CUBAN CHRONOLOGY

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Cuban Chronology
1984
A Reference Aid
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This publication is a chronological listing of major international and domestic
events affecting Cuba during the period from January 1 to December 31, 1984.
The events are arranged alphabetically by country. In addition, two general
subject categories are included; the Nonaligned Movement, and the Palestine
Liberation Organization. The events included in this reference aid were selected
for their individual significance; the publication is not intended to be a complete
collection of every major Cuban event during this period.
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Key to Abbreviations
AALAPSO Afro-Asian-Latin American People's Solidarity Organization
AFP French Press Agency
ANAP National Association of Small Farmers
ANPP National Assembly of Peoples Government
BCP Bulgarian Communist Party
CDR Committees for Defense of the Revolution
CEMA Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
CIA Central Intelligence Agency
CPCZ Czechoslovakia Central Committee
CPSU Communist Party of the Soviet Union Organizations
CTC Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions
DRA Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
ECLA Economic Commission for Latin America
FAO Food and Agriculture Organization
FAPLA Popular Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola
FAR Revolutionary Armed Forces
FLAP Latin American Federation of Journalists
FMC Federation of Cuban Women
FRG Federal Republic of Germany
GDR German Democratic Republic
GOSPLAN USSR-State Planning Committee
JUCEPLAN Cuba's Central Planning Board
KPOe Communist Party of Austria
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KPRP Khmer Peoples Revolutionary Party
LPRP Central Committee Political Bureau of Laos
MPLA Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola
MTT Territorial Troops Militia
PCC Communist Party of Cuba
PCI Italian Communist Party
PDRY Peoples Democratic Republic of Yemen
PZPR Polish Union Workers' Party
SDAR Saharan Democratic Arab Republic
SED Congress of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany
SELA Latin American Economic System
SWAPO South-West African People's Organization
UK United Kingdom
UN United Nations
UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization
UNITA Union for the Total Independence of Angola
UPI United Press International
US United States
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republic
VRE Voice of Revolutionary Ethiopia
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Contents
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Key to Abbreviations v
Afghanistan 1
Albania 2
Algeria 3
Angola 4
Antigua 10
Argentina 11
Australia 13
Austria 14
Barbados 15
Belgium 16
Belize 17
Benin 18
Bolivia 19
Botswana 20
Brazil 21
Bulgaria 22
Burkina (formerly Upper Volta) 27
Cambodia (see Kampuchea)
Canada 29
Cape Verde 30
Caribbean Islands 32
Chile 33
China (PRC) 34
Colombia 36
Congo 37
Costa Rica 38
Cuba Internal 39
Cyprus 76
Czechoslovakia 77
Democratic Yemen 81
Denmark 82
Dominican Republic 83
Ecuador 84
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Egypt
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El Salvador
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Equatorial Guinea
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Ethiopia
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Finland
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France
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Germany, East
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Germany, West
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Ghana
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Greece
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Grenada
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Guinea
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Guinea-Bissau
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Guyana
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Honduras
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Hungary
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India
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Indonesia
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Iran
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Iraq
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Israel
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Italy
119
Ivory Coast
120
Jamaica
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Japan
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Jordan
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Kampuchea
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Korea, North
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Korea, South
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Kuwait
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Laos
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Lebanon
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Lesotho
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Libya
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Madagascar
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Maldives
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Mali
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Malta
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Mauritania 136
Mexico 137
Mongolia . 140
Mozambique 141
Namibia 143
Netherlands 144
Nicaragua 145
Nigeria 150
Nonaligned Movement 151
Pakistan 152
Palestine Liberation Organization 153
Panama 154
Peru 156
Philippines 158
Poland 159
Portugal 164
Puerto Rico 166
Romania 167
Rwanda 169
Sierra Leone 170
South Africa 171
Spain 172
Sri Lanka 176
Sweden 177
Switzerland 178
Syria 179
Tanzania . 180
Togo 181
Trinidad and Tobago 182
Tunisia 183
United Kingdom 184
United States 186
Uruguay 203
USSR 204
Vatican 217
Venezuela 218
Vietnam 220
Western Sahara 223
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Zaire
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Zambia
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Zimbabwe
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Afghanistan
Alternate Cuban Ambassador to the UN Alberto Velazco San Jose says Cuba has
voted against a resolution adopted by the UN regarding the presence of Soviet
troops in Afghanistan.
Vice Minister Pelegrin Torras de la Luz meets with his counterpart in Kabul
Gulang Saghuar Durez to discuss the international situation.
Afghanistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shah Mohammad Dost discusses
bilateral topics and international issues with Vice Minister of Foreign Relations
Pelegrin Torras.
A cooperation agreement between the DRA Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the
Cuban External Relations Ministry is signed in Kabul by Afghan leader Sarwar
Yurush and Pelegrin Torras.
Abdol Qader Ashna, head of the State Cultural Committee of Afghanistan and
Pelegrin Torras sign a cultural cooperation agreement in Afghanistan.
Vice Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torras concludes his visit to Afghanistan and he
says his visit reaffirms the fraternal relations between the two countries. He
departs for India.
Secretary General of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan Babrak
Karmal sends a message of congratulations to Fidel Castro on the occasion of the
26th anniversary of the revolution.
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Albania
July 7 Granma announces that Carlos Alonso Moreno has been named Cuban Ambassa-
dor to Albania.
July 11 The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Albania Reis Malile receives the new
Ambassador of Cuba Carlos Alonso Moreno.
November 16
Cuba and Albania sign a trade protocol in Havana to exchange Cuban sugar to
Albania and Albanian food products, paper, and liquor to Cuba.
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September 26
October 17
Algeria
Humberto Perez's visit to Algiers ended with the signing of the minutes of the
talks which opens the prospect of cooperation in the field of planning and urban
planning.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Humberto Perez departs Algiers after a
week-long visit. He met with President Chadli Bendjedid and Prime Minister
Abdelhamid Brahimi.
Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Algiers on a four-day official visit. In a
press statement, he discusses the situation in Latin America and condemns US
aggression in that area.
Isidoro Malmierca and his Algerian counterpart Dr. Ahmed Talib Ibrahimi
discuss bilateral relations, current international problems, and issues of mutual
interest.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Algeria's President Chadli Bendjedid to
discuss the international situation and bilateral relations.
Isidoro Malmierca and Algeria's Foreign Minister Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi hold a
second round of talks on international matters and the role being played by the
Nonaligned Movement.
At a press conference in Algeria, Malmierca describes the results of his talks with
Algerian officials as positive and says the escalation of the Iran-Iraq war should be
reason for concern.
Cuba and Algeria sign a protocol on a bilateral cooperation agreement effective
through 1985. Cooperation in economic, cultural, scientific, and technical sectors
is stated.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets with the delegation of Algeria's
National Liberation Front, headed by Lazhari Cheriet and they sign a cooperation
agreement between the parties.
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January 3 Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos sends a message to Fidel Castro on
the 25th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.
January 25 Leaders of the Cuban Communist Party and the People's Liberation Movement of
Angola Workers Party sign an agreement in Havana in the field of ideological
work.
February 9
February 13
February 20
February 24
March 3
March 14
March 16
According to Evaristo Perez, chief of the Cuban contingent of educators in
Angola, the number of Ministry of Education teachers in Angola will be increased
to 1,856.
UNITA announces in Lisbon and London that it shot down an Angolan aircraft
with about 100 Angolan and Cuban troops on board on 9 February. The claim is
not confirmed.
Speaking to reporters in Harare, Deputy Foreign Minister Oramas says Cuban
troops would not leave Angola until they have fulfilled their engagement in that
country.
UNITA announces in Lisbon that it has inflicted 200 dead on the Regular Army
troops and Cuban expeditionary force support it. The report is not confirmed.
President of the National Assembly of the People's Government Flavio Bravo
departs for the Congo, Angola, and Zambia. Before departing, he stresses
strengthening relations with the three countries.
Havana press reports that 47 Cuban agricultural internationalists are working in
Malanje Province, Angola giving technical assistance in agriculture, veterinary
medicine, and agricultural machinery.
Portuguese Prime Minister Mario Soares says the Soviet Union and Cuba had
decided on a "gradual disengagement" from Angola that will permit the eventual
departure of Cuban troops.
March 17 Fidel Castro greets Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos on his arrival in Cuba
with a delegation that includes Colonel Pedro Maria Tonha and other officials.
March 19
Presidents Castro and dos Santos discuss bilateral relations and international
matters, especially in southern Africa.
Presidents Castro and dos Santos sign a communique agreeing to a gradual
withdrawal of the 25,000 Cuban troops in Angola provided certain conditions are
met.
Minister of Education Jose Ramon Alvarez accompanies the dos Santos delegation
to the Isle of Youth. MPLA member Maria Manboca spoke to the Angolan
students at Fray Mirieda School.
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March 28
March 30
April 11-16
April 16
April 17
April 21
Jesus Montane and Alfonso Van Dunen Mbinda, Angola-Labor Party official
discuss bilateral relations between the parties and sign a cooperation agreement in
Havana.
Prensa Latina reports that Fidel Castro says he would withdraw his 30,000 troops
from Angola if South Africa did the same and if other conditions were met.
Jorge Risquet presides over a ceremony commemorating the eighth anniversary of
the victory of Angola over the aggressive troops of South Africa. Jaime Crombet
gives the keynote speech.
Minister of Construction Abroad Levi Farah and Angola's Minister of Construc-
tion and Housing Jorge Henriques Flora sign a memorandum on cooperation in
Havana.
Central Committee member Rene Penalver greets Angolan workers who are
meeting for their first labor union congress in Luanda. Penalver stresses the
friendship that exists between the countries.
Angolan rebels announce they killed 250 government troops and 40 Cubans in
actions in six northern and central provinces between 4-14 April.
Isidoro Malmierca also says in his news conference that he sees no early solution
that would help end the need for the Cuban troops' presence in Angola.
Cuban Ambassador to Yugoslavia Aramis Fuentes condemns all attempts to link
the presence of Cuban internationalist troops in Angola to the independence of
Namibia at a seminar in Belgrade.
April 22 The Union for the Total Independence of Angola claims responsibility for a bomb
attack in Huambo on 19 April that killed two Soviet military officials and 37
Cubans and wounded about 100.
April 24 GDR leader Erich Honecker sends a message of condolence to Fidel Castro
conveying sympathy for the Cubans killed in Huambo, Angola.
April 25 Granma accuses the US and its South African allies of responsibility for last
week's bomb explosion in Huambo.
The article in Granma on the car-bombing in Angola says the "paws of the
Central Intelligence Agency" and the "ominous footprints of its agents are printed
all over this brutal terrorist act."
MPLA officials visit the Luanda hospital where Cubans wounded in the Huambo
terrorist action on 19 April are being treated; those wounded are teachers,
technicians, and construction workers.
April 26 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez condemns the bomb attack in Huambo and says it was
carried out by agents in the service of Yankee imperialism and South African
racists.
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April 30
May 2
May 11
May 21
June 7
June 11
June 13
June 18
June 22
June 25
Jun 27?Jul 1
July 1
Cuba denounces before the UN the attack on Cuban civilian workers in the
Angolan City of Huambo.
Prensa Latina announces that six wounded survivors of the bombing in Huambo,
four men and two women, returned to Havana and were hospitalized.
The National Liberation Front of Angola announces that the estimated 20,000
Cuban soldiers stationed in Angola could take out local nationality under a law
published in Luanda in February.
In Brazzaville, Isidoro Malmierca reiterates that the Cubans are in Angola at the
request of that country's government and that Cuba is willing to contribute to the
independence of African peoples.
Lisbon press reports that the National Union for the Total Independence of
Angola announced that it killed 411 soldiers, including 45 Cubans, on 7 April.
Angolan President dos Santos, in a meeting in Luanda with Zambian President
Kaunda, says the presence of Cuban troops in Angola plays a balancing role and
serves as a deterrent.
During a ceremony in Huambo where Cuban civilians were decorated, Politburo
member Jorge Risquet reiterates that the Cubans are in Angola because the
Angolan people and the MPLA want them there.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet condemns in Cabinda the policy of linking
Namibian independence to the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola and
reiterates Cuba's solidarity with the Angolan people.
Cuban sources announce that Colonel Pedro Tortolo and 42 other officers were
demoted to private and sent to Angola because of their cowardice during the US
intervention of Grenada.
In a press conference in Havana, SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma condemns the
Reagan administration's attempts to link Namibia's independence with the
presence of Cuban troops in Angola.
Lisbon Press reports that the Angolan National Union for the Total Independence
of Angola has taken over Kazage in eastern Angola and 17 Cuban troops were
killed in that operation.
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Viera Linares visits Luanda to discuss bilateral
agreements. He meets with MPLA-Labor Party Central Committee members,
Lucio Lara and Afonso Van Dunem Mbinda.
In a TV interview Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson says that Fidel Castro
wants to remove Cuban troops from Angola.
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July 7
Paris press reports that the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of
Angola said its forces had killed 93 government troops and 13 Cubans between 25
and 29 June.
The Angolan press agency discloses that Luanda has agreed on the gradual
withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola; Luanda made a similar proclamation
last March after dos Santos' visit to Havana.
July 17 President of the Federation of Cuban Women Vilma Espin meets with her
Angolan counterpart Ruth Mbebetz in Havana.
July 19 Paris press announces that UNITA claimed it killed more than 260 government
and Cuban troops on 18 July: 209 soldiers killed, 132 captured, and 59 Cubans
aiding the Angolan Government were killed.
July 26 Lisbon press reports that UNITA claims to have killed 111 government troops and
500 Cubans and stormed three towns, Quincuso in Uige Province, Quingenge, and
Cuma in Huambo Province.
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August 6
August 8
August 9
August 12
August 25
August 28
Johannesburg Domestic Service quotes a statement issued in Pretoria by the
Department of Foreign Affairs that there are up to 31,000 Cubans-6,000
civilians, and 25,000 soldiers?in Angola.
Vice Minister of the FAR Brigadier General Cruz Bourzac and Angolan
Ambassador to Cuba Mwaete Joao Baptista preside over a ceremony in Havana
commemorating the 10th annniversary of FAPLA.
Angolan Foreign Trade Minister Ismael Gaspar Martins arrives in Havana in
response to an invitation from Ricardo Cabrizas.
Lisbon press reports that UNITA says its forces had killed 218 Angolan
Government soldiers, 13 of its Cuban allies and two Soviet advisers in operations
between 30 July and 7 August.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets with Angola's Minister of Foreign Trade
Ismael Gaspar Martins in Havana to discuss broadening trade relations.
Angolan Minister of Foreign Trade Ismael Martins meets in Havana with his
counterpart Ricardo Cabrizas to discuss trade relations.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas and his Angolan counterpart Ismael Gaspar
Martins sign trade agreements during talks in Cuba; Havana will participate at
the Luanda trade fair this November.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet meets with Bernardo de Sousa of the MPLA
Labor Party in Havana to discuss the international situation, southern Africa, and
Cuba-Angolan relations.
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September 11
October 2
October 10
October 25
October 27
November 9
November 15
November 16
November 17
November 18
Paris press reports that UNITA has stated in a communique that Cubans brutally
repressed a popular rebellion that took place on 4 September in Malange in eastern
Luanda.
Angolan President dos Santos, while visiting Paris, states that Luanda and Havana
are ready to begin a withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola.
Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama tells reporters in Lisbon that he and
Isidoro Malmierca met at the United Nations to discuss Latin America and troop
withdrawal from Angola.
In an interview with a Washington Post journalist, Angolan President dos Santos
pledges to work toward the withdrawal of about 25,000 Cuban troops from
Angola.
Lisbon press reports that UNITA killed 306 Angolan Government troops and 38
Cubans while repelling a two-month-long government offensive in the south of the
country.
Lisbon press reports that the National Front for the Liberation of Angola issued a
communique reporting that 10 Cubans, including officer Lt. Lopez, were killed
near Nica in September.
Bridgetown press reports that Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Bolanos
said that Cuba is willing to withdraw its troops from Angola and its military
advisers from Nicaragua.
Granma reports that the Angolan Government has proposed that a four-Part
agreement be signed by Angola:, Cuba, South Africa, and SWAPO, for a gradual
withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola.
The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola issues a communique
saying they had killed 241 government soldiers and 12 Cubans in engagements in
six provinces between 2 and 10 November.
UNITA says about 170 People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola
soldiers and 25 Cubans lost their lives in Angola during the last two weeks of
October.
Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere states that the OAU summit has unanimously
rejected the idea of linking Namibia's independence on the withdrawal of Cuban
troops from Angola.
Fidel Castro sends a congratulatory letter to Cuban and Angolan workers in the
lumber sector in Myumbe, Angola for having completed their annual production
quota on 25 October.
Prensa Latina reports that the Angolan-Cuban plan on the gradual withdrawal of
Cuban troops from Angola involves only the Cuban forces in southern Angola,
between parallels 13 and 16.
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December 18
In a press interview in Dar es Salaam, President Julius Nyerere rejects linking the
withdrawal of Cuban troops in Angola with Namibian independence.
Granma publishes the complete text of the proposal made by Angolan President
dos-Santos which will allow the withdrawal of 20,000 Cuban soldiers from Angola.
A copy of the letter sent by Angola's President dos Santos to UN Secretary
General de Cuellar regarding Namibia's independence is handed to Malmierca
who reiterates Cuba's support.
In Luanda, Angola, the first phase of a military hospital's expansion has been
completed with the help of Cuban combatants, construction workers, internation-
alist technicians, and Angolan workers.
December 20 Angola's UNITA rebels report that 112 Angolan Government soldiers and 12
Cubans, including four senior officers were killed in Huambo.
December 21 Paris Le Monde reports on an interview with Carlos Rafael Rodriguez in which he
discusses Angolan troop withdrawal and alleged US threats against Cuba since
1981 by the US.
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April 18 The Deputy Prime Minister of Antigua, Lester Bird, says he was able to persuade
the cabinet that talks with Cuba would be held to discuss sporting and cultural
relations.
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February 10
March 13
March 14
March 15
May 4
May 21
May 25
June 8
Argentina
Jose Ramon Fernandez meets in Caracas with Argentine President Alfonsin,
French Interior Minister Defferre, Spanish Prime Minister Gonzalez, and Ecua-
dor's presidential candidate Rodrigo Borja.
Vice President of the National Assembly Jorge Lezcano meets with 63 members of
the People's Committee for the Defense of the Sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands
who are touring Cuba.
Hector Traverso arrives in Havana leading an Argentine trade delegation that
includes officials of the Foreign Ministry, Commerce Secretariat, and other state
organizations.
Argentine Secretary of Commerce Ricardo Campero arrives in Cuba heading a
delegation of officials, businessmen, and performers who will participate in the
International Tango Festival.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas and Ricadro Campero, Argentine
Secretary of Commerce, discuss the importance for consolidating trade and
economic relations.
The Council of State designates Fernando Lopez Muino as Cuba's Ambassador to
Argentina.
National Assembly President Flavio Bravo meets with Argentine Legislators who
stated their willingness to promote greater trade with Cuba.
Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez meets with an Argentine parliamen-
tarian delegation in Havana to discuss Argentina's terrible education and health
problems?due to the previous regime.
The Central Bank of Argentina grants a $600 million loan to the National Bank of
Cuba to purchase Argentine products. The loan has a 7.5 percent interest rate, due
in December 1986.
July 21 During a press conference for foreign journalists, Deputy Trade Minister Amadeo
Blanco says that Mexico and Argentina have been Cuba's best Latin American
trade partners.
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August 9
August 10
Hector Rodriguez Llompart arrives in Argentina. During a press conference,
Commerce Secretary Campero hails relations with Cuba.
Hector Rodriguez Llompart and Argentine President Raul Alfonsin discuss the
Central American situation, economic problems affecting underdeveloped coun-
tries, and the strengthening of relations.
Cuba and Argentina sign a scientific and technical cooperation agreement, the
first of its kind to be signed by the two nations, as a result of Hector Rodriguez
Llompart's visit to Argentina.
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November 15
During the FAO's 18th regional conference in Biienos Aires, Hector Rodriguez
Llompart says the US administration's policies conspire against the peoples right
to sufficient food.
Trade talks are held between an Argentine trade mission from Cordoba Province
and Cuba's Chamber of Commerce in Havana. Nearly 50 directors representing
38 Argentine firms are included.
Hector Rodriguez Llompart and Argentine President Raul Alfonsin meet in Paris
and discuss the serious situation created by the high foreign debt of Latin
American countries.
Vice Minister of Foreign Trade Andres Yebra and Argentine Minister Roque
Carranza and Vice Minister Pedro Casado Bianco sign a maritime transport
cooperation agreement to expand bilateral trade.
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February 7
Australia
The first contingent of 66 Australians, men and women of all ages and professions,
arrive in Havana to lend its solidarity support in agricultural and construction
projects.
A group of the first contingent of the Australian brigade visiting Cuba has held
talks with leaders of the African National Congress and the South-West African
People's Organization.
The Australian brigade that visited Cuba for 3 weeks attends a farewell meeting in
Havana. Brigade President, John Bronston, praises the brigade members' efforts in
agriculture and construction.
July 10 Granma blames Australia for the failure of the UN conference on sugar to reach
an international agreement controlling the depressed sugar market and fixing
equitable prices.
December 28
In a speech to the National Assembly, Fidel Castro accuses the US and Australia
of trying to damage the Cuban economy by sabotaging an international sugar
agreement.
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Austria
January 10 Gustavo Mazorra, the new Cuban ambassador to Austria presents his credentials
to Austrian President Rudolf Kirchschlaeger.
February 10
March 14
August 15
August 30
September 27
October 17
November 12-18
Cuba, Switzerland, and Austria sign a commercial agreement where Cuba will
acquire several pieces of technological equipment for the Felton Thermoelectrical
Plant to be built in Holguin.
Austrian Chancellor Fred Sinowatz meets in Vienna with Cuban Ambassador to
Austria Gustavo Mazorra. Sinowatz expresses his satisfaction over the develop-
ment of Austrian-Cuban relations.
Secretary General of the Austrian Freedom Party Walter Grabher-Meyer, during
an interview with Cuban Ambassador to Austria Gustavo Mazzora, says his party
favors developing relations with Cuba.
Austrian Health and Environmental Protection Minister Kurt Steyrer and Cuban
Ambassador Mazorra discuss the possibility of Cuba and Austria exchanging
experiences in public health.
At the 28th conference of the International Atomic Energy Organization in
Vienna, Fidel Castro Diaz-Balart says nuclear energy is economically beyond the
reach of most developing nations.
Minister President of the State Committee of Economic Cooperation Hector
Rodriguez Llompart arrives in Vienna on a working visit.
Candidate member of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party
Raimundo Espinoza visits Austria at the invitation of the KPOe Central Commit-
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May 8
Barbados
Barbadian Foreign Minister Louis Tull says it is important for his country to
maintain relations with Cuba and that he does not agree with those who want to
break diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Barbados Prime Minister Adams tells Parliament that he has been told that Fidel
Castro may seek revenge on those responsible for Havana's "humiliation" last year
in Grenada.
July 21 Barbados press reports that Cuba's 1983-84 sugar harvest, which ended last
month, produced more than 8 million tons; Cuba's Deputy Sugar Minister Blanco
claims it was Cuba's third largest harvest.
October 6
October 27
November 3
November 9
Granma publishes an editorial on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the
mid-air explosion of a Cuban airline after taking off from Bridgetown airport.
Minister of External Affairs of Barbados Louis Tull describes Barbados' relations
with Cuba as normal, despite differences on the Grenada issue.
Bridgetown press announces that Trevor Munroe, leader of the Marxist Workers
Party of Jamaica, has gone to Cuba tO discuss improving relations.
Bridgetown press reports that Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Bolanos
said that Cuba is willing to withdraw its troops from Angola and its military
advisers from Nicaragua.
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Belgium
April 12 President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo greets a delegation from the
Latin American Parliament and another from the Belgian Parliament invited to
observe the election process.
April 13 Central Committee member Flavio Bravo presides at the talks held by members of
the delegation of the Belgian Parliament. The delegation visits the Hermanos
Almeijeiras Hospital in Havana.
April 18 Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez meets with the Belgian Parliament
delegation that has been visiting Cuba.
April 19 The Belgian Parliament delegation departs after a 1-week visit to Cuba. National
Assembly President Flavio Bravo says the contact between the two parliaments
will contribute to widening relations.
September 20
Granma announces the appointment of Teresita Averhoff Puron as Ambassador to
Belgium with residence in Brussels and she will also be accredited as Cuban
Ambassador to Luxembourg.
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Belize City Domestic Service reports indicate that sugar now accounts for 81
percent of all exports from Cuba and Cuba's economic problems have been
compounded rather than solved.
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October 10
October 15
October 16
October 17
October 18
Benin
Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca meets with Benin's new Foreign Minister
Affo Frederic Assogba in Havana. Assogba has been Benin's Ambassador to
Cuba.
Benin's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation arrives in Havana and is met
at Jose Marti International Airport by Vice Ministers of Foreign Affairs Jose Raul
Viera and Giraldo Mazola.
Minister of Higher Education Fernando Vecino Alegret and Beninese Foreign
Minister Frederic Assogba Affo discuss cooperation in the field of higher
education.
President of the People's Government National Assembly Flavio Bravo receives
Beninese Foreign Minister Frederic Affo to discuss the Pretoria regime in
southern Africa.
Benin's Foreign Minister Frederic Affo and Minister of Construction Abroad Levi
Farah discuss Cuban participation in a construction project in Benin.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Beninese Foreign Minister Frederic Affo with
whom he discussed the situation in Africa, the Nonaligned Movement, and
bilateral relations.
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Bolivia
President of the People's Government Provincial Assembly of Havana City Oscar
Fernandez Mell receives Bolivian envoy Dr. Joaquin Galtieri who presents
Fernandez Mell with a Bolivian flag.
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October 2
Botswana
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Oscar Oramas visits Botswana; he discusses
matters of mutual interest with President Dr. Quett Masire and Ministers Archie
Mogwe and Dr. Gaositwe Chiepe.
Botswana President Quett Masire receives Cuban Ambassador Heriberto Feraudy
Espino to discuss bilateral relations. Feraudy and Foreign Minister Chiepe discuss
the international situation.
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February 4 Two men hijack a Brazilian airliner to Cuba, where they are taken into custody,
and the plane is flown back to Brazil.
July 13 President of the Brazilian Workers Party Luiz Inacio da Silva visits Cuba.
July 18 President of the Brazilian Workers Party Luiz Inancio Lula da Silva meets in
Havana with Jorge Lezcano Perez, Vice President of the National Assembly to
discuss the functions of the Assembly.
July 20
September 19
November 7
President of the Brazilian Workers Party Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his
delegation tour the Picadura Valley. Ramon Castro accompanies them and they
discuss the world economic crisis.
Ricardo Otaque, First Secretary of the Jose Marti Association in Sao Paulo
reports that Sao Paulo will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Cuban
revolution from 20 September to 10 October.
Prensa Latina from Rio de Janeiro reports that the Chief of Staff of the Brazilian
Armed Forces, Brigadier Waldir Vasconcelos, says Brazil will reestablish relations
with Cuba.
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January 9
January 12
January 14
January 17
Bulgaria
Ognyan Doynov and Stanish Bonev depart Sofia for a working visit to Cuba, at the
invitation of the Cuban Communist Party Central Committee.
Bulgarian officials Ognyan Doynov and Stanish Bonev arrive in Havana at the
invitation of the Cuban Communist Party.
Jorge Enrique Mendoza, the Director of Granma visits the newspaper Rabotni-
chesko Delo in Sofia to discuss cooperation between the two newspapers with
Yordan Yotov, Chief Editor.
Fidel Castro discusses bilateral relations, industrial cooperation, and, specifically,
machinery construction with Ognyan Doynov, member of the Bulgarian Commu-
nist Party.
The Bulgarian Communist Party delegation, headed by Ognyan Doynov, departs
Cuba. Stanishev Bonev and Humberto Perez sign a long-term economic agreement
for 1986-1990.
January 26 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez arrives in Sofia.
January 27
January 30
February 1
February 14
Bulgaria's Chairman of the State Council Todor Zhivkov meets with Carlos
Rafael Rodriguez in Sofia to discuss relations in the political, economic, and
cultural sphere.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez is awarded the Order of Georgi Dimitrov by Todor
Zhivkov in Sofia. In a speech, Zhivkov expresses Bulgaria's solidarity with the
Cuban people.
Todor Zhivkov and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez blame US imperialism for the
straining of the tension in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and other regions in the
world during their talks in Sofia.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Sofia with Prime Minister Grisha Filipov to
discuss cooperation, the multilateral cooperation in CEMA, and accomplishments
in building socialism.
Bulgaria and Cuba sign a commercial agreement for 1984 totaling more than 300
million pesos. Cuba will receive machinery and equipment, rolled steel, food
products, and fertilizers.
In an interview for the "Around the World" weekly of the Bulgarian Telegraph
Agency, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says that no army of the US will ever be able to
dominate Cuba.
Fidel Castro and the delegation accompanying him in Moscow meet with
Bulgaria's Todor Zhivkov and Grisha Filipov to discuss bilateral relations and the
international situation.
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February 27
Minister of Internal Affairs Ramiro Valdes Menendez arrives in Bulgaria and is
greeted at Sofia airport by Dimitur Stoyanov of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Ramiro Valdes and his delegation, accompanied by Bulgarian Internal Affairs
Minister Dimitur Stoyanov meet with teachers and students of the Asen Satalov
secondary school.
February 28 During his visit to Bulgaria, Interior Minister Ramiro Valdes met with Todor
Zhivkov, Secretary General of the Bulgarian Communist Party.
March 2
Ramiro Valdes presents the Solidarity Order to Bulgaria's Minister of Internal
Affairs Dimitur Stoyanov during a ceremony in Sofia.
Georgi Yordanov of the Bulgarian Committee for Culture receives in Sofia the
Cuban delegation attending the Cuban Cultural Day celebration in Bulgaria;
trade relations will be studied.
A delegation of the Academy of Social Sciences and Social Work of the
Communist Party of Bulgaria is visiting Villa Clara.
April 17 Yordan Yotov, member of the BCP Central Committee and editor in Chief of
Rabotnichesko Delo, arrives in Havana at the invitation of Jorge Enrique
Mendoza, director of Granma.
April 23 A working group from Cuba's Communist Party Department of Revolutionary
Orientation, headed by Humberto Rodriguez Manso is received in Sofia by Milko
Balev, Bulgarian Commmunist Party member.
April 26 Politburo member Jorge Risquet receives 82 Bulgarian construction workers at the
airport. The Fidel Castro Construction Brigade will work for 1 year on the
Cienfuegos nuclear power plant.
April 27 Yordan Yotov, member of the Bulgarian Communist Party discusses various
aspects of Cuban life and foreign policy with Cuban leaders. Raul Castro sees off
Yotov at Jose Marti Airport.
Bulgarian Ambassador to Cuba Petur Marinkov presides over a departure
ceremony of a group of Cuban construction workers going to Bulgaria to work on
the Dimitur Blagoev Printing Plant in Sofia.
April 28 Secretariat member Jaime Crombet receives Stanoy Yonev, chief of the Construc-
tion and Architecture Department of the Bulgarian Communist Party to exchange
information on construction work.
May 2
Fidel Castro speaks with Alex Dimitrov, head of the Bulgarian "Fidel Castro
Construction Brigade" during a reception for the foreign delegations attending the
International Workers Day activities.
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May 10
Ognyan Doynov, Politburo member of the Bulgarian Communist Party receives
Antonio Martin Valle, Deputy Chief of the Central Committee's Construction
Department.
Cuba and Bulgaria sign a 1985 trade contract for a total of approximately 106
million rubles. The documents were signed at the Fourth International Spring Fair
of Plovdiv.
May 13 Justice Minister Juan Escalona arrives in Sofia.
May 16
May 17
May 21
June 13
July 2-6
July 4
July 6
September 4
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria Grisha Filipov receives Minister
of Justice Juan Reguera Escalona to discuss new elements on constructing socialist
justice in Bulgaria.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas meets in Moscow with counterparts
Peter Veress from Hungary, Khristo Khristov from Bulgaria, and Nikolay
Komarov from the Soviet Union.
Vilma Espin arrives in Sofia heading a delegation that will participate in a socialist
nations women's organization meeting.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Moscow with Todor Zhivkov, leader of the
Bulgarian Communist Party, to deliver a message from Fidel Castro. Zhivkov and
Rodriguez discuss CEMA's future activities.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane visits Bulgaria and is greeted by
Dimitur Stanishev, Secretary of the BCP Central Committee.
Deputy Premier Antonio Esquivel arrives in Sofia to take part in the 17th session
of the Bulgarian-Cuban Governmental Commission on Economic and Scientific-
Technological Cooperation.
Jesus Montane discusses ' ;lateral cooperation, Central America, and the Caribbe-
an with Bulgarian leaders iililko Balev, Chudomir Aleksandrov, Petur Mladenov,
and Dimitur Stanishev.
Deputy Premiers Lukanov and Esquivel sign a protocol on economic cooperation at
the end of the 17th session of the B .garian-Cuban Governmental Commission in
Sofia. Montane attends the signing.
In a press conference in Cuba, Bulgarian road workers discuss their activities in
Cuba, including the national highway, the Granma publishing house, and the Jose
Marti steel plant.
Politburo member Juan Almeida leaves for Bulgaria to attend festivities commem-
orating the 40th anniversary of the liberation of Bulgaria that will take place on 9
September.
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September 11
September 17
September 19
September 20
September 21
September 22
September 24
September 26
September 27
Juan Almeida arrives in Sofia to attend 40th anniversary celebrations of Bulgar-
ia's revolution and to visit Cuban construction workers at the Kozloduy nuclear
power plant.
Commander of the Revolution Guillermo Garcia Frias hails ties with Bulgaria
during his speech in Havana to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the
liberation of the Bulgarian people.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo arrives in Bulgaria and is met by
Stanko Todorov, Chairman of the Bulgarian National Assembly.
Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Minister Petur Mladenov receives Flavio Bravo,
President of the National Assembly, to discuss the international situation,
worsened by US aggression.
Vietnam and Cuba sign a contract on cooperation and exchange of editorials in
Havana. Contracts have also been signed with Bulgaria, Poland, and the Soviet
Union, during the Havana 84 book fair.
Flavio Bravo is received in Sofia by Todor Zhivkov, President of the Bulgarian
Council of State. Zhivkov stresses the friendship between the peoples of the two
countries.
The main FAR ceremony commemorating the 40th anniversary of the founding of
the Bulgarian People's Army is held in Havana. Division General Senen Casas
presides over the ceremony.
Chairman of Bulgaria's State Council Todor Zhivkov inaugurates the 40th
international autumn fair of Plovdiv. Pedro Miret attends the ceremony and
Ricardo Cabrizas heads the delegation.
Vice Presidents of the Council of Ministers Ramiro Valdes and Pedro Miret
discuss matters of mutual cooperation with Bulgarian officials Ognyan Doynov
and Andrey Lukanov.
Minister of Foreign Trade Khristo Khristov and Ricardo Cabrizas discuss trade,
with emphasis on the delivery of Bulgarian industrial goods, particularly machine-
building products for Cuba.
The George Dimitrov 100th birthdate commemorative medals are conferred on
Division Generals Ibarra, Sixto Batista, and Ulises Rosales del Toro. Bulgarian
Ambassador to Cuba Petur Marinkov speaks.
Ramiro Valdes concludes his visit to Bulgaria and is seen off by his Bulgarian
counterpart Dimitur Stoyanov. He visited the Plovdiv International Fair and sites
of economic interest.
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October 15
October 25
October 27
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas and his Bulgarian counterpart Khristo Khristov
sign a contract for exporting and importing products in 1985 in Plovdiv.
Pedro Miret and Ricardo Cabrizas meet with Bulgarian official Grisha Filipov to
discuss expanding economic and scientific-technological ties between the two
countries.
Bulgarian Premier Grisha Filipov receives Guillermo Garcia Frias, Minister of
Transportation, in Sofia. They discuss deepening bilateral cooperation.
The 36th session of the general council of the World Federation of Trade Unions
begins in Sofia. Secretary General of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade
Unions Roberto Veiga attends.
President of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria Grisha Filipov arrives in Cuba
and is greeted by Raul Castro and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. Filipov will attend
the 39th CEMA meeting in Havana.
Fidel Castro and Grisha Filipov, President of the Council of Ministers of Bulgaria
discuss the international situation and solidarity between the two parties and
peoples.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Bulgarian leaders Grisha Filipov and Andrey
Lukanov to discuss the international situation and bilateral relations.
Grisha Filipov visits the Jose Gregorio Martinez plant for dydraulics technology,
the Vasil Levski plant for irrigation technology, and the first nuclear electric
power plant in Cuba.
October 31 A protocol reflecting the results of talks between Grisha Filipov and Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez is signed in Havana.
November 27
The Bulgarian Economists Union of the Central Council of Bulgarian Scientific
and Technical Unions and the National Association of Cuban Economists sign a
cooperation agreement in Havana.
