July in reprisal for the
hostile atmosphere that surrounds US officials in
Havana.
US Assistant Secretary of State Crocker visits
Luanda to discuss the withdrawal of Cuban troops
in exchange for Namibian independence.
In an interview with Radio Marti, Cuban defector
Brigadier General Rafael del Pino says "Cuba is a
dead-end street," and there is great resentment
among Cuba's military officers toward the corrup-
tion of high-level Communist Party officials.
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Fidel Castro attends a baseball game between the
Cuban team and the US Pan American team before
30,000 people in Havana. He greets the US coach
and shakes hands with each of the US players.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry describes the US deci-
sion to expel two Cuban diplomats from Washington
as a crude reprisal for Cuba having proven that
several employees at the US Interests Section in
Havana have engaged in espionage and subversion.
Havana TV announces that according to studies made
by the National Bank of Cuba in 1982, the US eco-
nomic blockade against Cuba has cost Cuba over $9
billion. Cuba accuses the US of violating all
international trade laws with the blockade.
The Christian Science Monitor reports that Ramon
Milian Rodriguez, a Cuban who is in a US prison,
claims he was a courier for the CIA and for the
Colombian drug "lords," and that he delivered
funds to the Contras and Panamanian Noriega.
The Miami Herald reports US diplomats in Havana
are being harassed and are under surveillance,
according to a State Department official.
Cuban defector del Pino says that due to Fidel
Castro's fear of a conspiracy he has acquired
anti-riot equipment from Poland and created
special crisis forces, during the first part of
the second interview.
Rome's La Republica reports an interview with
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez in which he says good
Cuban-US diplomatic relations are not possible
under the Reagan Administration.
Cuban defector del Pino says "there is serious
confrontation between the high and middle official
ranks in the Ministry of Interior and the armed
forces," during the second of a two-part interview
broadcast to Cuba over Radio Marti.
JULY 23 UPI reports that high-powered Cuban radio trans-
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missions knocked two clear channel stations--WHO
in Des Moines, Iowa and KSL in Salt Lake City,
Utah off the air for six hours on 21 July in
apparent retaliation for Radio Marti programs.
The New York Times reports that the Cuban Govern-
ment charges that American diplomats in Cuba have
been spying and plotting to assassinate Fidel
Castro. The United States denies this in a diplo-
matic note.
Yugoslav press in Havana reports that Cuba has
officially announced that its intelligence service
was forced to reveal its double agents working
with the CIA because a Cuban security agent had
recently defected from Czechoslovakia to Austria.
Cuban athletes arrive in Indianapolis, Indiana to
participate in the Pan American Games. The Cuban
delegation vows it will "not accept mistreatments"
and strongly protests attempts by anti-Castro
exiles to urge Cuban athletes to defect.
Radio Marti interviews Cuban defector Florentino
Aspillaga--counterintelligence officer--who
crossed the border from Czechoslovakia into
Austria on 6 June 1987.
Cuban defector Aspillaga says the series of TV
programs being broadcast in Cuba as the "CIA War
Against Cuba" are a direct result of his deser-
tion. The double agents who are presented were
under his control.
The Washington Post reports Cuban defector
Florentino Aspillaga's remarks that the United
States has unwittingly employed double agents
loyal to Fidel Castro.
Cuban Ambassador to the United Nations Oscar
Oramas denounces the appointment of Armando
Valladares as US representative to the UN Human
Rights Commission.
AUGUST 14 A fistfight breaks out between Cuban boxers and
anti-Cuban spectators during the Pan American
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AUGUST 14 boxing competition in Indianapolis.
AUGUST 15 The US baseball team defeats the Cuban team 6 to 4
at the Pan American Games in Indianapolis.
AUGUST 20 An Indianapolis prosecutor says he will not file
charges of assault and battery against three
Cuban boxers, including light heavyweight world
champion Pablo Romero, for their part in a fist-
fight with anti-Castro demonstrators on 14 August.
AUGUST 25
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SEPTEMBER 01
SEPTEMBER 04
SEPTEMBER 05
SEPTEMBER 16
At a US State Department news conference, Cuban
defector Brigadier General Rafael del Pino
discusses Cuba's economic decline and Castro's
governing by whim and squandering millions of
dollars on "whimsical building programs."
Cuban defector del Pino says large military
expenses in Cuba are hurting the country's economy
and that some opposition exists in Cuba among a
small number of military officials, but it remains
unorganized.
Foreign Minister Malmierca says that more than $2
billion a day is squandered for military purposes
while 100,000 people die of curable diseases and
more than 40 million starve, at a United Nations
Conference on Disarmament and Development.
The US Interests Section in Havana celebrates its
10th anniversary.
Havana press announces that Washington has named
John J. Taylor to replace Curtis Kamman, who was
abruptly withdrawn as chief of the US Interests
Section in Havana in January.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, speaking at the 30th
anniversary of the Cienfuegos uprising and the Day
of the Revolutionary Navy, calls President Reagan
the most dangerous and obstinate of today's
reactionaries.
John J. Taylor, the new head of the US Interests
Section in Havana, arrives in Cuba.
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US delegates attending the International Confer-
ence of Jurists in Havana tour a minimum security
prison in the Alamar district, east of Havana and
praise conditions.
Fidel Castro tells the American Association of
Lawyers that President Reagan is either the
biggest fool in the world or the biggest liar in
the world.
Justice Minister Juan Escalona states there are no
political prisoners in Cuba and that the so-called
political prisoners issue was created by the
imperialist news media. He says there are 14 US
citizens in Cuban prisons for drug trafficking.
The Cuban sugar industry expresses concern over US
protectionism and its new reduction in the sugar
import quota. Washington reduced its quota from
more than 5 million tons in 1981 to 1.15 million
in 1986.
Italian newspaper L'Espresso publishes correspon-
dent Gianni Mina's interview with Fidel Castro in
Havana on 28 June. Castro claims Cuba has never
tortured prisoners and President Reagan has no
ethics.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Iranian
Foreign Minister Velayati at the UN to discuss de-
velopments in the Persian Gulf. Malmierca says the
presence of US warships and NATO members in the
Gulf threatens regional security and world peace.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets with a South
Korean National Democratic Front delegation to
discuss the overthrow of the Chun Doo Hwan govern-
ment and withdrawal of US troops from South Korea.
Cuban defector Florentino Aspillaga tells Radio
Marti about Havana's spy recruitment at the United
Nations, the Cuban Interests Section in Washing-
ton, US universities, and US-based Cuban exile
groups.
