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Brazil Wants to Be 'Partner No. 1' Our 10th year Vol. X, No. 6 www.cubatradenews.com June 2008 Brazil wants to be ‘Partner No. 1’ During a two-day visit of Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Mexico’s La Jornada. To Also see Amorim, Brazilian and Cuban officials talked about: negotiate these contracts, Petrobras, p. 2, and •a Cuban request for a $635 million, four-year line of Brazilian construction Russia and India, p. 7 credit for infrastructure projects. Negotiations for a $350 giant Odebrecht opened million Brazilian loan to finance expansion of the Autopista an office in Havana; Nacional, Cuba’s main east-west axis, and of Cuban ports •providing technical support for large-scale soybean are “advanced,” according to a Cuban source cited by cultivation via state entity Embrapa (see page 2); •the interest of Brazilian bus builder Marcopolo in Cuba’s urban bus market; •and the interest of steel concern Votorantim to tap Cuba’s nickel reserves. Meanwhile, a Brazilian $90 million revolving credit line for the purchase of food and agricultural products agreed in January has grown to $200 million, according to Amorim. Brazilian desires: Amorim had a three-hour lunch with Raúl Castro. Building roads, “We are convinced Cuba is opening up to a new phase of its selling buses, buying development, of its evolution, and Brazil wants to be at the side nickel for steel. of Cuba in this new phase,” Amorim said at a press conference Photos, clockwise from top left: Odebrecht, Marcopolo, Votorantim Cont’d on next page Embargo Economy ELITE POLICY GROUP: EASE EMBARGO UK group seeking $538m to build golf resort The Council on Foreign Relations, the private organization considered to be most influential on U.S. foreign policy, London-based Havana Holdings formed a subsidiary to advises the next president to, among others, partially end the build a golf hotel and condo resort in Cuba at a cost of at nearly total travel ban on Cuba and revoke the Helms-Burton least euro 350 million (US$538 million), the London Times Act, handing back Cuba policy from Congress to the White and Telegraph report. House. In an effort to diversify its tourism industry, Cuba is “If there was an era of U.S. hegemony in Latin America, trying to attract affluent visitors to the island via golf. The it is over,” assumes the report titled “U.S.-Latin America Havana Holdings subsidiary, Esencia Hotels & Resorts, Relations: A New Direction for a New Reality.” The authors is the first group to come through on five golf resorts the blame a loss of U.S. influence in the hemisphere on profound Cuban tourism ministry would like to see go up. change in Latin America — not U.S. policy — and make a set “Cuba is similar in size to Britain, which has over of recommendations to improve relations. 2,000 golf courses, so there is plenty of scope to develop The report was authored by a task force headed by Charlene continued on p. 8 Barshefsky, U.S. trade representative under Clinton, and Gen. James T. Hill, former head of the U.S. Southern Command. Five more The report stops short of recommending to repeal the to come? embargo altogether, but Hill personally argued for normalizing Cuba’s only relations. 18-hole “One [benefit] is that you could begin to develop a trade golf course in Varadero. continued on p. 5 ‘Brazil,’ from previous page Petrobras to sign on offshore block soon afterwards. Brazilian state oil company “In this new, very Petrobras is negotiating important moment Cuba a contract for one offshore is living, Brazil doesn’t block in Cuban Gulf waters, want to be partner company officials said. Citing number two or three. an anonymous Cuban source, We want to be partner Mexican daily La Jornada said number one.” Petrobras could sign as early as “We are favorably this month. inclined towards this Amorim Agência Brasil Oil companies from Spain, objective,” Cuban Vice Canada, India, Malaysia, President Carlos Lage Norway, Venezuela and Vietnam responded to Amorim’s embrace. have already signed up for Amorim’s visit to Havana was a follow-up to President Luiz offshore blocks, but few have Inácio ‘Lula’ da Silva’s signing of 10 bilateral agreements in Petrobras platform on the necessary technology and January, ranging from road construction to building a lubricants U.S. side of the Gulf. experience to actually drill in plant in Cuba. Photo: Petrobras depths of more than two miles. Excluding Venezuelan fuel imports, Brazil is already Cuba’s Petrobras, with long-standing biggest trade partner in Latin America. Bilateral trade reached deepwater drilling experience, could be an alternative to $450 million last year. U.S. technology for Cuba. Amorim said he believed Cuba will be “a kind of Asian Tiger Cuban Energy Minister Yadira García was in Rio before of Latin America,” comparable to