December 10-14 First Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Jose Raul Viera and his Bulgarian
counterpart Many Ivanov preside over political consultations in Sofia.
December 12
December 14
Central Committee member Humberto Miguel Fernandez meets in Sofia with
Politburo member Ognyan Doynov and Deputy Chairman of the Council of
Ministers Lukanov to discuss socio-economic development.
Jose Raul Viera is received by Petur Mladenov, Bulgaria's Central Committee
Politburo member and Dimitur Stanishev, Secretary of the Central Committee
during his visit to Bulgaria.
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March 28
May 26
June 3
June 11
June 13
June 18
Burkina (formerly Upper Volta)
Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Upper Volta and is welcomed by his
counterpart Arba Diallo.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca and Upper Voltan Foreign Minister Hama
Arba Diallo denounce Niamey and US imperialism in Nicaragua and El Salvador
and support the Contadora Group.
Fidel Castro sends greetings on Africa Day to the chairman of the National
Council of the Revolution of Upper Volta Thomas Sankara.
Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Havana concluding his African-European
tour. Upper Volta's new Ambassador to Cuba Buraima Campoares arrives on the
same flight and presents his credentials.
Isidoro Malmierca welcomes an Upper Voltan delegation headed by Foreign
Minister Hama Arba Diallo, attending the first session of the joint commission for
cooperation between the two nations.
Isidoro Malmierca greets Upper Volta's Minister of Foreign Affairs Hama Arba
Diallo at Jose Marti Airport. Diallo will participate in the first mixed session on
cooperation with Cuba.
Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia Frias meets in Havana with Upper
Volta's Minister of Foreign Affairs Hama Arba Diallo to discuss cooperation in
transportation.
Upper Volta's Foreign Minister Hama Arba Diallo says that the results of the
mixed intergovernmental cooperation commission meeting with Cuba laid the
foundations for future development.
Cuba and Upper Volta sign two cooperation agreements and an aviation agree-
ment at the end of the first session of the mixed intergovernmental cooperation
commission.
August 2 Fidel Castro sends greetings to Upper Voltan Chief of State Thomas Sankara on
the occasion of the first anniversary of the democratic people's revolution.
August 7
September 10
Central Committee member Armando Acosta departs Brazzaville where he
attended the 3rd Congolese Labor Party Congress and arrives in Upper Volta to
attend the first anniversary of the revolution.
Armando Acosta discusses bilateral cooperation with Thomas Sankara, Chief of
State of Burkina (formerly Upper Volta.) The country's name was changed on 4
August 1984.
First Secretary at the Cuban Embassy in Burkina Faso Eduardo Neira meets with
Jean Leonard Compaore, Minister of Equipment, to discuss the rehabilitation of
the Bobo-Dioulasso airport.
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September 25
September 26
September 27
September 28
September 30
October 1
October 6
November 23
Burkina officials announce that Cubans will work on Bogo-Dioulasso Airport to
enable DC-8, DC-10, and Boeing-747s to land there.
President Sankara of Burkina arrives in Havana and is greeted by Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro awards the Order of Jose Marti to President Sankara. Minister of
Public Health Sergio del Valle accompanies Sankara on a visit to the Ernesto
Guevara Central Pioneers Palace.
Thomas Sankara visits the Celia Sanchez Manduley Textile Combine in Santiago
de Cuba accompanied by Minister of Culture Armando Hart.
President Sankara and his delegation arrive at the Isle of Youth and visit the
former model prison, the urbanized area of Nueva Gerona, and other places of
interest.
Fidel Castro bids farewell to Thomas Sankara at Jose Marti International Airport.
During Sankara's visit he was decorated with the Order of Jose Marti.
Fidel Castro and President Sankara of Burkina issue a joint communique blaming
Washington for the prevailing tense world situation and expressing solidarity with
Nicaragua.
Fidel Castro meets with Burkinian President Sankara. Sankara makes a technical
stopover in Cuba after leaving the UN.
Isidoro Malmierca and Boureima Compaore, Ambassador of Burkina, sign a
reciprocal agreement in Havana on the free use of the buildings housing their
respective diplomatic missions.
December 27 President of Burkina Thomas Sankara sends a message of congratulations to Fidel
Castro on the 26th anniversary of the revolution.
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January 7
Canada
Canada's Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Pierre DeBane arrive in Havana.
DeBane says that "Cuba is one of Canada's most important commercial partners
in Latin America."
Pierre DeBane, Canadian Minister of Fisheries meets with Fidel Castro. Fidel asks
him to tell Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau "to continue his commendable
efforts" to ease world tensions.
Fidel Castro tells Canadian Minister of Fisheries Pierre DeBane that Cuba would
be willing to withdraw all of its military personnel from Central America if the US
were to do likewise.
A bilateral agreement on the Cuban fleet's catch quotas in the northwestern
Atlantic for 1984 is signed by Canada's Minister of Fisheries and Oceans DeBane
and his Cuban counterpart.
February 15 Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.
April 1-5
A Canadian National Defense College delegation visits Cuba to learn about
conditions in Cuba and developments and improvements which have taken place
since the revolution.
April 25 Immigration authorities at the Gander Airport in Terra Nova report that two
Cuban Airline passengers requested asylum in Canada during a stopover on 24
April at Gander Airport.
May 10
May 21
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas meets in Havana with Frank S.
Milleren, Minister of Industry and Trade of Ontario to discuss trade relations.
The 5th Joint Cuba-Canada Intergovernmental Committee for Economic and
Trade Cooperation meeting ends in Ottawa. Trade relations and financing of
Canadian exports to Cuba are discussed.
September 14 Granma announces that Rafael Hernandez Martinez has been appointed as
Ambassador to Canada.
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June 29
Cape Verde
Pedro Pires, Assistant Secretary General of the African Party of the Independence
of Cape Verde tours Cienfuegos before Juan Almeida bids him farewell at Jose
Marti International Airport.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Havana with Pedro Pires, Assistant Secretary
General of the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde and Prime
Minister of Cape Verde.
June 30 Fidel Castro hosts a reception for Prime Minister Pedro Pires of Cape Verde.
July 2
July 3
July 6
September 7
September 10
September 11
September 26
December 7
December 10
Pedro Pires and Politburo member Juan Almeida arrive in Santiago de Cuba and
Granma Province to visit places of historic and social interest.
Fidel Castro and Pedro Pires, Assistant Secretary General of the African Party for
the Independence of Cape Verde and Prime Minister of Cape Verde, discuss
bilateral relations.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet receives Pedro Pires of Cape Verde to discuss
matters of mutual interest and the international situation, especially matters
related to southern Africa.
Pedro Pires, Prime Minister of Cape Verde, and the Mexican delegation from
Michoacan participate in the 6th regular meeting of the People's Government
National Assembly.
Cape Verdean Foreign Minister Luz arrives in Havana and is greeted at Jose
Marti International Airport by Foreign Minister Malmierca and Vice Foreign
Minister Mazola.
Cape Verdean Foreign Minister Silvino Da Luz and Isidoro Malmierca begin
official talks.
Fidel Castro receives Cape Verdean Foreign Minister Luz to discuss the interna-
tional situation and bilateral relations.
Isidoro Malmierca receives Armino Santos Cruz as new charge d'affaires of Cape
Verde.
Politburo member Osvaldo Lopes da Silva of the African Party for the Indepen-
dence of Guinea and of Cape Verde, arrives in Havana to attend the 5th
intergovernmental cooperation meeting.
The plenary of the fifth session of the intergovernmental committee on economic
and scientific-technical cooperation between Cuba and Cape Verde opens in
Havana.
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Justice Minister Regueira and Cape Verdian Finance and Economy Minister
Lopez da Silva sign a protocol in Havana on economic and scientific and technical
cooperation.
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February 22
April 1
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October 13
October 23
October 25
November 19
Caribbean Islands
Fidel Castro discusses the international situation, particularly the problems of
Central America and the Caribbean with Alvaro Cunhal. Cunhal departs Cuba
for Nicaragua on 22 January.
Member of the Executive Secretariat of the CTC Jesus Escandel Romero gives the
opening speech at an international trade union meeting in Havana of solidarity
with Central America and the Caribbean.
Cuba's UNCTAD delegate Carlos Lechuga denounces US aggression in Central
America and the Caribbean, alleging this precludes successful economic
negotiations.
Caribbean Social-Cultural meetings are held in Havana. Experts from various
countries in the region participate.
Prime Minister of Finland Kalevi Sorsa receives Minister of Education Jose
Ramon Fernandez in Helsinki to discuss bilateral relations and the situation in
Central America and the Caribbean.
Armando Hart addresses a meeting of Caribbean intellectuals in Santiago de
Cuba calling on them to candidly discuss all economic, political, and sociocultural
matters to fulfill Marti's ideas.
The meeting of Caribbean intellectuals, "entitled, Maurice Bishop in Memoriam,"
ends. Proposals made were: support for the Contadora, condemn US aggression,
and demand such aggressions end now.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo grants an interview with
journalists. He condemns US aggression toward Central America and the
Caribbean and hopes for peaceful negotiations.
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October 20
November 12
Chile
A meeting of the American Executive Secretariat of Solidarity with the Chilean
People is held in Havana, with the participation of representatives of national
committees from 14 countries.
Bogota press reports that 28 Salvadorans and Cubans have been arrested by
Colombian officials on San Andres Island after illegally entering the country in a
US registered aircraft.
Central Committee member Raul Garcia Pelaez attends the 14th congress of the
Communist Party of Colombia held in Bogota. He charges the US as the main ob-
stacle for peace in Central America.
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March 3
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March 24
March 28
March 30
April 24
May 16
May 17
May 22
June 27
China (PRC)
A Cuban Transportation Ministry delegation led by Roberto Camacho, fleet
exploitation and port director, arrives in Beijing.
A delegation from the Ministry of Transport headed by Vice Minister of Transport
Raul Gonzalez signs an agreement in Beijing on ocean shipping cooperation.
A PRC trade delegation, headed by Wang Pinging, Assistant Minister of Foreign
Economic Relations and Trade arrives in Havana.
Chinese Premier Zhao Zivang meets with Ladislao Gonzalez-Carvajal, the
outgoing Cuban Ambassador to China.
Vice Foreign Trade Minister Jose de la Fuente and his counterpart from China
Wang Pinging sign a 1984 trade protocol in Havana.
China's Vice Foreign Trade Minister Wang Pinging and his delegation tour
various industrial plants on the Isle of Youth and other places of interest during
their stay in Cuba.
Vice President of the State Commission for Economic Cooperation Manuel Torres
and Vice Minister of Transportation Raul Gonzalez Tapia exchange information
with Wang Pinging.
The new Cuban Ambassador to China Rolando Lopez Del Amo presents his
credentials to Chinese President Li Xiannian.
Fidel Castro attended the women's basketball final in which China managed to
qualify for the Los Angeles Olympic Games by beating Cuba 73-65.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo and China's Ambassador to
Cuba Wang Jin meet in Havana and agree to improve and develop friendly
relations.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry issues a statement condemning China's acts of
aggression against Vietnam's northern border provinces since early April.
A delegation from the Cuban Education Ministry arrives in Beijing to exchange
views with Chinese authorities on subjects of general, technical, and professional
education.
China's Director of the Higher Education Bureau of Jiangsu Province Yu Fuxi
arrives in Havana. He discusses strengthening exchanges in the education field
with Minister of Education Fernandez.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torras and Zhu Qizhen, assistant to China's
Foreign Minister, meet in Havana to discuss bilateral relations and international
topics.
In an interview with El Nacional in Caracas, PRC Foreign Minister Xuegian says,
"Of late, the Cuban Government has shown interest in improving relations with
China, and Beijing also wants this."
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June 14
Colombia
In an interview granted to the Medellin newspaper El Mundo, Fidel Castro says
the US invasion of Grenada benefited Cuba. "Not even Reagan knows the good he
has done us," Fidel said.
The Colombian-Cuban Friendship House and the Cuban Institute of Friendship
with Peoples sign a cooperation agreement in Bogota to promote and consolidate
friendship.
Granma announces that Cuba and Colombia agree to extend their accord on naval
and air hijackings for another five years.
In a statement to journalists in Cali, Ricardo Alarcon accuses President Reagan of
being "an aggressor who has put the world on the verge of war."
Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon visits Colombia to participate in a forum
on information and sovereignty in Latin America. Alarcon reiterates Cuba's
support for the Contadora Group.
A delegation from the Colombian congress meets with leaders of the National
Assembly of the People's Government, headed by Jorge Lezcano. They will tour
areas of social interest.
Jesus Montane meets with legislators from Colombia to discuss the international
situation and the work Cuba is doing to defend itself from a possible imperialist
aggression.
October 2 Pablo Arocha, the hijacker of the Colombian cargo plane to Cuba, and his wife,
are taken into custody by Cuban officials. The plane returns to Colombia.
October 12
A Colombian cargo plane is hijacked from Colombia to Cuba by Pablo Arocha,
accompanied by his wife, mother, and two children. Arocha left Cuba four years
ago.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez also tells Prensa Latina that Colombia is part of a
process on which "we are working." He discussed Central America with Colom-
bia's President Betancur in Panama.
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March 10
Congo
President of the National Assembly of the People's Government Flavio Bravo
departs for the Congo, Angola, and Zambia. Before departing, he stresses
strengthening relations with the three countries.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo held talks with his counterpart of
the People's Republic of the Congo, Gangou Zalzou, they discussed the interna-
tional situation.
May 9 Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Brazzaville, Congo.
May 11
May 12
May 16
June 10
June 14
August 2
August 13
In Brazzaville, Isidoro Malmierca reiterates that the Cubans are in Angola at the
request of that country's government and that Cuba is willing to contribute to the
independence of African peoples.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and the Congo's Prime Minister Louis Sylvain Goma
discuss bilateral cooperation during the 20 years of diplomatic relations between
the two countries.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and his Congolese counterpart Pierre Nze issue a
joint communique in Brazzaville stating the need of the nonaligned to support the
struggle of Namibia and South Africa.
Congolese Planning Minister Pierre Moussa is visiting Cuba to exchange experi-
ences between the economic planning organizations. He was invited to Cuba by his
counterpart Humberto Perez.
Jesus Montane receives Pierre Moussa, Planning Minister of the People's Republic
of the Congo to discuss problems of mutual interest between the two nations.
Central Committee member Armando Acosta departs Brazzaville where he
attended the 3rd Congolese Labor Party Congress and arrives in Upper Volta to
attend the first anniversary of the revolution.
President of the Movement for the Peace and the Sovereignty of Peoples Severo
Aguirre del Cristo, sends a message to Denis Sassou-Nguesso, leader of the
Congolese Labor Party on its 21st anniversary.
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June 18 Former Costa Rican President Rodrigo Carazo discusses the situation in Central
America with Fidel Castro during a three-hour meeting in Havana.
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January 2
January 4
January 8
January 10
January 12
January 16
January 16-17
January 17
January 18
January 19
Cuba Internal
In his speech on the 25th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro lists
the accomplishments of the Cuban revolution in education, health care, and
economic progress?stating a 7 percent growth.
Fidel Castro decorates Division Generals Abelardo Colome Ibarra and Arnaldo
Ochoa Sanchez with the gold star of Hero of the Republic of Cuba and the Order
of Maximo Gomez, First Grade.
Severo Aguirre del Cristo, President of the Cuban Movement for Peace and
Sovereignty of the Peoples, reports that the World Peace Council will meet in
Havana 7-11 January.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart speaks at the Lenin statue unveiling ceremony
at Lenin Park in Havana. Celia Sanchez conceived the first ideas of the park and
how it should be built.
Osmani Cienfuegos speaks at the main ceremony for the 55th anniversary of the
murder of anti-imperialist leader Julio Antonio Mella.
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Vilma Espin discusses "women in the development of society," with Aida
Gonzalez Martinez, a Mexican representative and member of the Central
Committee of Discrimination of Women at the UN.
Division General Senen Casas presides at the dedication ceremony of the Major
Jose Sierra Ramos Military-Industrial Enterprise; this facility will meet the needs
of the FAR's engineering sector.
The national party meeting on the profitability of production enterprises opens in
Havana. Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura and other leaders of
the party and government attend.
Julian Rizo, member of the Central Committee Secretariat gives the opening
remarks at the national party meeting on profitability of enterprises; Fidel Castro
attends the closing session.
Division General Sixto Batista Santana, Chief of the FAR's Central Political
Directorate attends the FAR's National Seminar on Propaganda, Agitation, and
Mass Cultural Work for 1984.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with CEMA delegation head Vladimir Sichov to
discuss subjects that will be included in the next meeting of the CEMA Executive
Committee.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers and Chairman of the National Energy
Commission Joel Domenech announces that the First National Forum on Energy
will he held in November.
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January 31
February 1
February 2
Flavio Bravo, president of the People's Government National Assembly receives a
Latin American Parliament delegation; Bravo reiterates Cuba's support of the
Contadora Group.
Vilma Espin, President of the Federation of Cuban Women, was reelected vice
president of the advisory council of the Women's International Institute for
Research and Training.
Politburo members Armando Hart and Julio Camacho Aguilera attend the
inauguration of the repair work and enhancement of the Lenin Hill, which has
been officially declared a national monument.
Minister President of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation Hector
Rodriguez Llompart receives SELA Permanent Secretary Sebastian Alegrett to
exchange views on future cooperation.
National Bank President Raul Leon Torras explains the functions of the bank to
Sebastian Alegrett. Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas and Alegrette discuss the
current international economic crisis.
Politburo members Guillermo Garcia Frias and Pedro Miret Prieto preside over
the opening session of the second national forum on the recovery and manufacture
of spare parts held in Havana.
Rene Anillo Capote, the new secretary general to AALAPSO was presented at a
meeting held by the AALAPSO Executive Secretariat.
The Cuban Government expresses its full support for SELA and has officially
committed itself to strengthening and participating in the various areas of Latin
American economic cooperation.
February 4 Fidel Castro presents awards to the authors of the 24 best reports presented at the
second national forum on the recovery and manufacture of spare parts.
February 7
Fidel Castro has met with members of the judging panel of the 1984 House of the
Americas Contest. 600 works by writers, poets, and essayists from 16 countries
were entered in this year's contest.
Raul Castro presents the Antonio Maceo Order to the FAR interservice school
which bears Maceo's name; the ceremony commemorates the 20th anniversary of
the founding of the military center.
February 8 Fidel Castro met with participants in the 16th national meeting of the Local
Organs of the People's Government.
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February 21
February 22
Fidel Castro addresses a Teachers' Seminar in Havana stressing the need to
continue to improve the national education system and work for double sessions in
the primary and secondary schools.
Jose Ramon Machado Ventura presides over the opening of World Youth and
Students' Festival in Havana. A rally of solidarity with Central America and
against US intervention is held.
According to a State Department report on Human Rights, the Cuban Govern-
ment is executing people for reproducing religious tracts, organizing trade unions,
and painting anti-government slogans.
The Cuban Government announces that the construction contingent that was
working in Grenada prior to the US intervention will build a new airport between
Varadero and Matanzas.
Foreign Minister Malmierca delivers a speech at the opening meeting of the
foreign ministry press and information department chiefs being held at the Palace
of Congresses in Havana.
Fidel Castro grants an interview to Newsweek magazine; he says Cuba's economy
has grown at an approximate yearly average of 4.7 percent during the past 25
years.
The 15th Congress of the Confederation of Cuban Workers is held in Havana.
Secretary General of the CTC opens the session attended by Fidel Castro.
The Administrator of the US Drug Enforcement Agency says the Cuban
Government is helping some smugglers move drugs into the US, but the effect is
minimal.
The 15th Congress of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions unani-
mously approves a motion to proclaim Fidel Castro "Hero of the Republic of
Cuba."
Member of the Executive Secretariat of the CTC Jesus Escandel Romero gives the
opening speech at an international trade union meeting in Havana of solidarity
with Central America and the Caribbean.
February 23 At the concluding session of the CTC Trade Union Congress in Havana, Fidel
Castro says "Cuba can never be defeated, never occupied."
During his speech to the Trade Union Congress, Fidel Castro also says that
500,000 men and women had been armed for service in the Territorial Militia over
the past six months.
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March 7
March 8
President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television Nivaldo Herrera
announces that Radio Rebelde and Radio Liberacion will be merged into one
station that will transmit 24 hours daily.
Politburo alternate member Antonio Perez Herrero and Vice President of the
Council of Ministers Jose Ramon Fernandez preside at a ceremony honoring the
best Cuban athletes of 1983.
Havana announces that as a result of the collective efforts of health workers and
the people, the infant mortality rate was reduced to 16.8 per 1,000 live births
during 1983.
At the main ceremony commemorating Communications Workers Day in
Granma, a message from Raul Castro is read praising the efforts of the
communications workers for improving their service.
Minister of Basic Industry Marcos Portal Leon announces that beginning in 1985
the country will invest 30 million pesos per year in the installation of powerlines
and electric substations.
Fidel Castro sends a letter to workers of the Victoria de Giron citrus fruit
enterprise in Matanzas announcing that a study will soon be conducted on the use
of energy resources by all state agencies.
President of the Federation of Cuban Women Vilma Espin presides over the main
ceremony at Valles de Picadura commemorating International Women's Day.
A new dam is under construction on the Tuinicu River, Sancti Spiritus Province.
The dam will be able to supply 250 liters of water per second; the water shortage
will improve by 1986.
Havana press reports that a 220-kw electrical substation located at the Cespedes
Thermoelectrical Plant has been inaugurated in Cienfuegos that will strengthen
the country's electrical system.
Vilma Espin addresses the main ceremony to commemorate International Wo-
men's Day given by the Organization of Jose Marti Pioneers and the Union of
Young Communists.
Politburo member Jorge Risquet pays tribute to commemorate International
Women's Day in a speech held at the FAR Universal Hall in Havana.
Raul Castro sends a message to the Federation of Cuban Women on the occasion
of International Women's Day noting the political and ideological development
attained by the female population.
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March 10
March 12
March 13
March 13-15
March 14
March 15
March 16
March 17
March 21
Granma announces that the first all-woman regiment in Cuba's regular army
paraded in Havana for the first time on 8 March celebrating International
Women's Day.
Vilma Espin and Roberto Veiga analyze the women's job problems in a meeting of
Women's Labor Commissions; more females are working in public health,
education, commerce and light industry.
The Cuban Government ratifies the multilateral agreement on mutual cooperation
and assistance designed to provide support in the investigation and handling of
customs infractions.
Reuters, West Germany reports that Eduardo Capote, prisoner for 17 years in
Cuba, displayed mutilated hands and says more than 200 political and religious
prisoners are tortured in Cuban jails.
Fidel Castro sends a letter to workers at the agro-industrial centers of the
transportation and sugar ministries in Villa Clara Province stressing the impor-
tance to conserve energy.
Havana TV announces that Cuban Radio stations will merge and new program-
ming will begin on 9 March. On 26 March the new station will air and retain the
name Radio Rebelde.
Madrid press reports that Cuban authorities say that it is necessary to refine 46
million arrobas of sugarcane daily in order to overcome production delays.
The 12th meeting of the International Social Economic Problems Institute is held
in Havana. Delegates of CEMA member nations exchange experiences on the
management of a socialist economy.
The US State Department estimates Cuba has 7,000 to 10,000 personnel in
Nicaragua, 2,500 to 3,500 military and security advisers and 4,500 to 6,500
Cuban civilians.
At a CEMA meeting in Havana, Gilberto Diaz, Vice President of JUCEPLAN re-
ports that Cuban economic growth increased 5 percent in 1983 and is expected to
increase between 4 and 4.5 percent in 1984.
The 12th meeting of the International Social Economic Problems Institute, held
for the first time in Havana, ends with the signing of a final protocol.
At the National Emulation Plenary for 1983 meeting, Commander of the
Revolution Garcia Frias criticizes the management of the railroads which lost
more than $2 million pesos.
Fidel Castro visits the Caribe canning plant located in Quivican to talk to workers
and administrative personnel about production, care of equipment, and the future
of industry.
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March 29
March 30
March 31
Secretary General of the National Sugar Industry Workers Union Luis Martell
Rosas announces that sugar workers will report directly to the Central Commit-
tee's Politburo.
Carlos Rafael Rodeiguez addresses law students at the University of Havana
analyzing the first stage of the revolutionary process where training of lawyers was
neglected.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart addresses the closing session of the 12th
International Conference of Film Industry Workers from socialist countries which
met for 3 days in Havana.
Fidel and Raul Castro, Ramiro Valdes, Division General Jose Abrahantes, and
Vilma Espin attend a ceremony commemorating the 25th anniversary of the
founding of the state security organizations.
Division General Jose Abrahantes speaks at the ceremony commemorating the
25th anniversary of the founding of the state security organizations praising the
past performances of the forces.
During the anniversary meeting, Abrahantes also says "These past 25 years have
not been easy because not for one minute has the Yankee enemy ceased in its ef-
forts to destroy us." Havana press says that Cuba will soon have a free 12-hour-a-
day tourist color television service that will be offered to the main hotels in Havana
but will subsequently extend to other areas.
Fidel and Raul Castro, Juan Almeida, and Ramiro Valdes receive the Eliseo
Reyes medal on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the creation of the state se-
curity forces.
The FAR is calling on young women in Havana City and Havana provinces to reg-
ister in the voluntary military service for women.
Fidel Castro sends a message urging workers in Havana's Plant No. 22, where en-
gineering material is built, to intensify their fight against energy waste.
At a news conference in Havana, National Energy Commission Chairman Joel
Domenech urges the need to report experiences obtained in the use of new
renewable resources in petroleum and electricity.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with representatives of five international organiza-
tions participating in the third meeting of the Commission on Codix Alimentarius
for Latin America and the Caribbean.
April 1 Fidel Castro sends a letter to the port workers congratulating them for their
outstanding work during the first quarter of 1984.
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In his interview with Ted Szulc of Parade Magazine, Fidel Castro says he did not
hold President Kennedy responsible for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
In an interview in Parade Magazine, Fidel Castro says that within moments of the
death of John F. Kennedy, he received a private note from Kennedy suggesting the
nations establish a dialogue.
April 3 Minister of Transportation Guillermo Garcia and Oscar Fernandez Mell, Presi-
dent of the National Assembly sign a document that will put the urban bus system
under the control of the ANPP.
April 4 During a speech in Pinar del Rio Province, Raul Castro says that Cuba, if
attacked, will fight not only to its last drop of blood, but to the invaders' last drop
as well.
Fidel Castro presides at a ceremony honoring the Union of Young Communists.
Other members of the Politburo presented medals to 40 outstanding youths.
Raul Castro, accompanied by party leaders and top FAR officers, attends defense
zone exercises in San Cristobal, Pinar del Rio Province.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Roberto Veiga chair the annual assessment meeting
of the National Public Administration Workers Union.
The National Preparatory Committee for the 12th World Festival of Youth and
Students is organized. Jose Ramon Machado Ventura presides. The major youth
events will be held in Moscow in 1985.
April 9 Panama press reports that the Contadora Group asks the US and Cuba to "prove
with deeds" as well as words that they support its attempt to bring a negotiated
peace to Central America.
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April 15
April 16
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets with a delegation of the Latin
American Parliament.
Fidel Castro tells reporters, as he arrives to vote in Cuba's municipal elections,
that the elections in El Salvador were held in an atmosphere of terror.
Raul Castro presides over a military ceremony commemorating the 23rd anniver-
sary of the Bay of Pigs.
Granma reports that men and women throughout Cuba dressed in militia uniforms
to celebrate the Cuban Army's 1961 victory over the US-backed exiles at the Bay
of Pigs.
President of the Electoral Commission Jose Machado Ventura says that a record
98.7 percent of the 6.5 million Cuban electorate voted in the municipal elections on
15 April.
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for 1-10 April was 80 percent of capacity, according to Cuban announcements.
April 20 Politburo member Pedro Miret Prieto commended the 3rd Party Congress
contingent consisting of more than 300 skilled workers from the Ministry of Basic
Industry, production will start in October.
A 110-kw electric substation has been inaugurated in Santa Clara Province as part
of planned projects for bettering the transmission and distribution of electricity
throughout the country.
April 22 Life expectancy in Cuba now exceeds 73 years, the infant mortality rate last year
was 16.8 percent, and there was a marked reduction of infectious diseases,
according to Abelardo Ramirez.
Vice Minister of Health Abelardo Ramirez says that from 1981 to date
approximately $50 million have been invested in the medical construction and
expansion in the purchase of medical equipment.
April 24 After meeting with Venezuelan President Lusinchi, US Special Envoy Shlaude-
man rejects broadening of the Contadora peace process to bring in Cuba.
April 25 Immigration authorities at the Gander Airport in Terra Nova report that two
Cuban Airline passengers requested asylum in Canada during a stopover on 24
April at Gander Airport.
April 26 Raul Castro inaugurates the Horacio Rodriguez Hernandez Territorial Militia
school in Jovellanos, Matanzas Province. The school was named after a heroic
revolutionary from Matanzas.
April 27 The Cuban Embassy in Tokyo issues entry visas to a South Korean broadcasting
crew to cover the South Korean women's basketball team that will compete in Los
Angeles and Havana.
May 1
Raul Castro visits the Arturo Suarez Agricultural Production Cooperative in
Jovellanos and presides over the opening ceremonies of the Territorial Militia
School of Matanzas.
The third working meeting of the Permanent Committee of Intellectuals for the
Sovereignty of the Peoples of Our America ends at the House of Americas in
Havana.
Cubans celebrate May Day in Havana by marching through Revolution Square
with signs stressing solidarity with Nicaragua and El Salvador and pictures of
Cubans killed in Grenada and Angola.
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May 3
May 4
May 5
During May Day celebrations in Revolution Square in Havana, Roberto Veiga,
Director of the Federation of Workers says that "militarily, Cuba is stronger than
ever,"
Rual Castro and Vilma Espin preside over May Day ceremonies in Guantanamo
Province where the people condemn the bombing at Huambo and US military
maneuvers in Central America and Guantanamo Bay.
Fidel Castro, Guillermo Garcia, and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez attend a reception
for the foreign delegations attending the International Workers Day activities.
Granma reports sugar production for the current harvest is more than 1 million
metric tons behind planned goals.
Havana press announces that due to imperialism's blockade and the Cuban
people's habit of not saving, Cuba has been forced to adopt austerity measures in
almost all economic areas.
The 26 July 30th anniversary flag is given to Ministry of Foreign Relations
workers for fulfilling their work plans and socialist endeavors. Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez speaks to the workers.
Fidel Castro presides at a ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of the
foundation of the Office of Historical Affairs of the Council of State founded by
Celia Sanchez.
Fidel Castro presides over the national conference of medical science students. In
his speech he notes the progress made in public health and the construction of vari-
ous facilities.
May 7 Fidel Castro attends the meeting that delegates to the National Conference of
Students of Medical Sciences held to honor their professors.
May 10
May 11
The 169 municipal assemblies of the People's Government are formed, thus
beginning the fourth term of office.
New York Times reports that diplomats in Cuba say that Robert L. Vesco, the fu-
gitive American financier, has been living a reclusive life in Cuba for more than a
year.
Fidel Castro and Ricardo Cabrizas receive Jorge Soregueitia, President of the UN
Sugar Organization to discuss the Cuban sugar policy and the international
economic situation.
A 650-foot television antenna is being built in Santa Clara. The signals cover 95
percent of the Villa Clara's territory. There are two 10-kilowatt transmitters, one
for each channel.
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May 15
May 16
May 17
May 18
Chairman of the National Energy Commission Joel Domenech inaugurates the
Solar Energy Center in Havana. President of the Academy of Sciences Wilfredo
Torres notes the importance of the center.
Fidel Castro attends a reception hosted by the Culture Ministry in honor of Cuban
singers Silvio and Pablo Milanes who recently toured Argentina and Ecuador.
Chairman of the CEMA Permanent Commission for Construction Wolfgang
Junker praises the internationalist spirit of the Cuban builders at the opening of
the construction meeting in Havana.
Raul Castro attends the 5th meeting of the Cuban Communist Party secretariat.
Div. Gen. Sixto Batista presides at the opening ceremony and Jose Ramon
Machado Ventura presides over the meeting.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez stresses the importance of cooperation between CEMA
member countries in construction matters with a group of persons participating in
the CEMA meeting in Havana.
Fidel Castro receives Red Cross officials Andre Pastier and Jean Pierre Hook who
explain the humanitarian programs of the Red Cross International Committee in
various troubled areas.
Fidel Castro presents awards and cancels a commemorative stamp as a salute to
the beginning of the agrarian revolution in Cuba during a peasant day ceremony in
Yara.
Fidel Castro stresses to the peasant masses to continue advancing toward better
forms of production during a speech at Yara Municipality commemorating the
25th anniversary of Agrarian Reform.
The 57th CEMA construction meeting ends in Havana. A protocol is signed
obligating member countries to provide assistance to Cuba in the construction of
houses and agricultural projects until 1990.
The seventh meeting of representatives of the CEMA International Multilateral
Agreement on Agricultural Machinery ends in Havana with the signing of a
protocol beginning in 1985 through 1990.
Raul Castro bestows the Internationalist Medal, second class on folksingers Silvio
Rodriguez and Vicente Feliu and the Distinguished Service Medal on Pablo
Milanes.
Raul Castro closes the fifth meeting of FAR party secretaries. In his speech, he
says the party is more than ever at the center of preparing the country for defense.
May 21 Lisbon press reports that the National Union for the Total Independence of
Angola announced that it killed 411 soldiers, including 45 Cubans, on 7 April.
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Carlos Rafael Rodriguez presides over the coordinating meeting of the Latin
American Economic System in Havana. Hector Rodriguez Llompart says Cuba
supports the call for a meeting on foreign debt.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Jose Ramon Machado Ventura preside over the
main ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of the National Aviculture
Combine.
The National News Agency celebrates its 10th anniversary. Politburo members
Antonio Perez Herrero and Blas Roca attend the ceremony.
The Cuban Olympic Committee in Havana reports that Cuban athletes will not
participate at the 23rd Olympic Games in Los Angeles, but Cuban judges will
attend.
Speaking at the closing ceremony of Solidarity with Africa Day, Division General
Batista says that solidarity with the peoples of Africa is a principal that Cuba shall
never fail to fulfill.
Politburo alternate member Jose Gonzalez Torres makes the opening speech at a
ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of Los Naranjos Livestrock
Breeding Enterprise.
Fidel Castro speaks at a ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of the
Los Naranjos Livestock Breeding Enterprise calling upon all Cubans to further
develop Cuba's cattle industry.
Cuba Internationl reports that 350 scholarship students from Africa, Asia, and
Latin America have graduated from technological schools in various specialities of
the fishing industry.
The FAR Distinguished Service Medal is presented to Oscar Fernandez Me11,
Brig. Gen. Puertas, members of the Territorial Troops Militia, and FAR officers
for training of MIT members.
Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida attends the inauguration of the
National Museum of the Struggle Against Bandits in Trinidad. Division General
Tomassevich is the main speaker.
Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Havana concluding his African-European
tour. Upper Volta's new Ambassador to Cuba Buraima Campoares arrives on the
same flight and presents his credentials.
Raul Castro congratulates the workers of the Jesus Suarez Gayol sugar mill
complex in Santa Cruz del Norte for the successful results of their first sugar
harvest.
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June 5 Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane presents certificates to 83 party
founders including, Isidoro Malmierca, Ricardo Alarcon, and Pelegrin Torras.
At a ceremony for party founders, Jesus Montane says that strongly united, Cuba
has been able to carry on victoriously the historic battle of confronting Yankee im-
perialism these last 25 years.
Minister of Basic Industry Marcos Portal attends the opening session of the sixth
meeting of the CEMA Commission on Tire and Rubber in Havana.
Granma denies foreign press reports that Cuba was behind a planned auction in
London in July of the diaries of Che Guevara. The Cuban newspaper condemned
the sale as an affront to Latin America.
June 6 Politburo alternate member Armando Acosta attends a ceremony in Havana
commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the Ministry of the Interior.
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June 13
Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes and Central Committee member
Div. Gen. Abrahantes preside at the main ceremony commemorating the 23rd
anniversary of the Ministry of the Interior.
In a press conference in Havana, Manuel Gonzalez Guerra, President of the
Cuban Olympic Committee says that Cuba's decision not to participate in
Olympic Games in Los Angeles is irreversible.
Secretary General of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions Roberto
Veiga presides over a CTC meeting calling for the unions to begin to fight to
achieve profitability.
During a ceremony in Ciego de Avila commemorating Legal Workers Day, Justice
Minister Juan Escalona says that jurists should be like Ignacio Agramonte,
revolutionary first and jurist second.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart attends the farewell ceremony for the youths
representing Araito magazine. These youths were taken from Cuba by their
parents after the revolution.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Havana with ECLA's Executive-Secretary
Enrique Iglesias to discuss Latin America's complex economic situation.
Dr. Carlos Pasos announces that Cuba has been elected as a member of the
International Council of the World Organization of Doctors for Preventing
Nuclear War during a meeting in Helsinki.