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Cuban defector Aspillaga tells Radio Marti that
Cuban intelligence officers sought recruits
through such organizations as Areito, a magazine
founded in Puerto Rico, the Brigada Venceremos,
and the Center for Cuban Studies.
Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon says that
a thaw in Cuban-US relations depends heavily on
US renewal of the immigration agreement and per-
mission for Cuba to broadcast to the US.
Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca says at the
UN that President Reagan's speech to the OAS
reaffirms Reagan's aggression toward Nicaragua
and the Central American states.
Cuban defector Brigadier General Rafael del Pino
Diaz, in an interview with New York Times corres-
pondent Treaster, says that Homestead Air Force
Base and Guantanamo Naval Base were designated
targets in secret Cuban war plans.
Cuban defector del Pino tells New York Times
correspondent Treaster that Cuban police began
receiving riot control training because Fidel
Castro fears a "social explosion."
Cuban defector del Pino tells New York Times cor-
respondent Treaster that 2,500 Soviet technicians
worked at an electronic intelligence center near
Havana that is able to monitor telephone conversa-
tions along the Eastern United States.
Foreign Minister Malmierca tells Prensa Latina he
rates highly the recent talks between Soviet
official Shevardnadze and George Schultz, stress-
ing they created a different atmosphere for the
42nd UN General Assembly.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry says the increased
presence of US military forces and NATO allies in
the Persian Gulf have made it more difficult to
find a peaceful and just solution to the Iran-
Iraq conflict.
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Fidel Castro tells Iranian Foreign Minister
Velayati that the US Administration will pay a
high cost for its aggression in the Persian Gulf.
Havana International Service reports that the US
stock market fall is directly linked to US aggres-
sion against Iranian petroleum installations.
President of the Academy of Sciences Elena Simeon
denounces continuous US Government anti-UN actions
at UNESCO's plenary meeting in Paris.
The Miami Herald reports that Orlando Bosch, the
military anti-Communist nearing release from
Venezuelan custody after 11 years, vows to con-
tinue fighting Communism and wishes to proceed to
do what he can legally to fight Fidel Castro.
Reuters reports that an official of the US
Interests Section said two hundred Cubans, former
political prisoners and their families, are await-
ing final approval from Cuban authorities to leave
the United States.
Belgrade Tanjug reports on an interview with Fidel
Castro in which he says the key to the problems in
South Africa lies in the hands of the US. If the
US would end aid to UNITA, it would create oppor-
tunities for a solution to the problem of Namibia.
The Washington Times reports that Fidel Castro has
assured Angolan President dos Santos and Moscow
that he will immediately reinforce the 40,000
Cuban troops already in Angola because of the
recent defeat suffered by the Angolan Army.
The State Department says the United States and
Cuba have resumed an immigration agreement sus-
pended in 1984 allowing up to 27,000 Cubans to em-
igrate to the US annually; Cuba agrees to repatri-
ate the 2,700 unwanted Cubans who came in 1980.
Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon describes
the resumption of the 1984 immigration agreement
with the United States as positive and says talks
on medium-wave radiobroadcasts will continue.
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Granma reports that Cubans welcomed a new immigra-
tion agreement with the United States but the gov-
ernment response focused on its implications for
ending 'propaganda broadcasts beamed at the island
from Radio Marti.
Nearly 1,000 Cuban prisoners protest repatriation
as part of resumption of the immigration agree-
ment seizing control of an immigration detention
center in Oakdale, Louisiana, setting fire to most
of its 14 buildings, and seizing up to 28 guards.
Sixteen Cubans escape from a detention center in
Laredo, Texas in an effort to avoid repatriation
to Cuba provided for by the resumption of the US-
Cuban Immigration Agreement. Fifteen are quickly
recaptured.
AFP reports that Cuban prisoners in Atlanta--pro-
testing repatriation under the US-Cuban Immigra-
tion Agreement--have taken hostages and set build-
ings on fire at a maximum security jail; one per-
son was killed and 30 wounded.
Paris AFP reports that a Cuban Government source
told AFP that Havana will handle the Marielitos
in US prisons according to the new immigration
agreement between Cuba and the United States on a
case-by-case basis.
Foreign Minister Alarcon announces that Havana
will pardon Cubans currently in US jails for the
illegal activities committed prior to leaving
Cuba, but it is Cuba's duty to punish those who
committed crimes in the United States.
The Pentagon rushes specially trained "military
experts" to Atlanta to offer "technical advice" on
putting down riots by Cuban prisoners protesting
the immigration agreement that will send them back
to Cuba.
Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon says that
the Marielitos who will return to Cuba will be
treated in accord with their conduct after leaving
Cuba and it is Cuba's duty to punish those persons
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who may have committed crimes while in the US.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez is interviewed by Jornal
Do Brasil about Cuba's new attitude of cooperation
without shame, Cuba-US relations have been at an
all time low during the 1980s, and Cubans do not
have a hostile attitude toward the US.
The US Government says Cuba would have to stop
"subversion of democratic governments in the
hemisphere" before it won US support for readmis-
sion to the Organization of American States.
Cuban prisoners who had revolted in the Oakdale
Prison in Louisiana a week earlier decide to
release 26 hostages after the US Government pro-
mises to examine the questions of repatriation to
Cuba on a case by case basis.
Reuters reports that Cuba welcomes the US-Soviet
summit meeting and it favors total nuclear dis-
armament.
Fidel Castro says the agreement signed by Soviet
leader Gorbachev and President Reagan is "a small
but very important step," because "it might be the
preamble to a future arrangement to destroy
strategic weapons by 50 percent."
Granma states "Mankind has welcomed the agreement
signed in Washington by Mikhail Gorbachev and
Ronald Reagan as an unprecedented historic step."
It is a victory for mankind and a cause of peace.
Milan L'UNITA reports an interview with Politburo
member Jorge Risquet by Nuccio Ciconte. Risquet
says President Reagan is obsessed with the
Nicaraguan problem.
Milan L'UNITA reports that Jorge Risquet said the
Gorbachev-Reagan Summit of 7 December is of
supreme importance to Cuba to link the peace
struggle with the development struggle.
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Nicaraguan defector Major Roger Miranda Bengoechea
is interviewed on US television. He says 12 Soviet
and 500 Cuban military advisers were helping the
Nicaraguan government battle the Contra rebels as
of 25 October when he left Nicaragua.
