Cuba Responds to Strengthening of US Embargo

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10-6-1992 Cuba Responds To Strengthening Of U.S. Embargo Erika Harding

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This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Latin America Digital Beat (LADB) at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in NotiSur by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LADB Article Id: 059233 ISSN: 1060-4189 Cuba Responds To Strengthening Of U.S. Embargo by Erika Harding Category/Department: General Published: Tuesday, October 6, 1992

In a Sept. 25 editorial, Cuban Communist Party (Partido Comunista Cubano, PCC) daily newspaper Granma condemned the US initiative to strengthen the embargo against Cuba, "a diabolical project promoted by the most by the most conservative sectors of US imperialism..." (For most recent previous coverage of the "Cuba Democracy Act" see NotiSur 09/29/92.) On Sept. 28, Cuban Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon told the UN General Assembly his country would not be "brought to its knees" by Washington's plans to tighten the trade embargo. The end of the cold war, he said, "creates new and bigger dangers, because of the drunken air of triumph among those who, at the same time, have the greatest military power, an overwhelming historical ignorance, and the crassest moral sensibilities." The Sept. 29 edition of Granma referred to the Act as "a dangerous escalation" which it said could lead to "direct aggression" by the US against the island. [Sources: Reuter, 09/25/92; Radio Havana Cuba (Cuba), 09/24-26/92; Agence France-Presse, 09/28/92, 09/29/92, 10/01/92]

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