June 14 The fifth tourism convention Cubatur-84, with the slogan "June in the Carib-
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National Director of Radio Communications Jose Hidalgo reports that two new
TV centers will open soon in Holguin. In 1984 and 85 Cuba will acquire 43 pieces
of radio equipment from Czechoslovakia.
Havana press reports that a new power substation in Camaguey will save Cuba
1,800 tons of petroleum yearly and will produce power for two circuits in
Camaguey City.
June 16 Prensa Latina celebrates its 25th birthday.
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Cuban sources announce that Colonel Pedro Tortolo and 42 other officers were
demoted to private and sent to Angola because of their cowardice during the US
intervention of Grenada.
In an interview in Granma, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says that the heads of
government of the member countries of the Common Market of the Socialist
Countries will meet in October in Cuba.
Sergio del Valle inaugurates the Manuel Piti Fajardo Maternity-Children's
Hospital in Guines. The facility has 120 beds and will provide medical services to
more than 79,000 persons.
June 20 A Bank of Cuba report says that last year Cuba resold $600 million of Soviet oil
imports to offset its loss of hard currency?a 57 percent increase over 1982.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart meets with representatives of the national
committees of the Conference of Intellectuals stressing the need for strengthening
unity against US aggression.
June 24 Prensa Latina reports that Cuba's militia begins the first of a series of weekly
training exercises to prepare for "possible direct aggression" by the US.
June 25
A US State Department spokesman says that Cuba is willing to hold talks on mi-
gration after the presidential elections in November.
Cuban poet Jorge Valls, arriving in Venezuela after 20 years in prison in Cuba,
says he will work to help others still held as political prisoners in Cuba.
Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson arrives in Havana and is greeted by Fidel
Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Armando Hart, Flavio Bravo, and Jose Ramon
Fernandez at Jose Marti Airport.
Before a large group of journalists, Fidel Castro says he invited Jesse Jackson to
Cuba as a gesture of friendship toward the US.
Fidel Castro, Armando Hart, and Flavio Bravo accompany Jesse Jackson to an
evening of cultural performances by noted Cuban artists and groups.
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During a meeting with Jesse Jackson, Fidel Castro agrees to release 22 American
prisoners and an accused CIA agent, Andres Vargas Gomez, but not those in jail
for hijackings.
In a press conference, Fidel Castro expresses willingness to reestablish relations
with the US, but only if Washington stops its policy of "domination and force."
During the Jesse Jackson visit, Fidel Castro agrees to begin talks with the US on
immigration in the near future rather than wait until after the US elections in
November.
During his visit to Cuba, Jesse Jackson visits a museum, a hospital, and the US In-
terests Section.
In a news conference held by Fidel Castro and Jesse Jackson, Fidel denies Cuba
has a military presence in Central America.
In Havana, Jesse Jackson says he gets the impression that Fidel Castro is
genuinely interested in improving relations with the US and suggests that Reagan
and Fidel visit each other's countries.
During the Fidel Castro/Jesse Jackson news conference, Fidel expresses a
willingness to discuss the presence of Cuban troops in Africa.
June 27 Fidel Castro agrees to free 26 Cubans held for political crimes in response to pleas
from Jesse Jackson.
June 28
June 29
Fidel Castro and Jesse Jackson attend a religious ceremony dedicated to the
memory of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Fidel says Jackson is the
bravest US politician he has met.
Visiting the University of Havana with Fidel Castro, Jesse Jackson speaks of the
"Dream of Today's Youth," paraphrasing in part the speech given 20 years ago by
the late Martin Luther King.
Jesse Jackson leaves for Nicaragua after a 46-hour visit to Cuba.
Jesse Jackson visits US prisoners at the Combinado del Este prison to tell them
they would be returned to the US.
Fidel Castro and Jesse Jackson tour the Isle of Youth.
Jesse Jackson returns to Cuba from Nicaragua to pick up political prisoners,
including Vargas Gomez, and returns to the US.
Fidel Castro characterizes as positive the visit made to Cuba by Jesse Jackson and
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The Reagan Administration dismissed Fidel Castro's motives for freeing prisoners
as merely easing the burden "of the care and feeding of 48 people."
Jesse Jackson says the Reagan Administration is offering to begin talks with Cuba
in July on the possible return of undesirable persons who came to the US in the
1980 Mariel boatlift.
Fidel Castro hosts a reception for Prime Minister Pedro Pires of Cape Verde.
In a TV interview Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson says that Fidel Castro
wants to remove Cuban troops from Angola.
Fidel Castro presides over the closing session of the 2nd National Congress on
Nursing.
Radio Havana blasts President Reagan for refusing to meet with Jesse Jackson,
saying Reagan wants to control the Caribbean with "fists and gunfire" and is "a
gunman retired from a Hollywood set."
Alleged Cuban spies Luis Garcia and Antonio Sanchez, jailed in Britain in 1982,
appeal their conviction saying they are Salvadoran rebels. Prosecutors say they
belong to Cuban intelligence.
Fidel Castro presides over the 9th Communist Party Plenum. An evaluation of
Cuba's economic and social position is made.
The 6th regular session of the 2nd legislature of the People's Government National
Assembly opens. ANAP President Flavio Bravo speaks of the complicated
international situation caused by the US.
Fidel Castro attends the 6th regular session of the National Assembly and speaks
of the important social need for the measures approved by the assembly on the in-
stitutional care of the aged.
The consolidation of the people's Government and the expansion of its tasks were
emphasized by Flavio Bravo in his speech at the 6th meeting of the People's
Government National Assembly.
During workers' day celebrations in Pinar del Rio Province, Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez says Cuba does not want war, but if the US Government dares to
attack, it will find a nation ready to win or die.
July 10 The Cuban Foreign Ministry categorically denies that it has received 10 Soviet
MIGs for Nicaragua, as reported in the US press.
July 12 Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon heads the Cuba delegation to talks with
the US in New York on the return to Cuba of about 1,000 undesirable refugees
and other immigration issues.
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July 13 Brigade General Vicente Gomez Lopez speaks to the first fighter pilots to
graduate after training in Cuba rather than only in the USSR, as had been
required previously.
July 14 The Department of State and the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations confirm
that talks were held on 12-13 July in New York in immigration issues.
July 15 Havana press reports that Cuba will accept the return of "undesirable" Cuban
refugees only if Washington agrees to issue visas to thousands of Cubans wanting
to emigrate.
Fidel speaks of the accomplishments of the revolution during his speech at the
Pioneers Day ceremony held at the Ernesto Guevara Central Pioneers Palace.
July 17 Commander of the Revolution Garcia Frias speaks to 124 graduates of the Higher
Technical Institute to Cienfuegos Province urging them to add to the knowledge
they acquired.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Humberto Perez Gonzalez, President of JUCE-
PLAN, preside over the graduation ceremony of 367 economists at the Higher
Institute of Economic Management.
July 18 Julio Camacho Aguilera, Politburo member, and Jaime Crombet, member of the
party Secretariat preside over the graduation ceremony of 3000 health technicians
of Havana City Province.
Cubans waiting to leave their country for Panama in transit to the US complain
about delays endured because of the Panamanian elections and US restrictions.
More than 500 Cubans are holding Panamanian visas and airplane tickets. Some
700 Cubans have entered Panama each month in transit to the US, paying
approximately $3,000 for a Panamanian visa.
July 19 Paris press announces that UNITA claimed it killed more than 260 government
and Cuban troops on 18 July: 209 soldiers killed, 132 captured, and 59 Cubans
aiding the Angolan Government were killed.
July 20 Raul Leon Torras, president of the National Bank of Cuba, signs a rescheduling
agreement in Paris under which Cuba's 1984 debts will be repaid over four years,
after a five-year grace period.
Dissident poet and writer Jorge Valls Arango says Cuba has 200 to 250 political
prisoners in jail subject to physical and psychological torture.
West German Press reports that during 20 years in Cuban prisons, dissident poet
and writer Jorge Valls Arango says he learned to live with torture and the daily
sound of people being executed.
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Division General Ulises Rosales del Toro presides over the commencement
ceremony for a large contingent of FAR officers which will permit them to assume
a higher commmand.
July 21 Barbados press reports that Cuba's 1983-84 sugar harvest, which ended last
month, produced more than 8 million tons; Cuba's Deputy Sugar Minister Blanco
claims it was Cuba's third largest harvest.
July 22 In statements to El Dia, Isidoro Malmierca says that Cuba is willing to contribute
to a negotiated political solution to the Central American crisis and denounces US
intervention in that area.
Jul 23?Aug 1
President of the Atomic Energy Commission Jose Fernandez attends the opening
ceremony of the Nuclear Energy Information Center. The center will deal with is-
sues related to national development.
In El Dia, Malmierca says the future of relations between Havana and Washing-
ton "will be determined by the fact that we are on the same continent and there is
no other alternative but to seek peace."
The Ninth Latin American and Caribbean Journalists Seminar is held in Havana.
Malmierca says the most important tasks are to make efforts to avoid war and the
US intervention in Central America.
July 25 During a meeting of the Union of Caribbean Construction Enterprises it was
announced that a new international airport and highway will be built between
Varadero and Matanzas by the end of 1984.
At a forum sponsored by the White House, Juanita Castro denounces her brother
Fidel Castro as a liar and a traitor for breaking his promise to restore democracy
to Cuba.
Former Cuban Ambassador to the UN Andres Vargas Gomez, a political prisoner
whose freedom was secured by Jesse Jackson, calls for strong military action
against Castro.
July 26 Fidel Castro, speaking at the Moncada Barracks anniversary celebrations, repeat-
edly stresses Havana's willingness to negotiate but warns that Cuba is prepared to
defend itself.
Cienfuegos is the site of the 31st Anniversary celebrations commemorating the
assault on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba.
In his 26th July speech Fidel Castro called President Reagan "the most brutal and
most sinister" US President since the Communists took power in Cuba in 1959.
Fidel Castro announces in his 26th July speech that the Soviet Union is helping
Cuba build a four-reactor nuclear power plant near Cienfuegos.
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July 27 The Department of State rules out comprehensive talks with Cuba until Havana
demonstrates a willingness to make fundamental changes in its foreign policy,
according to Deputy Spokesman Romberg.
TASS reports that in his 26th of July speech, Fidel Castro said that Cuba's
relations with Socialist countries are unbreakable.
July 29 Juventud Rebelde reports that opening ceremonies for the Los Angeles Olympics
bored the 90,000 spectators.
Fidel Castro offers to grant amnesty to the Cuban asylees at the Peruvian
Embassy in Havana so that they can begin to negotiate their departure.
July 31 A US State Department spokesman says the US and Cuba have resumed talks in
New York City to discuss problems of mutual interest.
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The Cuban Government offers its airlines available to European tourists, who,
while in Cuba, voice a desire to visit the Dominican Republic.
150 youths of Cuba's Carlos Roloff youth brigade arrive in Havana and are
greeted by Carlos Lage, First Secretary of the Union of Young Communists.
The youths traveled for 32 days throughout Poland.
The Foreign Ministry confirms that Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon is
in New York City to discuss immigration problems with US officials.
Havana press reports that seven 630-bed hospitals and two 320-bed hospitals are
under construction, and that another 37 hospitals throughout Cuba are being
enlarged.
Minister of Transportation Guillermo Garcia inaugurates a bridge which links the
city of Sancti Spiritus with the town of Zaza del Medio in Sancti Spiritus
Province.
Raul Castro sends congratulations to members of the Youth Labor Army on its
11th anniversary. Division General Casas transmits Raul's message during his
closing speech at the celebrations.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba Hoang Luong, on behalf of the State Council,
presents the friendship order to Prensa Latina News Agency and its Director
General Gustavo Robreno.
Prensa Latina reports that Cuba is using 18,000 workers and 3,000 machines to
fortify defenses against possible US attacks. 15 percent of Cuba's concrete is being
used to build bunkers.
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Raul Castro observes military exercises held in Santiago de Cuba Province. In a
speech, Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura congratulates the
participants on behalf of Raul Castro.
Lisbon press reports that UNITA says its forces had killed 218 Angolan
Government soldiers, 13 of its Cuban allies and two Soviet advisers in operations
between 30 July and 7 August.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas says that failure at the Geneva
conference does not mean that Cuba will in any way change its plans on increasing
sugar production.
Raul Castro observes the exercises conducted by the Territorial Troops Militia in
the Palma Soriano Municipality. Vilma Espin congratulates the participants,
mostly women, for efficiency.
Raul Castro visits Granma Province accompanied by Politburo, Secretariat, and
Central Committee members. He visits a brigade of construction workers and a
military training class.
Minister of Higher Education Fernando Vecino Alegret says in Mexico that after
25 years of living under the US threat, Cuba is ready to repel an attack by the US
in defense of the revolution.
Alegret reiterates that his government is ready to negotiate peace with the US and
he says he supports the Contadora Group's position because he wants peace in
Central America.
The Council of State appoints Oscar Oramas as Cuba's new ambassador and
permanent representative to the UN.
Havana television reports that the US Senate has approved the appointment of
Jorge Mas Conosa, believed to be one of the leaders of Alpha-66, as president of
the anti-Cuban Radio Marti.
Havana TV reports that the first phase of the Solar Energy Institute, under
construction southwest of Santiago de Cuba, is near completion. This is the only
center of its type in the country.
Students from Africa and Nicaragua will enroll in four specialty polytechnical
schools in September on the Isle of Youth that will provide training in agriculture,
livestock, economics, and ceramics.
Tribuna de la Habana says, "It is necessary to prepare our population to face any
attack," and adds that trenches and shelters are being built throughout Cuba as
part of a resistance plan.
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200 youths receive their diplomas in Matanzas upon their graduation from the
first training course for officers of the Territorial Troops Militia.
Health Minister Sergio del Valle presides over a ceremony commemorating the
1954 medical school graduating class. A graduating physician says Cuba should
continue the struggle against imperialism.
Prensa Latina says Cuba mobilized thousands of its citizens in a civil defense drill
over the weekend in anticipation of a possible US invasion led by a "massive air
attack."
An exercise in the take off and landing of Revolutionary Armed Forces airplanes
on different impovished airstrips between the Villa Clara and Matanzas defense
zones is held in Villa Clara.
Cuban television signals can now be received more clearly in the Ciego de Avila
town of Punta Alegre and surrounding areas after the installation of Cuban-made
transmitting equipment.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Jose Ramon Fernandez welcomes the
heads of the foreign delegations participating in Friendship-84 Games.
He conveys greetings from Fidel Castro.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior pay homage to
the Federation of Cuban Women on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of its
founding.
Minister of Public Health de Valle presides over the 25th anniversary of the
revolution graduation ceremony in Havana. Of the 1,212 graduates, 889 are
physicians, 282 dentists, and 41 nurses.
Fidel Castro attends the boxing tournament of the Friendship Games in Havana.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez visits the Alfonso Perez Isaac Vocational Art School in
Matanzas. In Yumuri, Parnaso, he gives a detailed talk on his three-volume work,
"Cutting Remarks."
President Reagan, considering an increase in travel restrictions, orders an
investigation into trips by journalists and professionals to Cuba.
A seminar on the US elections and Washington's policy toward Latin America
opens at the Havana Convention Palace with Latin American and US researchers
participating.
At the inauguration ceremony of the Cuban magazine Cuadernos de Nuestra
America, Manuel Pineiro says Cuba is stronger, more organized, and more
capable of defending itself than ever before.
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Chief of the American Department Manuel Pineiro and Armando Hart attend the
inauguration of a new magazine Cuadernos de Nuestra America, published by the
Cuban Center for Central American Studies.
Female soldiers of the 1st FAR Antiaircraft Artillery Regiment who had enlisted
in the school call for recruits by the Female Volunteer Military Service attend the
swearing-in ceremony.
September 3 Julio Camacho Aguilera and Sergio del Valle attend the inauguration of a medical
clinic and the Salvador Allende School of Medical Sciences in Cerro Municipality.
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Vilma Espin is nominated as a delegate to attend the 4th congress of the
Federation of Cuban Women.
Politburo member Julio Camacho Aguilera inaugurates the 1984-85 school year in
Havana.
The first 5 1/2 month course for Territorial Troops Militia command begins with
the opening of the Commander Angel Amerijeiras Delgado MTT Officers
Training School.
Granma reports on the joint graduation of Cuban and Nicaraguan doctors held in
Managua recently. Of the 404 graduates, 209 were Nicaraguans and 195 were
Cubans.
During a speech at a Territorial Militia Troops officers course, Politburo member
Julio Camacho says defense is costly, but much more costly is to be unarmed and
confronted by imperialism.
Central Committee member Guillermo Garcia Frias presides at the seminar
sponsored by the Union of Cuban Journalists and the Ministries of Transportation
and Communications.
During a meeting in Camaguey, Vilma Espin says she believes that if the
imperialist enemy manages through military might to set foot on Cuban soil, he
will get burned.
President of the People's Government Oscar Fernandez Mell meets with a
delegation from the US-Hispanic organization, League of United Latin American
Citizens.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Julio Camacho attend the events of the 27th
anniversary of the armed uprising by civilians and navy personnel of 5 September
1957 in Cienfuegos.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle attends a ceremony in honor of the
journalists who report on public health and stresses the need for criticism and for
journalism that expresses opinions.
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Fidel Castro receives a delegation from the League of United Latin American
Citizens headed by President Mario Obledo. The delegation presents Fidel with a
list of prisoners they are interested in.
At a press conference, Mario Obledo says Fidel Castro explained to him that Cuba
is currently holding serious talks with the US to resolve the immigration problem.
The first volume of the new weekly magazine Cuadernos de Nuestra America is is-
sued in a ceremony at the National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists
headquarters.
Ramiro Valdes meets in Addis Ababa with Cubans carrying out an international-
ist mission. He reads a message from Fidel Castro to all Cubans in Ethiopia.
Secretary Armando Manresa says a defense exercise on caring for the wounded,
firefighting, and repelling a simulated land attack and infiltration has taken place
on the Isle of Youth.
Fidel Castro receives the Organizing Committee of the First World Festival of
Underwater Movies and expresses his interest in the development in Cuba of this
cinematographic specialty.
Granma reports that a recent decision by the US to further tighten restrictions on
trayel to Cuba proves the Reagan Administration does not want Americans to
discover the truth about Cuba.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Jesus Montane, and Isidoro Malmierca
welcome Guyanese officials Forbes Burnham, Hamilton Green, and Richard Van
West-Charles at Jose Marti Airport.
In a New York court, Omega 7 leader Eduardo Arocena admits that in 1980 he
participated in an operation to introduce dengue fever into Cuba. He also admits
links to a US intelligence service.
Minister of Health Sergio del Valle inaugurates the 10th National Dental
Congress. He says Cuba now has 4,380 dentists, 5 university dental schools, and
143 dental clinics.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas meets with Edgard Camacho Omiste, c000rdina-
tor of the Andean Group, in Havana. Camacho Omiste is interested in Cuba's
foreign trade structure and achievements.
September 15 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Armando Hart open the second international book
fair, Havana 84. The fair will last until 20 September.
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of the vice presidency seats at the UN's 39th General Assembly.
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Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets with Polish Foreign Minister
Stefan Olszowski in Cuba. They discuss the international situation and bilateral
relations.
The 16th session of the Cuban-Hungarian Subcommittee for Scientific-Technical
Cooperation meeting is held in Havana. Bilateral cooperation for the next 5 years
will be studied.
Stefan Olszowski decorates Vilma Espin, Division General Senen Casas, and other
officials with the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Poland, Knight
Commander Grade.
Stefan Olszowski decorates Rene Rodriguez Cruz, Nivaldo Herrera, Eusebio Leal,
and Mario Rodriguez with the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Poland
Gold Medal.
Poland's Foreign Minister Stefan Olszowski and Fidel Castro meet in Havana and
exchange views on aspects of the international situation and matters of mutual
interest.
Politburo member Jose Machado Ventura receives Boris Pastukhov, chairman of
the Soviet State Committee for Publishing Houses, Printing Plants, and the Book
Trade.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service in Miami announces that Carlos
Saavedra, a deserter from the Cuban military, paddled an inner tube from a beach
near Havana to Florida.
Politburo alternate member Armando Acosta attends a ceremony held by the
Ministry of Education in celebrating the 24th anniversary of the founding of the
CDR by Fidel Castro.
The main ceremony commemorating the 20th anniversary of the founding of the
Labor Councils is held in Havana. Politburo alternate member Roberto Viega
praises the work of the councils.
Politburo alternate member Jose Ramirez Cruz presides over the main ceremony
commemorating the 26th anniversary of the First Congress of Peasants in Arms
held in Santiago.
Politburo member Osmani Cienfuegos presides over an event at the University of
Havana to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of Commander Juan
Abrahantes who fought against Batista.
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September 26
September 28
Minister of Transportation Guillermo Garcia Frias meets with International
Maritime official C. P. Strivastava who will attend the Eighth International
Symposium on Hazardous Cargo Handling.
Cuba and the UN World Food Program of the FAO sign in Havana an accord to
begin the Jimaguayu Basin dairy development project. Cuba will receive skim milk
and ghee, valued at $35 million.
Isidoro Malmierca arrives in New York to participate in the UN General
Assembly debates.
The Eighth International Symposium on Hazardous Cargo Handling and Trans-
portation by Sea has concluded in Havana after a 4 day work session. Delegates
from 17 countries attended.
September 28-30 Granma-84 defense exercises are held in Granma Province as part of a nationwide
effort to prepare the people to defend the fatherland.
September 29 The people of the Isle of Youth are participating in defense exercises.
October 1
October 1-3
October 2
October 3
Granma and Trabajadores publish, under the headlines "The Capital Prepares to
Resist" and "The Enemy Better Think It Over," articles on the air raids held in
Havana on 29 September.
Defense zone exercises are held in Habana Vieja and are attended by Division
Generals Senen Casas and Sixto Batista and Politburo member Julio Camacho
Aguilera.
Granma-84 military exercises conclude after three days and are termed successful.
Havana press reports that an oil refinery being built in Cienfuegos will process up
to 6 million tons of crude oil and will be the largest of its kind in Latin America.
Operations begin in 1987.
Caribbean Social-Cultural meetings are held in Havana. Experts from various
countries in the region participate.
A group of 16 party founders are awarded certificates at a ceremony at the
Havana City Museum. Politburo members Jose Ramon Machado Ventura,
Armando Hart, and Julio Camacho Aguilera preside.
Guillermo Garcia Frias chairs the first urban passenger transportation symposium
in Havana. He says that studies are proceeding on the creation in Havana of a
mass rapid transit network.
In a protest note handed to the US Mission in Havana, Cuba accuses the US of
sending a spy plane over the island last month, jeopardizing talks between the two
countries.
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October 6
October 7
October 8
Vice President of the National Assembly Jorge Lezcano returns from Geneva. He
says one of the successes of the 72nd Interparliamentary Conference was the
resolution on Central America.
At the UN General Assembly, Isidoro Malmierca charges the US with being set
for a "new interventionist adventure" in Central America and warns it would be
met by "war without quarter or respite.".
In an article in Bohemia, Fidel Castro admits to a Cuban journalist that he suffers
from stage fright when he speaks in Revolution Square.
Foreign Minister Malmierca tells the UN General Assembly that everything is
ready for a US military invasion of Nicaragua.
Havana press announces that Cuba has rejoined the International Coffee Organi-
zation after 16 years.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Joel Domenech inaugurates in Santa
Clara an exposition on the main energy users and the energy consumption level in
Villa Clara's enterprises.
At the UN, the Nonaligned Movement warns of the imminent danger of a direct
intervention by imperialistic forces against Nicaragua, Cuba, and other Latin
American nations.
Granma publishes an editorial on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the
mid-air explosion of a Cuban airline after taking off from Bridgetown airport.
In a New York Times interview, Acting Foreign Minister Jose Raul Viera Linares
says "we have never felt so threatened." A State Department spokesman says "We
don't plan on invading Cuba, period."
In a New York Times interview, John Ferch, head of the US Interests Section in
Havana, says there has been no changes in US policy toward Cuba in recent
months.
The Director of the Cuban Airlines Enterprise Dixon Arjona announces that next
year Cuba will have modern Soviet IL-76 cargo planes in its air fleet.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle presides over the inaugural meeting of
the first Caribbean Congress on Angiology and Vascular Surgery and the seventh
national congress held in Havana.
At the United Nations, Isidoro Malmierca says that Cuba is willing to negotiate
with the US on a basis of mutual respect, but it has not received any sign from
Washington on this.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle and Minister of Food Industry
Alejandro Roca sign in Havana a cooperation accord between the two organiza-
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The Camilo and Che Ideological Drive marks the 17th anniversary of the death of
Ernesto Che Guevara and the 25th anniversary of the death of Camilo Cienfuegos.
October 9-10 The 49th meeting of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions is held in
Havana, presided over by CTC Secretary General Roberto Veiga.
October 10 Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca arrives in Havana after attending the 39th
UN General Assembly meeting in New York.
October 11
October 13
October 16
October 17
October 17-20
October 19
October 20
In an interview with a Washington Post journalist, Angolan President dos Santos
pledges to work toward the withdrawal of about 25,000 Cuban troops from
Angola.
Belize City Domestic Service reports indicate that sugar now accounts for 81
percent of all exports from Cuba and Cuba's economic problems have been
compounded rather than solved.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart speaks at the 11th Congress of the Latin
American Confederation of Tourism Press encouraging solidarity among mankind
and cooperation between peoples.
Willy Brandt and Fidel Castro agree on the need to find a peaceful solution to the
Central American crisis, the importance to end the arms race, and both strongly
emphasize international cooperation.
Raul Castro sends fraternal greetings to all members of the Revolutionary Naval
Academy on the 25th anniversary of its founding. Division General Abelardo
Colome Ibarra presides over the ceremony.
Raul Castro presides over the main ceremony commemorating Military Justice
Organizations Day at the FAR Ministry. Division General Senen Casas speaks on
the influence of military justice.
The Cuban Association of Sugar Technicians holds its 44th congress in Havana.
PCC member Julian Rizo says Cuba is playing a unique role in the sugar
industry's scientific-technical process.
Miami press reports that the Justice Department has decided that more than
125,000 Cubans from the 1980 refugee boatlift may become permanent US
residents under a 1966 law.
A simulated enemy naval landing attack with air support marks the start of a war
exercise in Defense Zone 3 in Santa Cruz del Norte.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says a nuclear power plant is currently under construc-
tion in Cienfuegos. By the year 2000, a plant is proposed to be built in Holguin and
one in the Western part of the island.
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October 22
October 23
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Armando Hart preside over an event in Havana
during which the Felix Varela Order and the Alejo Carpentier Medal were
awarded to a group of prominent Cuban artists.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart and Central Committee member Jose Ramon
Balaguer preside over the first Maurice Bishop Memorial Caribbean AntiImperia-
list Intellectuals Conference in Santiago.
Armando Hart addresses a meeting of Caribbean intellectuals in Santiago de
Cuba calling on them to candidly discuss all economic, political, and sociocultural
matters to fulfill Marti's ideas.
October 23-25 Red-Star 84 strategic exercises are held in Ciego de Avila.
October 24
October 25
October 26
October 27
The "Giron-84" exercise in Matanzas begins. This exercise is to train Territorial
Troops Militia staffs and Matanzas management organizations in implementing
wartime mobilization plans.
Havana press announces that members of the Third Party Congress Fortification
Building Brigade of Havana Province is making progress in building defense
projects to protect the lives of children.
The meeting of Caribbean intellectuals, entitled, "Maurice Bishop in Memoriam,"
ends. Proposals made were: support for the Contadora, condemn US aggression,
and demand such aggressions end now.
The "Sacre-84" military exercise begins in Camaguey Province. This exercise is in
air attacks by an enemy.
Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Raul Viera says that Cuba is ready to support the
Contadora peace process, noting that "the document that is acceptable to
Nicaragua is acceptable to Cuba."
The Joint Council on Economic Work meeting on research, evaluation, and
standardizing of medicine ends in Havana with the signing with Socialist countries
of an agreement protocol.
Santo Domingo Radio says that Cuba has officially informed the International
Sugar Organization that it will not be able to fulfill the forecast quota of
exportable sugar for this year.
Madrid press reports that Cuba has filed suit with the Supreme Tribunal of
Grenada to obtain the return of some of the equipment it had on the island when
the US invaded on 25 October 1983.
Manuel Gonzalez Guerra, President of the Cuban Olympic Committee says that
Cuba will compete with Indianapolis to host the 1987 Pan-American Games.
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October 29 Cuba launches its first line of cosmetics, named after Prima Ballerina Alicia
Alsonso. The perfumes, talcs, and colognes will go on sale abroad on 30 October.
October 30
October 31
November 1
November 2
November 3
Fidel Castro opens the 39th CEMA meeting in Havana. In his speech he attacks
the US for what he says are attempts to wipe socialist from the face of the earth.
In his CEMA speech, Fidel Castro says that despite the Reagan administration's
threat forcing Cuba to prepare militarily, Cuba's economy has grown 9.8 percent
this year.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez addresses the CEMA session condemning the discrimi-
natory political policy, the embargo, and the trade bans that capitalist countries
have placed on social countries.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez holds a press conference on the results of the 39th
CEMA session. He says the session finished its work as planned, showing the unity
of the CEMA member-countries.
Fidel Castro closes the 39th CEMA meeting. He reflects on the death of Indira
Gandhi, saying that it is a great loss to India and to the Nonaligned Movement.
Fidel Castro holds an impromptu press conference while touring Las Camariocas
Nickel Plant saying the plant will bring large profits to Cuba, broaden economic
relations, and expand trade.
Fidel Castro and Nikolay Ryzhkov visit a nickel works complex in Moa, one of the
largest enterprises in Cuban industry being built with technical help of the Soviet
Union.
Fidel Castro and Nikolay Ryzhkov inaugurate the America's Guerrilla sculpture
dedicated to Che Guevara. The sculptor is located at the Punta Gorda nickel plant
complex in Moa.
Soviet television reports on an interview with Carlos Rafael Rodriguez in which he
reflects on the importance of the cooperation agreement signed and the importance
of the CEMA meeting in Havana.
Cuban refugees who fled Mariel in 1980 and who are now prisoners at the Atlanta
Federal Penitentiary, burned bedsheets, and chanted "Freedom Now." This is the
second demonstration in three weeks.
GOSPLAN President Nikolay Baybakov and Humberto Perez sign the ceremonial
document of the second Cuba-Soviet meeting for economic and social development
for 1986-90. Baybakov departs Havana.
In an interview with Pravda, Fidel Castro says the fraternal friendship and
multilateral cooperation between the USSR and Cuba has been and always will be
the basis of Cuba's foreign policy.
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November 6
Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes and Vilma Espin attend the second
national conference on social awareness. Valdes says Cuba has a youth population
free of alcoholism and drugs.
Granma announces proposals, including a state mortgage system and private
leasing, to allow Cubans currently paying rent to own their homes beginning in
July, 1985.
Cuba commemorates the 67th anniversary of the USSR's October Revolution.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, and USSR Ambassador
Katuchev preside over the ceremony.
First Vice Minister of the FAR Div. Gen. Ulises Rosales del Toro visits several
small Youth Labor Army units in Pinar del Rio to see advances made in
production and combat preparedness.
Raul Castro greets Juan Almeida, Nicaraguan Minister of Culture Ernesto
Cardenal, and Czechoslovakia's leader Strougal upon their return from India
where they attended Gandhi's funeral.
Politburo alternate member Antonio Perez Herrero presides over the inaugural
ceremony of the regional television transmission center in Santa Clara.
November 7 Reuters reports that Cuban officials have resigned themselves to the fact that they
will be forced to deal with Ronald Reagan for four more years.
In an interview with Japan's KYODO news service, First Vice Foreign Minister
Jose Viera says that Cubans in Nicaragua will help the Central American country
if it is attacked by the US.
Granma announces President Reagan's reelection without any comment. Prensa
Latina noted that "the threat of an intervention is near" in Central America or
against Cuba.
Reuters reports that Fidel Castro said "The most dangerous time will be
immediately after the elections because Reagan believes that Cuba should be
neutralized."
Havana press announces that "Guama-84" strategic exercises will be held from
21-24 November in Pinar del Rio Province.
First Vice Minister of the FAR, Division General Ulises Rosales del Toro presides
over the FAR's central event commemorating the 67th anniversary of the Great
October Revolution.
Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez states that Cuba has been the target of
a maneuver to deprive it of its legitimate right to organize the 10th Pan American
games in 1987.
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November 8-10
November 9
November 10
November 10-13
November 11
November 13
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Jesus Montane preside over the 10th anniversary of
the establishment of the first Western Europe socio-political research center in
Cuba. Domingo Garcia is the director.
Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura speaks at the Las Villas Central
University Law Facility saying Cuba needs lawyers with solid technical training,
and a broad general education.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane receives Zimbabwean Foreign Minis-
ter Witness Mangwende.
The seventh congress of the Federation of Intermediate-level Students opens in
Ciudad Libertad. Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura presides.
During an interview in Havana with Prensa Latina, Soviet Ambassador Katushev
says that the USSR and its people would be by the Cuban people's side should the
US attack Cuba.
Fidel and Raul Castro, Juan Almeida, Ramiro Valdes, and Guillermo Garcia
attend a reception in Havana commemorating the 67th anniversary of the October
Revolution.
Division General Rogelio Acevedo, Vice Minister of the Revolutionary Armed
Forces closes the first FAR plenary meeting on energy. He says the FAR has been
carrying out measures to increase energy.
"Diamond-84" military air attack exercises are held in Havana Province to
prepare Cuba to defend itself against a possible enemy aggression.
The Venezuelan National Council for Science and Technology and the Cuban
State Committee for Economic Cooperation sign a cooperation agreement.
Fidel Castro sends a letter of congratulations to members of the Augusto Cesar
Sandino Primary Teachers Contingent of Cubans serving in Nicaragua.
Raul Castro inspects defense preparations in Sancti Spiritus, Villa Clara, and
Cienfuegos Provinces.
"Cuba-1984 Pediatrics Congress" begins in Havana. Fidel Castro speaks at the
opening sessions.
CEMA delegations meet in Havana to study the growth of Cuba's electricity
generation plants and the improvement of technical and organizational mainte-
nance levels.
Fidel Castro attends a reception hosted by Minister of Public Health Sergio del
Valle for the delegates attending the Congress on Pediatricts: Cuba 84.
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President of the Federation of Cuban Women Vilma Espin chairs the eighth
federation plenum to prepare for the fourth FMC Congress, to be held in March
1985.
November 14-16 The 14th meeting of the CEMA working group is held in Havana to discuss the
planning and forecasting of its members' economic development.
November 15
November 16
Granma reports that the Angolan Government has proposed that a four-part
agreement be signed by Angola, Cuba, South Africa, and SWAPO, for a gradual
withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola.
Granma publishes two letters written by Fidel Castro to Mario Vasquez Rana,
President of the Pan-American Sports Organization, on the injustice to favor the
US as a selection for the games site.
The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola issues a communique
saying they had killed 241 government soldiers and 12 Cubans in engagements in
six provinces between 2 and 10 November.
UNITA says about 170 People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola
soldiers and 25 Cubans lost their lives in Angola during the last two weeks of
October.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart meets in Havana with Caribbean youth and
student leaders attending a seminar called, Cuba: 25 Years of Revolution.
Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere states that the OAU summit has unanimously
rejected the idea of linking Namibia's independence on the withdrawal of Cuban
troops from Angola.
During an interview with reporters in New York, Cuban defector Jose Luis Llovio
Menendez says "Fidel hates totally the United States of America."
November 17 Fidel Castro and Vilma Espin close the Pediatrics Congress in Havana.
November 18
November 19
The Havana Superior Institute of Agriculture Sciences presents Central Commit-
tee member Severo Aguirre del Cristo with the honorary professor emeritus
degree. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez speaks.
Fidel Castro sends a congratulatory letter to Cuban and Angolan workers in the
lumber sector in Myumbe, Angola for having completed their annual production
quota on 25 October.
Prensa Latina reports that the Angolan-Cuban plan on the gradual withdrawal of
Cuban troops from Angola involves only the Cuban forces in southern Angola,
between parallels 13 and 16.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo grants an interview with
journalists. He condemns US aggression toward Central America and the
Caribbean and hopes for peaceful negotiations.
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"Guama-84" military exercises are held in Pinar del Rio Province. Seven of its 14
municipalities participate.
The eighth conference of justice ministers from socialist countries opens in
Havana. Minister of Justice Juan Escalona Reguera presides and makes the
opening speech.
The South American Women's Regional Meeting is held in Havana. Carlos
Rafael Rodriguez chairs the meeting and Fidel Castro attends the conference
reception.
Cane cutting for the 1985 sugar harvest begins in fields that provide cane to the
Colombia agricultural-industrial complex, located in Colombia, Las Tunas
Province.
The Ministry of Construction's Institute of Hydro-economy and the Ministry of
Basic Industry sign an accord on integrating geological work and to exchange
information and technical documents.