* DECEMBER 28 An official of the US Interests Section reports
that about 40 of 700 Cuban former political pri-
soners and their families are expected to leave
Havana on 5 January 1988 to start a new life in
the United States.
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URUGUAY
Uruguayan Foreign Minister Iglesias tells Radio
El Espectador that Fidel Castro is certain to be
invited to visit Uruguay in March.
Jaime Perez, Central Committee member of the
Communist Party of Uruguay, tells the Cuban press
that Cuba's economic and social achievements have
been incredible and set an example for Third World
countries.
Montevideo Radio El Espectador reports that
Uruguayan Foreign Minister Enrique Iglesias and
Uruguayan Colorado Party Senator Dr. Jorge Battle
will visit Cuba on 4 March to discuss bilateral
political issues and trade.
Uruguayan Foreign Minister Iglesias arrives in
Havana and is greeted at the airport by Foreign
Minister Malmierca and Deputy Foreign Minister
Alarcon. Malmierca and Iglesias discuss bilateral
relations.
Uruguayan General Director of Foreign Trade
Isidoro Onara heads a special mission to Havana
to explore mutual exchange possibilities.
Enrique Iglesias meets with Ernesto Melendez Bach,
Minister President of the State Committee for
Economic Cooperation, to discuss bilateral coop-
eration. Iglesias also meets with Foreign Trade
Minister Ricardo Cabrizas to discuss economics.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and Iglesias sign an
economic, industrial, scientific, and technical
cooperation agreement. The Cuban-Uruguayan pro-
tocol has a five-year term, which can be extended
without another agreement.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Uruguayan Foreign
Minister Iglesias to discuss bilateral relations
and economic matters.
Enrique Iglesias visits the National Bank of Cuba
and is received by bank President Hector Rodriguez
Llompart to discuss matters of mutual interest.
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MAY 11
URUGUAY
Uruguayan Senate Vice President Jose Battle
expresses his satisfaction with a meeting with
Fidel Castro in which they exchanged views for
more than four hours.
Havana Radio reports that Uruguayan legislators
and their Cuban counterparts reached significant
agreements with Flavio Bravo on the Latin American
foreign debt, the need for a new international
economic order, and the Central American crisis.
Havana Radio Periodico del Aire reports that
Uruguayan Foreign Minister Iglesias said he and
Fidel Castro discussed the foreign debt, economic
problems, and the Central American situation, on
which they have similar positions.
The Uruguayan trade delegation signs a declaration
with Cuba. Cuba will import Uruguayan canned meat,
frozen poultry, and PVC compound. A joint project
is planned in 1987 between the Cuban and Uruguayan
tobacco enterprises.
On Uruguayan TV, Fidel Castro underscores the
enormous importance of the Soviet peace program,
stressing that CPSU General Secretary Gorbachev
is being especially responsible, as the leader of
a great nation should.
On Uruguayan TV, Fidel Castro speaks of the Third
World's unpayable and irrevocerable foreign debt
and he reiterates his support for Brazil's
decision to suspend interest payments on its
foreign debt for an indefinite period of time.
The Seventh Conference of Latin American and
Caribbean Planning Ministers and Chiefs will be
held in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1989. Agustin
Canessa, Uruguayan representative at the sixth
conference, made the proposal which was accepted.
Uruguayan Foreign Minister Enrique Iglesias
receives Laureano Leon, President of the National
Association of Cuban Economists. Leon says he is
pleased that the third congress of Latin American
economists is being held in Montevideo.
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NOVEMBER 17
URUGUAY
Uruguayan TV reports on an interview with Fidel
Castro in Havana in which Fidel speaks of the good
impression he has of Gorbachev and feels
Gorbachev's most important role is in inter-
national affairs.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet receives Uruguay's
Minister of Labor Hugo Fernandez Faingold to
discuss Latin American and Uruguayan issues and
other topics of interest.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Havana with
Uruguayan Minister of Labor Hugo Fernandez Fain-
gold to discuss the differences in the two
countries' labor problems.
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In Moscow, CPSU member Ligachev, Jorge Risquet,
and Julio Camacho exchange information on
progress in implementing the decisions of the 27th
CPSU Congress and the Third Congress of the
Communist Party of Cuba.
? JANUARY 05 Raul Castro, Armando Hart, and Vilma Espin receive
a delegation headed by Yuriy Voronov, Chief of the
Culture Department of the CPSU Central Committee,
to exchange information and views on the processes
under way in the two countries.
JANUARY 10
JANUARY 13
JANUARY 14
Havana press announces that the Soviet training
ship Kusister departed Tallin, Estonia for Havana.
The four-masted sailing ship, second largest in
the world, will arrive in mid-February.
The Vice Presidents of the State Committee for
Economic Cooperation of Cuba and the State Com-
mittee for Foreign Economic Relations of the USSR,
Raul Donas Santana and Vladimir Mordvinov, respec-
tively, sign an economic cooperation protocol.
The Soviet Union and Cuba sign a bilateral co-
operation agreement in agricultural-livestock in
Havana. The agreement includes the supply of mate-
rials and equipment for several projects, which
will be constructed within the next few years.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Julio Camacho Aguilera
meet in Moscow with Nikolay Ryzhkov, member of the
Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee, to
exchange opinions on issues of Soviet-Cuban
operation in various spheres.
. JANUARY 15 Vsevolod Serafimovich Murakhovskiy, First Deputy
Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Chairman
of the Agroindustrial Committee of the USSR, meets
with Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Julio Camacho to
discuss expanding cooperation in agriculture.
JANUARY 27
A group of Cuban forestry workers departs for the
city of Jawaros in the Soviet Union to discuss
with forestry authorities the establishment of a
Cuban community in the Sutay area.
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In honor of the Fifth Congress of the Union of
Young Communists and the 25th Congress of the
Komsomol and for the purpose of sailing around the
island with a joint Soviet-Cuban crew, the Soviet
sailing ship, Kruzenshtern docks in Havana port.
Soviet Ambassador to Angola Arnold Kalinin is
given two Cuban awards during a ceremony held at
the Cuban Embassy in Luanda--the Armando Mestre
and 28 of September orders, conferred by the
National Construction Workers Union and the CDR.
A ceremony commemorating the 27th anniversary of
the reestablishment of Soviet-Cuban economic
relations is held in Havana. Vice President of the
Cuban-Soviet Friendship Association Julio Chaviano
says economic relations are unbreakable.
The Soviet-Cuban mixed working group on electric
power discusses unconditional bilateral coopera-
tion and the supply of equipment to complete the
Jaragua power plant and the installation of a 500
kilovolt line.
