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-DATE-
19911109
-YEAR-
1991
-DOCUMENT TYPE-
-AUTHOR-
-HEADLINE-
Commentary: U.S. Blocking Economic Solutions
-PLACE-
CARIBBEAN / Cuba
-SOURCE-
Havana Tele Rebelde Network
-REPORT NO.-
FBIS-LAT-91-218
-REPORT DATE-
19911112
-HEADER-
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Report Type:         Daily Report             AFS Number:     FL0911190091
Report Number:       FBIS-LAT-91-218          Report Date:    12 Nov 91
Report Series:       Daily Report             Start Page:     1
Report Division:     CARIBBEAN                End Page:       1
Report Subdivision:  Cuba                     AG File Flag:   
Classification:      UNCLASSIFIED             Language:       Spanish
Document Date:       09 Nov 91
Report Volume:       Tuesday Vol VI No 218

Dissemination:  

City/Source of Document:   Havana Tele Rebelde Network

Report Name:   Latin America

Headline:   Commentary: U.S. Blocking Economic Solutions

Subheadline:   Castro Comments on Blockade

Author(s):   President Fidel Castro to unidentified reporter during visit to
International Fair in Havana on 8 November-recorded]

Source Line:   FL0911190091 Havana Tele Rebelde Network in Spanish 1800 GMT 9
Nov 91

Subslug:   [Statements by President Fidel Castro to unidentified reporter
during visit to International Fair in Havana on 8 November-recorded]

-TEXT-
FULL TEXT OF ARTICLE:
1.  [Statements by President Fidel Castro to unidentified reporter during visit
to International Fair in Havana on 8 November-recorded]

2.  [Text] [Castro] Up to now, I think the fair has been great. It has been
excellent and the environment that has surrounded the fair has been excellent.
There have been excellent relations among the guests and among the Cubans and
foreign friends who are visiting our country. Up to now, all is fine. However,
I cannot give you a final evaluation because the fair will not close until 10
November.

3.  [Reporter] Commander, much is being said these days about the blockade and
[words indistinct] that the blockade exists, but does not exist. What do you
have to say about this?

4.  [Castro] It exists but well, it exists [words indistinct].  Someday it will
die of illness or old age.

5.  [Reporter] [Words indistinct] Latin American solidarity that we have seen
here?

6.  [Castro] There is international solidarity. Above all we have the
solidarity of the Cuban people, the Latin American peoples, the peoples of the
world who are against such an unfair thing like a blockade that even bans the
import of medicine. We cannot even import an aspirin from the United States,
and yet they talk about human rights. That is hypocrisy. If we need an aspirin
we have to send to Europe for it when we could be sending to Florida for it.
You understand? That is the blockade.  They are trying to make it more
difficult. They are furious because they see that we resist and fight. We
belong to a race of men who fight and not men who give in, who surrender.

7.  [Unidentified reporter] Those who fight...

8.  [Castro, interrupting] Not those who crumble [desmerengan].

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