Politburo member Julio Camacho Aguilera calls the first day of the "Fortaleza-
84" military exercise in Havana, positive. Guantanamo also holds defense
exercises.
The 15th consultative meeting of the solidarity committees of socialist nations
begins in Havana with Jesus Montane presiding and Central Committee member
Rene Rodriguez giving the opening speech.
The 57th CEMA Naval construction meeting is held in Havana. A document is
signed covering the accords on the 1985 work plan, the standardization plan, and
shipbuilding for 1986-90.
Fidel Castro emphasizes the contribution of photography to progressive ideas
during talks with delegates and guests of the Third Latin American Photography
Colloquium being held in Havana.
Granma publishes a letter to Fidel Castro from Kendrick Radix, President of the
Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement, expressing gratitude for Cuban aid in
constructing Grenada's new airport.
Granma publishes the complete text of the proposal made by Angolan President
dos Santos which will allow the withdrawal of 20,000 Cuban soldiers from Angola.
The 15th consultative meeting of the socialist countries' solidarity committee ends
in Havana with a final declaration condemning the frantic arms race begun by the
US.
The eighth conference of justice ministers from socialist countries ends with the
approval of a final accord, a call for disarmament and peace, and a statement on
Nicaragua.
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In an interview with Excelsior, Fidel Castro says that no society can fully develop
until it appreciates and uses its female population's potential.
November 23-25 "Blindado-84" tactical operative military exercises are held in Villa Clara.
November 26
November 26-30
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez gives the closing speech at the second congress of the As-
sociation of Cuban Economists. He says Cuba' economy has grown at a rate of
nearly 10 percent.
The conclusion of more than 240 shelters is one of the main goals of the workers
and population of Madruga, Havana Province, in their salute to Revolutionary
Armed Forces Day.
Raul Castro presents badges of accreditation and summarizes the tasks and efforts
made to transform the City of Havana Province into a bastion of the revolution fol-
lowing the "Fortress-84" exercises.
In Banco Abajo, Minister of Basic Industry Joel Domenech inaugurates the first
minihydroelectric plant in Granma Province.
The 64th meeting of CEMA's permanent committee for cooperation in the
chemical industry is held in Havana. Politburo member Pedro Miret presides over
the opening session.
November 27 A modern new pier for the fishing industry at Guillermo Moncada Port in
Santiago de Cuba Province opens. This pier will allow cargo ships to dock.
Havana press announces that the second seminar on the situation of communities
in the United States which are considered ethnic minorities will be held in Havana
on 4-6 December.
November 27-29 The 12th CEMA meeting of the Council for the International Information System
for Agriculture and Silviculture is held in Havana.
November 28
Politburo member Pedro Miret announces that Cuba's workers have contributed
over 353 million pesos to the economy through October by manufacturing and
recovering spare parts.
Secretary General of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions Roberto
Veiga praises the trade unions work during his concluding speech at a meeting in
Camaguey.
The third meeting of Red Cross presidents and supervisors from subregion No. 3
of America opens in Havana. President of the League of Red Cross Enrique de la
Mata makes the opening speech.
November 29 Havana press reports that Cuba and the US have resumed talks in New York on
the possible repatriation of about 3,000 Cuban "undesirables."
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ities, Pinar del Rio Province. These plants will permit an increase in the
employment of women.
December 1 Raul Castro heads a military ceremony commemorating the 28th anniversary of
the Granma's landing and the founding of the FAR.
In a letter to International Olympic Committee President Samaranch, Fidel
Castro asked to have some events moved to North Korea to prevent a possible boy-
cott of the 1988 Seoul games.
December 2 Havana press reports that more than two million Cubans turn out for work to
mark what Fidel Castro calls "The Red Sunday of Defense."
December 3 Thousands of Cubans who came to the US in the 1980 Mariel Boatlift line up at
registration centers in the US to begin the process of becoming American citizens.
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December 5
The first National Energy Forum is inaugurated in Havana. Politburo members
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Pedro Miret, and Secretariat member Jaime
Crombet preside.
President of the National Energy Commission Joel Domenech reads the main
report at the first National Energy Forum. He calls for energy saving and the ra-
tional use of every energy source.
The 28th session of CEMA planetary geophysics research meeting is held in
Havana. The USSR, GDR, Bulgaria, Poland, and Cuba participate.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart opens a seminar on US minorities. He says the
role of US communities can be decisive in achieving a future of unity and peace on
the American continent.
Commander of the Revolution Juan Almeida reads a congratulatory message from
Fidel Castro to construction workers from Moa, in Holguin Province, who won
first place in the emulation drive.
December 5-13 A UNESCO meeting is held in Havana.
December 7 The Ministry of Agriculture's national director of rice Gustavo Veitia says the
1984 rice harvest was the "best ever."
December 8
Guantanamo Province completes its work plan and planted cold weather sugarcane
on 250.4 caballerias.
The Foreign Ministry reports that the third round of talks on immigration matters
between the US and Cuba ended on 5 December. Vice Foreign Minister Alarcon
headed the Cuban delegation.
During his speech to intermediate-level students, Fidel Castro says that Cuba will
always be alert to every sign or indication from US leaders of aggression towards
Cuba.
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Fidel Castro addresses the closing ceremony of the 6th Congress of the Federation
of Intermediate Level Students. Fidel calls off the invasion scare saying the US
people do not want war.
December 9-13 The first maritime safety meeting is held in Havana. In attendance are 200 Cuban
delegates, 12 from the USSR, Vietnam, Venezuela, France, and the United States.
December 11
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December 14
December 15
December 16
December 18
December 19
US Administration officials report that the US and Cuba have reached a basic
agreement to return to Havana about 2,500 "undesirable" refugees and to allow
some 20,000 Cubans to immigrate annually.
Commander of the Revolution Guillermo Garcia Frias inaugurates the fifth
symposium on research and control of pollution of the sea and the workshop on Ca-
ribbean bays' environmental works.
The 61st meeting of CEMA's Nonferrous Metals Industry Standing Commission
is held in Havana. Delegates from CEMA member-nations and Yugoslavia attend.
Pedro Miret presides.
Havana press reports of little progress in Camaguey's horticulture this year
because of poor weather conditions and diseases to the tomato crop.
Fidel Castro delivers a nationwide radio and television speech in which he termed
the immigration agreement with the US as "positive and constructive."
The National Bank of Cuba signs an agreement in Paris with international banks
to reschedule its 1984 foreign debt of approximately $1 billion over nine years,
with a five-year grace period.
Cuban exile leader Huber Matos says he has begun organizing a permanent
Cuban exile detachment to fight alongside Nicaraguan rebels seeking the over-
throw of the Sandinista Government.
During his speech at a seminar on ideological work in the labor movement,
Roberto Veiga says that the economic education of the workers has played an
important part in the labor movement.
The first scientific-technical forum on the nation's steelworking industry opens in
Havana with Politburo member Pedro Miret presiding over the inaugural plenary
session.
Fidel Castro and Minister of Culture Armando Hart attend the closing of the sixth
international new Latin America film festival which was held for 11 days in
Havana.
UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Vice Foreign Minister
Ricardo Alarcon at the UN to discuss the world situation, especially Central
America and South Africa.
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December 21
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December 23
December 24-26
December 26
At a meeting of the National Traffic Commission, Guillermo Garcia Frias
announces that from Jan. to Nov. 1984 there were 16,709 traffic accidents in
Cuba with 1,344 persons killed in these accidents.
Minister of the Steelworking Industry Marcos Lage calls for the scientific and
technical modernization of all branches of the steelworking industry during the
closing ceremony.
Chairman of the Cuban National UNESCO Commission Vicentina Antuna says
in Havana that the United States' withdrawal from UNESCO is another example
of US arrogance.
Raul Castro signs the condolence book for the death of Dmitriy Ustinov.
Ambassador of the USSR in Cuba, Konstantin Katushev accompanies him.
Paris Le Monde reports on an interview with Carlos Rafael Rodriguez in which he
discusses Angolan troop withdrawal and alleged US threats against Cuba since
1981 by the US.
Raul Castro bids farewell to a delegation, presided over by Division General
Colome Ibarra, representing the party, government, and the FAR at the funeral in
Moscow of Dmitriy Ustinov.
US officials in New York report that 77 Cubans who used allegedly phony
documents to enter the United States from Spain were denied entry at John F.
Kennedy Airport. Immigration hearings are pending.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez speaks at the ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of
the Foreign Ministry noting the record of the revolutionary organization during its
existence.
Politburo member Julio Camacho Aguilera and deputies of the government discuss
development projects in Havana, which include expanding the Nico Lopez oil
refinery and subway construction.
The 10th Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee is held in Havana.
Fidel Castro says he has firm confidence in his people's determination of sacrifice
to conquer any difficulty.
Isidoro Malmierca bestows the Enrique Hart Award to a group of workers who
founded Cuba's Foreign Ministry.
At the 17th plenum of the union's national committee, Minister of Light Industry
Millares says the ministry will only complete 95 percent of its annual plan because
of lack of material and parts.
December 27 A new housing law is unanimously approved during the 7th Session of the People's
Government National Assembly.
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December 31
At a ceremony commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Ministry of the
Steelworlcing Industry, Pedro Miret says the 1985 production plan of the ministry
will total 776 million pesos.
President of the Central Planning Board Humberto Perez tells the National ?
Assembly that the 7.4 percent growth rate in the economy in 1984 surpassed the 4
to 4.5 percent anticipated in 1983.
Fidel Castro addresses the National Assembly saying that the country's 7.4
percent economic growth rate this year is "real, objective, and without falsified
data."
A convicted mass murderer, Ishmael Ali Labeet, hijacks an American Airliner
from St. Croix to New York. Cuban authorities arrest the hijacker, and the plane
returns to New York.
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March 1
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June 5
July 6
October 24
October 25
Cyprus
Nicosia Domestic Service announces that Foreign Minister Iakouou will visit
Cuba 1-4 March as the guest of his counterpart, Isidoro Malmierca.
Cypriot Foreign Minister George Iakovou arrives in Havana and is greeted by
Foreign Minister Malmierca.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and Yeoryios Iakovou discuss ways of resolving the
Cyprus problem in the nonaligned sector and in international organizations.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and his Cypriot counterpart Yeoryios Iakovou discuss
bilateral relations and exchange views on important matters of the international
situation.
Isidoro Malmierca and Yeoryios Iakovou sign a cultural, scientific, and education-
al cooperation agreement and an agreement to eliminate visas to travel between
the two countries.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Yeoryios Iakovou discuss the latest developments in
Cyprus and Rodriguez reiterates Cuba's firm support for the struggle of the
Cypriot people for justice.
Cypriot Foreign Minister Yeoryios Iakovou holds a news conference in Havana
before departing for Cyprus. He expresses understanding between the two
countries regarding the international situation.
Cypriot Foreign Minister Yeoryios Iakovou receives Cuban Ambassador to
Nicosia Fermin Rodriguez to discuss bilateral relations.
Cuban Ambassador in Nicosia Fermin Rodriguez delivers a message from Fidel
Castro to Cypriot President Spiridhon Fiprianou reiterating Cuba's solidarity for
unity and territorial integrity.
Cyprus' Justice Minister Kliridhis arrives in Havana and is met by Juan Escalona,
Minister of Justice.
Cypriot Justice Minister Kliridhis meets with Flavio Bravo, President of the
National Assembly and Justice Minister Juan Escalona Reguera.
Kliridhis visits place of cultural interest.
October 29 An agreement on legal cooperation in penal matters is signed by Justice Minister
Juan Escalona Reguera and his Cypriot counterpart Phoivos Kliridhis.
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February 4
February 20
Mar 1-5
March 3-12
March 5
March 12
March 15
March 19
Czechoslovakia
Deputy Minister of Construction Jose Valle Rocque and his Czechoslovakian
counterpart M. Masaryk sign a cooperation protocol in Bratislava for 1984-85 in
the construction field.
President of the Cuban Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of Peoples Severo
Aguirre del Cristo was received in Prague by Tomas Travnicek, Vice President of
the Czechoslovak National Front.
Aguirre del Cristo and Tomas Travnicek discuss the tasks of the World Peace
Movement and the current international tension created by the nuclear missiles
deployed by the US in Europe.
Czechoslovakia's Culture Minister Milan Klusak receives Maria Leiseca, Deputy
Minister of Culture. The Cuban delegation will attend the Days of Cuban Culture
in Czechoslovakia.
Interior Minister Valdez visits Prague; he is awarded the Friendship Order at the
recommendation of Czechoslovakian President Gustav Husak for his friendly ties
between the security agencies.
Czech Minister of Industry Miroslav Kapoun visits Cuba. He holds talks of
mutual interest in the areas of shoe, textile, and glass industries. A cooperation
agreement is signed.
Light Industry Minister Manuel Millares receives Miroslav Kapoun, Czechoslova-
kia's Industry Minister to discuss the exchange of leather products, shoes, and
articles from the textile industry.
Czechoslovakia's President Gustav Husak receives Ramiro Valdes in Prague to
discuss increasing the level of relations and to further develop and intensify mutual
contacts.
President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television Nivaldo Herrera and his
Soviet counterpart Sergey Lapin sign a television protocol in Moscow for 1984-85.
Herrera departs for Prague.
President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television Navaldo Herrera and
Jan Zelenka, Director General of Czechoslovak Television sign a 5-year coopera-
tion agreement and a 2-year plan in Prague.
Party Central Committee member Isabel Jomarron heads a delegation to Prague
to discuss matters related to cooperation with Marie Kabrhelova, member of the
Secretariat of the Communist Party.
Central Committee member Wilfredo Torres arrives in Prague heading a delega-
tion that will participate in the third CEMA meeting on scientific-technical
cooperation.
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April 6 Minister of Basic Industry Marcos Portal arrives in Czechoslovakia to discuss
cooperation in the field of energy.
April 11 Havana University and Charles University of Prague sign an agreement on
scientific and pedagogical cooperation. The agreement on natural and social
sciences was extended to 1984-85.
April 24 Deputy Federal Premier Rudolf Rohlicek heads a Czechoslovakian delegation to
Cuba to participate in the eighth session of the Czechoslovak-Cuban Committee
for Economic and Scientific-Technology.
April 26 Vice President of the Council of State and Ministers Joel Domenech and
Czechoslovakia's Deputy Premier Ladislav Gerle preside at the opening meeting in
Havana on cooperation.
April 27
May 1
May 2
June 8
June 14
July 9
July 18
Czechoslovakian Deputy Premier Ladislav Gerle visits the Punta Gorda nickel
plant in Holguin Province where plant production will begin in October.
The protocol of the seventh session of the Cuban-Czechoslovak Commission for
Economic, Scientific, and Technical Cooperation is signed in Havana by Joel
Domenech and Ladislav Gerle.
Cuba and Czechoslovakia sign a credit agreement for the remaining materials
required for several thermoelectric powerhouses being installed in Nuevitas,
Camaguey Province.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses economic and political relations and economic,
scientific, and technical cooperation with Czechoslovakia's Deputy Premier Ladis-
lav Gerle.
Josef Havlin, CPCZ Central Committee Secretary, receives in Prague Antonio
Diaz, Cuba's Communist Party official, to sign a protocol on cooperation in
education.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Humberto Perez, and Lionel Soto meet with Czechoslo-
vak leader Lubomir Strougal in Moscow to discuss the results of the CEMA
conference.
National Director of Radio Communications Jose Hidalgo reports that two new
TV centers will open soon in Holguin. In 1984 and 85 Cuba will acquire 43 pieces
of radio equipment from Czechoslovakia.
A delegation of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions headed by
General Secretary Roberto Veiga arrives in Czechoslovakia for a working visit.
Mikulas Beno, member of the Czechoslovakia Communist Party and his delega-
tion visit Cuba enroute to Nicaragua. They visit the Ernesto Che Guevara Central
Pioneers Palace.
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July 23 During a meeting in Prague, Jesus Montane says that the socialist countries'
communist parties hold a common focus on the fundamental problems of today's
international situation.
July 24-31 Cuban-Czechoslovakia Trade Week is celebrated in Cuba. Minister of Domestic
Trade Manuel Vila Sosa opens the ceremony.
July 31
September 7
September 10
September 11
Minister of Domestic Trade Manuel Vila Sosa and Czech Minister of Trade
Antonin Jakubik sign a cooperation agreement in Havana. The Fernando Chenard
Pina medal is bestowed on Jakubik.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo arrives in Czechoslovakia and is
met by Federal Assembly Chairman Alois Indra. They discuss the international
situation and US aggression.
Division General Rosales del Toro, Chief of the General Staff, heads a delegation
to Czechoslovakia to observe "Shield-84" exercises.
Czechoslovak Premier Strougal and Flavio Bravo discuss bilateral relations and
the international situation; condemn US policy of adventurism, and stress the need
to avoid nuclear war.
Flavio Bravo and his delegation are received by the Mayor of Prague, Frantisek
Stafa, who decorates Bravo with the commemorative medal of the Prague
municipal committee.
Chairman of the Czech National Council Josef Kempny informs Flavio Bravo of
the work of the organization that he directs and its control functions.
President of Czechoslovakia Gustav Husak and Flavio Bravo discuss international
politics and condemn US policy worldwide.
September 12 Flavio Bravo is received by Viliam Salgovic, Chairman of the Slovak National
Council. At the meeting, ties of friendship were emphasized.
September 19
September 20
September 24
In a statement on Prague TV, Flavio Bravo says the US is trying to drown the rev-
olutions in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Cuba in blood, using any possible means.
Havana press announces the signing of accords for supplying Cuban chrome and
nickel to Czechoslovakian enterprises.
The Cuban Institute of Agricultural-Livestock Sciences of Havana and the Slovak
Advanced Agricultural School of Nitra sign an agreement to cooperate in the field
of education.
Joel Domenech meets with Josef Haman, Secretary of the Central Committee of
the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, to discuss increasing cooperation in
energy, geological exploration, and others.
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October 3
October 6
October 27
November 1
November 6
During his visit to Prague, Vice President of the Council of Ministers Joel
Domenech attended a meeting of the Czechoslovak-Cuban Joint Commission for
Scientific-Technical Cooperation.
Secretary of the CPCZ Central Committee Haman receives the delegation of the
Central Committee headed by Pedro Ross Leal to discuss cooperation in the
sphere of transport and communications.
Slovakia's Minister of Industry and his Cuban counterpart Marcos Portal sign a
cooperation protocol in Bratislava to include training of Cubans in the Slovak
Socialist Republic.
The Revolutionary Armed Forces event commemorating the 40th anniversary of
the Czechoslovak People's Army is held in Havana. Division General Julio Casas
Regueiro presides over the event.
A Czechoslovakian delegation, led by Lubomir Strougal, member of the CPCZ
Central Committee Presidium departs Prague for the 39th CEMA meeting in
Havana.
Fidel Castro accompanies Lubomir Strougal, Premier of Czechoslovakia, to Jose
Marti International Airport. Strougal departs for Prague.
Raul Castro greets Juan Almeida, Nicaraguan Minister of Culture Ernesto
Cardenal, and Czechoslovakia's leader Strougal upon their return from India
where they attended Gandhi's funeral.
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May 18
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May 31
Democratic Yemen
Haydar Abu Bakr al-Attas, Yemen's Minister of Installations, departs for Cuba to
participate in the 57th CEMA Construction meeting.
The sixth meeting of the Cuban-Yemeni Intergovernmental Committee for
Scientific and Technical Cooperation opens in Havana to examine cooperation in
public health, education, and economic fields.
The 1984 scientific and technical cooperation protocol is signed in Havana by
PDRY Installations Minister Haydar Abu Bakr al-Attas and Industry Minister
Jorge A. Fernandez Cuervo.
Cuba and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen sign a plan in Havana for
the 1984-85 joint project between the Higher Institute of Medical Sciences in
Havana and the Medical Facility of PDRY.
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Denmark
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Havana with Kjeld Olesen, member of the
executive directorate of the Danish Social Democratic Party, to discuss party
relations and the international situation.
November 13 Granma announces the appointment of Marta Jimenez Martinez as Ambassador
to Denmark.
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February 3
Dominican Republic
Vilma Espin, acting president of the Women's International Institute for Research
and Training, gives the opening speech at the fourth session of the UN institute in
Santo Domingo.
A friendship and cooperation agreement is signed in Santo Domingo by the rectors
of the Autonomous University of Santio Domingo and the Institute of Medical
Sciences of Havana.
July 18 The 20th meeting of the Latin American Civil Aviation is held in Santo Domingo.
Vice Minister of Transportation Manuel Cespedes and Angel Arango Rodriguez,
American Department official attend.
July 31 Dr. Franklin Almeida, Director of the University School in Santo Domingo again
asks President Salvador Jorge Blanco to allow a delegation from the University of
Santo Domingo to visit Cuba.
October 27
The Cuban Government offers its airlines available to European tourists, who,
while in Cuba, voice a desire to visit the Dominican Republic.
Santo Domingo Radio says that Cuba has officially informed the International
Sugar Organization that it will not be able to fulfill the forecast quota of
exportable sugar for this year.
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January 5
January 9
January 24
January 27
February 3
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February 17
March 19
April 19
July 16
Ecuador
Ecuadoran President Hurtado announces that Ecuador and Cuba are holding
negotiations to normalize diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level as soon as
possible.
First Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Raul Viera arrives in Quito to prepare for the
Latin American Economic Conference. In an interview, he says Cuba favors
resuming normal relations with Ecuador.
In an interview in Quito, Ecuadoran Foreign Relations Minister Luis Valencia
Rodriguez confirms plans to resume ties with Cuba.
Ecuador designates Eduardo Santos Alvite as its Ambassador to Cuba and Cuba
names Carlos Zamora Rodriguez as its Ambassador to Ecuador.
The Ecuadoran Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces that the Governments of
Ecuador and Cuba agree to raise the level of their diplomatic representation to
that of ambassador.
Eduardo Santos, the new Ecuadoran Ambassador to Cuba says the reestablish-
ment of relations at the ambassadorial level with Cuba was a positive move toward
reinforcing Latin American integration.
Ecuador's Foreign Minister Valencia says that the resumption of diplomatic
relations with Cuba coincides with the Ecuadoran foreign policy of maintaining
relations with all countries.
Jose Ramon Fernandez meets in Caracas with Argentine President Alfonsin,
French Interior Minister Defferre, Spanish Prime Minister Gonzalez, and Ecua-
dor's presidential candidate Rodrigo Borja.
President of the Ecuadoran Supreme Court of Justice, Dr. Carlos Pozo Montes de
Oca, arrives in Havana, heading a delegation of magistrates invited by the
Supreme People's Tribunal.
Ecuador's Supreme Court President Carlos Pozo Montes de Oca visits several
judicial institutions and meets with judicial officials during his visit to Cuba.
Cuba and Ecuador normalize their diplomatic relations by accrediting in Quito the
new Cuban Ambassador, Carlos Zamora.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Eduardo Santos, Ecuador's new ambassador to
Cuba, who presents his credentials.
President of the Movment for Peace and Sovereignty of Peoples Severo Aguirre
del Cristo attends a conference on peace, democracy, and human rights in Quito.
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Chief of the Cuban delegation to the Ecuadoran presidential inauguration
ceremony Jose Ramon Fernandez meets in Quito with Edgar Teran, who will be
the Minister of Foreign Relations.
Ecuadoran Ambassador to Cuba Eduardo Santos Alvite says on Cuban radio that
relations between Cuba and Ecuador are being normalized and have made possible
the signing of a trade agreement.
In an interview, Ecuador's Foreign Minister Edgar Teran positively evaluates
diplomatic relations with Cuba and says there is no special conflict between the
two countries.
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Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Hassan Al-Abadi who presents his credentials
accrediting him as Ambassador to Egypt.
Orlando Fundora, Central Committee member, arrives in Cairo heading a
? delegation that will participate in a meeting of nonaligned information and
communications ministers.
Fidel Castro and President Muhammad Husni Mubarak of Egypt exchange
Africa Day messages both expressing solidarity with the Namibian people.
President of the Provincial Assembly of the People's Government Oscar Fernandez
Mell receives Hasan Abd al-Abadi, Ambassador of Egypt to discuss peace in
Central America and the Middle East.
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October 20
El Salvador
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca and Upper Voltan Foreign Minister Hama
Arba Diallo denounce Niamey and US imperialism in Nicaragua and El Salvador
and support the Contadora Group.
Fidel Castro, in a French TV interview, says the US is involved directly and
indirectly in El Salvador and that the Salvadoran revolutionary movement will
overcome militarily.
Fidel Castro tells reporters, as he arrives to vote in Cuba's municipal elections,
that the elections in El Salvador were held in an atmosphere of terror.
? Delegations of workers invited to the May Day celebrations attend a solidarity
meeting in Havana demanding an immediate end to US imperialist intervention in
El Salvador.
Alleged Cuban spies Luis Garcia and Antonio Sanchez, jailed in Britain in 1982,
appeal their conviction saying they are Salvadoran rebels. Prosecutors say they
belong to Cuban intelligence.
Bogota press reports that 28 Salvadorans and Cubans have been arrested by
Colombian officials on San Andres Island after illegally entering the country in a
US registered aircraft.
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Equatorial Guinea
President of Equatorial Guinea Obiang Nguema receives Alberto Suarez Ortega,
Cuban Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea, to discuss various topics of bilateral
interest.
Minister of Industry and Commerce of Equatorial Guinea discusses the possibili-
ties of developing commercial and entreprenurial activities with Cuban Ambassa-
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May 15
May 16
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May 21
July 2
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August 27
Ethiopia
Addis Ababa reports that diplomats from several foreign missions told Reuters
that Cuba is cutting back its troop strength in Ethiopia from 10,500 men to less
than 3,000 by June.
Ethiopian youth leader Abdul Karim Adem departs Addis Ababa for Havana to
attend a meeting of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of
Democratic Youth.
Fidel Castro discusses the international situation and matters of mutual interest
with Mengistu Haile-Mariam, Chairman of the Provisional Military Administra-
tive Council of Ethiopia, in Moscow.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle says that Cuban-Ethiopian relations
are firmly based on the struggle against imperialism, colonialism, and neocolonial-
ism during a meeting in Addis Ababa.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle visits the Muger cement factory in
Ethiopia which was built by Cuba, the GDR, and Ethiopia.
Sergio del Valle and Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam discuss the
progress of the Ethiopian revolution and the current situation in Africa.
Minister of Health Sergio del Valle departs Addis Ababa. He says his stay in Ethi-
opia and the activities carried out with his counterparts were fruitful in strengthen-
ing existing relations.
The Voice of Revolutionary Ethiopia (VRE) says that Ethiopia and Cuba have
signed a tl,vo year economic and cultural cooperation agreement to exchange
scientific and technical documents.
Public Health Minister Sergio del Valle and Ethiopian Health Minister Dr. Gizaw
Tseday discuss bilateral cooperation.
Sergio del Valle and Ethiopian official Addis Tedla sign a biennial cooperation
accord at the closing of the 5th session of the Joint Commission on Economic and
Scientific-Technical Cooperation.
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Oscar Oramas says that Cuba has withdrawn
troops from Ethiopia but he does nbt specify numbers or dates of the withdrawal.
Havana press announces that for the first time in the history of Cuban-Ethiopian
medical cooperation, a group of students from Cuba will receive their diplomas in
Ethiopia.
Cuban construction workers that worked on the cement factory that opened on 21
August in Ethiopia are seen off from Ethiopia with an emotional farewell
ceremony.
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November 26
December 4
Union of Young Communists official Carlos Lage bids farewell to 133 Cuban last-
year medical school students leaving for Nicaragua, GuineaBissau, and Ethiopia.
Minister of Interior Ramiro Valdes heads a delegation to Ethiopia to attend
festivities commemorating the 10th anniversary of Ethiopia's revolution.
Ethiopian leader Mengistu meets with Minister of Interior Ramiro Valdes in
Addis Ababa. Valdes heads the Cuban delegation to the 10th anniversary of the
Ethiopian revolution.
In a speech in Ethiopia, Valdes says that the US has intensified the warmongering
campaign against the Cuban revolution and that this campaign includes the
possibility of a direct attack.
Ramiro Valdes meets in Addis Ababa with Cubans carrying out an international-
ist mission. He reads a message from Fidel Castro to all Cubans in Ethiopia.
Ethiopian President Mengistu Haile Mariam receives Ramiro Valdes. He asks
Valdes to convey greetings to Fidel Castro who is considered to be a true friend of
Ethiopia.
Fidel Castro congratulates Mengistu Haile Mariam on the occasions of the 10th
anniversary of the triumph of the revolution and founding congress of the Workers
Party of Ethiopia.
Ethiopia's Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Berhanu meets with Cuban labor
official, Enrique Gutierrez visiting Addis Ababa to discuss cooperation in labor
unions, and bilateral relations.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane speaks at the main ceremony of the
Cuban celebrations of the tenth anniversary of the Ethiopian revolution hailing the
formation of the Workers Party.
Zimbabwe press reports rumors that some of the Cubans to be evacuated from
Ethiopia and Angola may wind up in Zimbabwe and Ghana.
The Ethiopian News Agency reports that a delegation headed by Minister of Law
and Justice Amanuel Amde Michael has departed for Cuba to attend a conference
for justice ministers.
Jesus Montane meets in Havana with Ethiopia's Minister of Justice Amanuel
Amde Michael to discuss the international situation, party relations, and other
topics of mutual interest.
Havana press reports that a group of Cuban specialists, experts in small water
reservoirs, are currently in Ethiopia to help with the government's plans for
resolving the drought.
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Fidel Castro holds a reception for Mengistu Haile Mariam. Raul Castro, Juan
Almeida, Ramiro Valdes, Guillermo Garcia, and Politburo members attend.
December 14 Fidel Castro and Ethiopian Chairman Mengistu discuss the current situation and
cooperation between the parties and governments.
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Finland
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane receives Urs Sunkiet, President of the
Workers Bank of Finland to discuss the international situation, particularly
Central America.
October 13 Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez and his Finnish counterpart Kaarina
Suonio sign in Helsinki a work protocol to exchange teachers in various fields.
October 24
Prime Minister of Finland Kalevi Sorsa receives Minister of Education Jose
Ramon Fernandez in Helsinki to discuss bilateral relations and the situation in
Central America and the Caribbean.
Jose Ramon Fernandez signs a cooperation agreement between the Cuban
Institute of Friendship with the Peoples and the Finland-Cuba Friendship
Association during his visit to Helsinki.
Cuba and Finland sign an agreement in Havana to develop cooperation in the field
of industrial design to include the training of specialists and participation in fairs
and expositions.
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France
Fidel Castro and Georges Marchais, Secretary General of the French Communist
Party issue a communique in Havana condemning the US and asking the people of
the world to support Nicaragua.
Fidel Castro and Georges Marchais sign a joint Central American policy
statement.
Paris AFP reports that 14 Cubans who sought asylum at the Peruvian Embassy in
Havana have been on a hunger strike since 16 December; Havana denies these
reports.
Jose Ramon Fernandez meets in Caracas with Argentine President Alfonsin,
French Interior Minister Defferre, Spanish Prime Minister Gonzalez, and Ecua-
dor's presidential candidate Rodrigo Borja.
Paris press reports that on 6 March Cuban police shot a high school teacher
seeking refuge in the Venezuelan Embassy in Havana by climbing over a fence
surrounding the embassy.
Foreign Minister Malmierca makes a technical stopover at Madrid's Barajas
Airport and meets with his Spanish counterpart Fernando Moran to discuss Cuba
accepting ETA members deported from France.
Fidel Castro, in a French TV interview, says the US is involved directly and
indirectly in El Salvador and that the Salvadoran revolutionary movement will
overcome militarily.
In his interview granted to French TV, Fidel says that relations between France
and Cuba are fine. Cuba and France do not agree on all aspects of their foreign
relations.
April 1 Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Paris where he discusses the situation in
Central America and Southern Africa with French Foreign Minister Claude
Cheysson.
Isidoro Malmierca gives a detailed explanation on the situation in Latin America,
mainly Central America to French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy.
April 2 Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Guy Penne, advisor for African affairs of
French President Mitterrand, and Minister of Culture Jack Lang.
April 3 Foreign Minister Malmierca tells French Prime Minister Mauroy that Fidel
Castro would like to visit several European countries, but the current situation in
Cuba and the region doesn't permit it.
Foreign Minister Malmierca ends his working visit to France by telling journalists
there is a need to check the US military escalation in Central America.
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Isidoro Malmierca and Claude Cheysson call for support of the Contadora Group's
efforts to seek a political solution in Central America.
April 6 During an interview with French TV, Fidel Castro condemns the mining of
Nicaraguan ports and charges the US Government responsible for these actions.
In his interview on French TV, Fidel Castro reaffirms his opinion that military
rightist dictatorships are in crisis, particularly in South America.
April 10 Secretary General of the Central Organization of Cuban Trade Unions Roberto
Veiga heads a delegation to Paris to attend the 31st session of the Bureau of the
World Federation of Trade Unions.
May 1
May 2
May 13-19
May 16
Madrid press reports that as a result of a request by Prime Minister Gonzalez, the
Cuban Government has agreed to receive six members of the ETA terrorist group
expelled from France to Panama.
French diplomatic sources tell AFP that Regis Debray, adviser to French
President Mitterrand, made a 12-hour visit to Havana on 1 May before leaving for
Managua.
Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia Frias visits France and is greeted by his
counterpart Charles Fiterman at Orly Airport. During his visit he will discuss
bilateral cooperation.
Guillermo Garcia Frias and Guy Lengagne, French Ministry of Transportation
official discuss a scientific and technical exchange program to include training of
Cuban specialists in France.
Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers Guillermo Garcia Frias
meets in Paris with Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism Edith Cresson to
discuss cooperation in transportation.
May 18 Guillermo Garcia Frias tours the installations of the Paris airport.
July 2
Paris press reports that the rebel National Union for the Total Independence of
Angola said its forces had killed 93 government troops and 13 Cubans between 25
and 29 June.
July 19 Paris press announces that UNITA claimed it killed more than 260 government
and Cuban troops on 18 July: 209 soldiers killed, 132 captured, and 59 Cubans
aiding the Angolan Government were killed.
September 20
Granma announces the appointment of Teresita Averhoff Puron as Ambassador to
Belgium with residence in Brussels and she will also be accredited as Cuban
Ambassador to Luxembourg.
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October 24
October 26
President of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation Hector Rodriguez
Llompart is participating in the eighth session of the Council of International
Agricultural Fund Governors in Paris.
Hector Rodriguez Llompart and Argentine President Raul Alfonsin meet in Paris
and discuss the serious situation created by the high foreign debt of Latin
American countries.
Minister President of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation Hector
Rodriguez Llompart meets in Paris with French Minister of Foreign Trade and In-
dustrial Redeployment Edith Cresson.
December 9-13 The first maritime safety meeting is held in Havana. In attendance are 200 Cuban
delegates, 12 from the USSR, Vietnam, Venezuela, France, and the United States.
December 15 The National Bank of Cuba signs an agreement in Paris with international banks
to reschedule its 1984 foreign debt of approximately $1 billion over nine years,
with a five-year grace period.
December 21 Paris Le Monde reports on an interview with Carlos Rafael Rodriguez in which he
discusses Angolan troop withdrawal and alleged US threats against Cuba since
1981 by the US.
December 25 In an interview in Paris, French Cooperation Minister Nucci says that 1985 will
constitute a new stage in French-Cuban cooperation. An intergovernmental
meeting will be held in Havana in January.
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Germany, East
January 1 GDR leaders Erich Honecker and Willi Stoph send messages of congratulations to
Fidel Castro on the 25th anniversary of the revolution.
January 9 President of the Union of Cuban Journalists Ernesto Vera arrives in Berlin to
participate in an international meeting of news media professionals.
February 13 Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and Jesus Montane meet with Erich
Honecker in Moscow; all agree that the international situation has become
dangerously complicated due to the arms buildup.
March 5
March 16
April 12
April 24
May 4
May 4-10
May 9
May 10
May 14
May 15
A group of 26 East German runners arrive in Havana to train at the Pedro
Marrero Stadium for the Olympics in Los Angeles.
GDR Deputy Culture Minister Klaus Hoepcke receives Rene Roca, heading a
Cuban delegation which will participate in the Book Fair being held in Leipzig.
The GDR will cooperate in the remodeling of the Cuban sugar industry
installations. A contract was signed in Leipzig by the Chemical Installations
Enterprise.
GDR leader Erich Honecker sends a message of condolence to Fidel Castro
conveying sympathy for the Cubans killed in Huambo, Angola.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers of the GDR Gerhard Weiss and Carlos
Rafael Rodriguez meet in Havana.
The 12th session of the Cuba-GDR Commission for Economic, Scientific, and
Technical Cooperation is held in Havana.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez awards Gerhard Weiss, Deputy Chairman of the GDR
Council of Ministers the Order of Solidarity award during a ceremony in Havana.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Gerhard Weiss sign a protocol at the 12th session of
the Cuba-GDR Joint Committee for Economic and Technical and Scientific
Cooperation in Havana; Fidel attends.