Vietnam. the Amorim visit, to talk with Petrobras officials about The foreign minister was accompanied by a 39-member seismic studies. García also talked about construction of business delegation representing 22 companies. a lubricants plant in Havana. BRAZIL PROVIDES SOY KNOW-HOW Pioneering industrial-scale foreign involvement in Cuban food production, Brazilian agriculture officials agreed to conduct a feasibility study for a joint venture in soy cultivation. Under the agreement signed by the foreign ministers of the two countries, technicians from the Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Cuba Trade & Investment News is a monthly publication Agropecuária (Embrapa), a division of Brazil’s agriculture of North American Partners (NAP), Tampa, FL, USA. CTIN is distributed to subscribers via mail or e-mail. ministry, will provide seeds and technology. The partners identified 40,500 hectares of land in central Ciego de Ávila province for soy Publisher Andrew Goddard cultivation. The size could be expanded, said Foreign Trade Minister P.O. Box 13752 Raúl de la Nuez. Tampa, FL 33681-3752 USA Cuba is currently importing all the soy consumed on the island, Tel: 813 839 6988 most of it from the United States and Canada. Reacting to rising food Fax: 813 831 3811 prices, Cuba made it a priority to boost food production. [email protected] In a separate project, the government began planting soy beans www.cubatradenews.com on 5,000 hectares in Matanzas province. Editor Johannes Werner Tel: 941 330 0303 Embrapa is also interested in obtaining Cuban know-how on [email protected] biological pesticides and herbicides. The agreement was signed during a visit by Brazil’s Foreign Editorial Advisors Minister Celso Amorim. Chris Aberle, FCStone, Des Moines CUBA, BRAZIL TEAM UP ON VACCINE Michelle Butler, Navarretta Group, San Diego Kirby Jones, US-Cuba Trade Assn., Wash. DC Responding to a request by the World Health Organization, a David Lyons, Daily Bus. Review, Miami Cuban-Brazilian joint venture is providing vaccines to African John McAuliff, FFRD, New York countries, Granma reported. Vacunas Finlay S.A. in Havana Phil Peters, Lexington Institute, Washington partnered with the Instituto de Tecnologia e Inmunobiologia de Bio- Manguinhos, in Rio de Janeiro, to produce a meningitis vaccine. The SUBSCRIPTIONS Call 813 839 6988. One year vaccine, called Men AC, was developed in “record time,” according $350. In Canada and Mexico, add $15 postage. to Cuban media. The WHO resorted to the Cuban-Brazilian joint venture in 2006 COPYRIGHT NOTICE No part of this publication because major drug companies don’t provide this type of vaccine may be copied, photographed or duplicated without NAP’s consent. for use in poor countries. 2 Cuba Documentation: Obama’s Cuba policy ‘Strong and smart diplomacy ’ in Focus Presidential hopeful Barack Obama has entered a strategic alliance with the By Kirby Jones Cuban American National Foundation, and this is coloring his Latin America policy. The anti-Castro organization has eased somewhat its stance on the embargo, but the Sometimes, change Foundation’s traditional anti-Communism also seems to reflect on Obama’s positions regarding Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia. Obama is steadfast, though, on seeking happens quietly direct conversations with all players. Below we are reprinting excerpts of a campaign speech Obama gave in Miami before members of the Cuban American National Make no mistake about it: Cuba Foundation May 23. is well on its way to yet another “It is my privilege significant economic, financial, and to join in this week’s social change. It is and will be its I n d e p e n d e n c e D a y fourth in just the last 50 years. celebration, and in The first occurred in January 1959 honoring those who have when Fidel Castro assumed power and stood up with courage within two years Cuba’s economic and conviction for Cuban and political entanglement with the liberty. I’m going to take United States that had lasted since this opportunity to speak the beginning of the 20th century about Cuba, and also ended. The second occurred in the U.S. policy toward the early 90s when Cuba’s dependence Americas more broadly. on the Soviet Union ended even more We meet here united suddenly after thirty years. in our unshakeable At both times, Cuba had to undergo commitment to freedom. The candidate on the campaign trail photo: Obama for America radical changes to adapt to its new And it is fitting that we world. reaffirm that commitment the truth. I won’t stand for this injustice, From the early 90s to 2006, there here in Miami.” you won’t stand for this injustice, and was a third reality for Cuba as it faced … together we will stand up for freedom a world without any such unilateral “I grew up for a time in Indonesia.
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