Soviet Ambassador to Cuba Aleksandr Kapto says the
Soviet Union is intensely struggling to break old
systems and obsolete structures and is trying to
reinforce organizations of the state's central
administration and party leadership.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets in Havana
with a delegation of the Soviet Committee for
Solidarity With Latin American Peoples, headed by
Deputy Chairman Peter Nikolayev, to discuss the
Central American situation.
Cuba and the USSR sign a cooperation agreement on
the solidarity between the two countries and the
peoples of Latin America, pledging to defend peace
and policies for disarmament, detente, condemna-
tion of the arms race, and cold war policies.
Soviet CPSU Politburo member B. N. Yel'tsin
heads a delegation that arrives in Havana enroute
to Nicaragua. He is met at the airport by Carlos
Rafael Rodriguez. Fidel and Raul Castro discuss
social and economic developments with Yel'tsin.
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Soviet Army General A. D. Lizichev, chief of the
main political directorate of the Soviet Army and
Navy arrives in Havana on a working visit. He
meets with Division General Ulises Rosales del
Toro.
Pravda reports that V. P. Gusev, First Deputy
Chief of the CPSU Central Committee for Trade and
Consumer Services, headed a delegation of party
workers visiting Cuba from 18-27 February to
discuss social problems and party leadership.
MARCH 04 Soviet Army General Lizichev tours economic and
social facilities in Holguin Province.
MARCH 05
MARCH 07
MARCH 10
MARCH 11
MARCH 13
Soviet CPSU member Yel'tsin arrives back in Havana
from Nicaragua and is greeted at the airport by
Fidel Castro. Members of his delegation tour
Havana and later depart for Moscow.
Raul Castro and Division Generals Rogelio Acevedo
Gonzalez and Sixto Batista Santana meet with
Soviet General Lizichev, who visits Guantanamo and
Holguin.
Soviet General Lizichev and Division General
Rogelio Acevedo exchange views on the Communist
party's political work in their respective armed
forces, stressing the importance of political work
in combat readiness.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet represents Cuba at
the Soviet-Angolan-Cuban meeting in Moscow during
which the international situation, particularly
South Africa, is discussed. Unconditional solidar-
ity with the ANC and SWAPO are expressed.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets in Moscow
with Anatoliy Dobrynin to discuss the inter-
national situation and Soviet-Cuban cooperation.
Havana Radio Progreso reports that representatives
from the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Cuba
have signed a cooperation agreement for the steel
industry in Havana.
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MARCH 23
MARCH 24
MARCH 25
MARCH 27
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On Uruguayan TV, Fidel Castro underscores the
enormous importance of the Soviet peace program,
stressing that CPSU General Secretary Gorbachev
is being especially responsible, as the leader of
a great nation should.
Fidel Castro meets with Brazilian journalists in
Havana. He tells them that his ties to Soviet
leader Mikhail Gorbachev are excellent, but that
the road chosen by Gorbachev does not necessarily
apply to Cuba.
Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze receives
Deputy Foreign Minister of Cuba Jose Viera in
Moscow to discuss international issues of mutual
interest and bilateral relations.
Raul Castro receives a delegation headed by Petr
Slezko, Soviet CPSU member and First Deputy Chief
of the Propaganda Department, to discuss
ideological work.
Cuba and the USSR sign a 10-year intergovernmental
agreement for the exploitation of the Yavarov
forests in the Soviet Union. Cuban construction
workers are living in the area of Yavarov.
Vice Minister of Communications Manuel Garcia
Fernandez tells journalists in Brazil that Brazil
will participate with the USSR, East Germany,
Yugoslavia, and Hungary in installing 130,000 new
telephone lines in Cuba.
First Vice Minister Jose Viera meets with his
Soviet counterparts Yuriy Volskiy and Anatoliy
Kovalev to discuss strengthening cooperation.
Viera also meets with Deputy Foreign Minister
Loginov and Collegium member Vladimir Petrovskiy.
Soviet CPSU Politburo member Viktor Chebrikov who
is also chairman of the USSR Committee for State
Security, arrives in Havana and is met at the
airport by Raul Castro and Division General Jose
Abrantes Fernandez.
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MARCH 29
MARCH 31
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Soviet CPSU Central Committee member Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez meets in Havana with Aleksey K. Antonov
to exchange opinions on several matters related to
multilateral cooperation among CEMA countries.
Soviet official Viktor Chebrikov explains to Fidel
Castro the restructuring process that is taking
place at all levels in the USSR. Relations between
the US and the USSR and the situation in Latin
America are also discussed.
Fidel Castro accompanies Viktor Chebrikov on a
tour of the Institute of Genetic Engineering and
Biotechnology, the Institute of Tropical Medicine,
the Exact Sciences Institute, and the Los Naranjos
Genetic Enterprise.
APRIL 03 Raul Castro presents The Order of Playa Giron to
Viktor Chebrikov during a ceremony in Havana.
APRIL 05 Vice President of the National Assembly Severo
Aguirre del Cristo, who welcomes Mushegovich
Voskanyan, Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Supreme
Presidium explains Cuba's parliamentary system and
its democratic nature.
APRIL 06 Soviet official Georgiy Kolmogorov arrives in
Holguin Province for a working visit.
APRIL 07 Soviet Foreign Minister Shevardnadze greets
Viktor Chebrikov on his return to the Soviet
Union. The welcoming party also includes Cuba's
interim Charge d'Affaires to the Soviet Union
Mirabal.
APRIL 15 Vladimir Popov, USSR Deputy Minister of Petroleum
and Refining, visits installations in Santiago de
Cuba that produce petroleum derivatives.
APRIL 17 Havana TV reports that Cubana de Aviacion will
begin regular Havana-Moscow flights on 5 May.
APRIL 19 Havana hosts representatives from 17 countries
attending the international meeting of leaders of
friendship associations with the Soviet Union.
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MAY 01
MAY 02
MAY 04
MAY 06
MAY 07
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PCC member Lionel Soto meets with the USSR
"Friendship" delegation to underscore the import-
ance the Communist Party of Cuba gives to the
development and strengthening of friendship with
the Soviet Union.
The workers from the Vladimir Ilich Lenin Hospital
in Holguin are pleased to learn that almost all
the Soviet scientific-technical advancements dis-
played at the Health For All Fair will be donated
to the center.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez arrives in Moscow to
attend a CEMA meeting for scientific-technical
cooperation.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Vladimir Kamentsev,
Vice President of the Soviet Council of Ministers
sign, in Moscow, the protocol of the Soviet-Cuban
Intergovernmental Commission for economic and
scientific-technical cooperation.