Candidate member of the Central Committee Raimundo Espinosa Aguilera and
Kurt Hager, Politburo member of the SED Central Committee exchange views on
science and higher education in East Berlin.
A cooperation agreement between the Union of Cuban Journalists and the GDR
Association of Journalists is signed in Havana for 1984-85.
Fidel Castro receives GDR Construction Minister Wolfgang Junker who conveyed
greetings from Erich Honecker. Problems of cooperation in the building industry
sector are discussed.
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May 18
May 30
June 14
July 7
July 9
July 23
July 24
July 28
August 1
August 24
Fidel Castro and GDR Deputy Chairman Gerhard Weiss agree that economic
cooperation in accordance with bilateral and multilateral agreements within
CEMA will benefit the two countries.
GDR construction ministers attending the CEMA meeting are present at the
inauguration ceremony of two monuments built to Karl Marx and Jose Marti at
the Karl Marx cement factory in Cienfuegos.
GDR Minister of Construction Wolfgang Junker meets with Central Committee
member Oscar Fernandez Mell and Dr. of Science Mario Gonzalez to discuss the
emulation plan.
Chairman of the GDR Council of Ministers Willi Stoph condemns the stepped-up
arms and interference policy of the US during a meeting with Justice Minister
Juan Escalona Reguera in Berlin.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez delivers a message from Fidel Castro to East German of-
ficial Erich Honecker in Moscow and they discuss bilateral relations.
Hector Rodriguez Llompart and GDR's Minister of Trade Gerhard Briksa sign a
document on the citrus plant being built in Ciego de Avila Province.
The Council of State awards the Jose Marti Order to Willi Stoph, member of Ger-
many's Socialist Unity Party Politburo on the occasion of his 79th birthday.
East Germany's Education Minister Margot Honecker arrives in Cuba and is
greeted by her counterpart Jose Ramon Fernandez. Honecker tours the Jose Marti
Pioneer Camp in Tarara.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Havana with Hermann Axen, GDR Politburo
member to discuss bilateral relations.
East German officials Erich Honecker and Willi Stoph send congratulations to
Fidel Castro on the 31st anniversary of the attack on Moncada wishing the
Cubans success and new victories in socialism.
Fidel Castro discusses bilateral cooperation and the international situation with
Hermann Axen, member of the Politburo of East Germany.
A delegation from the GDR's State Central Administration for Statistics, headed
by its Chairman, Professor Arno Donda, arrives in Cuba to discuss experiences in
statistics with Cuban officials.
East German Politburo member Horst Sindermann arrives in Havana for a two
week visit. He is met by Flavio Bravo and Jose Aranaburo, Secretary of the
National Assembly.
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September 4
September 5
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Humberto Perez attends the Leipzig
Fair in East Germany. Chairman of the Council of State Erich Honecker visits the
Cuban exhibit and meets Perez.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo meets in Havana with Horst
Sindermann, member of the Politburo of the SED Central Committee to exchange
views and opinions.
Trade between East Germany and Cuba is praised at a meeting in Leipzig between
Werner Jarowinsky, member of the SED Central Committee, and Cuba's Foreign
Trade Minister, Ricardo Cabrizas.
Horst Sindermann visits the "Second Party Congress" ceramics factory and a
ceramics factory being built, like the first one, with GDR assistance, on the Isle of
Youth.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas meets with Gerhard Weiss, member of
the Politburo of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany at the Leipzig Fair.
Horst Sindermann and Fidel Castro reaffirm the full support of their countries for
peace strategy of the Soviet Union and the socialist community of states during
their meeting.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and Flavio Bravo meet in Havana with
Horst Sindermann, member of the SED Central Committee Politburo to discuss
the international situation.
September 6 Horst Sindermann and Jesus Montane discuss party relations and international
issues during a meeting in Havana.
September 7
September 11
Isidoro Malmierca and Horst Sindermann discuss bilateral relations and condemn
the aggressive US policy in Central America and express full solidarity and
support for Nicaragua and El Salvador.
Konrad Naumann, First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany arrives
in Cuba and meets with Julio Camacho and Oscar Fernandez Mell to discuss
remodeling Havana and building houses.
Konrad Naumann and Erhard Krack, Mayor of Berlin, receive certificates of
honorary citizenship to the city of Havana from Mayor Oscar Fernandez Mell.
Fidel Castro receives Konrad Naumann, First Secretary of the Socialist Party of
Germany to discuss the international situation, and party and government
relations.
The 14th conference of ministers of higher education from socialist nations is
inaugurated in Berlin. Minister of Higher Education Fernando Vecino Alegrett
heads the Cuban delegation.
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September 12
September 13
September 14
September 19
September 20
October 2
October 8
October 9
October 10
October 15
October 23
October 30
Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura receives Konrad Naumann.
They discuss cooperation in the construction and remodeling plans for the City of
Havana and Communist Party relations.
Oscar Fernandez Mell and East German Central Committee member Erhard
Krack sign an agreement on East German participation in reconstruction projects
in Havana.
Union of Young Communist First Secretary Carlos Lage presides over a meeting
of young communist student workers in East Germany.
During Joel Domenech's visit to East Germany it was agreed that a GDR
delegation will attend Cuba's first forum on energy which will be held in Havana
on 2-4 December.
Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers Joel Domenech and his
GDR counterpart Wolfgang Routen agree on a new work plan which will broaden
bilateral cooperation in energy.
GDR Prime Minister Willi Stoph and Vice President and Chairman of the
National Energy Commission Joel Domenech discuss economic relations during a
meeting in Berlin.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez presides at a ceremony in Havana commemorating the
35th anniversary of the founding of the GDR. He says cooperation between the
two countries has been effective.
The Council of State confers the Jose Marti Order to Willi Stoph, member of the
SED Central Committee, on the occasion of his 70th birthday. Guillermo Garcia
Frias presented the award.
At the Victoria de Giron medical university in Havana, a work plan for 1985 is
signed between this school and the Humboldt Medical School in the GDR.
In Berlin, Vice President of the Council of State and Ministers Guillermo Garcia
and East German leader Erich Honecker denounce US policy against Cuba and
Nicaragua.
Chairman of the Council of State Erich Honecker bids farewell to outgoing Cuban
Ambassador Julio Garcia Oliveria. They discuss the significant results achieved in
deepening fraternal relations.
Granma announces the appointment of Ramiro del Rio Perez-Teran as Ambassa-
dor to the German Democratic Republic.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and Garcia Frias meet with East German
leaders Willi Stoph, who conveyed greetings from Erich Honecker, and Werner
Jarowinsky and Gerhard Schuerer..
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November 17
December 2-7
December 3
December 4
December 7
December 11
December 12
December 20
December 21
Fidel and Raul Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and Guillermo Garcia Frias bid
farewell to Willi Stoph, member of the SED Central Committee Politburo at Jose
Marti International Airport.
Minister of Justice Juan Escalona and his GDR counterpart Hans-Joachim
Heusinger sign a cooperation protocol for 1985 in Havana. Heusinger will attend
the justice ministers conference in Cuba.
Horst Dohlus, member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Socialist Unity
Party of Germany, visits Havana. Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado greets
him at the airport.
Minister of Health Sergio del Valle meets in Berlin with GDR Council of
Ministers Willi Stoph. They condemn US aggression and express solidarity with
the people of Nicaragua.
Politburo member Julio Camacho Aguilera receives Horst Dohlus and describes to
him the plans to develop and remodel the capital in the year 2000.
Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura discusses party relations with
Horst Dohlus.
Horst Dohlus visits the Carlos Fonseca Amador secondary school on the Isle of
Youth and the Karl Marx cement factory in Cienfuegos. Dohlus reiterates
solidarity with Cuba during his visit.
Sergio del Valle and Willi Stoph discuss bilateral cooperation in public health and
medical sciences. Del Valle tours the medical facilities in Rostock.
Vice Minister of Basic Industry Hector Casals and GDR Deputy Minister of
Chemical Industry sign an agreement in Havana that will provide Cuba an oxygen
and argon plant installed in Cienfuegos.
Fidel Castro and Horst Dohlus discuss the international situation and the present
state of relations between the two parties.
The GDR's Deputy Minister of the Glass and Ceramics Industry Juergen
Marowsky visits the ceramic factories and the experimental center of applied arts
on the Isle of Youth.
GDR Ambassador to Cuba Heinz Langer visits a brewery under construction in
Camaguey's capital in accordance with agreements signed by Cuba and the GDR.
Politburo member Julio Camacho Aguilera meets at party headquarters with
Joachim Beottger, East Berlin Deputy Mayor, who is heading a delegation visiting
Cuba.
The Mayor of the GDR Joachim Boettger and Maximo Andion, member of the
Executive Committee in Havana, sign an agreement for encouraging the Havana
reconstruction plan begun by Fidel.
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Germany, West
January 13 Central Committee member Raul Valdes Vivo and Herbert Mies, Chairman of the
German Communist Party term their meeting in Dusseldorf as very satisfactory.
March 10 Reuters, West Germany reports that Eduardo Capote, prisoner for 17 years in
Cuba, displayed mutilated hands and says more than 200 political and religious
prisoners are tortured in Cuban jails.
April 16 FRG parliament members Gabriele Gottwald and Jergen Reents, members of the
Greens Party, visit the Center for Western European Studies at the invitation of
the National Assembly.
July 20 West German Press reports that during 20 years in Cuban prisons, dissident poet
and writer Jorge Valls Arango says he learned to live with torture and the daily
sound of people being executed.
October 19 German press reports that correspondent Faessler interviewed Fidel Castro in
Havana. Castro expressed satisfaction with Willy Brandt's visit and said Nicara-
gua needs the aid of West Europe.
November 26 Acting Vice President of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation Raul
Taladrid heads a government and business delegation to the third economic
meeting of FRG enterprises in Bonn.
November 28 A scientific and technical agreement is signed between Cuba and the FRG BASF
Chemical Group in West Germany. Raul Taladrid says this agreement is a step to-
ward strengthening cooperation.
December 19 In an interview in Stern, Fidel Castro discusses Nicaragua and US goals and says
the US administration does not wish a peaceful settlement in Central America.
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July 29
Ghana
Manuel Morales, member of the National Committee of the Union of Communist
Youth heads a delegation to Ghana. At a news conference, he urges the youth to
keep up the spirit of responsibility.
Accra Domestic Service announces that Force Commander General Arnold
Quainoo and Justice D. S. Annon visited the Ghanaian children at school on the
Isle of Youth and met with Cuban officials.
Foreign Minister Malmierca leads a delegation to Accra to further strengthen the
cordial relations between the two countries.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with the Chairman of the Provisional National
Defense Council of Ghana, Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings. Malmierca extends
an invitation to Rawlings to visit Cuba.
During a press conference in Accra, Isidoro Malmierca says his visit to Ghana will
enable the two countries to intensify their cooperation.
Cuba and Ghana sign an agreement for cooperation in the information sector of
their diplomatic services.
Before departing Ghana, Isidoro Malmierca signed a communique detailing some
of the agreements on economic, cultural, and historic issues.
Flight Lt. Jerry Rawlings, Chairman of Ghana's Provisional National Defense
Council, is greeted by Fidel Castro at Jose Marti Airport. Rawlings will attend the
Moncada barracks ceremonies.
Flight Lt. Rawlings speaks to 610 students of the House of Baire School on the Isle
of Youth telling them to be very strong, well disciplined, and to learn from Cuba.
Flight Lt. Rawlings arrives in Santiago de Cuba accompanied by Politburo
member Jorge Risquet. Rawlings will visit places of historic and economic interest.
During a reception given by Fidel Castro in Havana, Ghanaian leader Jerry
Rawlings says "there are no Cuban troops in Ghana.. .but they are welcome."
Fidel Castro decorates Flight Lt. Jerry Rawlings, Chairman of the Provisional
National Defense Council of Ghana with the Order of Jose Marti medal.
July 30 Fidel Castro and Flight Lt. Rawlings visit the University of Havana where they
meet with Ghanaians studying in Cuba.
Fidel Castro, Juan Almeida, Ramiro Valdes, Sergio del Valle, and Julio Camacho
Aguilera are present to bid farewell to Flight Lt. Jerry Rawlings at Jose Marti In-
ternational Airport.
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Granma publishes a joint Cuban-Ghanaian communique at the end of an official
visit to Cuba by Ghanaian leader Jerry Rawlings, stressing bilateral relations and
cooperation.
November 1 Zimbabwe press reports rumors that some of the Cubans to be evacuated from
Ethiopia and Angola may wind up in Zimbabwe and Ghana.
December 31
Head of State Rawlings of Ghana sends a message of congratulations to Fidel
Castro on the 26th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, saying he will continue
drawing inspiration from Fidel's ideals.
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May 23 Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives at Ellinikon Airport in Athens.
September 13 The Chamber of Deputies in Havana unanimously passed the bill providing for the
establishment of a Greek Embassy in Havana.
October 3
Fidel Castro sends a message of congratulations to Khariloaos Florakis, Secretary
General of the Communist Party of Greece, upon his receipt of the Order of Lenin
conferred in Moscow by Chernenko.
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Grenada
? In an interview granted to the Medellin newspaper El Mundo, Fidel Castro says
the US invasion of Grenada benefited Cuba. "Not even Reagan knows the good he
has done us," Fidel said.
April 4 The Grenadian Government announces the police, in cooperation with the
Caribbean Peace-Keeping Force, have discovered a major arms cache in the now-
vacated Cuban Embassy.
May 3
May 8
Bridgetown press announces that Grenada's interim government has turned down
a request from Cuba to return to Havana all construction equipment being used at
Point Salines Airport.
Barbados Prime Minister Adams tells Parliament that he has been told that Fidel
Castro may seek revenge on those responsible for Havana's "humiliation" last year
in Grenada.
May 29 Granma blames the US for its contempt for Grenada and its hatred of Maurice
Bishop, "against whose government it unleashed ?. continuous policy of hostility."
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November 8
November 23
December 2
December 8
Don Rojas, former press secretary of Grenada, holds a news conference in Havana
noting the 40th birthday of Maurice Bishop.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart and Central Committee member Jose Ramon
Balaguer preside over the first Maurice Bishop Memorial Caribbean AntiImperia-
list Intellectuals Conference in Santiago.
Central Committee member Jose Ramon Balaguer calls Maurice Bishop a hero
during a ceremony for the unveiling of a bust of the late Grenadian leader in San-
tiago de Cuba.
Madrid press reports that Cuba has filed suit with the Supreme Tribunal of
Grenada to obtain the return of some of the equipment it had on the island when
the US invaded on 25 October 1983.
In a joint communique issued in Guyana, Malmierca and his counterpart Jackson
call for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Grenada and condemn all forms of
intervention in the Caribbean.
Granma publishes a letter to Fidel Castro from Kendrick Radix, President of the
Maurice Bishop Patriotic Movement, expressing gratitude for Cuban aid in
constructing Grenada's new airport.
Grenada police report that a Cuban journalist who came to Grenada to cover the
elections on 3 December was refused entry and expelled on the same plane he ar-
rived in.
Granma describes new Grenadian Prime Minister Herbert Blaize as a fictional
prime minister who has come to fill this post solely through US efforts.
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The Council of State decrees three days of official mourning for Ahmed Sekou
Toure, President of Guinea.
Juan Almeida, Jesus Montane, and Jose Viera sign the condolence book on the
death of Ahmed Sekou Toure at the Embassy of Guinea.
Fidel Castro signs the condolence book on the death of the late President Ahmed
Sekou Toure at the Embassy of Guinea in Havana.
Havana press announces that Isidoro Malmierca attended the funeral of the late
President Ahmed Sekou Toure of Guinea.
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August 29
Guinea-Bissau
Granma announces that Julio Carranza Valdes has been named Cuban Ambassa-
dor to Guinea Bissau.
Union of Young Communists official Carlos Lage bids farewell to 133 Cuban last-
year medical school students leaving for Nicaragua, Guinea Bissau, and Ethiopia.
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Guyana
Cuba's Ambassador to Guyana Lazaro Cabezas tells a rally in Georgetown that
despite imperialist aggression, Cuba has been able to make remarkable strides in
health, education, culture, and sports.
The Cuba-Guyanese Mixed Commission meeting opens in Havana. Dr. Richard
Van West-Charles, Guyana's Minister of Public Health, and Marcos Lage,
Minister of the Steelworking Industry, preside.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas meets with Guyana's Health Minister
Richard Van West-Charles to discuss bilateral trade.
Politburo alternate member Montane meets in Havana with Cheddi Jagan,
Secretary General of the People's Progressive Party of Guyana to discuss matters
of mutual interest.
The fourteenth anniversary of the independence of Guyana has been commemorat-
ed with a ceremony held in Havana at the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the
Peoples.
April 10 Guyana press reports that during a visit to Havana by Manpower and Coopera-
tives Minister Kenneth Denny, a memorandum on collaboration in labor, social
security, and cooperation was signed.
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Guyana press announces that Prime Minister Ptolemy Reid has been in Cuba for
medical treatment since 16 July.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Jesus Montane, and Isidoro Malmierca
welcome Guyanese officials Forbes Burnham, Hamilton Green, and Richard Van
West-Charles at Jose Marti Airport.
Guyanese President Burnham departs Cuba. During his visit, he and President
Castro discussed bilateral relations and the international situation and visited
economic and research centers.
Seventy-five head of dairy cattle arrive in Guyana from Cuba in keeping with an
agreement between the two countries that concluded during President Burnham's
visit to Havana last month.
Guyana press reports that Foreign Minister Malmierca will leave for Georgetown,
Guyana on 7 November.
Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca and President Forbes Burnham of Guyana
discuss bilateral and international relations during a meeting in Guyana.
In a joint communique issued in Guyana, Malmierca and his counterpart Jackson
call for the withdrawal of foreign forces from Grenada and condemn all forms of
intervention in the Caribbean.
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November 10 Isidoro Malmierca meets with Guyana's Vice President Ranji Chandisingh.
Malmierca says Cuba and Guyana are re-evaluating all levels of their relations.
December 10
December 11
December 13
Isidoro Malmierca and Public Health Minister Richard Van West-Charles
analyze the current and future cooperation programs and agree to give more
priority to farming projects and push for trade.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane discusses bilateral relations and
matters of mutual interest with Cheddi Jagan.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with the secretary of Guyana's People's Progres-
sive Party Jagan in Havana to discuss the situation in Central America and the
Caribbean and the world's economy.
In an interview with Prensa Latina, Foreign Minister Malmierca reiterates that
Cuba supports the negotiations between Venezuela and Guyana to resolve their
disagreement over territorial issues.
Secretary General of the Peoples Progressive Party of Guyana Cheddi Jagan
meets with Jesus Montane in Havana.
December 14 Fidel Castro and Cheddi Jagan discuss the current international problems,
especially those in Central America and the Caribbean, and party relations.
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Honduras
Gerardo Manquela Gomez, a Cuban doctor on assignment in Nicaragua, seeks ,
asylum in the Honduran Embassy, saying "there is no freedom in his country and
human rights there are not respected."
March 17 A communique in Granma accuses the US of using its ally, Honduras, to mine
Nicaraguan ports.
April 17
September 4
October 30
In a news conference, Isidoro Malmierca says the US is using Honduras as a
military base for new attacks against Nicaragua and Cuba would be powerless to
help Central America if the US invaded.
Tegucigalpa press reports that 23 Cuban and Libyan mercenaries were killed at a
military training base in Santa Clara in an attack by the Nicaraguan Democratic
Force on 1 September.
In a news conference in Tegucigalpa, Honduran military spokesman Carlos
Quezada presents 19 rebels, five of whom said they had received military training
and political indoctrination in Cuba.
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Hungary
The 12th session of the Cuban-Hungarian Commission for Economic, Scientific,
and Technical Cooperation begins in Havana. Hungarian Deputy Premier Jozsef
Marjai and Jose Ramon Fernandez preside.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and Jose Ramon Fernandez discuss the
international situation, bilateral cooperation, and other topics of interest with
Hungarian Deputy Premier Marjai.
January 12 The 12th session of the Cuban-Hungarian intergovernmental commission for
economic cooperation is signed by Jose Ramon Fernandez and Jozsef Marjai in
Havana.
January 30 Severo Aguirre, President of the Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of Peoples
completes a 5-day visit to Hungary, he met with Nandorne Sebestyen, President of
the National Peace Council.
February 15 Politburo member Jorge Risquet and Matyas Szuros, Secretary of the Hungarian
Socialist Workers Party discuss economic, social, and political development and
bilateral relations in Havana.
March 2 Hungarian Domestic Trade Minister Zoltan Juhar departs Havana. Economic
cooperation was discussed and a protocol was signed to increase the exchange of
products over last year's levels.
March 5 President of Havana's National Assembly of the People's Government Oscar
Fernandez Me11 meets with a Hungarian delegation headed by Agost Sandorni.
March 27
Minister President of the Central Planning Board Humberto Perez and his
Hungarian counterpart Lajos Faluvegi discuss economic cooperation, specifically
the production of Icarus buses in Cuba.
April 17 Steelworking Industry Vice Minister Hugo Vazquez is in Bucharest for coopera-
tion talks to intensify Cuban-Romanian cooperation in the machine building
industry.
May 17
Culture Minister Armando Hart speaks at the 12th meeting of culture ministers in
Hungary stressing the need to take concrete measures to strengthen the role of so-
cialist intellectuals worldwide.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas meets in Moscow with counterparts
Peter Veress from Hungary, Khristo Khristov from Bulgaria, and Nikolay
Komarov from the Soviet Union.
Justice Minister Juan Escalona Reguera arrives in Hungary to discuss timely
issues in the legal and juridical relations and cooperation with his Hungarian
counterpart Dr. Imre Markoja.
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May 22
The 12th meeting of culture ministers from socialist countries ends in Budapest.
Armando Hart is seen off at Budapest's International Airport by his Hungarian
counterpart Bela Kopeczi.
Justice Minister Dr. Juan Escanola Reguera meets with Hungarian officials Dr.
Jeno Szilbereky, President of the Supreme Court and Janos Borbandi, Vice-
Chairman of the Council of Ministers.
Minister of Justice Dr. Juan Escanola Reguera meets with Hungarian counterpart
Dr. Imre Markoja to sign a cooperation agreement on the exchange of
information.
June 24 Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane arrives in Budapest.
June 24-28
June 28
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane visits Hungary. He discusses inter-
party relations and the international situation, especially the Caribbean and
Europe with Janos Kadar.
Jesus Montane met with Peter Varkonyi, Hungarian Foreign Minister, Janos
Berecz, Editor-in-Chief of NEPSZABADSAG, and Gyula Horn, head of the
department at the HSWP CC.
July 23 The Vice President of the Presidential Council of the Hungarian People's Republic
receives new Cuban Ambassador to Hungary Euclides Vazquez Candela, who
presents his credentials.
July 24 Vice President of the Presidential Council of Budapest Sandor Gaspar meets
Cuba's new ambassador to Hungary, Euclides Vazquezcandela, who presents his
credentials.
August 14
August 16
August 29
August 31
Member of the Politburo of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party Istvan Sarlos
receives Politburo alternate member Humberto Perez to discuss cooperation and
economic plans for 1986-1990.
President of the Council of Ministers Humberto Perez and his Hungarian
counterpart Lajos Faluvegi sign an economic and scientific-technical cooperation
plan through the year 2000.
Field Marshal Raul Menendez Tomassevich, Commander of the People's Militia,
arrives in Hungary at the invitation of Sandor Borbely, National Commander of
the Hungarian Workers' Militia.
Division General Raul Menendez Tomassevich and his delegation visit the Island
of Csepel and meet with leaders of the workers brigades.
Raul Menendez Tomassevich meets with Karoly Nemeth, member of the HSWP
Political Committee and Secretary of the Central Committee in Hungary.
Tomassevich departs Hungary.
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Hungarian party Politburo member Gyorgy Aczel departs Budapest for Cuba at
the invitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
A Union of Young Communists delegation headed by First Secretary Carlos Lage
departs for Budapest after a visit to Poland.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez greets Gyorgy Aczel, member of the Hungarian Socialist
Workers Party Political Committee at Havana's International Airport.
Hungary's Politburo member Gyorgy Aczel discusses relations between the two
parties with Fidel Castro and matters of mutual interest with Antonio Perez
Herrero during a meeting in Havana.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo arrives in Hungary. He meets
with Pal Losonczi, President of the Presidential Council on 13 Septemper to
discuss the international situation.
Flavio Bravo tells Pal Losonczi that tension in Central America is great because of
US aggression and Havana is ready to settle its differences of view with the US at
the negotiating table.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez bids farewell to Gyorgy Aczel, Politburo member and
Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party at
Jose Marti International Airport.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo visits the Hungarian Socialist
Workers Party Central Committee offices in Budapest and meets with Matyas
Szuros, Secretariat member.
The 16th session of the Cuban-Hungarian Subcommittee for Scientific-Technical
Cooperation meeting is held in Havana. Bilateral cooperation for the next 5 years
will be studied.
A delegation from the Hungarian Patriotic People's Front headed by Chairman,
Imre Pozsgay, visits the national headquarters of the Committees for the Defense
of the Revolution in Havana.
A four year agreement on temporary employment and vocational training of
Cuban workers at Hungarian enterprises is signed in Budapest. Cubans will work
at Hungarian textile and machine enterprises.
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November 5
India
Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Indira Gandhi to discuss matters of interest to
both countries and to the Nonaligned Movement.
Fidel Castro closes the 39th CEMA meeting. He reflects on the death of Indira
Gandhi, saying that it is a great loss to India and to the Nonaligned Movement.
Fidel Castro sends a message of condolence to Indian Prime Minister Rajiv
Gandhi for the assassination of Indira Gandhi, saying he has lost a loyal friend.
The Council of State declares three days of mourning for Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi of India.
Vice President of the Council of State Juan Almeida will head the delegation to
the funeral of Indira Gandhi. Isidoro Malmierca, Rene Rodriguez, and Zolia
Rosales will also attend.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Juan Almeida meets in New Delhi with
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Gandhi expresses wishes to continue
strengthening relations with Cuba.
November 16 Fidel Castro sends a message to Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on the
occasion of Gandhi's accession to the presidency of the Nonaligned Movement.
November 23
November 24
November 26
Vice Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torras concludes his visit to Afghanistan and he
says his visit reaffirms the fraternal relations between the two countries. He
departs for India.
Vice Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torras discusses strengthening bilateral relations
and exchanges viewpoints on the Nonaligned Movement with Indian Foreign
Secretary Rasgotra in New Delhi.
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Pelegrin Torras meets in India with Vice
Minister J. S. Payhail to discuss the international situation.
December 30 Fidel Castro sends a congratulatory message to India's Prime Minister Rajiv
Gandhi on the victory of the ruling Congress Party in the recently held elections.
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Indonesia
Orlando Fundora, attending a meeting of information ministers of the nonaligned
in Jakarta, says the US decision to withdraw from UNESCO is a demonstration of
hegemony and arrogance.
Vice President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television Orestes Gispert
charges in Jakarta that the US intends to create a radio station to air hostile pro-
paganda against other countries.
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Iran
The Foreign Ministry issues a statement regarding the worsening of the conflict
between Iran and Iraq saying there is a concentration of warships belonging to im-
perialist powers near Hormuz.
July 19. Iranian Ambassador in Havana Mostafa Mokhlesi delivers a message from
Foreign Minister Velayati to Isidoro Malmierca and they discuss strengthening
bilateral relations.
July 20 Iran's Ambassador in Havana, Mostafa Mokhlesi and Isidoro Malmierca discuss
strengthening bilateral relations and Malmierca denounces US imperialist's plots
in the Persian Gulf during a meeting.
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September 30
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Fidel Castro receives Javad Larijani, Special Envoy to President Khamenei, who
delivers a letter describing Iran's position on some of the problems to be debated at
the UN meeting in New York.
Isidoro Malmierca and Javad Larijani meet to discuss Iran's stance against Israel
and the necessity of its expulsion from the UN and other international
organizations.
Iranian Foreign Minister Velayati meets with Isidoro Malmierca in New York to
discuss expanding mutual relations. Velayati pledges support for the Latin
American countries against US imperialism.
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September 17
November 5
Iraq
The Foreign Ministry issues a statement regarding the worsening of the conflict
between Iran and Iraq saying there is a concentration of warships belonging to im-
perialist powers near Hormuz.
President Hussein of Iraq receives Dr. Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras professor and
director of the Frank Pais Orthopedic Hospital; they discuss ties of friendship and
bilateral cooperation.
The Ministry of Communications announces that direct telephone communications
between Havana and Baghdad will begin.
Iraq's Deputy Minister of Trade arrives in Havana to attend the 5th session of the
inter-governmental Committee on Scientific-Technical Cooperation.
Dr. Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras, orthopedic equipment designer reports that Cuba
will sell orthopedic equipment to Iraq and Kuwait. Each piece of equipment costs
$12,000; 18 pieces in a set.
Iraq's First Deputy Prime Minister Yasin Ramadan receives Levi Farah, Minister
of Construction Abroad to discuss bolstering relations in the interest of the two
countries.
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Jorge Ridriguez and Manuel Aguilera arrive in Israel as the official delegation of
the Cuban Communist youth to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Israeli
Communist Youth Alliance.
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June 26
Italy
'Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of Vincemeo Magno, the new
? Ifalian Ambassador to Cuba.
Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Rome and discusses the Central American
crisis and Italo-Cuban relations with Foreign Minister Andreotti.
In the 17th session in Rome, the World Food Program Subcommittee approves
Cuba's plan to develop the Jimaguayu Basin dairy project in Camaguey and will
contribute $35 million to the project.
Fidel Castro sends a message of condolence to the Italian Communist Party on the
death of Enrico Berlinguer, head of the Italian Communist Party.
The third meeting of the Cuba-Italy Committee on Economic and Industry
Cooperation begins in Havana. Both sides discuss their respective economies,
production, and trade.
Foreign Minister Malmierca receives Susanna Agnelli, President of the Italian
delegation attending the Cuba-Italy economic meeting to discuss strengthening
relations.
July 17 Secretary General of the Italian Communist Party Alessandro Natta meets with
Cuba's Ambassador to Italy Roberto Mulet del Valle. Natta says the PCI can bet-
ter exert influence in Italy.
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September 17
November 8
Granma announces that Javier Ardizones Ceballos has been appointed Ambassa-
dor to Italy.
Deputy Chief of the Central Committee's General Department of Foreign
Relations Eloy Valdes talks of party relations with Gerardo Chiaromonte,
Chairman of the Italian Communist Party in Italy.
Jesus Montane meets with a delegation of municipal officials from Italy's Florence
Province, representatives of Bologna and Milan Provinces, and the Italian-Cuban
Friendship Association.
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Ivory Coast
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President of the
Ivory Coast, to discuss the situation in southern Africa after the failure of the Lu-
saka conference on Namibia.
Foreign Minister Malmierca makes a stopover in Abidjan; while en route to Mali,
and is met by his counterpart Simeon Ake; they discuss Central America and
Africa.
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November 15
Jamaica
A US Coast Guard spokesman reports that two US sailboats with 19 people
aboard, taking part in a race from Montego Bay, Jamaica, to Miami were detained
by Cuban gunboats.
Jamaican Prime Minister Edward Seaga says that events in Grenada had reduced
Cuban influence in the Caribbean to its lowest level since Fidel Castro came to
power.
Bridgetown press announces that Trevor Munroe, leader of the Marxist Workers
Party of Jamaica, has gone to Cuba to discuss improving relations.
Fidel Castro meets in Havana with Jamaica's former Prime Minister and
President of the People's National Party, Michael Manley.
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Japan
Ricardo Cabrizas meets with Yoshikiro Imiyama, President of the Federation of
Economic Organizations of Japan who showed interest in Fidel's book "Economic
and Social Crisis in the World."
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas outlines eight important objectives for
the development of relations with Japan at the opening of the Seventh Bilateral
Economic Conference in Japan.
The Seventh Bilateral Economic Conference between Cuba and Japan ends in
Tokyo. Cuba asks for support to arrange negotiations for new international sugar
agreement; the request was not recognized.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas meets with Japanese Finance Minister Noburo
Takeshita to discuss prospects for developing bilateral trade relations.
April 27 The Cuban Embassy in Tokyo issues entry visas to a South Korean broadcasting
crew to cover the South Korean women's basketball team that will compete in Los
Angeles and Havana.
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September 21
November 17
November 21
A delegation from Cuba arrives in Kobe to attend a Cuban trade show that will be
held on 27 July in the Kobe Trade Promotion Center.
The Council of State appoints Amadeo Blanco Valdes-Fauly as Cuba's Ambassa-
dor to Japan.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane greets Tetsuzo Fuwa, who heads a
high-level delegation from the Japanese Communist Party, at Jose Marti Interna-
tional Airport.
Bayarhuugiyn Nandzao, Mongolia's Ambassador to international situation and
matters regarding the existing ties between their parties with Tetsuzo Fuwa,
Japan's Communist Party Presidium chairman.
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July 10 Granma announces that Hector Argiles Perez has been appointed Cuban Ambas-
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Kampuchea
Fidel Castro sends a message of congratulations to Heng Samrin, General
Secretary of the KPRP Central Committee on the 5th anniversary of the 7
January National Day.
May 25 Fidel Castro sends a message of congratulations to Heng Samrin, General
Secretary of the Party Central Committee of Kampuchea on the occasion of his
50th birthday.
September 12 A delegation of the Kampuchean Ministry of Foreign Affairs led by Deputy
Minister Kong Korm departs for Cuba to attend a seminar on the situation in Lat-
in America.
September 20 Isidoro Malmierca and Kampuchean Vice Foreign Minister Kong Korm discuss
the international situation, particularly Central America, the Caribbean, and
Southeast Asia during a meeting in Havana.
October 11 Kampuchea's Foreign Minister Hun Sen receives and holds cordial talks with the
delegation of the Committee for the Defense of the Cuban Revolution led by
Maria Teresa Malmierca, vice coordinator.
Member of Kampuchea's Central Committee Political Bureau Chea Sim receives
Maria Teresa Malmierca and her delegation to thank the Cubans for their
relationship and cooperation between the parties.
October 12 Kampuchean Ambassador to Cuba Visalo and Pelegrin Torras sign exchange of
ratification documents on cultural cooperation in Havana.
November 23
November 29
December 2
The second session of the Cuba-Kampuchea intergovernmental commission begins
in Havana. Minister of Communications Pedro Guelmes and his Kampuchean
counterpart discuss bilateral cooperation.
Kampuchean Minister of Posts, Transport, and Communications Khun Chhy and
Minister of Communications Pedro Gonzalez sign a cooperation protocol for 1985-
86 in Havana.
Politburo member Guillermo Garcia Frias and Central Committee member Pedro
Gonzalez Guelmes meet with Khun Chhy. The two sides praised the good relations
between the two countries.
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Korea, North
Fidel Castro receives the delegation of the North Korean League of Socialist
Working Youth headed by Kim Song-chol, Vice Chairman of its Central
Committee.
Minister of Pubic Health Sergio del Valle and Jesus Montane meet in Havana
with the delegation headed by Chong Chun-ki, candidate member of the Politburo
of the Korean Workers' Party.
Kang Song-san receives a message of greetings from Fidel Castro on his election as
premier of the Administration Council of the DPRK.
April 16 First Vice Foreign Minister Jose Raul Viera Linares arrives in Pyongyang. He
attends a meeting marking the 23rd anniversary of the Bay of Pigs held at the
Korea-Cuba Friendship facility.
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December 1
December 2
December 29
North Korean leaders Kang Song-san, Ho Tam, and Kim Chung-il meet with
First Vice Minister Jose Raul Viera Linares.
Isidoro Malmierca sends a message to Korean Foreign Minister Kim Yong-nam
on the occasion of the 24th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations
between the two countries.
In a letter to International Olympic Committee President Samaranch, Fidel
Castro asked to have some events moved to North Korea to prevent a possible boy-
cott of the 1988 Seoul games.
Minister of People's Armed Forces of North Korea General 0 Chin-u sends a
message of greetings to Raul Castro on the 28th anniversary of the day of Cuban
Revolutionary Armed Forces.
Prensa Latina reports that Fidel Castro sent a letter to the International Olympic
Committee asking them to move some 1988 Olympic events to North Korea to
prevent a possible boycott in Seoul.
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December 29
Korea, South
The Cuban Foreign Ministry issues a statement condemning the US military
presence in South Korea and the pro-imperialist policy of the South Korean
government.
A Korean sports official announces in Seoul that Cuba has assured the free entry
of the South Korean basketball team and journalists into its territory for the
Women's Olympics on 5 May.
Cuba issues entry visas to South Korean women basketball players to allow them
to compete in the pre-Olympics in Havana in May, according to the Korea
Basketball Association.
A 20-member South Korean women's basketball team, consisting of 12 players
and eight officials, departs for Cuba to compete in the pre-Olympics scheduled for
Havana in May.
The Cuban Embassy in Tokyo issues entry visas to a South Korean broadcasting
crew to cover the South Korean women's basketball team that will compete in Los
Angeles and Havana.
