-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- ********************* 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]. -END-