Jorge Enrique Mendoza, Director of Granma, attends
in Moscow the International Meeting of Directors
of Communist workers and progressive dailies.
Georgiy Kolmogorov, Chairman of the Soviet State
Committee for Standards (Gosstandart), meets in
Havana with Ramon Darias, Minister President of
Cuba's State Committee for Standardization. Econo-
mic and scientific-technical issues are discussed.
The first regular Havana-Moscow weekly flights
begin. The Havana-Moscow flight will stopover in
Madrid and the returning flight will stop in
Gander.
Georgiy Dmitriyevich Kolmogorov, Minister of the
Soviet State Committee for Standards, inaugurates
a new time and frequency laboratory in Havana that
will provide the whole country with meteorology
reports through Radio Reloj and the TV stations.
MAY 09 Georgiy Kolmogorov and his Cuban counterpart Ramon
Darias Rodes sign a scientific-technical standard-
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MAY 13
MAY 14
MAY 16
MAY 18
MAY 22
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ization agreement and a cooperation program for
1987-90. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Kolmogorov
discuss standardization in Cuba and the USSR.
The Seventh National Association of Small Farmers
Congress is held in Havana. Vice President of the
ANAP, Juan Jose Leon greets Mikhail Petrovich
Trunov, Soviet representative to the congress.
Soviet Minister of Construction, Petroleum, and
Gas Industry Enterprises Vladimir Grigor'yevich
Chirskov and Basic Industry Minister Marcos Portal
Leon visit Nuevitas in northern Camaguey to tour
the building site of future ammonia plant.
Cuban Ambassador to the USSR Julio Camacho
Aguilera visits the areas where Cuban forestry
groups work.
Soviet Minister Vladimir Chirskov visits the
facilities of the Matanzas port oil complex, which
will house a super tanker terminal, the national
crude and supply base for thermoelectric power
plants, and other facilities.
Deputy Chairman of the Soviet State Committee for
Television and Radio Broadcasting, Leonid Krav-
chenko, arrives in Havana to attend the Inter-
national Organization of Radio and Television
to be held from 19-22 May.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Havana with Vazha
Dzhindzhikadze, Chairman of the International Bank
for Economic Cooperation of Moscow, to express
Cuba's awareness of the active role the institu-
tion plays in economic and financial relations.
Ernesto Melendez, President of the State
Committee for Economic Cooperation, signs the
first Soviet-Cuban protocol in Sukpai, Siberia,
for cooperation in enterprises for forestry.
Minister of Foreign Trade Ricardo Cabrizas arrives
in Moscow, heading a delegation attending the CEMA
Permanent Commission for Foreign Trade and
Technical Assistance.
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MAY 27
MAY 29
MAY 30
JUNE 03
JUNE 12
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Jorge Risquet meets in Moscow with Soviet Minister
of Foreign Affairs Eduard Shevardnadze to discuss
the international situation and to coordinate
their government and party views on peace and
disarmament.
Soviet official and CEMA Secretary Vyacheslav
Sichov visit Cuba after touring several Latin
American countries, and meet with Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez.
Cuba's Ambassador to the USSR Julio Camacho
Aguilera attends the 10th PCC assembly to elect
party officials at the mission in Moscow. The
party's work with the more than 8,500 Cuban stu-
dents in the USSR were among the topics discussed.
Fidel Castro grants an interview to L'Humanite.
He condemns US aggression against Nicaragua, and
says the Soviet Union's peace-loving policy gener-
ates great interest in Latin America because it is
a serious and consistent policy.
Cuba signs bilateral agreements with CEMA dele-
gations from the USSR, Bulgaria, and Poland for
the exchange of medical equipment, including
equipment used in physiotherapy and rehabilita-
tion.
Ricardo Cabrizas and his Soviet counterpart Boris
Aristov, and Minister of the Maritime Fleet Yuriy
M. Volmer meet to discuss trade and transporta-
tion of merchandise between the USSR and Cuba.
Havana Tele-Rebelde announces that Cuban and
Soviet specialists will build an oil pipeline from
the supertankers' base in Matanzas to the oil
refinery in Cienfuegos Province.
Soviet Minister of Power and Electrification
Anatoliy Mayorets arrives in Havana. He attends
the 72nd meeting of the CEMA Permanent Commission
for Electrical Power.
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JUNE 22
JUNE 28
JULY 24
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PCC First Secretary in Cienfuegos Humberto Miguel
Fernandez, Minister of Basic Industry Marcos
Portal, and Soviet Minister of Power and Electri-
fication Anatoliy Mayorets tour the nuclear plant
in Cienfuegos.
Prensa Latina and Tass sign a cooperation agree-
ment for 1978-1990, which calls for an exchange of
reports, photographs, and other information.
Uruguayan TV reports on an interview with Fidel
Castro in Havana in which Fidel speaks of the good
impression he has of Gorbachev and feels
Gorbachev's most important role is in inter-
national affairs.
A contract for machinery and equipment is signed
in Havana after the inauguration of the first
technical and commercial center of the Soviet
(Autoexport) company in Cuba that is located in
Valle Grande, in La Lisa municipality.
JULY 26 Soviet Army General Yazov sends contragulatory
greetings to Raul Castro on Moncada Anniversary.
AUGUST 28
Havana Radio Periodico del Aire reports that the
sale of meat in Havana will stabilize when a
Soviet ship delivers 1,000 tons of poultry and the
Minas de Frio, carrying an additional 1,400 tons,
arrives at Havana port.
SEPTEMBER 05 Politburo member Lionel Soto, in Moscow, discusses
Soviet-Cuban economic cooperation with CPSU
Secretary Slyunkov.
SEPTEMBER 12 V. V. Zagladin, member of the Soviet Communist
Party Central Committee, meets with Fidel Castro
in Cuba, enroute to Nicaragua.
SEPTEMBER 15 Politburo member Jorge Risquet arrives in Moscow
and meets with Anatoliy Dobrynin, Secretary of the
Soviet Communist Party Central Committee, to
discuss bilateral cooperation between the Soviet
and Cuban parties and international issues.
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SEPTEMBER 16 Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister I. A. Rogachev and
Deputy Foreign Minister Giraldo Mazola meet in
Moscow.
SEPTEMBER 24 Havana Radio Progreso announces that Soviet
Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze will visit
Cuba in the first half of October.