In a news conference with South Korean reporters, Miguel Diaz, the Sports
Ministry's Public-Relations officer, says that Cuba will participate in the 1988
Seoul Summer Olympics.
In a letter to International Olympic Committee President Samaranch, Fidel
Castro asked to have some events moved to North Korea to prevent a possible boy-
cott of the 1988 Seoul games.
Prensa Latina reports that Fidel Castro sent a letter to the International Olympic
Committee asking them to move some 1988 Olympic events to North Korea to
prevent a possible boycott in Seoul.
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July 13 Granma announces that Julio A. Imperatori Grave de Peralta has been named
Cuban Ambassador to Kuwait.
September 17
Dr. Rodrigo Alvarez Cambras, orthopedic equipment designer reports that Cuba
will sell orthopedic equipment to Iraq and Kuwait. Each piece of equipment costs
$12,000; 18 pieces in a set.
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December 3
Laos
Phoun Sipaseut, member of the LPRP Central Committee Political Bureau of
Laos confers a friendship medal on Luis Reyes Mas, Ambassador of Cuba to Laos
for his outstanding meritorious achievements.
Laos's Vice-Chairman of the Council of Ministers Phoun Sipaseut receives Mario
Garcia Vazquez, the new ambassador of Cuba to Laos to discuss furthering
friendship relations.
Kaysone Phomvihan, general secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party,
receives the new ambassador of Cuba to Laos, Mario Garcia Vazquez to discuss
the tense regional situation.
Vientiane press reports that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba recently
issued a declaration to support Laos in connection with the violation of Lao
territory by Thai troops.
Minister of Interior of Laos, General Sisavat Keobounphan, receives a Cuban
delegation of the Union of Communist Youth, led by Secretariat member Santiago
Arias.
Maria Teresa Malmierca, Vice President of the Cuban Revolution Defense
Committee visits with President Souphanouvong of Laos. They discuss matters
relating to the Lao Front.
Havana TV reports that Lao Vice Foreign Minister Souban Salitthilat has
departed Cuba. He was visiting Havana as part of an exchange program between
the Cuban and Lao Foreign Ministries.
Lao leaders send a joint congratulatory message to Fidel Castro on the occasion of
the 10th founding anniversary of the Lao Cuban diplomatic relations.
Fidel Castro sends greetings to Keysone Phomvihan, General Secretary of the Lao
People's Revolutionary Party on the occasion of the 9th anniversary of its
founding.
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Lebanon
Politburo alternate member Montane receives a delegation of the Lebanese
Communist Party headed by Secretary General George Hawi; they discuss the
international situation.
Fidel Castro and Jesus Montane meet with George Hawi, Secretary General of the
Lebanese Communist Party to express Cuba's solidarity with Lebanon against
imperialist and Zionist aggression.
Rene Anillo Capote, Secretary General of the AfroAsian-Latin American Peoples
Solidarity Organization calls for solidarity with Lebanon during a conference in
Havana.
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February 2, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Mothusi Thamsanqa Mashologu, who presented
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Libya
Fidel Castro sends a message of congratulations on Africa Day to Libyan
President Quadhafi reiterating Cuba's solidarity with Africa.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas attends the Libyan Arab-Cuban Joint
Committee meeting in Tripoli. In his speech he stresses strengthening cooperation
with Libya in all fields.
A protocol of mutual cooperation in the economy, housing, transport, youth,
sports, and cultural and scientific spheres is signed in Tripoli by Foreign Trade
Minister Cabrizas.
July 23 Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas and Libyan official Ubayd Ash-Shukri sign a
cooperation agreement in Libya in housing, economics, construction, transport,
science, and culture.
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September 4
September 5
At the International Conference on Solidarity with the Libyan Revolution in
Tripoli, Jorge Lezcano says history has shown that it is not possible to retreat in
the face of US aggression.
Tegucigalpa press reports that 23 Cuban and Libyan mercenaries were killed at a
military training base in Santa Clara in an attack by the Nicaraguan Democratic
Force on 1 September.
Some 990 Cuban internationalist construction workers from the Communist Party
of Cuba and the Union of Young Communists are building 1,042 houses in
Tobruk, Libya.
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Madagascar
Deputy Foreign Minister Oscar Oramas visits Madagascar and meets with
President Didier Ratsiraka.
Malagasy's Minister of Health Jean-Jacques Seraphim receives Deputy Foreign
Minister Oscar Oramas; they discuss health, education, animal husbandry, and
agriculture.
Deputy Foreign Minister Oscar Oramas and Malagasy Foreign Minister Jean
Bemananjara sign a cultural cooperation protocol in Madagascar.
April 17 Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Oscar Oramas concludes his visit to Madagas-
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April 19 The Council of State designates Olga Chamero Trias as Cuba's Ambassador to the
Republic of Maldives. She will reside in Sri Lanka where she already holds the
post of ambassador.
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Mali
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Malian President General Moussa Traore
to discuss the development and strengthening of relations.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs and
International Cooperation Alioune Blondin Beye discuss the development and
strengthening of friendly relations.
During a press conference in Bamako, Isidoro Malmierca commends the Cuban
doctors who are working in Mali and says Cuba and Mali have to try to find the
ways and means to increase cooperation.
December 21 Ambassador to Mali Martin and Bassi Toure, Deputy Director General of
International Cooperation sign a draft cultural agreement for 1985-86.
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July 10 Malta's President Agatha Barbara expresses the desire to strengthen economic,
cultural, and political cooperation with Cuba during a meeting with Cuban
Ambassador to Malta Roberto Mulet del Valle.
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July 18 A Cuban Foreign Ministry delegation headed by Ricardo Perreiro Delanco arrives
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Mexico
Prensa Latina, monitored in Mexico City, reports that President Reagan used
"lies" and the "arguments of a desperate man" in an address broadcast to the Cu-
ban people over Voice of America.
Vilma Espin discusses "women in the development of society," with Aida
Gonzalez Martinez, a Mexican representative and member of the Central
Committee of Discrimination of Women at the UN.
Mexican Mayor Rafael Ruiz Berjar visits with his counterpart Oscar Fernandez
Mell in Havana; they discuss their respective capital cities, local government, and
transportation.
Cuban Ambassador to Mexico Fernando Lopez Muino returns to Havana at the
conclusion of his term of office; he says relations between the two states has been
consolidated and strengthened.
Cuba's exiting Ambassador to Mexico, Fernando Lopez Munio, says the Cuban
Government has not sent soldiers to Central America and that Cuba is ready to re-
sume relations with the United States.
March 6 Granma announces that the Council of State has designated Jose Agustin
Fernandez De Cossio Rodriguez as the new Cuban Ambassador to Mexico.
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March 22
Hector Rodriguez Llompart and Jorge Eduardo Navarrete, Mexican Vice Foreign
Secretary sign a program in Mexico to exchange specialists and technicians.
Ricardo Garcia Sainz, Director General of the Mexican Social Security Institute
arrives in Cuba to exchange information and experiences dealing with social
security and medical attention.
Joaquin Benavides and his Mexican counterpart Ricardo Garcia Sainz, President
of the Social Security sign a cooperation agreement in social security and medical
services.
The Mexican delegation headed by Ricardo Garcia Sainz sign an agreement
dealing with sports with the National Institute of Sports, Physical Education, and
Recreation.
April 11 Vice President of the National Bank Jose Garcia Pena and Chamber of Commerce
officials Antonio Garcia Lara and A. Villaverde host a reception for the Mexican
machinery industry delegation.
May 13 In an interview with El Dia, Mexico, in Havana, Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo
Alarcon says the US is the main reason for the ills affecting Central America.
Ricardo Alarcon also says in his interview with El Dia that Cuba is willing to con-
tribute to the removal of mines from Nicaraguan ports.
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July 5
July 6
The Cuban-Mexican Intergovernmental Working Group for Economic and Indus-
trial Cooperation is held in Havana. Hector Rodriguez Llompart and Francisco
Labastida, Mexican Secretary of Energy preside.
A Mexican delegation from Puebla, headed by Secretary of Economic Develop-
ment Sergio Victoria Idagori, arrives in Cuba to discuss future trade relations.
Havana press reports that Mexican authorities are investigating the possible
participation of Alpha-66, a Cuban counterrevolutionary organization, in the
death of Mexican journalist Manuel Buendia.
A Mexican delegation from Michoacan arrives in Havana invited by the Peoples
Government National Assembly. The delegation will visit places of interest while
in Cuba.
Pedro Pires, Prime Minister of Cape Verde, and the Mexican delegation from
Michoacan participate in the 6th regular meeting of the People's Government
National Assembly.
July 21 During a press conference for foreign journalists, Deputy Trade Minister Amadeo
Blanco says that Mexico and Argentina have been Cuba's best Latin American
trade partners.
July 22 In statements to El Dia, Isidoro Malmierca says that Cuba is willing to contribute
to a negotiated political solution to the Central American crisis and denounces US
intervention in that area.
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September 15
In El Dia, Malmierca says the future of relations between Havana and Washing-
ton "will be determined by the fact that we are on the same continent and there is
no other alternative but to seek peace."
Minister of Higher Education Fernando Vecino Alegret says in Mexico that after
25 years of living under the US threat, Cuba is ready to repel an attack by the US
in defense of the revolution.
A Soviet delegation headed by I. V. Kapitonov, Supreme Soviet Deputy and
Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, stops in Cuba on its way to Mexico.
In a statement for Prensa Latina, Mexican President de la Madrid says that
Mexican and Cuban relations are excellent and that Mexico is firmly committed
to strengthening ties.
October 1 The 8th meeting of the Joint Mexican-Cuban Commission for Scientific Technical
Cooperation opens in Havana. Hector Rodriguez Llompart presides.
The seventh Cuban-Mexican Joint Commission for Scientific and Technical
Cooperation opens in Havana. Hector Rodriguez Llompart will head the Cuban
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November 22
Hector Mayagoitia and his delegation visit the Valle de Picadura genetics center
and talks with district director Ramon Castro. They also visit Victoria de Vietnam
and Pena de Leon communities.
Hector Rodriguez Llompart and Hector Mayagoitia sign two cooperation agree-
ments at the end of the Cuban-Mexican cooperation meeting. Llompart talks of
joint cooperation in the sugar sector.
In Mexico City, spokesman for Cuba's Foreign Ministry Enrique Gonzalez says
Cuba is ready to withdraw its military advisers from Central America when the
US stops assuming control of the region.
Governor of Mexico Quintana Roo State, Pedro Joaquin Coldwell arrives in
Havana and meets with Flavio Bravo, President of the National Assembly.
They visit places of socioeconomic interest.
Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez and Nicaraguan Education Minister
Ernesto Cardenal say in Mexico that President Reagan's reelection poses a threat
to peace in Central America.
Cuban astronaut Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez arrives in Mexico City to attend an ex-
position of machinery and equipment. He accuses the US of militarizing space.
Cuba and Mexico sign a new trade agreement at the international CEMA
exposition in Mexico. The agreement will amount to $90 million by the end of the
year.
Cuba and Mexico sign a new trade agreement that will amount to $90 million by
the end of the year.
November 23 In an interview with Excelsior, Fidel Castro says that no society can fully develop
until it appreciates and uses its female population's potential.
November 26 During the third meeting on foreign trade between Cuba and Mexico in Mexico
City, an ageeement is signed to grant each other tariff concessions and export
licenses for products of interest.
November 29 Vice Minister of the Fishing Industry Aldo Margolles attends the fishery
cooperation meeting with Mexico, held in Havana. Fishing quotas are defined and
technological developments reviewed.
December 10 Vice Minister of the Sugar Industry Garcia announces in Mexico City that
Mexico and Cuba will implement a joint program for the construction and
modernization of sugar mills.
Fidel Castro sponsors the graduation of the 17th class of agronomy engineers and
zoology technicians from the Superior School of Agriculture and Zootechnics of
Juarez University in Mexico.
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Mongolia
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of Ambassador Nanzad of
Mongolia.
Mongolian Foreign Minister Mangalyn Dugersuren arrives in Havana and is met
by Isidoro Malmierca.
Isidoro Malmierca and Mongolia's Foreign Minister Mangalyn Dugersuren
discuss the international situation and current development at the 39th UN
General Assembly and bilateral relations.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Mongolian Foreign Minister Mangalyn Duger-
suren. They discuss the Asian situation, international issues, and bilateral
relations. Dugersuren departs 19 October.
A communique is issued in Ulaanbaatar on the visit to Cuba by Minister of
Foreign Affairs Dugersuren from 14-18 October expressing the mutual agreement
to continue consolidation of relations.
Mongolian Prime Minister Jambyn Batmonh arrives in Havana to attend the 39th
CEMA meeting.
Mongolia's Chairman of the Council of Ministers Jambyn Batmonh and Fidel
Castro sign a treaty of friendship and collaboration during a meeting in Havana.
Julian Rizo Alvarez salutes the efforts of the Mongolian people to build socialism
during a speech in Havana commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Mongolian
People's Republic.
Bayarhuungiyn Nandzao, Mongolia's ambassador to Cuba says that during the
visit to Cuba of Jambyn Batmonh, Chairman of the Council of Ministers, a
friendship and cooperation accord was signed.
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Deputy Foreign Minister Oscar Oramas delivers a message from Isidoro Mal-
mierca to Foreign Minister Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique.
Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Samora Machel, President of Mozambique.
Mozambican Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Rui Lousa and his
delegation arrive in Havana.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Rui Jorge Gomes Lousa, Minister of Posts,
Telecommunications, and Civil Aviation of Mozambique to discuss the interna-
tional situation and bilateral cooperation.
Joaquin Benevides and Mozambique's Minister Rui Jorge Gomes Lousa sign a
cooperation agreement in fishing, health, education, and sugar industry.
The Council of State designates Manuel Torres Muniz as Ambassador to
Mozambique.
President Samora Machel of Mozambique receives the credentials of Cuba's
Ambassador Manuel Torres Muniz.
Secretary of the People's Assembly Standing Commission of Mozambique Marce-
lino dos Santos arrives in Cuba to attend the 39th CEMA meeting.
Marcelino dos Santos, Mozambique Liberation Front Politburo member, arrives
on the Isle of Youth accompanied by Julian Rizo Alvarez, PCC Central
Committee member.
Mozambican Minister of Foreign Affairs Chissano visits Cuba. An agreement on
ideology, a cooperation accord, and a protocol of cultural exchange are signed
between the PCC and Frelimo Party.
November 26 Isidoro Malmierca and Mozambique's Minister of Foreign Affairs Joaquim
Chissano meet in Havana.
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November 29
Isidoro Malmierca hosts a reception for Joaquim Chissano. Chissano and Jorge
Risquet discuss matters of interest and exchange opinions on the situations in
southern Africa and Central America.
Joaquim Chissano and Hector Rodriguez, Minister President of the State
Committee for Economic Cooperation meet in Havana.
Mozambique's Foreign Minister Chissano tells Mozambicans on the Isle of Youth:
"we are struggling to destroy what the enemy wants to preserve: racism,
discrimination, oppression, and imperialism." Minister of Transportation Guil-
lermo Garcia Frias discusses matters of interest including the development of civil
aviation with Mozambique's Foreign Minister Chissano.
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February 15 Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Sam Nujoma, President of SWAPO, and with
Pascual Luvualu, MPLA-Labor Party Politburo member.
February 22 Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Oscar Oramas arrives in Dar es Salaam;
Tanzania and Cuba call for immediate implementation of the UN Security
Council Resolution 435 on Namibian independence.
April 21 Cuban Ambassador to Yugoslavia Aramis Fuentes condemns all attempts to link
the presence of Cuban internationalist troops in Angola to the independence of
Namibia at a seminar in Belgrade.
May 16 Foreign Minister Malmierca and his Congolese counterpart Pierre Nze issue a
joint communique in Brazzaville stating the need of the nonaligned to support the
struggle of Namibia and South Africa.
May 28 Foreign Minister Malmierca signs a joint communique with Tanzania rejecting
any efforts to link Namibia's independence to the presence of Cuban troops in
Angola and support liberation movements.
June 2 Fidel Castro and President Muhammad Husni Mubarak of Egypt exchange
Africa Day messages both expressing solidarity with the Namibian people.
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June 22
Politburo member Jorge Risquet condemns in Cabinda the policy of linking
Namibian independence to the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola and
reiterates Cuba's solidarity with the Angolan people.
In a press conference in Havana, SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma condemns the
Reagan administration's attempts to link Namibia's independence with the
presence of Cuban troops in Angola.
November 19 In a press interview in Dar es Salaam, President Julius Nyerere rejects linking the
withdrawal of Cuban troops in Angola with Namibian independence.
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An agreement creating the Cuba-Netherlands Working Group is signed in
Havana. Pedro Perez, Director of the Cuban Mixed Committee and Edward
Meier, his Dutch counterpart agree to develop trade.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane receives Elli Izebound, President of
the Communist Party of the Netherlands to discuss matters of mutual interest
concerning the international situation.
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Fidel Castro and Georges Marchais, Secretary General of the French Communist
Party issue a communique in Havana condemning the US and asking the people of
the world to support Nicaragua.
Commander of the Nicaraguan Revolution Henry Ruiz and Minister President of
the State Committee for Economic Cooperation Hector Rodriguez Llompart sign
a cooperation agreement in Santiago de Cuba.
Following his meeting with Fidel Castro, Moran says that Cuba is willing to
withdraw its military advisers from Nicaragua if the process toward peace is
established.
January 26 Politburo alternate member Montane greets Alvaro Cunhal upon his arrival from
Nicaragua; Cunhal reaffirms Portugal's solidarity with Nicaragua.
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March 20
Gerardo Manquela Gomez, a Cuban doctor on assignment in Nicaragua, seeks
asylum in the Honduran Embassy, saying "there is no freedom in his country and
human rights there are not respected."
Fidel Castro sends a message of solidarity to members of the Nicaraguan Junta of
the Government of National Reconstruction on the occasion of the 50th anniversa-
ry of Sandino's death.
The remains of Colonel Jose Santos Lopez, a member of the Nicaraguan Army
who died in Cuba in 1965, are exhumed with military honors at the Colon
Cemetery and are transferred to Nicaragua.
The Augusto Cesar Sandino Internationalist Teacher Contingent, composed of
219 educators from Pinar del Rio depart for Nicaragua.
The US State Department estimates Cuba has 7,000 to 10,000 personnel in
Nicaragua, 2,500 to 3,500 military and security advisers and 4,500 to 6,500
Cuban civilians.
331 Nicaraguan students who are attending an emergency course at the Frank
Pais Teachers' School in Santiago de Cuba meet with union leaders from
Nicaragua who are visiting.
The Cuban Government releases a declaration expressing total support of Daniel
Ortega's denunciation of increased US aggression in Central America.
A communique in Granma accuses the US of using its ally, Honduras, to mine
Nicaraguan ports.
Associated Press reports that Cuban advisers are now with regular army units on
the Nicaraguan side of a 100-mile mountain ridge at the Honduran border.
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Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca and Upper Voltan Foreign Minister Hama
Arba Diallo denounce Niamey and US imperialism in Nicaragua and El Salvador
and support the Contadora Group.
April 4 Cuba's Ambassador to the UN Raul Roa Kouri asks the UN Security Council to
condemn the escalating aggression against Nicaragua and that the US demon-
strate authentic support to the Contadora Group.
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During an interview with French TV, Fidel Castro condemns the mining of
Nicaraguan ports and charges the US Government responsible for these actions.
At the UN Security Council meeting Raul Roa issues a warning to be alert to the
CIA covert actions against Nicaragua.
In a news conference, Isidoro Malmierca says the US is using Honduras as a
military base for new attacks against Nicaragua and Cuba would be powerless to
help Central America if the US invaded.
Prensa Latina reports Foreign Minister Malmierca's statement that Cuba proba-
bly would be willing to help sweep mines from Nicaraguan harbors, if invited.
French diplomatic sources tell AFP that Regis Debray, adviser to French
President Mitterrand, made a 12-hour visit to Havana on 1 May before leaving for
Managua.
Ricardo Alarcon also says in his interview with El Dia that Cuba is willing to con-
tribute to the removal of mines from Nicaraguan ports.
Jorge Enrique Mendoza, Director of Granma, says in an article published in
Pravda, condemns the mining of Nicaraguan ports with the participation of the
CIA and other aggressive actions.
President of the People's Government Oscar Fernandez Me11 meets with Sandinist
Monica Baltodano, Nicaragua's Minister of the Secretariat of Coordination and
her delegation in Havana.
At a press conference in Sweden, Malmierca tells journalists that he doesn't know
the exact number of Cuban troops in Angola and he condemns military and
economic aggression against Nicaragua.
Stockholm press reports that in Malmierca's talks with Palme and Bodstrom,
Sweden is expected to provide Nicaragua technical assistance in carrying out the
election in the fall.
Forty Cuban cane cutters, who had been working in the Camilo Ortega Sugar Mill
in Kukra Hill, Nicaragua, were honored in a ceremony to bid them farewell.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Nicaraguan Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega meet
in Moscow to discuss bilateral questions and the situation in Central America.
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Jesse Jackson leaves for Nicaragua after a 46-hour visit to Cuba.
Jesse Jackson returns to Cuba from Nicaragua to pick up political prisoners,
including Vargas Gomez, and returns to the US.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry categorically denies that it has received 10 Soviet
MIGs for Nicaragua, as reported in the US press.
Coordinator of the Nicaraguan Junta Daniel Ortega sends a letter to Fidel Castro
saying that the cooperation given by Cuba to Nicaragua is incalculable.
Politburo members Julio Camacho Aguilera and Jorge Risquet preside over the
principal event commemorating the fifth anniversary of Nicaragua's revolution at
the FAR's Universal Hall.
July 18 In an anniversary message, Fidel Castro praises Nicaragua and accuses the US of
"rapidly preparing the conditions for direct military intervention in Central
America."
Osmani Cienfuegos, Jose Lopez Moreno, Hector Rodriguez Llompart, Manuel
Pineiro, and Rene Rodriguez arrive in Managua heading a delegation to anniver-
sary celebrations of the revolution.
July 29 At the closing of the Cuba-Nicaragua Scientific Drive, Nicaraguan Junta member
Sergio Ramirez Mercado bids farewell to 80 Cuban doctors who completed a 3-
year tour of duty in Nicaragua.
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September 2
The National Union of Cuban Lawyers and the Association of Democratic
Nicaraguan Jurists sign an agreement and a cooperation protocol for 1984-1990.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart visits Nicaragua. He discusses cultural
cooperation with his counterpart Ernesto Cardenal.
Students from Africa and Nicaragua will enroll in four specialty polytechnical
schools in September on the Isle of Youth that will provide training in agriculture,
livestock, economics, and ceramics.
Union of Young Communists official Carlos Lage bids farewell to 133 Cuban last-
year medical school students leaving for Nicaragua, GuineaBissau, and Ethiopia.
Raul Castro sends a message to Nicaraguan Defense Minister Ortega on the fifth
anniversary of the establishment of the Sandinista People's Army telling it to rise
up against US imperialism.
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Tegucigalpa press reports that 23 Cuban and Libyan mercenaries were killed at a
military training base in Santa Clara in an attack by the Nicaraguan Democratic
Force on 1 September.
Granma reports on the joint graduation of Cuban and Nicaraguan doctors held in
Managua recently. Of the 404 graduates, 209 were Nicaraguans and 195 were
Cubans.
UPI reports that at least four Cuban military advisers were killed in the 1
September air attack by Nicaraguan rebels on a military training camp at Santa
Clara.
September 12 Commander of the Revolution Bayardo Arce is leading a Nicaraguan delegation
that is visiting places of historical and socioeconomic interest in Santiago de Cuba.
October 1
Fidel Castro and President Sankara of Burkina issue a joint communique blaming
Washington for the prevailing tense world situation and expressing solidarity with
Nicaragua.
October 3 Foreign Minister Malmierca tells the UN General Assembly that everything is
ready for a US military invasion of Nicaragua.
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At the UN, the Nonaligned Movement warns of the imminent danger of a direct
intervention by imperialistic forces against Nicaragua, Cuba, and other Latin
American nations.
In Berlin, Vice President of the Council of State and Ministers Guillermo Garcia
and East German leader Erich Honecker denounce US policy against Cuba and
Nicaragua.
Nicaraguan Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco meets in Panama with
Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Panama with Sergio Ramirez, member of the
Nicaraguan junta, to discuss the current situation in the region.
Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Raul Viera says that Cuba is ready to support the
Contadora peace process, noting that "the document that is acceptable to
Nicaragua is acceptable to Cuba."
Raul Castro greets Juan Almeida, Nicaraguan Minister of Culture Ernesto
Cardenal, and Czechoslovakia's leader Strougal upon their return from India
where they attended Gandhi's funeral.
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In an interview with Japan's KYODO news service, First Vice Foreign Minister
Jose Viera says that Cubans in Nicaragua will help the Central American country
if it is attacked by the US.
Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez and Nicaraguan Education Minister
Ernesto Cardenal say in Mexico that President Reagan's reelection poses a threat
to peace in Central America.
Bridgetown press reports that Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Bolanos
said that Cuba is willing to withdraw its troops from Angola and its military
advisers from Nicaragua.
Fidel Castro sends a letter of congratulations to members of the Augusto Cesar
Sandino Primary Teachers Contingent of Cubans serving in Nicaragua.
Fidel Castro sends a message of congratulations to Nicaraguan President-elect
'Daniel Ortega for his election by the Nicaraguan people as President.
Cuban exile leader Huber Matos says he has begun organizing a permanent
Cuban exile detachment to fight alongside Nicaraguan rebels seeking the over-
throw of the Sandinista Government.
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Cuba and Nigeria sign an economic, scientific, and technical cooperation agree-
ment on fishing, sugar, and livestock.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of Peter Ochala Osuman,
Ambassador from Nigeria to Cuba.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Jose Ramon Fernandez explains aspects
of Cuban educational dynamics to Olusegun Obasanjo, former chief of state of
Nigeria.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Havana with retired General Olusegun
Obasanjo, former Nigerian chief of state to explain Cuba's development in
agriculture and in other sectors.
Fidel Castro and former chief of state of Nigeria, retired General Olusegun
Obasanjo met in Havana to discuss the international situation, particularly Africa,
Central America, and the Caribbean.
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October 31
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November 24
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Nonaligned Movement
Orlando Fundora, attending a meeting of information ministers of the nonaligned
in Jakarta, says the US decision to withdraw from UNESCO is a demonstration of
hegemony and arrogance.
Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Indira Gandhi to discuss matters of interest to
both countries and to the Nonaligned Movement.
Orlando Fundora, Central Committee member, arrives in Cairo heading a
delegation that will participate in a meeting of nonaligned information and
communications ministers.
Foreign Minister Malmierca and his Congolese counterpart Pierre Nze issue a
joint communique in Brazzaville stating the need of the nonaligned to support the
struggle of Namibia and South Africa.
Isidoro Malmierca and Algeria's Foreign Minister Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi hold a
second round of talks on international matters and the role being played by the
Nonaligned Movement.
At the UN, the Nonaligned Movement warns of the imminent danger of a direct
intervention by imperialistic forces against Nicaragua, Cuba, and other Latin
American nations.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Beninese Foreign Minister Frederic Affo with
whom he discussed the situation in Africa, the Nonaligned Movement, and
bilateral relations.
Fidel Castro closes the 39th CEMA meeting. He reflects on the death of Indira
Gandhi, saying that it is a great loss to India and to the Nonaligned Movement.
Fidel Castro sends a message to Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on the
occasion of Gandhi's accession to the presidency of the Nonaligned Movement.
Vice Foreign Minister Pelegrin Torras discusses strengthening bilateral relations
and exchanges viewpoints on the Nonaligned Movement with Indian Foreign
Secretary Rasgotra in New Delhi.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle arrives in Belgrade. He meets with
Mitja Ribicic, member of the League of Communists, to discuss the Contadora
Group and the Nonaligned Movement.
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Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Pakistan's President Mohammad Zia-til-Haq.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Mr. Amir Uzzaman who presented his creden-
tials as Pakistan's ambassador to Cuba.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle meets in Havana with Dr. Attiya
Inayatullah, Pakistan's Minister of Health to discuss Cuba's public health sector
and plans for increasing services.
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June 4
Palestine Liberation Organization
Fidel Castro discusses the situation in the Middle East and other matters of
common interest with Yasir Arafat during a meeting in Moscow.
Jesus Montane receives a delegation from the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine headed by Mustafa Abu Ali to discuss the international situation,
especially the Middle East.
October 23 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Jesus Montane meet in Havana with Yasir Abd
Radbu, Deputy Secretary General, and Mamduh Nawfal, Politburo member of
the Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine.
November 15 Al-Fatah leader Abal Sagui, in Cuba at the invitation of the Central Committee,
speaks on the situation of the Palestinian people and Cuba's solidarity towards the
Palestinian people.
December 28 Yasir Arafat receives a message of support and congratulations from the Cuban
Communist Party Central Committee on the 20th anniversary of the Palestinian
revolution.
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April 9 Panama press reports that the Contadora Group asks the US and Cuba to "prove
with deeds" as well as words that they support its attempt to bring a negotiated
peace to Central America.
May 1
Madrid press reports that as .a result of a request by Prime Minister Gonzalez, the
Cuban Government has agreed to receive six members of the ETA terrorist group
expelled from France to Panama.
July 18 Cubans waiting to leave their country for Panama in transit to the US complain
about delays endured because of the Panamanian elections and US restrictions.
More than 500 Cubans are holding Panamanian visas and airplane tickets. Some
700 Cubans have entered Panama each month in transit to the US, paying
approximately $3,000 for a Panamanian visa.
July 20 Director of Panama's National Institute of Sports Jack Cardose tells the press in
Panama City that in the first semester of 1985, Cuba will send nine highly
qualified trainers to Panama.
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September 11
October 10
October 11
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A delegation of the Panamanian Democratic Revolutionary Party meets with
members of the Committee for the Defense of the Revolution in Villa Clara to dis-
cuss CDR functioning and activities.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart visits the General Staff of the Panamanian
National Defense Forces in Panama. Commander in Chief Manuel Noriega
attends the meeting.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart and Diogenes Cedeno Cenci, Director of the
Panamanian National Culture Institute, sign a document reaffirming ties of
friendship.
Armando Hart meets with Panamanian President Jorge Illueca and Foreign
Minister Oyden Ortega during his four day visit to Panama.
Granma reports that Cuba welcomes the decision to close the US-run School of
the Americas in Panama, but cautions that classes in "murder and torture" could
continue in other parts of Latin America.
The third Panamanian-Cuban cultural encounter concludes in Panama. The
Cuban delegation, headed by Marta Arjona, director of cultural heritage met with
intellectuals, newsmen, and students.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez delivers a message from Fidel Castro to Panama's
President Jorge Illueca and President-elect Nicolas Ardito Barletta.
Carlos Rafael also meets with both leaders.
Nicaraguan Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco meets in Panama with
Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon.
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October 12 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Panama with the Polish delegation headed by
Deputy Chairman Mieczyslaw Rakowski.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Panama with Sergio Ramirez, member of the
Nicaraguan junta, to discuss the current situation in the region.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Panama with Alfonso Guerra, Deputy Prime
Minister of Spain, to discuss the international situation, Central America, and
bilateral relations.
In an interview with Prensa Latina in Panama, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says that
his country will withdraw its military advisers from Nicaragua if the revised
Contadora agreement is approved.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez attends the inauguration of Panamanian President
Nicolas Ardito Barletta on 11 October. He arrives in Panama on 9 October.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez also tells Prensa Latina that Colombia is part of a
process on which "we are working." He discussed Central America with Colom-
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Peru
Paris AFP reports that 14 Cubans who sought asylum at the Peruvian Embassy in
Havana have been on a hunger strike since 16 December; Havana denies these
reports.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Lima Mayor and leader of Peru's United Left
Alfonso Barrante; they discuss the most salient points of the Latin American
political situation.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Lima's Mayor Alfonso Barrantes in
Havana to discuss the current Latin American political situation and relations
between the two capitals.
Madrid press reports that police broke into the Peruvian Embassy in Havana to
take two hunger strikers to the hospital. 15 Cubans, in the embassy since 1980,
were transferred elsewhere.
Paris press reports that reliable sources from the Peruvian Embassy in Havana
deny that Cuban police evacuated and later returned 15 Cuban refugees to the Pe-
ruvian Embassy.
April 3 Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas arrives in Lima to attend the 10th
ECLA ministerial meeting. He says the crisis affecting the region is mainly the re-
sult of inequalities imposed by the US.
April 6 At the 20th ECLA Conference in Lima, Ricardo Cabrizas says the basis of Latin
America's socioeconomic crisis is found in the unequal international relationship
imposed by capitalists.
July 29 Fidel Castro offers to grant amnesty to the Cuban.asylees at the Peruvian
Embassy in Havana so that they can begin to negotiate their departure.
August 7
Two Cuban-origin antisocials, Alfredo Romero Laza and Emilio Garcia Alfonso,
who left Cuba in 1980, are accused of robbing taxi drivers in Lima. About 300
antisocials have been living in San Luis park.
September 2 Peruvian President Belaunde Terry asserts that Cuban antisocials living in the San
Luis District park in Lima will be evicted.
September 12
September 28
The eviction begins of antisocials who left Cuba in 1980 and who live in tents in
Lima's San Luis District. Only a few families agree to be transferred to the town
of Pachacamac.
Peruvian Air Force Lieutenant General Cesar Enrico Praeli and his delegation
depart for Peru. During his visit to Cuba, Praeli was received at FAR headquar-
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October 27
Diplomatic sources inform AFP that 12 of the 15 persons living in the Peruvian
Embassy in Havana have voluntarily left under guarantees made by the Cuban
Government to return to normal life.
Daniel Estrada, Mayor of Cuzco, Peru, meets with Oscar Fernandez Mell,
President of the National Assembly, to discuss exchanging experiences in cultural,
agricultural, and tourism fields.
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October 4
Philippines
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Sime D. Hidalgo who presents his credentials
accrediting him as Ambassador to the Philippines.
The Council of State designates Ana Maria Gonzalez Suarez as Ambassador to
the Republic of the Philippines.
Philippines President Marcos receives the credentials of Cuban Ambassador Ana
Maria Gonzales-Suarez. Marcos says the Third World countries must develop
closer cooperation to attain peace.
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February 23
Poland
Minister of Culture Armando Hart receives Polish Culture and Art Minister
Kazimierz Zygulski in Havana to discuss culture, exchange views, and the
possibility of further cooperation.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Jesus Montane, and Roberto Veiga meet
in Moscow with Polish leaders Wojciech Jaruzelski, Henryk Jablonski, and Jozef
Czyrek.
A Polish Parliamentary delegation, headed by Stanislaw Gucwa visits Cuba.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo and Gucwa hold official talks.
While speaking at the Casablanca shipyard, Polish official Stanislaw Gucwa says
that Poland would sell Cuba machinery and technical equipment and assist with
technical advice.
Foreign Minister Malmierca discusses the international situation and bilateral
relations with Poland's parliamentary official Stanislaw Gucwa.
JUCEPLAN Vice President Jose Gonzalez is negotiating economic plans in
Warsaw. He discusses Cuban-Polish cooperation during the coming 5-year period
with his counterpart Manfred Gorywoda.
February 24 First Secretary of Poland's Communist Party Army General Wojchiech Jaruzelski
meets with Minister of Internal Affairs Ramiro Valdes Mendndez in Poland.
March 1 Raul Castro receives the Commander of the Polish Navy Admiral Ludwik
Janczyszyn and a group of Polish officers.
April 9 A Polish delegation, including Marian Orzechowski, candidate member of the
PZPR Central Committee Politburo, arrives in Havana.
April 10 Candidate member of the Politburo of the Polish United Workers' Party Marian
Orzechowski arrives in Santiago de Cuba to visit points of historical interest.
April 12 Politburo alternate member Jose Ramirez Cruz receives a Polish delegation
headed by Marian Orzechowski. He talks on the development of the Cuban rural
worker's position and ANAP.
May 22
May 31
Justice Minister Juan Escalona Reguera arrives in Warsaw and is greeted by his
counterpart Lech Domeradzki; they discuss bilateral cooperation and sign a
cooperation agreement for 1985-86.
Deputy Foreign Minister Jorge Bolanos Suarez is received by Polish officials Jozef
Czyrek and Stefan Olszowski. Bolanos discusses bilateral relations with his
counterpart Jozef Wiejacz.
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Jesus Montane and Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's Chairman of the Council of
National Defense discuss cooperation between the parties and the states during a
meeting in Warsaw.
The first contingent of the Cuban Carlos Roloff youth brigade arrives in Warsaw
as part of an exchange program of the two countries.
The Polish Carlos Roloff contingent arrives in Havana to observe the Cuban
revolution's achievements over the last 25 years and to visit Santiago de Cuba,
Cienfuegos, and the Isle of Youth.
July 3 Polish Minister Jerzy Urban arrives in Cuba to visit various media agencies and
places of historical and cultural interest.
