home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!daemon
- From: nyt%nyxfer%igc.apc.org@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu (NY Transfer News)
- Subject: Cuba:Jailed Poet,Fidel on Somalia
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.232824.21799@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.activism.d
- Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu
- Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Organization: The NY Transfer News Service
- Resent-From: "Rich Winkel" <MATHRICH@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:28:24 GMT
- Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Lines: 35
-
-
- Via The NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
-
- From el diario/La Prensa 12/18/93
-
- Translated and edited by Toby Mailman. "el Diario/La Prensa"
- is a Spanish language newspaper published in New York City.
-
- European Parliament Demands Freedom for Cuban Poet
-
- On Dec. 17, the European Parliament in Strasburg asked for the
- "immediate" release of the poet Maria Elena Cruz Varela, arrested
- for political dissidence. The full meeting in Strasburg approved a
- resolution proposed by liberal Spanish deputy Carlos Gasoliba, in
- which he denounced the situation of political prisoners in Cuba.
- The European Parliament will ask the foreign ministers of the
- European Community to mediate with Cuban authorities to improve
- the situation of those arrested, and to ask the Cuban government
- to respect human rights. (edlp 12/18/92 from EFE)
-
-
- Castro Condemns Somalia Invasion
-
- Cuba's President Fidel Castro condemned the multinational military
- intervention in Somalia, and particularly the participation of the
- US, which he said aims to "resolve the problem of hunger with
- cannons." Castro's statement was released by the Cuban news agency
- Prensa Latina on Dec. 17. He pointed out the contrast between the
- US's supposed concern for the hunger suffered by the people
- Somalia, while at the same time it continues to impose the embargo
- against Cuba. (edlp 12/15/92 from AFP)
-
-
- NY Transfer News Service * All the News that Doesn't Fit
- Modem: 718-448-2358 * Internet: nytransfer@igc.apc.org
-