SEPTEMBER 29 Ambassador to the Soviet Union Julio Camacho
Aguilera meets in Moscow with Soviet Minister of
Transport Construction Vladimir Brezhnev to
exchange opinions on the studies being developed
to construct a subway system in Havana.
OCTOBER 06
OCTOBER 07
OCTOBER 08
Cuban Naval Commander Rear Admiral Pedro Perez
Betancourt arrives in the Soviet Union at the
invitation of Admiral of the Fleet V. N.
Chernavin.
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze visits
Cuba. He meets with Fidel Castro to discuss
Soviet-Cuban relations and to exchange information
on socio-economic developments in both countries.
Fidel Castro receives A. K. Antonov, Deputy
Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers, to
discuss bilateral economic cooperation and Cuba's
participation in the work of the Council of
Economic Mutual Assistance.
Fidel and Raul Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez,
Jorge Risquet, Julio Camacho, and Eduard Shevard-
nadze discuss Cuba's full support for Soviet peace
initiatives, the Central American conflict, south-
ern Africa, and solidarity with Nicaragua.
PCC Central Committee Secretary Lionel Soto
accompanies the Soviet CPSU delegation headed by
Oleg Rybakov and Oleg Darusenkov on a tour of the
nickel plant in Moa.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Aleksey Antonov,
Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the Soviet
Council of Ministers, analyze bilateral relations.
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OCTOBER 12 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez arrives in Moscow to
attend the 43rd CEMA meeting.
OCTOBER 13
OCTOBER 14
OCTOBER 15
Foreign Minister Malmierca tells Prensa Latina he
rates highly the recent talks between Soviet
official Shevardnadze and George Schultz, stress-
ing they created a different atmosphere for the
42nd UN General Assembly.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez complains to the Moscow
weekly Novoye Vremya (New Times) about a recent
article, which focused largely on negative aspects
of Cuba's economic development.
Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers
Nikolay Ryzhkov sends Fidel Castro greetings dur-
ing a meeting in Moscow with Carlos Rafael Rodri-
guez, along with other members of CEMA, is
received by CPSU Secretary General Gorbachev.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez speaks at the 43rd session
of CEMA. He says Cuba considers the principle of
preferential treatment to be an advancement for
the new international economic order that is
sought by the Third World.
Pravda reports that a Soviet party worker delega-
tion headed by 0. K. Rybakov, Deputy Chief of the
Soviet Central Committee Department, visited Cuba
from 4-11 October. The delegation met with Fidel
Castro.
OCTOBER 18 The fourth Cuba-USSR youth friendship festival is
inaugurated in Pinar del Rio.
OCTOBER 20
Deputy Minister of the Soviet Fish Industry Yuriy
Bystrov hosts a news conference for Novosti, in
honor of cooperation in the improvement of Havana
port, which will be concluded in 1990.
OCTOBER 23 Soviet CPSU Central Committee member and First
Secretary of the All-Union Komsomol Viktor
Mironenki arrives in Cuba. He discusses ties of
friendship between the Komsomol and the Union
of Young Communists.
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NOVEMBER 04
NOVEMBER 05
NOVEMBER 06
NOVEMBER 07
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Delegates to the Fourth Cuban-Soviet Youth Friend-
ship Festival close the event with a message to
Mikhail Gorbachev, proclaiming they will continue
the heroic revolutionary traditions of the two
countries.
Soviet Minister of Timber Mikhail Ivanovich
Busygin arrives in Havana and is greeted by
Minister of Basic Industries Marcos Portal. Busy-
gin will also meet with Cuban officials to discuss
Soviet-Cuban cooperation in paper production.
Soviet Cosmonaut Yuriy Romanenko and Cuban Cosmo-
naut Arnaldo Tamayo establish the first Cuba-
Cosmos radio linkup, thus allowing Cuban scienti-
sts and reporters to contact the Soviet space
complex currently in orbit.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Jorge
Risquet, and other Cuban officials attend the 70th
anniversary of the Great October Revolution in
Moscow.
Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a trade agreement
for 1988. The Soviet Union will supply Cuba with
color television sets, electric razors, refrigera-
tors, washing machines, and other equipment, as
well as spare parts for the washing machines.
Fidel Castro addresses a meeting of Parties and
Liberation Movements in Moscow reiterating that
the most important thing is peace, and peace is
strongly linked to development.
Fidel Castro and Mikhail Gorbachev meet in Moscow
to discuss Soviet-Cuban relations, the arms race,
nuclear disarmament, and economic cooperation.
Soviet Army General A. D. Lizichev meets in
Moscow with Cuban Division General R. Acevedo
Gonzalez, Chief of the Central Political Director-
ate of the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces.
Raul Castro--speaking on national television dur-
ing the 70th anniversary of the October Revolu-
tion--dismisses reports of differences between
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NOVEMBER 07 Havana and Moscow, saying their ties are as strong
as ever.
NOVEMBER 08
NOVEMBER 16
NOVEMBER 19
NOVEMBER 20
NOVEMBER 21
NOVEMBER 25
Fidel Castro returns from Moscow and is interview-
ed by a television reporter at Havana Internation-
al airport. He describes as excellent the atten-
tion he received in Moscow and his meetings with
Gorbachev on a wide range of topics.
The Washington Times reports that Fidel Castro has
assured Angolan President dos Santos and Moscow
that he will immediately reinforce the 40,000
Cuban troops already in Angola because of the
recent defeat suffered by the Angolan Army.
Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a five-year agree-
ment at the 17th Pan-American Railway Congress.
The USSR will supply four Soviet-made TGM8
locomotives--which will be received next year--
spare parts, and technical equipment.
Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Presidium
Vladimir Pavlovich Orlov arrives in Havana and is
welcomed at the airport by National Assembly
President Flavio Bravo and Vice President of the
National Assembly Severo Aguirre del Cristo.
Vice President of the National Assembly Severo
Aguirre del Cristo briefs Vladimir Pavlovich Orlov
on the structure and operations of the National
Assembly.
TASS reports that Cuba's Carlos Rafael Rodriguez
and Vladimir Orlov exchanged information on socio-
economic developments and activities of the USSR
Supreme Soviet and the National Assembly of the
People's Government.
TASS reports that Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca
and Vladimir Orlov discussed bilateral relations,
the international situation, especially southern
Africa and Central America, during a meeting in
Havana.