July 10 Minister of Foreign Relations Isidoro Malmierca receives Jerzy Urban, govern-
ment spokesman of the Polish People's Republic.
July 17 First Vice Minister of the FAR and President of the Cuban-Polish Friendship
Association Senen Casas Regueiro welcomes his counterpart from Poland Division
General Antoni Jasinski.
Poland's Vice Minister Jasinski tours the General Maximo Gomez Revolutionary
Armed Forces Academy accompanied by Division General Senen Casas.
July 19 Politburo member Pedro Miret expresses certainty that Poland would build
socialism and continue to go forward, during a ceremony in Havana marking the
40th anniversary of Poland's national day.
The presidents of the Cuban and Polish friendship associations, Division General
Senen Casas and Division General Jasinski, meet in Havana to discuss matters of
interest to the organizations.
July 21 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Antoni Jasinski attend a reception on the occasion of
the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Polish People's Republic.
July 31 Fidel and Raul Castro and Division General Senen Casas Regueiro meet with
members of the second contingent of the Polish Carlos Roloff Brigade who have
been visiting Cuba.
August 28
Member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party Antoni
Jasinski and his Cuban counterpart Senen Casas sign a friendship and cooperation
agreement in Havana.
150 youths of Cuba's Carlos Roloff youth brigade arrive in Havana and are
greeted by Carlos Lage, First Secretary of the Union of Young Communists. The
youths traveled for 32 days throughout Poland.
Minister President of the Central Planning Board Humberto Perez arrives in
Warsaw from Bulgaria to study the coordination of economic plans between Cuba
and Poland for the next five years.
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September 20
First Secretary of the Polish United Worker's Party Wojciech Jaruzelski receives
Humberto Perez, Vice President of the Council of Ministers, to coordinate
economic plans for 1986-1990.
Humberto Perez and Manfred Gorywoda, chairman of Poland's Planning Com-
mission, sign a memorandum on coordinating the 1986-1990 economic plan.
First Secretary of the Union of Young Communists Carlos Lage meets in Warsaw
with Jozef Czyrek, member of the Politburo and Secretariat to discuss relations
between the youth organizations.
Polish Foreign Minister Olszowski arrives in Havana and is greeted by Isidoro
Malmierca. Vice Foreign Minister Bolanos accompanies Olszowski on his visits to
historical sites.
Stefan Olszowski was presented to the diplomatic corps accredited to Cuba at the
Foreign Ministry. Isidoro Malmierca and Polish Ambassador to Cuba Stanislaw
Jarzabek accompanied him to the event.
Isidoro Malmierca gives a dinner for Foreign Minister Olszowski. Olszowski
stresses that Polish-Cuban relations have reached a very high level with close party
and government contacts.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets with Polish Foreign Minister
Stefan Olszowski in Cuba. They discuss the international situation and bilateral
relations.
Polish Foreign Minister Olszowski and Foreign Minister Malmierca issue a
communique in Havana condemning US aggression and supporting Nicaragua
and the efforts of the Contadora group.
Stefan Olszowski decorates Vilma Espin, Division General Senen Casas, and other
officials with the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Poland, Knight
Commander Grade.
Stefan Olszowski decorates Rene Rodriguez Cruz, Nivaldo Herrera, Eusebio Leal,
and Mario Rodriguez with the Order of Merit of the People's Republic of Poland
Gold Medal.
Poland's Foreign Minister Stefan Olszowski and Fidel Castro meet in Havana and
exchange views on aspects of the international situation and matters of mutual
interest.
A delegation of the assembly of the People's Government of Havana City
Province, headed by Vice President Jose Ramon Perez Valdivia, arrives in Warsaw
to meet local officials and tour centers.
Vietnam and Cuba sign a contract on cooperation and exchange of editorials in
Havana. Contracts have also been signed with Bulgaria, Poland, and the Soviet
Union, during the Havana 84 book fair.
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Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Panama with the Polish delegation headed by
Deputy Chairman Mieczyslaw Rakowski.
Kazimierz Barcikowski, member of the Polish United Workers Party Politburo
receives Guillermo Garica, PCC member, to discuss the sociopolitical and
economic situation and Polish-Cuban cooperation.
Chairman of the Council of National Defense General Wojciech Jaruzelski
receives Minister of Transportation Guillermo Garcia Frias to discuss Polish-
Cuban cooperation.
October 18 Vice Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski of Poland arrives in Cuba and is welcomed by
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Diodes Torralba Gonzalez.
October 19
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October 25
October 27
November 1
November 2
Guillermo Garcia Frias meets with the Chairman of the Council of State of
Poland Henryk Jablonski to discuss cooperation and the current international
situation.
Guillermo Garcia Frias departs Poland. During his visit, he attended a meeting of
the organization of railroad cooperation in socialist countries.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Poland's Prime Minister Mieczylaw Ra-
kowski in Havana to discuss bilateral relations and matters related to the socialist
experience in Cuba and Poland.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets in Havana with Mieczyslaw
Rakowski, Deputy Premier of Poland to discuss cooperation between their
countries and the construction of socialism.
Fidel and Raul Castro meet with Polish Deputy Prime Minister Rakowski to
discuss Cuba's internal problems and the situation in Latin America.
The final protocol of the 10th session of the Cuba-Poland intergovernment
committee is signed by Vice Presidents of their respective Council of Ministers
Diodes Torralba and Janusz Obodowski.
Minister of Transport Guillermo Garcia and Poland's Minister of Maritime Jerzy
Korzonek sign a maritime navigation accord in Havana.
The 10th Cuba-Poland Intergovernment Committee on Economic and Scientific-
Technical Cooperation meeting ends in Havana. Foreign Trade Ministers Cabri-
zas and Nestorowicz sign a trade protocol.
November 9 Cuba and Poland sign an agreement in Havana on sea transport.
December 10 Commander of the Polish Scout Union Ryszard Wosinski visits the Julito Diaz
Pioneer Provincial Center in Jaruco Municipality, Havana Province.
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Cuba's Ambassador to Poland Quintin Pino Machado denounces US aggression
against Cuba and stresses the positive relations between Cuba and Poland, in an
interview on Polish television.
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January 18 Secretary General of the Portuguese Communist Party Alvaro Cunhal arrives in
Havana at the invitation of Fidel Castro.
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January 27
Jesus Montane and Alvaro Cunhal meet in Havana.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle accompanies Alvaro Cunhal to the
Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital in Havana where Cunhal was briefed on the
services rendered.
Fidel Castro presents the Playa Giron Order to Alvaro Cunhal, Secretary General
of the Portuguese Communist Party; Jesus Montane summarizes Cunhal's exem-
plary revolutionary career.
Alvaro Cunhal speaks at a friendship and solidarity meeting at a Cuban steel
factory in Havana saying Cuba represents an extraordinary example of courage,
unity, and determination to fight.
Fidel Castro discusses the international situation, particularly the problems of
Central America and the Caribbean with Alvaro Cunhal. Cunhal departs Cuba
for Nicaragua on 22 January.
Politburo alternate member Montane greets Alvaro Cunhal upon his arrival from
Nicaragua; Cunhal reaffirms Portugal's solidarity with Nicaragua.
Jesus Montane and Alvaro Cunhal discuss relations between the two countries;
Armando Hart and Cunhal exchange views on cultural developments before his
departure from Cuba.
February 24 UNITA announces in Lisbon that it has inflicted 200 dead on the Regular Army
troops and Cuban expeditionary force support it. The report is not confirmed.
March 16
Portuguese Prime Minister Mario Soares says the Soviet Union and Cuba had
decided on a "gradual disengagement" from Angola that will permit the eventual
departure of Cuban troops.
April 10 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Mr. Constantino Riberio Vaz who presented his
credentials as the new Portuguese ambassador to Cuba.
May 4
Fidel Castro sends a message to the International Conference on Nicaragua and
for Peace in Central America being held in Lisbon; he condemns the US for its ag-
gression in Central America.
May 16 The Council of State designates Armando Torres Santrayll Ambassador to
Portugal.
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receives the Portuguese Ambassador to Cuba Constantino Riberio Vaz to discuss
strengthening relations.
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Lisbon Press reports that the Angolan National Union for the Total Independence
of Angola has taken over Kazage in eastern Angola and 17 Cuban troops were
killed in that operation.
July 26 Lisbon press reports that UNITA claims to have killed 111 government troops and
500 Cubans and stormed three towns, Quincuso in Uige Province, Quingenge, and
Cuma in Huambo Province.
August 8
October 2
October 27
Lisbon press reports that UNITA says its forces had killed 218 Angolan
Government soldiers, 13 of its Cuban allies and two Soviet advisers in operations
between 30 July and 7 August.
Portuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama tells reporters in Lisbon that he and
Isidoro Malmierca met at the United Nations to discuss Latin America and troop
withdrawal from Angola.
Lisbon press reports that the National Front for the Liberation of Angola issued a
communique reporting that 10 Cubans, including officer Lt. Lopez, were killed
near Nica in September.
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Puerto Rico
Politburo alternate member Montane meets with Carlos Galliza, Secretary
General of the Socialist Party of Puerto Rico, to discuss matters of mutual interest
and the international situation.
Cuban Ambassador to the UN Raul Roa Kouri reiterates his country's solidarity
for Puerto Rico's independence and denounces US militarization of that island
during a speech before the UN.
A Puerto Rican Independence Party leader condemns US intentions of establish-
ing the School of the Americas in Puerto Rico saying "it would transform Puerto
Rico into a Pentagon training camp."
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May 9 The Cuban Communist Party sends a message of congratulations to the Romanian
Communist Party on the 63rd anniversary of their establishment.
June 2 Romanian Assembly leader Nicolae Giosan arrives in Cuba at the invitation of the
National Assembly of the People's Government. ANAP President Flavio Bravo
and Vice President Lezcano welcome him.
June 5
July 11
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Romanian Assembly leader Nicolae Giosan
to discuss expanding trade and closer cooperative, cultural, technical, scientific,
and parliamentarian relations.
The sixth session of Romanian-Cuban Joint Commission on Economic, Technical,
and Scientific Collaboration opens in Bucharest. Vice President of the Council of
Ministers Esquivel attends.
July 13 Romanian Prime Minister Constantin Dascalescu receives in Bucharest Antonio
Esquivel Yedra, Vice President of the Cuban Council of Ministers to discuss
expanding relations.
August 21
August 22
August 23
August 28
October 30
Politburo member Pedro Miret arrives in Bucharest heading a delegation invited
to attend the festivities held on the 40th anniversary of Romania's revolution.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Pedro Miret expresses greetings in
Bucharest to the Secretary General of Romania Nicolae Ceausescu on the 40th
anniversary of Romania's revolution.
Pedro Miret discusses the sixth session of the Joint Intergovernmental Commission
for CubanRomanian Economic Cooperation with Deputy Prime Minister Joan
Avram during a meeting in Bucharest.
Fidel Castro sends a message to Nicolae Ceausescu, President of Romania on the
40th anniversary of Romania's liberation.
Pedro Miret concludes his visit to Bucharest. During his visit he met with
President Nicolae Ceausescu and visited places of historical interest.
Fidel Castro and Constantin Dascalescu, Prime Minister of Romania, discuss the
increase of economic cooperation between the two countries and the need to
expand technical cooperation.
November 17 Politburo member Sergio del Valle heads a group to Romania to attend the 13th
congress of the Romanian Communist Party to begin on 19 November.
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Sergio del Valle delivers a message to the 13th Romanian Communist Party
Congress reiterating the fraternal relations between the two organizations and
stressing achievements of bilateral relations.
President of Romania Nicolae Ceausescu receives Central Committee member
Sergio del Valle who conveys a cordial message from Fidel Castro. Del Valle heads
a delegation to the 13th RCP Congress.
November 25 Fidel Castro sends a message of congratulations to Nicolae Ceausescu on his
reelection as secretary general of the Romanian Communist Party.
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April 21 Cuba and Rwanda sign a cultural cooperation agreement to exchange teachers,
students, and trainee researchers, technicians and, in particular, lecturers.
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July 17
Sierra Leone
Granma announces that the Council of State has designated Laureano Cardoso
Toledo as the new Cuban Ambassador to Sierra Leone.
Cuba's Ambassador to Sierra Leone Alfonso Herrera will end his tour of duty
soon. He meets with President Siaka Stevens who praises Cuba's aid to African
nations.
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June 21
June 22
South Africa
? Deputy Foreign Minister, Oscar Oramas delivers a message from Fidel Castro to
President 8amora Machel. They discuss the political, military, and diplomatic
situation in southern Africa.
Foreign Minister Malinierca and his Congolese counterpart Pierre Nze issue a
joint communique in Brazzaville stating the need of the nonaligned to support the
struggle of Namibia and South Africa.
Fidel Castro presents the Order of Playa Giron to Nelson Nandela, the leader of
the African National Congress, who has been in a South African jail for 22 years.
Isidoro Malmierca discusses the situation in southern Africa with Alfred Nzo,
Secretary General of the African National Congress during a meeting in Havana.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets with Sam Nujoma, President of
the South-West African People's Organization to discuss Cuba's efforts in
production and defense.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets with Sam Nujoma, President of
SWAPO to discuss Cuba's efforts in production and defense and the current
situation in southern Africa.
In a press conference in Havana, SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma condemns the
Reagan administration's attempts to link Namibia's independence with the
presence of Cuban troops in Angola.
June 25 Politburo members Juan Almeida and Jorge Risquet bid farewell to SWAPO
leader Nujoma.
August 2
August 9
Fidel Castro expresses Cuba's firm solidarity with the Namibian people to Sam
Nujoma and they discuss the situation in southern Africa.
Johannesburg Domestic Service quotes a statement issued in Pretoria by the
Department of Foreign Affairs that there are up to 31,000 Cubans-6,000
civilians, and 25,000 soldiers?in Angola.
The Cuban Movement for Peace and Sovereignty of Peoples has exhorted the
women of the world to manifest their solidarity with their South African sisters on
the occasion of international day.
October 5 President Kaunda, in an interview with a Cuban journalist in Lusaka, says the
conditions for revolution in South Africa are now ripe.
December 21 Secretary General of South Africa's Communist Party Moses Mahida arrives in
Havana. He meets with Jesus Montane to discuss South Africa.
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Spain
January 5 Spanish Foreign Minister Fernando Moran arrives in Havana and is greeted at
Jose Marti Airport by Foreign Minister Malmierca.
January 6
January 7
January 16
January 26
February 3
February 16
Fidel Castro states in an interview on Spanish television that "the further removed
Spain is from the military blocs, the better its relations with Latin America and
the Third World will be."
Spain's Minister of Foreign Affairs Fernando Moran meets with Fidel Castro;
they discuss Central America. Moran says Cuba will play a decisive role toward
the end of the peace process, but not now.
Following his meeting with Fidel Castro, Moran says that Cuba is willing to
withdraw its military advisers from Nicaragua if the process toward peace is
established.
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Isidoro Malmierca and Fernando Moran discuss international issues and bilateral
relations. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez decorates Moran with the Carlos Manuel de
Cespedes Order.
Hector Rodriguez Llompart and Fernando Moran sign the protocol of the first
meeting of the Joint Commission for Scientific-Technical Cooperation for Cuban-
Spanish Cooperation.
A usually reliable Spanish source tells Havana AFP that after Moran's visit to
Cuba, Spain, under an agreement with Fidel Castro, will try to play an active role
as mediator in Central America.
Madrid press reports that Cuba currently has more than 100 intelligence agents
operating in Spain assigned to Directorate General Intelligence Service and to the
Cuban "G-2."
Cuba and Spain sign three agreements on cooperation during the first meeting of
the Cuba-Spain Joint Commission for Scientific and Technical Cooperation.
Jose Ramon Fernandez meets in Caracas with Argentine President Alfonsin,
French Interior Minister Defferre, Spanish Prime Minister Gonzalez, and Ecua-
dor's presidential candidate Rodrigo Borja.
Fidel Castro and Nicaraguan Junta coordinator Daniel Ortega arrive in Madrid,
where they are greeted by Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez and attend a working
lunch at Gonzalez's residence.
Fidel Castro and Daniel Ortega depart Spain. In a press conference at the airport,
Castro declares that the Contadora group "has been and continues to be a hope for
peace" in Central America.
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March 9
March 13
March 16
March 25
April 10
Madrid press reports that police broke into the Peruvian Embassy in Havana to
take two hunger strikers to the hospital. 15 Cubans, in the embassy since 1980,
were transferred elsewhere.
Madrid press reports that Cuban authorities say that it is necessary to refine 46
' million arrobas of sugarcane daily in order to overcome production delays.
Foreign Minister Malmierca makes a technical stopover at Madrid's Barajas
Airport and meets with his Spanish counterpart Fernando Moran to discuss Cuba
accepting ETA members deported from France.
In an interview in La Vanguardia Foreign Minister Fernando Moran says that
Spain does not have "to hide" its ties with Cuba.
Politburo alternate member Montane receives Jose Gonzalez Jerez, member of
Spain's Communist Party Executive Committee to discuss the current situation
and development of ties between the parties.
April 24 Spanish Foreign Minister Fernando Moran denies in parliament that the Spanish
Government is conducting negotiations with Cuba to obtain asylum for ETA
terrorists.
May 1
May 20'
May 21
May 22
May 25
May 30
June 1
Madrid press reports that as a result of a request by Prime Minister Gonzalez, the
Cuban Government has agreed to receive six members of the ETA terrorist group
expelled from France to Panama.
Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia Frias visits Spain to discuss the
possibility of a bilateral agreement for the construction and sale of Spanish ships to
Cuba.
Lisbon -press reports that the National Union for the Total Independence of
Angola announced that it killed 411 soldiers, including 45 Cubans, on 7 April.
Guillermo Garcia meets with Spanish Transportation Minister Enrique Baron and
tours factories and port installations:
Guillermo Garcia Frias discusses bilateral cooperation in transportation and
Spanish aid in personnel formation and training with Industry and Energy
Minister Carlos Solchaga.
Guillermo Garcia Frias visits the port of Barcelona to meet with officers and
crevjmembers of the Cuban ships undergoing repair there.
Vice Ministers Manuel Estefania Seoane of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and
Daniel Solana Pinera of the Ministry of the Food Industry sign an agreement with
Spain to continue tobacco trade.
June 21 The Spanish Confederation of Savings Banks and the Cuban People's Savings
Bank sign a cooperation agreement in Havana.
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June 22
Before departing Cuba, President of the Spanish Confederation of Savings Banks
Jose Sanchos Draunda says he is confident that Cuba and Spain will continue
mutual cooperation in savings.
June 25 Politburo alternate member Roberto Veiga addresses delegates to the third
Spanish Workers Commissions in Madrid.
July 31 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Luis Velasco Rami, Spanish Secretary of Trade
to discuss increasing bilateral trade and economic cooperation.
August 2
Spain's Secretary of State for Commerce Luis Velasco Rami and Foreign Trade
Minister Ricardo Cabrizas sign a protocol to develop lines of credit and increase
mutual trade.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with Spain's Secretary of State for Commerce
Luis Velasco Rami who is attending the Spanish-Cuban Joint Intergovernmental
Committee meetings.
September 13 Spanish Deputy Foreign Minister Puente arrives in Havana at the invitation of the
Cuban Government.
September 21
October 12
October 27
November 15
November 16
November 19
Isidoro Malmierca and Spain's Deputy Foreign Minister Puente discuss interna-
tional issues and the status of Spanish-Cuban relations during a meeting in
Havana.
An accord for refinancing Cuba's foreign debt is signed in Madrid between the
Cuban Government and Spain's Company of Credit Insurance. Both sides support
increasing economic and trade relations.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Panama with Alfonso Guerra, Deputy Prime
Minister of Spain, to discuss the international situation, Central America, and
bilateral relations.
Madrid press reports that Cuba has filed suit with the Supreme Tribunal of
Grenada to obtain the return of some of the equipment it had on the island when
the US invaded on 25 October 1983.
Spain's Minister of Transportation, Tourism, and Communications Enrique Baron
arrives in Havana. Spanish experts are curretnly studying Cuba's railway system
to improve their own system.
Minister of Transportation Guillermo Garcia Frias receives his Spanish counter-
part Enrique Baron to discuss matters of mutual interest.
Guillermo Garcia, Pedro Guelmes, Jose Luis Padron, and Spain's Minister of
Transportation Enrique Baron sign three protocols in the fields of transportation,
communications, and tourism.
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Spain's Minister of Transportation, Tourism, and Communications Enrique Baron
departs Cuba. During his visit he met with Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez,
and other Cuban officials.
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Sri Lanka
Granma announces that the Council of State has designated Olga Chamero Trias
as Ambassador to Sri Lanka.
The Council of State designates Olga Chamero Trias as Cuba's Ambassador to the
Republic of Maldives. She will reside in Sri Lanka where she already holds the
post of ambassador.
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Sweden
February 15 Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Sweden's Prime Minister Olof Palme.
February 23
May 28
Central Committee member Flavio Bravo receives Anita Gradin, Sweden's
Immigration Minister to discuss common views on the struggle for peace and
peaceful coexistance and against the arms race.
Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Sweden. He says Cuba is ready to
contribute toward finding a political solution to Central America's problems and
blames the US for aggression in this area.
During a dinner hosted by Sweden's Foreign Minister Lennart Bodstrom,
Malmierca talked on the seriousness of the present international situation and the
necessity for fighting for peace.
May 29 Isidoro Malmierca and Lennart Bodstrom discuss the situation in Central America
and South Africa and bilateral relations during a meeting in Stockholm.
May 30
July 6
October 15
Isidoro Malmierca and Olof Palme discuss the international situation, particularly
Central America and South Africa, and the US placement of medium-range
nuclear missiles in Western Europe.
At a press conference in Sweden, Malmierca tells journalists that he doesn't know
the exact number of Cuban troops in Angola and he condemns military and
economic aggression against Nicaragua.
Stockholm press reports that in Malmierca's talks with Palme and Bodstrom,
Sweden is expected to provide Nicaragua technical assistance in carrying out the
election in the fall.
President of the Provincial Assembly Oscar Fernandez Mell visits major organiza-
tional centers and principal public services during his visit to Sweden.
Minister of Education Jose Ramon Fernandez arrives in Sweden from Finland, at
the invitation of Swedish Minister of Education Lena Hjelm-Wallen.
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February 3
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October 3
October 17
October 23
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Switzerland
Cuba and Switzerland sign in Havana the protocol that extends to 31 December
the existing trade agreement between the two countries.
The Council of State appoints Carlos Lechuga as Cuba's ambassador to the UN
European headquarters in Switzerland.
Cuba, Switzerland, and Austria sign a commercial agreement where Cuba will
acquire several pieces of technological equipment for the Felton Thermoelectrical
Plant to be built in Holguin.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas attends the UN Sugar Conference in
Geneva.
Jorge Lezcano attends the 72nd interparliamentary conference in Geneva. He says
the harsh effect on the economies of the capitalistic world continues to affect the
underdeveloped nations.
Vice President of the National Assembly Jorge Lezcano returns from Geneva. He
says one of the successes of the 72nd Interparliamentary Conference was the
resolution on Central America.
Granma announces that Jose Lopez Sanchez has been appointed as Ambassador to
Switzerland.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credential of Peter Hollenweger as the new
Swiss Ambassador to Cuba.
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Syria
February 18 Granma announces that the Council of State has designated Jacinto Vazquez de la
Garza as Ambassador to Syria.
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November 16
November 19
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Tanzania
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Oscar Oramas arrives in Dar es Salaam;
Tanzania and Cuba call for immediate implementation of the UN Security
Council Resolution 435 on Namibian independence.
Oscar Oramas and Tanzania's Foreign Minister Salim Ahmad Salim discuss the
latest developments in southern Africa with reference to Namibia and recent
developments in Central America.
Adam Sapi Mkwawa, speaker of the Tanzanian National Assembly, and members
accompanying him, visit several production centers in Havana Province; they are
interested in sugar production.
Juan Almeida, Jorge Lezcano, and Rene Rodriguez meet with Adam Sapi
Mkwawa, speaker of the Tanzanian Parliament. Mkwawa visits a school for
Namibian students and the historic section of Havana.
Politburo alternate member Montane meets with Adam Sapi Mkwawa, speaker of
the National Assembly of Tanzania, in Havana.
Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca arrives in Dar es Salaam and delivers a
message of solidarity and friendship from Fidel Castro to President Nyerere.
Isidoro Malmierca and Julius Nyerere discuss the international situation, includ-
ing the liberation of southern Africa, the Nonaligned Movement, and events in
Latin America.
Foreign Minister Malmierca meets with his Tanzanian counterpart Ndugu
Benjamin Mkapa.
Foreign Minister Malmierca signs a joint communique with Tanzania rejecting
any efforts to link Namibia's independence to the presence of Cuban troops in
Angola and support liberation movements.
Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado receives the delegation of the Revolu-
tionary Party of Tanzania headed by Moses Nahuye; they visit industrial
installations and historical sites.
Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere states that the OAU summit has unanimously
rejected the idea of linking Namibia's independence on the withdrawal of Cuban
troops from Angola.
In a press interview in Dar es Salaam, President Julius Nyerere rejects linking the
withdrawal of Cuban troops in Angola with Namibian independence.
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Togo
May 26 . Fidel Castro sends a congratulatory message on the 21st anniversary of Africa Day
to Gnassingbe Eyadema to Togo.
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May 26 . Fidel Castro sends a congratulatory message on the 21st anniversary of Africa Day
to Gnassingbe Eyadema to Togo.
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Tunisia
May 11 The Council of State designates Anais Callado Albejales Ambassador to the
Republic of Tunisia.
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March 29
United Kingdom
The first meeting of the Anglo-Cuban Trade Council begins in Havana. Hughes
Dyke leads the British delegation and Jorge Lezcano heads the Cuban delegation.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Lord Taylor of Gryfe, chairman of the Morgan
Greffel (Scotland Ltd.) Bank and member of the British delegation to the Anglo-
Cuban Trade Committee.
Vice Minister of Foreign Trade Amadeo Blanco discusses the need to improve
bilateral trade with UK Minister of Trade Paul Channon during a meeting in
London.
April 6 Vice Foreign Trade Minister Amadeo Blanco states in London that the meeting of
sugar exporterimporter countries examined aspects of the regulating system of the
next sugar agreement.
June 5
June 15
July 3
September 26
October 14
October 15
Granma denies foreign press reports that Cuba was behind a planned auction in
London in July of the diaries of Che Guevara. The Cuban newspaper condemned
the sale as an affront to Latin America.
Vice Foreign Minister Bolanos ends his visit to England. He met with officials of
the British Foreign Ministry and representatives of both houses of Parliament, the
House of Lords, and Commons.
Alleged Cuban spies Luis Garcia and Antonio Sanchez, jailed in Britain in 1982,
appeal their conviction saying they are Salvadoran rebels. Prosecutors say they
belong to Cuban intelligence.
Fidel Castro and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meet in Havana with former British
Prime Minister Heath to discuss international problems, especially Central
America and the Caribbean.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, and Edward Heath also discuss scientific
and technical advances in the development process in Cuba and public health.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Edward Heath discuss world economic matters and
international events during Heath's second visit to Cuba.
Socialist International President Willy Brandt is welcomed by Fidel Castro, Jesus
Montane, and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez upon his arrival in Havana.
Fidel Castro accompanies Willy Brandt on a tour of Havana and they attend the
inaugural ceremony of the 28th amateur baseball championship.
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October 16 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez filedts with Willy Brandt.
Fidel Castro escorts Willy Brandt to the airport. Brandt's visit is part of the efforts
the Socialist International is making toward seeking peace in Central America in
support of Contadora.
Willy Brandt and Fidel Castro agree on the need to find a peaceful solution to the
Central American crisis, the importance to end the arms race, and both strongly
emphasize international cooperation.
Fidel Castro and Willy Brandt discuss various matters pertinent to the internation-
al situation, especially Central America, southern Africa, and economic relations
and cooperation.
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January 3
January 4
January 5
January 6
January 11
January 13
United States
The 25th anniversary of the Cuban Revolution is celebrated in Santiago. Fidel
Castro strongly criticizes the US, calling President Reagan, warlike, adventurous,
and irresponsible.
In an interview with UPI, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says the regime will work
toward a negotiated settlement in Central America, and warns against US
military intervention.
In his interview with UPI, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez also says that unlike the
invasion of Grenada, the US would find itself in a prolonged war if it sent troops to
Central America.
Fidel Castro and Georges Marchais, Secretary General of the French Communist
Party issue a communique in Havana condemning the US and asking the people of
the world to support Nicaragua.
A delegation of writers and artists from the black movement in the US arrive in
Cuba. They discuss cultural matters with Luis Pavon Tamayo, Director of
International Relations.
A senior US administration official says Cuba had jammed Voice of America
broadcasts from 28 Dec. to 2 January, to prevent US comments from reaching the
, Cubans during anniversary celebrations.
President Reagan sends New Year's greetings to the Cuban people in a radio
speech over the Voice of America charging Fidel Castro of betraying the principles
of his 1959 Revolution.
Havana television official Roberto Agudo says President Reagan's broadcast over
Voice of America was "a virulent, as well as false, absurd, and deceitful attack" on
the Cuban people.
Cuba's Ambassador to Guyana Lazaro Cabezas tells a rally in Georgetown that
despite imperialist aggression, Cuba has been able to make remarkable strides in
health, education, culture, and sports.
Prensa Latina, monitored in Mexico City, reports that President Reagan used
"lies" and the "arguments of a desperate man" in an address broadcast to the Cu-
ban people over Voice of America.
In an interview granted to the Medellin newspaper El Mundo, Fidel Castro says
the US invasion of Grenada benefited Cuba. "Not even Reagan knows the good he
has done us," Fidel said.
Quito press reports that Carlos Rafael Rodriguez called the Kissinger Commission
report on Central America an election-year ploy by President Reagan to deceive
the American voter.
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January 27
Orlando Fundora, attending a meeting of information ministers of the nonaligned
in Jakarta, says the US decision to withdraw from UNESCO is a demonstration of
hegemony and arrogance.
A special broadcast of the Voice of America directed to the Cuban people and at-
tacking Cuba as a "closed society" is heard clearly in Havana on the medium-
wave, regular broadcast channel.
Todor Zhivkov and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez blame US imperialism for the
straining of the tension in Europe, Latin America, Africa, and other regions in the
world during their talks in Sofia.
January 30 Cuba's exiting Ambassador to Mexico, Fernando Lopez Munio, says the Cuban
Government has not sent soldiers to Central America and that Cuba is ready to re-
sume relations with the United States.
January 31 Vice President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television Orestes Gispert
charges in Jakarta that the US intends to create a radio station to air hostile pro-
paganda against other countries.
February 1 In an interview for the "Around the World" weekly of the Bulgarian Telegraph
Agency, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says that no army of the US will ever be able to
dominate Cuba.
February 4 Aguirre del Cristo and Tomas Travnicek discuss the tasks of the World Peace
Movement and the current international tension created by the nuclear missiles
deployed by the US in Europe.
February 6 Granma attacks President Reagan declaring, he is "the first US President since
Truman and the cold war that has failed to arrive at an agreement on
disarmament with the Soviets."
February 9 Jose Ramon Machado Ventura presides over the opening of World Youth and
Students' Festival in Havana. A rally of solidarity with Central America and
against US intervention is held.
February 10 The Cuban Foreign Ministry issues a statement condemning the US military
presence in South Korea and the pro-imperialist policy of the South Korean
government.
February 11 According to a State Department report on Human Rights, the Cuban Govern-
ment is executing people for reproducing religious tracts, organizing trade unions,
and painting anti-government slogans.
February 18 Fidel Castro tells Newsweek there will be no dialogue between Cuba and the US
as long as the US insists that the Central American situation is caused by Cuba's
relationship with the USSR.
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February 22
February 23
March 5
March 8
March 14
March 16
March 17
March 20
March 21
March 26
The Administrator of the US Drug Enforcement Agency says the Cuban
Government is helping some smugglers move drugs into the US, but the effect is
minimal.
Politburo member Juan Almeida warns the US that a policy of blackmail and
aggression is not the way to seek peace in Central America during a speech in
Nicaragua.
Three men identified as members of an anti-Castro terrorist group, Omega 7,
plead guilty in a US court to a series of bombings since 1976 and agree to
cooperate with federal prosecutors.
Cuban exile Huber Matos predicts that Havana's defeat in Grenada is the
beginning of a series of foreign policy losses that will presage Fidel Castro's
eventual downfall.
A group of 26 East German runners arrive in Havana to train at the Pedro
Marrero Stadium for the Olympics in Los Angeles.
Danilo Aguirre, Secretary General of the Latin American Federation of Journal-
ists (FLAP), while in Cuba, says that FLAP is in agreement with any measure
Cuba might take to counteract Radio Marti.
In an interview, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says that Cuba will respond with
powerful counterbroadcasts when the US begins beaming anti-Castro messages to
Havana over Radio Marti.
The US State Department estimates Cuba has 7,000 to 10,000 personnel in
Nicaragua, 2,500 to 3,500 military and security advisers and 4,500 to 6,500
Cuban civilians.
The Cuban Government releases a declaration expressing total support of Daniel
Ortega's denunciation of increased US aggression in Central America.
A communique in Granma accuses the US of using its ally, Honduras, to mine
Nicaraguan ports.
A US Coast Guard spokesman reports that two US sailboats with 19 people
aboard, taking part in a race from Montego Bay, Jamaica, to Miami were detained
by Cuban gunboats.
The US Coast Guard office in Miami confirms that crewmen aboard two
American sailboats that were detained after straying into Cuban waters during a
yacht race were released by Cuban authorities.
During the anniversary meeting, Abrahantes also says "These past 25 years have
not been easy because not for one minute has the Yankee enemy ceased in its ef-
forts to destroy us."
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March 27 Piedmont Airlines Flight 451 from Charleston, South Carolina, to Miami is
hijacked to Cuba by a man demanding $500,000.
March 28
March 29
The hijacker of the Piedmont aircraft surrenders to Cuban authorities; no money
demands are met.
Cuban Foreign Minister Malmierca and Upper Voltan Foreign Minister Hama
Arba Diallo denounce Niamey and US imperialism in Nicaragua and El Salvador
and support the Contadora Group.
Delta Airlines Flight 357 from New Orleans to Dallas is hijacked to Cuba by a
man with a Spanish accent, who is taken away by Cuban authorities; the aircraft
returns to Dallas.
Fidel Castro, in a French TV interview, says the US is involved directly and
indirectly in El Salvador and that the Salvadoran revolutionary movement will
overcome militarily.
April 1 Cuba's UNCTAD delegate Carlos Lechuga denounces US aggression in Central
America and the Caribbean, alleging this precludes successful economic
negotiations.
In his interview with Ted Szulc of Parade Magazine, Fidel Castro says he did not
hold President Kennedy responsible for the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion.
In an interview in Parade Magazine, Fidel Castro says that within moments of the
death of John F. Kennedy, he received a private note from Kennedy suggesting the
nations establish a dialogue.
April 3 Foreign Minister Malmierca ends his working visit to France by telling journalists
there is a need to check the US military escalation in Central America.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas arrives in Lima to attend the 10th
ECLA ministerial meeting. He says the crisis affecting the region is mainly the re-
sult of inequalities imposed by the US.
April 4 Cuba's Ambassador to the UN Raul Roa Kouri asks the UN Security Council to
condemn the escalating aggression against Nicaragua and that the US demon-
strate authentic support to the Contadora Group.
April 6 During an interview with French TV, Fidel Castro condemns the mining of
Nicaraguan ports and charges the US Government responsible for these actions.
April 8 At the UN Security Council meeting Raul Roa issues a warning to be alert to the
CIA covert actions against Nicaragua.
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April 9 Senior Pentagon officials say the Soviet helicopter carrier Leningrad is conducting
operations with a Cuban frigate in the Gulf of Mexico and approached within 100
miles of the US coast.
Panama press reports that the Contadora Group asks the US and Cuba to "prove
with deeds" as well as words that they support its attempt to bring a negotiated
peace to Central America.
April 16 Division General Raul Menendez Tomassevich condemns US policy in Central
America during a speech commemorating the 23rd anniversary of the Bay of Pigs.
April 17 In a news conference, Isidoro Malmierca says the US is using Honduras as a
military base for new attacks against Nicaragua and Cuba would be powerless to
help Central America if the US invaded.
April 24 After meeting with Venezuelan President Lusinchi, US Special Envoy Shlaude-
man rejects broadening of the Contadora peace process to bring in Cuba.
In a speech before the UN Conference on Disarmament, Cuban representative
Carlos Lechuga blames the US for the serious world situation.
April 25 Granma accuses the US and its South African allies of responsibility for last
week's bomb explosion in Huambo.
The article in Granma on the car-bombing in Angola says the "paws of the
Central Intelligence Agency" and the "ominous footprints of its agents are printed
all over this brutal terrorist act."
April 26 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez condemns the bomb attack in Huambo and says it was
carried out by agents in the service of Yankee imperialism and South African
racists.
