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[Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . ----- Original Message ----- From: John Clancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Africa: ;> Cc: <news: ;>; <overflow: ;>; <Asia: ;>; <blindmice: ;> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2002 5:42 AM Subject: Fidel warns Summit What FTAA Really Means. US takes aim atChavez. Chavez proposes 'Bolivarian Alternative' to FTAA from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject:Fidel warns Summit What FTAA Really Means. US takes aim at Chavez. Chavez proposes 'Bolivarian Alternative' to FTAA Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: NY Transfer News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 06:39:24 -0500 (EST) Subject: [CubaNews] Fidel Warns the Summit What the FTAA Really Means Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit Fidel Tells the Summit What's to Come... source - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Castro Warns on Americas Trade Plan By FABIOLA SANCHEZ (c) The Associated Press PORLAMAR, Venezuela, Dec 13 (AP) - After signing a summit declaration that supports a U.S.-sponsored Free Trade Area of the Americas, Cuban President Fidel Castro warned that the proposed treaty could lead to U.S. domination of Latin America. "There is a plot to impose by economic force ... not only an economic, but a global political order," Castro said after Wednesday's conclusion of the Association of Caribbean States summit. "One day, all of our countries - excepting Cuba because (Washington), luckily, doesn't want it - could be involved in a large deal in which everyone is compromised" by developed nations' might, Castro said. Cuba, which has faced four decades of U.S. economic sanctions imposed because of its communist rule, is excluded from negotiations to establish the free trade zone from Alaska to Argentina in 2005. An ACS declaration signed by Castro expresses support for the FTAA - as long as developed nations' barriers to products such as agricultural and textile imports from developing nations are eliminated. That would provide impoverished Latin nations a better chance to compete. But Castro later said millions of Latin Americans are heading for "a destination they know nothing about." Accusing leaders of keeping details on treaty negotiations secret, he urged the region's governments to educate their citizens about the deal. U.S. workers know more about FTAA than their Latin counterparts because thousands of them lost jobs to cheaper Mexican labor when the North American Free Trade Agreement was enacted, Castro said. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez supported Castro's criticism. He suggested that the region consider an alternative. And he pledged to put any FTAA to a popular vote in Venezuela. Another dissenting voice was Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo, who said his government wouldn't sign a deal without "preferential and distinguishing treatment" for Latin and Caribbean economies. "If these conditions don't meet with our satisfaction ... we simply will be ignored," Jagdeo said. During the two-day summit on Margarita Island, Caribbean leaders called for FTAA negotiations to end by January 2005 and the free trade zone be opened by December 2005. They denounced the U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba, but pledged their continuing support for the fight against terrorism. They also vowed to jointly promote Caribbean tourism, a vital industry that has suffered since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. AP-NY-12-13-01 0620EST [In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information see: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe from this CubaNews group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ ****** from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: US takes aim at Venezuelan Leader Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Comment & Analysis / US takes aim at Venezuelan leader / US takes aim at Venezuelan leader >In the Bush administration's "war with no end", Iraq is the country most named in answer to the question, "Who's next?". But Venezuela is the primary target by other means (Chavez comes under fire from his critics, December 6). Since his overwhelming election victory in 1998 President Hugo Chavez's administration has passed two significant sets of laws - one for 51% public ownership of new oil ventures, and the other for the turnover of unused oligarchy land to landless peasants. These are overdue and sensible policies, but they are anathema to the corrupt oligarchy and their United States senior partners. Therefore Mr Chavez's government must be destabilised. >So watch for the stories of Chavez's "confrontational" and "dictatorial" style to grow, lawful and needed policies to be demonised, and the "inevitable military intervention" to be promoted by local compradores . > (Dr) John McMurtry > University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada >The Guardian Weekly 20-12-2001, page 11 ***** from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: Chavez proposes 'Bolivarian Alternative to FTAA Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 06:42:33 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Chavez Proposes a 'Bolivarian Alternative' to FTAA To: undisclosed-recipients:; Chavez Proposes a 'Bolivarian Alternative' to FTAA Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit source - Granma International Digital - December 12, 2001 http://www.granma.cu Chavez proposes a Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas IN contraposition to the U.S. annexationist project known as the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Venezuelan President Hugo Chvez has proposed the adoption of a Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA). On the first day of the 3rd Summit of the Association of Caribbean States (AEC), Chvez insisted, "those of us from Latin America and the Caribbean should think of an alternative," because the FTAA - which he termed a "disintegrating government" - "is not what is going to unite us." Cuban President Fidel Castro, speaking at the plenary session attended by 18 heads of state and government from the Caribbean Basin, referred to the need to achieve preferential treatment quickly, to protect the small economies in the region. He cited the example of the European Union's interregional development and its projects for balancing the small and large economies within its membership. President Castro warned about the dangers of the FTAA, which is now becoming more concrete and could destroy all of Latin America's unifying efforts. The first session of the summit, held in Isla de Margarita, Venezuela, witnessed a broad debate on economic themes, including the possibility of creating an oil company of the Americas, reported Prensa Latina. Chvez suggested that a gas pipeline be constructed which would benefit all the AEC member states, noting that several of those countries have large petroleum deposits. Another problem examined by the dignitaries was the propagation of AIDS in the region, which comes in second worldwide, in terms of the number of cases, surpassed only by sub-Saharan Africa. Other issues discussed were regional food production and the need to overcome the shortage of these products among the Caribbean population. Copyright (c) 2001 Granma International Digital. 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