NOVEMBER 26 Chairman of the USSR's anti-Zionist committee
Colonel General David A. Dragunskiy arrives in
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NOVEMBER 27
DECEMBER 07
DECEMBER 10
DECEMBER 12
DECEMBER 14
DECEMBER 18
DECEMBER 19
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Havana to attend the scientific conference
"Palestine and Israel--40 Years After UN General
Assembly Resolution 181."
Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Presidium
Vladimir Orlov visits centers of economic,
historic, and educational interest on the Isle of
Youth.
Reuters reports that Cuba welcomes the US-Soviet
summit meeting and it favors total nuclear dis-
armament.
Foreign Minister Malmierca tells TASS that the
short and medium-range missile limitations agree-
ment signed by Soviet leader Gorbachev and Presi-
dent Reagan is the result of the USSR's persistent
peace policy.
Fidel Castro says the agreement signed by Soviet
leader Gorbachev and President Reagan is "a small
but very important step," because "it might be the
preamble to a future arrangement to destroy
strategic weapons by 50 percent."
Soviet Ambassador and Deputy Chairman of the
Soviet delegation to the Soviet-US talks on
nuclear weapons Aleksey Obukhov meet in Havana
with Fidel Castro to discuss the Soviet-US
summit recently held in Washington.
Granma states "Mankind has welcomed the agreement
signed in Washington by Mikhail Gorbachev and
Ronald Reagan as an unprecedented historic step."
It is a victory for mankind and a cause of peace.
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Komplektov
holds a news conference in Mexico City before de-
parting for Cuba. He says the USSR and the US have
to come out jointly in support of the Esquipulas
II agreements to achieve peace in Central America.
Soviet Deputy Culture Minister Nina Silkova
arrives in Havana to inaugurate Soviet Culture
Days in Cuba. Minister of Culture Armando Hart and
Silkova discuss bilateral relations.
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DECEMBER 31
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First Deputy Chairman of the Cuban Institute of
Civil Aeronautics Pablo Rodriguez signs a
scientific-technical cooperation protocol with the
Soviet Civil Aviation Ministry in Moscow.
Soviet ships deliver glass insulators to Cuba to
be used in hanging lines for the transmission of
500,000 volts of electricity that the first
electronuclear center will provide its consumers
in Cuba.
Mikhail Gorbachev sends greetings to Fidel Castro
on Liberation Day, 1 January, expressing support
for Cuba's policy of consolidating socialism, re-
moving the threat of a nuclear war, achieving dis-
armament, and extending foreign assistance.
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AUGUST 05
AUGUST 08
OCTOBER 01
NOVEMBER 07
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Diario de Caracas reports that Cuba is attempting
to reopen its Venezuelan Embassy, closed in
January 1980.
Cuba denounces a Venezuelan court for upholding a
decision absolving exile Orlando Bosch for the
1976 sabotage bombing of a Cuban airliner taking
off from Barbados on a flight to Havana.
Cuban exile leader Orlando Bosch, acquitted on
charges of masterminding the 1976 bombing of a
Cuban airliner, vows to continue his struggle
against Fidel Castro.
Vice Minister of the Steelworking Industry Juan
Vazquez expresses Cuba's interest in importing
aluminum from Venezuela, during a visit to
Caracas.
The Miami Herald reports that Orlando Bosch, the
military anti-Communist nearing release from
Venezuelan custody after 11 years, vows to con-
tinue fighting Communism and wishes to proceed to
do what he can legally to fight Fidel Castro.
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APRIL 24
JUNE 13
VIETNAM
Vice Foreign Minister Giraldo Mazola arrives in
Hanoi on a working visit at the invitation of the
Vietnamese Foreign Ministry.
First Vice Minister of the Sugar Industry Raul
Trujillo tells the national news agency that Cuba
has granted credit of almost $17 million to
help develop Vietnam's sugar industry.
Havana Radio Progreso announces that Vietnam,
Cuba, and Mongolia will receive energy programs
from East European CEMA members during the next
five years, according to a protocol signed at the
72nd CEMA energy meeting.
JUNE 15 Cuba and Vietnam sign an agreement in Havana for
the development of Vietnam's sugar industry. Cuba
will participate in the reconstruction and expan-
sion of three sugar centers.
SEPTEMBER 22 Vice Chairman of the Cuban Council of Ministers
Antonio Rodriguez Maurel attends the 10th session
of the Vietnam-Cuba Inter-Governmental Commission
in Hanoi. He meets with Vietnam's Chairman of the
Council of Ministers Pham Hung.
OCTOBER 24 Vice President of Cuba's State Committee for
Finance Jorge Gallardo Fernandez ends his official
visit to Vietnam.
NOVEMBER 07
Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Vietnam
Communist Party leader Nguyan Van Linh to discuss
international issues and bilateral relations.
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FEBRUARY 27
WESTERN SAHARA
On the occasion of the I I th anniversary of the
founding of the Saharan Democratic Arab Republic,
the Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of the
Peoples sends a message of greeting to its
heroic people.
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MARCH 30
APRIL 04
APRIL 08
SEPTEMBER 30
OCTOBER 31
YUGOSLAVIA
Vice Minister of Communications Manuel Garcia
Fernandez tells journalists in Brazil that Brazil
will participate with the USSR, East Germany,
Yugoslavia, and Hungary in installing 130,000 new
telephone lines in Cuba.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet welcomes Yugoslav
Central Committee member Marko Orlandic. They
discuss the need to further strengthen Communist
party and political relations, international
issues, and the Nonaligned Movement.
Fidel Castro meets with Yugoslav Communist Party
official Marko Orlandic to discuss bilateral coop-
eration. Orlandic conveys greetings and messages
to Fidel Castro from President Hasani and Yugoslav
Communist Party official Milanko Renovica.
Belgrade Tanjug reports that Yugoslav Communist
Party official Marko Orlandic met with Carlos
Rafael Rodriguez, Isidoro Malmierca, and Jorge
Risquet.
Yugoslav Central Committee member Dragutin
Kosovas, who is also Chairman of the Energoinvest
Board of Management, arrives in Havana to discuss
advancing energy cooperation with Cuba.
Fidel Castro and Yugoslav Central Committee member
Dragutin Kosovac discuss bilateral relations and
express satisfaction at the development of
Yugoslav-Cuban cooperation.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas and Yugoslav
official Kosovac sign a trade agreement. Cuba will
supply Belgrade with citrus and sugar and will
receive parts, accessories, and automated systems
for sugar and electronics.
Politburo member Juliano Rizo Alvarez arrives in
Belgrade to visit Yugoslav socio-political organi-
zations and military units and institutions.
Yugoslavian President Lazar Mojsov arrives in Cuba
and is met at the airport by Fidel Castro. The two
leaders discuss trade and international issues.
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OCTOBER 31 Mojsov will tour factories, schools, hospitals,
farms, and the nuclear plant in Cienfuegos.
NOVEMBER 01
NOVEMBER 02
NOVEMBER 15
Yugoslav President Lazar Mojsov arrives in Havana
and is greeted at the airport by Fidel Castro.
They discuss bilateral cooperation, especially
expanding their existing economic relations, and
other topics of mutual interest.
Fidel Castro and Yugoslav President Lazar Mojsov
visit economic sites in Cienfuegos and discuss
joint ventures in industries, housing, and medical
facilities in a number of African countries.
Fidel Castro presents the Jose Marti National
Order to Yugoslav President Lazar Mojsov for
developing and strengthening bilateral ties.
Fidel Castro accompanies Lazar Mojsov on a tour of
the Ulysses, a Cuban Science Academy research
fishing vessel docked at the Port of Havana.
Mojsov's agenda also includes a tour of old Havana
and of the science installations in La Lisa.
Foreign Minister Malmierca holds talks with
Yugoslav Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs
Raif Dizdarevic to discuss bilateral relations and
the Nonaligned Movement.
Yugoslav President Lazar Mojsov holds a news con-
ference at the end of his visit to Havana. He
says, "development is the main problem of the pre-
sent and the future."
Belgrade Tanjug reports on an interview with Fidel
Castro in which he says the key to the problems in
South Africa lies in the hands of the US. If the
US would end aid to UNITA, it would create oppor-
tunities for a solution to the problem of Namibia.
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ZAIRE
Zairian Secretary of State for Foreign Relations
Kabala Kiseka Seka heads a delegation that arrives
in Havana. He meets with Vice Minister of Foreign
Relations Giraldo Mazola to sign cultural and
educational cooperation agreements.
t JUNE 05 Zairian official Kabala Kiseka Seka and Mario
Travieso, Cuban Vice President of the Committee
for Economic Cooperation, sign cooperation agree-
ments in the sugar industry and cattle breeding.
AUGUST 14 A Cuban agricultural delegation is visiting Zaire.
OCTOBER 13
DECEMBER 21
Kinshasa press reports that a ten-man Cuban
agricultural delegation arrived in Kinshasa for
an eight-day study tour in Zaire.
Kinshasa press reports that Cuba is ready to
participate in the construction of the Mushie-
Pentane Sugar Plant in Bandundu, Zaire, which will
have a yearly capacity of 30,000 metric tons of
sugar.
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JULY 25
SEPTEMBER 01
SEPTEMBER 03
SEPTEMBER 04
SEPTEMBER 08
SEPTEMBER 09
ZAMBIA
The Cuban Foreign Ministry reiterates Cuba's
support for the government of Zambia and condemns
South African aggression.
Angolan Deputy Foreign Minister Venancio de Moura
holds a press conference in Lusaka stating that
Angola is ready to be flexible over the timing and
extent of a withdrawal of Cuban troops from south-
ern Angola as part of a regional peace process.
Secretary General of the Zambian United National
Liberation Party Alexander Grey Zulu arrives in
Havana and is met by Politburo member Jorge
Risquet. Zulu and his delegation will tour centers
of scientific, cultural, and historical interest.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets with Secre-
tary General of the Zambian United National Inde-
pendence Party Alexander Grey Zulu to discuss the
international political situation, especially
South Africa, and party relations.
Zambian Minister of State Mavis Muyanda meets in
Havana with Vice Minister of Foreign Relations
Giraldo Mazola.
Angolan Politburo member and Secretary of the
Central Committee Juliano Mateus Matros in Lusaka
says Angola is prepared to withdraw about 15,000
troops, two years after Namibia's independence.
Secretary General of the Zambian United National
Independence Party Grey Zulu arrives in Santiago
de Cuba and tours a cardiovascular surgery center,
and the Celia Sanchez textile plant.
Zambia's Party Secretary General Grey Zulu tours
the former Modelo Prison and meets with Namibian
students at the Hendrick Witbooi Rural School on
the Isle of Youth.
Fidel Castro meets with Secretary General of the
Zambian United National Independence Party Grey
Zulu.
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SEPTEMBER 11
ZAMBIA
PCC member Lionel Soto and Grey Zula sign a coop-
eration protocol in Havana to promote and develop
fraternal relations between Cuba and Zambia.
Secretary General of the Zambian United National
Independence Party Grey Zulu tells reporters at
the Lusaka Airport that Cuba hopes to withdraw
its troops from Angola two years after Namibia's
independence.
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MARCH 17
APRIL 13
JUNE 09
JUNE 12
JULY 15
OCTOBER 30
NOVEMBER 08
ZIMBABWE
Foreign Ministers Kim Yong-nam of North Korea,
Witness Mangwende of Zimbabwe, and Leandre
Bassolet of Burkina arrive in Havana to talk and
visit areas of economic, scientific, and
historical interests.
Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca and Zimbabwe's
Foreign Minister Witness Mangwende discuss the
situation in South Africa and Mangwende tours
areas of social and economic interest.
Fidel Castro and Zimbabwean Foreign Minister
Mangwende discuss the situation in southern
Africa, reaffirming Cuba and Zimbabwe's determina-
tion to step up the struggle against the apartheid
regime.
The Cuban Embassy in Harare says only 15
Zimbabwean students were sent back from Cuba on
medical grounds, not the 60 published in the local
press.
Havana Radio Rebelde reports that Cuba objects to
Grenada's participation in the second meeting of
information ministers of the Nonaligned Movement,
which begins 10 June in Harare, Zimbabwe.
The Second Nonaligned Information Ministers Meet-
ing in Harare agrees to hold its next meeting in
Havana in 1990. The meeting ends with a statement
condemning subversive radio broadcasts.
Harare Domestic Service announces that Cuba has
awarded Zimbabwe 55 scholarships for university
training over the next two years.
Harare Domestic Service announces the Zimbabwe-
Cuba Friendship Association has been launched in
Harare by the Minister of Cooperation Development
Maurice Nyagumbo who praises Havana for its role
in the liberation struggle of Zimbabwe.
Deputy Chairman of the Cuban National Assembly
Luis Mendez Morejon arrives in Harare to meet with
his Zimbabwean counterparts and to exchange notes
on the operations of their respective parliaments.
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