April 27 The Cuban Embassy in Tokyo issues entry visas to a South Korean broadcasting
crew to cover the South Korean women's basketball team that will compete in Los
Angeles and Havana.
May 1
May 2
May 3
Rual Castro and Vilma Espin preside over May Day ceremonies in Guantanamo
Province where the people condemn the bombing at Huambo and US military
maneuvers in Central America and Guantanamo Bay.
Havana Reuters reports that the Cuban Government officially accuses the US of
increasing its arsenal of chemical weapons in an attempt to obtain military
supremacy over the socialist bloc.
Delegations of workers invited to the May Day celebrations attend a solidarity
meeting in Havana demanding an immediate end to US imperialist intervention in
El Salvador.
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May 9
May 10
May 11
May 13
May 16
May 19
May 21
May 23
May 28
Havana press announces that due to imperialism's blockade and the Cuban
people's habit of not saving, Cuba has been forced to adopt austerity measures in
almost all economic areas.
Fidel Castro sends a message to the International Conference on Nicaragua and
for Peace in Central America being held in Lisbon; he condemns the US for its ag-
gression in Central America.
During a meeting with Vietnamese heroine Ta Thi Kieu, Jesus Montane says that
President Reagan's recent China visit has increased the threat to peace and
security in Southeast Asia.
New York Times reports that diplomats in Cuba say that Robert L. Vesco, the fu-
gitive American financier, has been living a reclusive life in Cuba for more than a
year.
In a statement to journalists in Cali, Ricardo Alarcon accuses President Reagan of
being "an aggressor who has put the world on the verge of war."
Jose Ramon Fernandez says Cuba is seriously concerned over the atmosphere of
hostility in Los Angeles and the lack of guarantees of security of sportsmen from
socialist countries.
Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez says the Cuban Government has not
decided whether Cuba will join the coming Los Angeles Olympic Games.
In an interview with El Dia, Mexico, in Havana, Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo
Alarcon says the US is the main reason for the ills affecting Central America.
Fidel Castro attended the women's basketball final in which China managed to
qualify for the Los Angeles Olympic Games by beating Cuba 73-65.
Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Algiers on a four-day official visit. In a
press statement, he discusses the situation in Latin America and condemns US
aggression in that area.
Cuban track and field athletes tell Radio Havana that the decisions made by the
Olympic Committee of the USSR and other Socialist nations not to attend the Los
Angeles Olympics are justifiable.
The Cuban Olympic Committee in Havana reports that Cuban athletes will not
participate at the 23rd Olympic Games in Los Angeles, but Cuban judges will
attend.
Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Sweden. He says Cuba is ready to
contribute toward finding a political solution to Central America's problems and
blames the US for aggression in this area.
May 29 Granma blames the US for its contempt for Grenada and its hatred of Maurice
Bishop, "against whose government it unleashed a continuous policy of hostility."
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May 30 Havana International Service accuses the CIA of biological warfare against Cuba.
Chairman of the GDR Council of Ministers Willi Stoph condemns the stepped-up
arms and interference policy of the US during a meeting with Justice Minister
Juan Escalona Reguera in Berlin.
At a UN subcommittee meeting, Cuban delegate Eumelio Caballero expresses his
concern over the situation in Samoa and his doubts over the US wish to fulfill its
commitments with the community.
June 5 The Foreign Ministry confirms that Fidel Castro has invited presidential candi-
date Jesse Jackson to visit Cuba.
June 7
June 8
June 11
June 20
June 22
At a ceremony for party founders, Jesus Montane says that strongly united, Cuba
has been able to carry on victoriously the historic battle of confronting Yankee im-
perialism these last 25 years.
The Foreign Ministry confirms that Fidel Castro has invited US Presidential
candidate Jesse Jackson to visit Cuba.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart meets with youths from Araito Magazine and
the Cuban Culture Circle from the US. He says Cuba knows how to respond to
Radio Marti.
In a press conference in Havana, Manuel Gonzalez Guerra, President of the
Cuban Olympic Committee says that Cuba's decision not to participate in
Olympic Games in Los Angeles is irreversible.
Minister of Education and Sports Jose Ramon Fernandez and Manuel Gonzalez
Guerra, head of the Cuban Olympic Commmittee greet Peter Ueberroth, Presi-
dent of the Los Angeles Olympic Committee.
Fidel Castro reiterates that Cuba will not attend the Los Angeles Olympic Games,
but promises not to pressure other countries to join the boycott.
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced an allegedly key member of the anti-Castro
group Omega Seven to four months in jail for refusing to testify before a grand
jury.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart meets with representatives of the national
committees of the Conference of Intellectuals stressing the need for strengthening
unity against US aggression.
In a press conference in Havana, SWAPO leader Sam Nujoma condemns the
Reagan administration's attempts to link Namibia's independence with the
presence of Cuban troops in Angola.
June 24 Prensa Latina reports that Cuba's militia begins the first of a series of weekly
training exercises to prepare for "possible direct aggression" by the US.
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June 26
Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson arrives in Havana and is greeted by Fidel
Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Armando Hart, Flavio Bravo, and Jose Ramon
Fernandez at Jose Marti Airport.
Before a large group of journalists, Fidel Castro says he invited Jesse Jackson to
Cuba as a gesture of friendship toward the US.
Fidel Castro, Armando Hart, and Flavio Bravo accompany Jesse Jackson to an
evening of cultural performances by noted Cuban artists and groups.
During a meeting with Jesse Jackson, Fidel Castro agrees to release 22 American
prisoners and an accused CIA agent, Andres Vargas Gomez, but not those in jail
for hijackings.
In a press conference, Fidel Castro expresses willingness to reestablish relations
with the US, but only if Washington stops its policy of "domination and force."
During the Jesse Jackson visit, Fidel Castro agrees to begin talks with the US on
immigration in the near future rather than wait until after the US elections in
November.
During his visit to Cuba, Jesse Jackson visits a museum, a hospital, and the US In-
terests Section.
In a news conference held by Fidel Castro and Jesse Jackson, Fidel denies Cuba
has a military presence in Central America.
In Havana, Jesse Jackson says he gets the impression that Fidel Castro is
genuinely interested in improving relations with the US and suggests that Reagan
and Fidel visit each other's countries.
During the Fidel Castro/Jesse Jackson news conference, Fidel expresses a
willingness to discuss the presence of Cuban troops in Africa.
June 27 Fidel Castro agrees to free 26 Cubans held for political crimes in response to pleas
from Jesse Jackson.
Fidel Castro and Jesse Jackson attend a religious ceremony dedicated to the
memory of US civil rights leader Martin Luther King. Fidel says Jackson is the
bravest US politician he has met.
Visiting the University of Havana with Fidel Castro, Jesse Jackson speaks of the
"Dream of Today's Youth," paraphrasing in part the speech given 20 years ago by
the late Martin Luther King.
Jesse Jackson leaves for Nicaragua after a 46-hour visit to Cuba.
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June 28
Jesse Jackson visits US prisoners at the Combinado del Este prison to tell them
they would be returned to the US.
Fidel Castro and Jesse Jackson tour the Isle of Youth.
US officials say the Reagan Administration has turned down Fidel Castro's offer
for normalized relations until Cuba gives clear evidence it will stop exporting its
revolution.
Jesse Jackson returns to Cuba from Nicaragua to pick up political prisoners,
including Vargas Gomez, and returns to the US.
US Administrative officials say the Reagan administration has welcomed the
release of 22 Americans held in Cuban jails.
June 29 Fidel Castro characterizes as positive the visit made to Cuba by Jesse Jackson and
criticizes those trying to discredit the contact made between Cuba and the US.
July 1
July 3
July 8
July 10
July 12
July 14
July 15
The Reagan Administration dismissed Fidel Castro's motives for freeing prisoners
as merely easing the burden "of the care and feeding of 48 people."
Jesse Jackson says the Reagan Administration is offering to begin talks with Cuba
in July on the possible return of undesirable persons who came to the US in the
1980 Mariel boatlift.
In a TV interview Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson says that Fidel Castro
wants to remove Cuban troops from Angola.
Radio Havana blasts President Reagan for refusing to meet with Jesse Jackson,
saying Reagan wants to control the Caribbean "with fists and gunfire" and is "a
gunman retired from a Hollywood set."
During workers' day celebrations in Pinar del Rio Province, Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez says Cuba does not want war, but if the US Government dares to
attack, it will find a nation ready to win or die.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry categorically denies that it has received 10 Soviet
MIGs for Nicaragua, as reported in the US press.
Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon heads the Cuba delegation to talks with
the US in New York on the return to Cuba of about 1,000 undesirable refugees
and other immigration issues.
The Department of State and the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Relations confirm
that talks were held on 12-13 July in New York in immigration issues.
Havana press reports that Cuba will accept the return of "undesirable" Cuban
refugees only if Washington agrees to issue visas to thousands of Cubans wanting
to emigrate.
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July 18 In an anniversary message, Fidel Castro praises Nicaragua and accuses the US of
"rapidly preparing the conditions for direct military intervention in Central
America."
Cubans waiting to leave their country for Panama in transit to the US complain
about delays endured because of the Panamanian elections and US restrictions.
More than 500 Cubans are holding Panamanian visas and airplane tickets. Some
700 Cubans have entered Panama each month in transit to the US, paying
approximately $3,000 for a Panamanian visa.
July 20 Iran's Ambassador in Havana, Mostafa Mokhlesi and Isidoro Malmierca discuss
strengthening bilateral relations and Malmierca denounces US imperialist's plots
in the Persian Gulf during a meeting.
July 22 In statements to El Dia, Isidoro Malmierca says that Cuba is willing to contribute
to a negotiated political solution to the Central American crisis and denounces US
intervention in that area.
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July 31
August 1
August 2
In El Dia, Malmierca says the future of relations between Havana and Washing-
ton "will be determined by the fact that we are on the same continent and there is
no other alternative but to seek peace."
The Ninth Latin American and Caribbean Journalists Seminar is held in Havana.
Malmierca says the most important tasks are to make efforts to avoid war and the
US intervention in Central America.
At a forum sponsored by the White House, Juanita Castro denounces her brother
Fidel Castro as a liar and a traitor for breaking his promise to restore democracy
to Cuba.
In his 26th July speech Fidel Castro called President Reagan "the most brutal and
most sinister" US President since the Communists took power in Cuba in 1959.
The Department of State rules out comprehensive talks with Cuba until Havana
demonstrates a willingness to make fundamental changes in its foreign policy,
according to Deputy Spokesman Romberg.
Juventud Rebelde reports that opening ceremonies for the Los Angeles Olympics
bored the 90,000 spectators.
A US State Department spokesman says the US and Cuba have resumed talks in
New York City to discuss problems of mutual interest.
The Foreign Ministry confirms that Deputy Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon is
in New York City to discuss immigration problems with US officials.
The Reagan Administration says that a second round of US-Cuba migration talks
ended without agreement but that it expected more discussion.
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August 24
August 30
August 31
Prensa Latina reports that Cuba is using 18,000 workers and 3,000 machines to
fortify defenses against possible US attacks. 15 percent of Cuba's concrete is being
used to build bunkers.
Minister of Higher Education Fernando Vecino Alegret says in Mexico that after
25 years of living under the US threat, Cuba is ready to repel an attack by the US
in defense of the revolution.
Alegret reiterates that his government is ready to negotiate peace with the US and
he says he supports the Contadora Group's position because he wants peace in
Central America.
Havana television reports that the US Senate has approved the appointment of
Jorge Mas Conosa, believed to be one of the leaders of Alpha-66, as president of
the anti-Cuban Radio Marti.
During the FAO's 18th regional conference in Buenos Aires, Hector Rodriguez
Llompart says the US administration's policies conspire against the peoples right
to sufficient food.
Health Minister Sergio del Valle presides over a ceremony commemorating the
1954 medical school graduating class. A graduating physician says Cuba should
continue the struggle against imperialism.
Prensa Latina says Cuba mobilized thousands of its citizens in a civil defense drill
over the weekend in anticipation of a possible US invasion led by a "massive air
attack."
Granma reports that Cuba welcomes the decision to close the US-run School of
the Americas in Panama, but cautions that classes in "murder and torture" could
continue in other parts of Latin America.
Cuban Ambassador to the UN Raul Roa Kouri reiterates his country's solidarity
for Puerto Rico's independence and denounces US militarization of that island
during a speech before the UN.
A Puerto Rican Independence Party leader condemns US intentions of establish-
ing the School of the Americas in Puerto Rico saying "it would transform Puerto
Rico into a Pentagon training camp."
President Reagan, considering an increase in travel restrictions, orders an
investigation into trips by journalists and professionals to Cuba.
A seminar on the US elections and Washington's policy toward Latin America
opens at the Havana Convention Palace with Latin American and US researchers
participating.
At the International Conference on Solidarity with the Libyan Revolution in
Tripoli, Jorge Lezcano says history has shown that it is not possible to retreat in
the face of US aggression.
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September 7
September 8
September 9
September 10
September 11
Raul Castro sends a message to Nicaraguan Defense Minister Ortega on the fifth
anniversary of the establishment of the Sandinista People's Army telling it to rise
up against US imperialism.
During a speech at a Territorial Militia Troops officers course, Politburo member
Julio Camacho says defense is costly, but much more costly is to be unarmed and
confronted by imperialism.
During a meeting in Camaguey, Vilma Espin says she believes that if the
imperialist enemy manages through military might to set foot on Cuban soil, he
will get burned.
President of the People's Government Oscar Fernandez Me11 meets with a
delegation from the US-Hispanic organization, League of United Latin American
Citizens.
Isidoro Malmierca and Horst Sindermann discuss bilateral relations and condemn
the aggressive US policy in Central America and express full solidarity and
support for Nicaragua and El Salvador.
President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo arrives in Czechoslovakia and is
met by Federal Assembly Chairman Alois Indra. They discuss the international
situation and US aggression.
Fidel Castro receives a delegation from the League of United Latin American
Citizens headed by President Mario Obledo. The delegation presents Fidel with a
list of prisoners they are interested in.
At a press conference, Mario Obledo says Fidel Castro explained to him that Cuba
is currently holding serious talks with the US to resolve the immigration problem.
In a speech in Ethiopia, Valdes says that the US has intensified the warmongering
campaign against the Cuban revolution and that this campaign includes the
possibility of a direct attack.
UPI reports that at least four Cuban military advisers were killed in the 1
September air attack by Nicaraguan rebels on a military training camp at Santa
Clara.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez tells US newsmen in Havana that President Reagan's
reelection would not be an obstacle to bilateral relations, but neither would it
improve relations between the two countries.
Czechoslovak Premier Strougal and Flavio Bravo discuss bilateral relations and
the international situation; condemn US policy of adventurism, and stress the need
to avoid nuclear war.
President of Czechoslovakia Gustav Husak and Flavio Bravo discuss international
politics and condemn US policy worldwide.
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September 20
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September 30
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October 3
Granma reports that a recent decision by the US to further tighten restrictions on
travel to Cuba proves the Reagan Administration does not want Americans to
discover the truth about Cuba.
In a New York court, Omega 7 leader Eduardo Arocena admits that in 1980 he
participated in an operation to introduce dengue fever into Cuba. He also admits
links to a US intelligence service.
In a statement on Prague TV, Flavio Bravo says the US is trying to drown the rev-
olutions in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Cuba in blood, using any possible means.
Flavio Bravo tells Pal Losonczi that tension in Central America is great because of
US aggression and Havana is ready to settle its differences of view with the US at
the negotiating table.
A group of US lawyers belonging to the National Lawyers Guild arrive in Cuba to
participate in the first Scientific Symposium on Legal Policy and Ideology, being
held on 20-22 September.
Bulgarian Foreign Affairs Minister Petur Mladenov receives Flavio Bravo,
President of the National Assembly, to discuss the international situation,
worsened by US aggression.
US lawyers hold a press conference in Havana saying that the possibility of
opening the way to greater understanding and communication between the US and
Cuba is of upmost importance.
A US Federal Grand Jury in New York convicts Cuban exile Arocena of
murdering a diplomat and masterminding a 10-year bombing spree as the leader
of the anti-Castro Omega 7 terrorist group.
Isidoro Malmierca arrives in New York to participate in the UN General
Assembly debates.
Iranian Foreign Minister Velayati meets with Isidoro Malmierca in New York to
discuss expanding mutual relations. Velayati pledges support for the Latin
American countries against US imperialism.
Fidel Castro and President Sankara of Burkina issue a joint communique blaming
Washington for the prevailing tense world situation and expressing solidarity with
Nicaragua.
In a protest note handed to the US Mission in Havana, Cuba accuses the US of
sending a spy plane over the island last month, jeopardizing talks between the two
countries.
At the UN General Assembly, Isidoro Malmierca charges the US with being set
for a "new interventionist adventure" in Central America and warns it would be
met by "war without quarter or respite.".
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October 8
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October 20
October 25
Jesus Montane, Manuel Pineiro, and Venezuelan Communist Party official Jesus
Farias agree in Havana that "the current policy of the US administration
endangers the region and international peace."
Foreign Minister Malmierca tells the UN General Assembly that everything is
ready for a US military invasion of Nicaragua.
At the UN, the Nonaligned Movement warns of the imminent danger of a direct
intervention by imperialistic forces against Nicaragua, Cuba, and other Latin
American nations.
In a New York Times interview, Acting Foreign Minister Jose Raul Viera Linares
says "we have never felt so threatened." A State Department spokesman says "We
don't plan on invading Cuba, period."
In a New York Times interview, John Ferch, head of the US Interests Section in
Havana, says there has been no changes in US policy toward Cuba in recent
months.
At the United Nations, Isidoro Malmierca says that Cuba is willing to negotiate
with the US on a basis of mutual respect, but it has not received any sign from
Washington on this.
In Berlin, Vice President of the Council of State and Ministers Guillermo Garcia
and East German leader Erich Honecker denounce US policy against Cuba and
Nicaragua.
In an interview with a Washington Post journalist, Angolan President dos Santos
pledges to work toward the withdrawal of about 25,000 Cuban troops from
Angola.
In Mexico City, spokesman for Cuba's Foreign Ministry Enrique Gonzalez says
Cuba is ready to withdraw its military advisers from Central America when the
US stops assuming control of the region.
Miami press reports that the Justice Department has decided that more than
125,000 Cubans from the 1980 refugee boatlift may become permanent US
residents under a 1966 law.
Bogota press reports that 28 Salvadorans and Cubans have been arrested by
Colombian officials on San Andres Island after illegally entering the country in a
US registered aircraft.
The meeting of Caribbean intellectuals, "entitled, Maurice Bishop in Memoriam,"
ends. Proposals made were: support for the Contadora, condemn US aggression,
and demand such aggressions end now.
October 27 Manuel Gonzalez Guerra, President of the Cuban Olympic Committee says that
Cuba will compete with Indianapolis to host the 1987 Pan-American Games.
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October 29 Fidel Castro opens the 39th CEMA meeting in Havana. In his speech he attacks
the US for what he says are attempts to wipe socialist from the face of the earth.
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November 8
November 12
November 15
In his CEMA speech, Fidel Castro says that despite the Reagan administration's
threat forcing Cuba to prepare militarily, Cuba's economy has grown 9.8 percent
this year.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez addresses the CEMA session condemning the discrimir
natory political policy, the embargo, and the trade bans that capitalist countries
have placed on social countries.
In an interview with senior executives and editors of the Hearst group of
newspapers, President Reagan says he had long dreamed of persuading Cuba to
rejoin the "family of the Americas."
Cuban refugees who fled Marie! in 1980 and who are now prisoners at the Atlanta
Federal Penitentiary, burned bedsheets, and chanted "Freedom Now." This is the
second demonstration in three weeks.
Reuters reports that Cuban officials have resigned themselves to the fact that they
will be forced to deal with Ronald Reagan for four more years.
In an interview with Japan's KYODO news service, First Vice Foreign Minister
Jose Viera says that Cubans in Nicaragua will help the Central American country
if it is attacked by the US.
Education Minister Jose Ramon Fernandez and Nicaraguan Education Minister
Ernesto Cardenal say in Mexico that President Reagan's reelection poses a threat
to peace in central America.
Granma announces President Reagan's reelection without any comment. Prensa
Latina noted that "the threat of an intervention is near" in Central America or
against Cuba.
Reuters reports that Fidel Castro said "The most dangerous time will b.e
immediately after the elections because Reagan believes that Cuba should be
neutralized."
During an interview in Havana with Prensa Latina, Soviet Ambassador Katushev
says that the USSR a,nd its people would be by the Cuban people's side slioUldthe
US attack Cuba.
Central Committee member Raul Garcia Pelaez attends the 14th congress of the
Communist Party of Colombia held in Bogota. He charges the US as the main (*-
stack for peace in Central America.
Granma publishes two letters written by Fidel Castro to Mario Vasquez Rana,
President of the Pan-American Sports Organization, on the injustice to favor the
US as a selection for the games site.
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Cuban astronaut Arnaldo Tamayo Mendez arrives in Mexico City to attend an ex-
position of machinery and equipment. He accuses the US of militarizing space.
November 16 During an interview with reporters in New York, Cuban defector Jose Luis Llovio
Menendez says "Fidel hates totally the United States of America."
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President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo grants an interview with
journalists. He condemns US aggression toward Central America and the
Caribbean and hopes for peaceful negotiations.
The 15th consultative meeting of the socialist countries' solidarity committee ends
in Havana with a final declaration condemning the frantic arms race begun by the
US.
Havana press announces that the second seminar on the situation of communities
,in the United States which are considered ethnic minorities will be held in Havana
on 4-6 December.
Havana press reports that Cuba and the US have resumed talks in New York on
the possible repatriation of about 3,000 Cuban "undesirables."
December 3 Thousands of Cubans who came to the US in the 1980 Mariel Boatlift line up at
registration centers in the US to begin the process of becoming American citizens.
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Minister of Health Sergio del Valle meets in Berlin with GDR Council of
Ministers Willi Stoph. They condemn US aggression and express solidarity with
the people of Nicaragua.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart opens a seminar on US minorities. He says the
role of US communities can be decisive in achieving a future of unity and peace on
the American continent.
The Foreign Ministry reports that the third round of talks on immigration matters
between the US and Cuba ended on 5 December. Vice Foreign Minister Alarcon
headed the Cuban delegation.
During his speech to intermediate-level students, Fidel Castro says that Cuba will
always be alert to every sign or indication from US leaders of aggression towards
Cuba.
The first maritime safety meeting is held in Havana. In attendance are 200 Cuban
delegates, 12 from the USSR, Vietnam, Venezuela, France, and the United States.
US Administration officials report that the US and Cuba have reached a basic
agreement to return to Havana about 2,500 "undesirable" refugees and to allow
some 20,000 Cubans to immigrate annually.
Fidel Castro delivers a nationwide radio and television speech in which he termed
the immigration agreement with the US as "positive and constructive."
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UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar meets with Vice Foreign Minister
Ricardo Alarcon at the UN to discuss the world situation, especially Central
America and South Africa.
In an interview in Stern, Fidel Castro discusses Nicaragua and US goals and says
the US administration does not wish a peaceful settlement in Central America.
Chairman of the Cuban National UNESCO Commission Vicentina Antuna says
in Havana that the United States' withdrawal from UNESCO is another example
of US arrogance.
Paris Le Monde reports on an interview with Carlos Rafael Rodriguez in which he
discusses Angolan troop withdrawal and alleged US threats against Cuba since
1981 by the US.
US officials in New York report that 77 Cubans who used allegedly phony
documents to enter the United States from Spain were denied entry at John F.
Kennedy Airport. Immigration hearings are pending.
In a speech to the National Assembly, Fidel Castro accuses the US and Australia
of trying to damage the Cuban economy by sabotaging an international sugar
agreement.
Cuba's Ambassador to Poland Quintin Pino Machado denounces US aggression
against Cuba and stresses the positive relations between Cuba and Poland, in an
interview on Polish television.
A convicted mass murderer, Ishmael Ali Labeet, hijacks an American Airliner
from St. Croix to New York. Cuban authorities arrest the hijacker, and the plane
returns to New York.
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Uruguay's President-elect Julio Sanguinetti, in an interview in Tiempo Argentino,
says it would be positive to resume relations with Cuba.
Roberto Asiain, Secretary for international relations of the Uruguayan Colorado
Party arrives in Havana as part of a tour that includes Nicaragua, Venezuela, and
the US.
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January 1 Marshal of the Soviet Union Ustinov sends a message of congratulations to Raul
Castro on the 25th anniversary of the revolution in Cuba.
January 4
January 5
Soviet Party and State messages are sent to Fidel Castro on the 25 anniversary of
the revolution in Cuba.
Petr Demichev, alternate member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Commit-
tee, arrives in Havana to attend the formal unveiling of a monument to Lenin.
Konstantin Katushev accompanies him.
Baku Domestic Service reports that the Petrov machinery tools factory in Baku
has exported three oil drills to Cuba and that a total of six oil drills will have been
exported by the end of 1984.
USSR Minister of Culture Demichev and Armando Hart discuss development of
relations between the two ministries in the field of cooperation and in the training
of education cadres.
January 8 Soviet official Demichev presents the Order of the October Revolution to Blas
Roca during a ceremony in Havana.
January 9
January 10
January 19
January 23
Fidel Castro, Armando Hart, and Soviet Culture Minister Petr Demichev attend a
dedication ceremony for the first monument to Vladimir Ilich Lenin in Cuba and
Latin America in Lenin Park.
Soviet Minister of Culture Petr Demichev attends a mass meeting at the Jose
Marti Metallurgical Combine. He discusses the international situation with Jesus
Montane.
Foreign Minister Gromyko and Cuban Ambassador to the USSR Lionel Soto
discuss international problems and Soviet-Cuban cooperation during a meeting in
Moscow.
Fidel Castro and Soviet official Demichev discuss international issues and further
development of the fraternal Soviet-Cuban cooperation.
In honor of the 25th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, Cuban Ambassador to
the USSR Lionel Soto hosts a reception in Moscow that is attended by Soviet offi-
cials Aliyev and Kuznetsov.
Vice Minister of Foreign Relations Giraldo Mazola visits Kiev; he is received by
Masik, Ukrainian Council of Ministers Deputy Chairman and Martynenko,
Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs.
In an interview in Moscow, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says that Cuba is more
concerned about the preservation and strengthening of world peace than about its
own problems.
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Carlos Rafael Rodriguez arrives in Moscow at the head of a delegation that will
participate in the 109th meeting of the CEMA Executive Committee.
Jesus Montane closes the International Scientific Conference saying that the most
imperative task which the peoples of the world are currently facing is the struggle
for peace.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses bilateral relations related to the work of the
intergovernmental USSR-Cuba Commission for Economic, Scientific, and Techni-
cal Cooperation with Soviet leader Arkhipov.
January 26 First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers I. V. Arkhipov receives
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez; they discuss Soviet-Cuban trade and economic relations.
February 4
February 6
February 7
February 8
February 9
US officials state that the USSR has increased the size of Cuba's Navy and MIG-
23 fighter forces; a 2,300-ton Soviet-built frigate and a 2,100-ton diesel-powered
submarine were delivered recently.
Marshal of the Soviet Union Dmitriy Ustinov receives the Playa Giron Order from
Lionel Soto, Ambassador of Cuba to the USSR.
Cuban Ambassador to Moscow Lionel Soto decorates USSR Defense Minister
Ustinov with the Playa Giron Order, on the occasion of his 65th birthday for his
contributions to the communist society.
The Soviet Union is sending nine new sugarcane harvesters to Cuba. Cuban
mechanics are being trained in the repair and maintenance of these harvesters.
USSR Minister of Trade Grigoroy Vashchenko arrives in Havana heading a
delegation that will evaluate the bilateral work plan for 1983-84 as well as trade
cooperation in 1985-86.
Minister of Culture Armando Hart arrives in Moscow; he discusses further
expansion and deepening of Soviet-Cuban cooperation with his counterpart Petr
Demichev.
First Secretary of the Komsomol Viktor Maksimovich Mishin arrives in Cuba
heading the Soviet youth delegation that will participate from 9-11 Feb.
in the 12th World Youth and Students' Festival.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane receives Viktor Mishin, First Secre-
tary of the USSR's Leninist Komosomol.
Leaders of the National Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union Secretariat and
USSR Trade Minister Grigoriy Ivanovich Vashchenko meet in Havana.
Culture Minister Armando Hart meets in Moscow with publishing official Boris
Pastukhov and Cinematography official Filipp Yermash to discuss development
and cooperation in the two fields.
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February 11
February 12
February 13
February 13-16
February 15
Cuba declares four days of mourning (11-14 Feb.) for Soviet leader Yuri Andropov
as tens of thousands line up to sign a book of condolences in Revolution Square.
Fidel Castro, accompanied by other members of the Politburo, the Secretariat, and
the Central Committee, visits the Soviet Embassy in Havana to sign the book of
condolences.
Domestic Trade Minister Manuel Vila Sosa and Soviet Trade Minister Vash-
chenko sign a bilateral trade agreement and 24 evaluation of tasks for 1983-84.
Fidel Castro sends a message of condolences to the Soviet Government and peoples
on the occasion of Soviet President Yuriy Andropov's death.
Raul Castro discusses the strengthening of friendship and cooperation between
Soviet and Cuban youth with V. M. Mishin, who heads the Lenin Komsomol
delegation visiting Cuba.
Fidel Castro, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Jesus Montane, and Roberto Veiga head a
delegation to the funeral of Soviet leader Andropov; Fidel places a floral tribute at
the bier.
Matyas Szuros, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Socialist
Workers Party visits Havana at the invitation of the PCC; he is greeted by Central
Committee member Julian Rizo Alvarez.
Fidel Castro and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discuss Soviet-Cuban cooperation and
the international situation with Konstantin Chernenko, Andrey Gromyko, and
Konstantin Rusakov.
The General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Konstantin Chernenko
expresses Soviet solidarity with the Cuban people to Fidel Castro during a meeting
in Moscow.
Fidel Castro discusses the international situation and matters of mutual interest
with Mengistu Haile-Mariam, Chairman of the Provisional Military Administra-
tive Council of Ethiopia, in Moscow.
Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Indira Gandhi to discuss matters of interest to
both countries and to the Nonaligned Movement.
Fidel Castro meets in Moscow with Sam Nujoma, President of SWAPO, and with
Pascual Luvualu, MPLA-Labor Party Politburo member.
Chairman of the Presidium of the Soviet All-Union Central Council of Trade
Unions receives Roberto Veiga in Moscow to exchange opinions on the work of the
two countries' labor organizations.
February 16 Fidel Castro discusses matters of mutual interest with Soviet Defense Minister
Dmitriy Ustinov during a meeting in Moscow.
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February 18
February 19
February 28
March 3
March 5
March 8
March 11
March 12
March 13
March 16
The president of the USSR's State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations,
Yakov Ryabov, reports that Soviet technical assistance to Cuba has increased to
more than 1 billion rubles annually.
Fidel Castro tells Newsweek there will be no dialogue between Cuba and the US
as long as the US insists that the Central American situation is caused by Cuba's
relationship with the USSR.
Izvestiya reports that USSR Deputy Foreign Minister V. G. Komplektov and his
Cuban counterpart Ricardo Alarcon met in Moscow to discuss topical internation-
al problems.
A Soviet trade union delegation led by Shalayev arrives in Havana to take part in
the work of the 15th congress of the Central Trade Union Organization of Cuban
Working People.
Cuba and the USSR sign an industrial equipment agreement in Havana. The
equipment will be assigned to factories being built in Cuba within the framework
of the economic agreement for 1981-85.
Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko says that the Soviet Union will be on the side
of Cuba in times of calm as well as in those of turmoil.
The Cuban ship, "Julio Antonio Mella," arrives at the Leningrad port to begin the
participation of Cuban ships in the Leningrad-Havana transoceanic route.
Two more Soviet cargo ships arrive at Havana Port with more than 3,500 tons of
containers and equipment. There are a total of 36 ships in Havana's bay, 24 of
which are docked.
Interior Minister Ramiro Valdes has been received by Viktor Chebrikov, USSR
Security official; they discussed strengthening cooperation.
Interior Minister Ramiro Valdes and Vitaliy Vorotnikov, member of the Politburo
of the CPSU Central Committee, meet in Moscow.
President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television Nivaldo Herrera and his
Soviet counterpart Sergey Lapin sign a television protocol in Moscow for 1984-85.
Herrera departs for Prague.
Ramiro Valdes decorates Viktor Chebrikov, candidate member of the CPSU
Politburo with the Solidarity Order and Army General Fedorchuk, Minister of
Internal Affairs with the Medal of Friendship.
Portuguese Prime Minister Mario Soares says the Soviet Union and Cuba had
decided on a "gradual disengagement" from Angola that will permit the eventual
departure of Cuban troops.
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March 26
Ambassador to the USSR Lionel Soto decorates Soviet Minister Boris Bakin with
the Armando Mestre Order for his contribution to the completion of socio-
economic projects in Cuba.
Cuba and the Soviet Union sign a final protocol for the supply of equipment, spare
parts, materiel, and the delivery of documents for projects for 1985.
Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura meets with a visiting delegation
of CPSU workers headed by N. I. Zemskov to exchange experience of party work.
The Cuban press reports the arrival at the port of Havana of the Soviet helicopter
carrier Leningrad, the guided-missile destroyer Udaloy, a diesel submarine, and a
supply ship.
Soviet Naval officer Rear Admiral Fedor Starozhilov meets with Vice Admiral
Aldo Santamaria, Santamaria and Oscar Fernandez Me11 tour the Soviet ship
Leningrad.
March 28 Raul Castro receives Rear Admiral Fedor Starozhilov. Starozhilov toured the
Havana City Museum and other places of historical interest.
March 29
Division Generals Abelardo Colome Ibarra and Ulises Rosales del Toro, and Vice
Admiral Aldo Santamaria Cuadrado meet with Soviet Naval Rear Admiral Fedor
Starozhilov.
Soviet Naval officer Fedor Starozhilov stresses solidarity in a news conference in
Havana repeating Chernenko's recent statement that the USSR has been, is, and
will be on the side of Cuba.
April 2 The USSR's Petroleum Industry Minister Nikolay Mal'tsev and Cuba's Minister
of Basic Industry Marcos Portal sign a cooperation protocol in oil production in
Moscow.
April 4 During a ceremony held in Moscow, the Cuban Government formally agrees with
the USSR to adhere to a treaty on the recovery and return of cosmonauts and
space objects.
USSR Council of Ministers officials I. Arkhipov and B. Ye. Shcherbina meet with
Marcos Portal to discuss economic and industrial cooperation.
Marcos Portal and Ya. P. Ryabov, Chairman of the USSR State Committee for
Foreign Economic Relations meet in Moscow.
The National Preparatory Committee for the 12th World Festival of Youth and
Students is organized. Jose Ramon Machado Ventura presides. The major youth
events will be held in Moscow in 1985.
April 5 The Soviet Naval ships commanded by Vice Admiral Starozhilov end their official
visit to the Port of Havana.
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Politburo alternate member Montane discusses the Cuban Communist Party's
relationship with the CPSU with a Soviet delegation headed by Vasiliy Borisenkov
and Al'girdas-Mikolas Brazauskas.
April 8 Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Martynov receives the
Chairman of the State Committee for Material and Technical Supply I. Sanchez
to discuss bilateral cooperation.
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April 29
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May 7
May 17
May 21
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June 6-12
Senior Pentagon officials say the Soviet helicopter carrier Leningrad is conducting
operations with a Cuban frigate in the Gulf of Mexico and approached within 100
miles of the US coast.
V. Ye. Odintsov, first secretary of the North Osetian CPSU Obkom visits Havana
to discuss experiences of the PCC's work in training, placement, and education of
cadres with Machado Ventura.
CPSU Central Committee Politburo member Nikolay Tikhonov receives Cuba's
Ambassador to the Soviet Union Lionel Soto to exchange views on questions
concerning further development of relations.
Lionel Soto and Andrey Gromyko meet in Moscow.
In Moscow, CPSU Central Committee member Nikolay Baybakov and Cuba's
Ambassador to the USSR Lionel Soto discuss Cuba's use of conventional and
unconventional sources of energy.
Nikolay Baybakov and Lionel Soto also discuss the possibilities for training Cuban
workers in Soviet industries, looking ahead at economically important projects
under construction in Cuba.
The Soviet Navy fleet that had been anchored off the Cuban coast since 26 March
on an "official, friendly" visit ends its stay.
Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas meets in Moscow with counterparts
Peter Veress from Hungary, Khristo Khristov from Bulgaria, and Nikolay
Komarov from the Soviet Union.
Cuban track and field athletes tell Radio Havana that the decisions made by the
Olympic Committee of the USSR and other Socialist nations not to attend the Los
Angeles Olympics are justifiable.
A delegation of political workers of Cuba's Armed Forces led by Col. Armando
Martinez Alvarez visits the Soviet Union to exchange experiences on party
organizational work in the military.
Politburo member Jose Ramon Machado Ventura visits the Soviet Union; he
discusses cooperation between the two political organizations with Soviet officials.
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Jose Ramon Machado Ventura is received by Eduard Shevardnadze, First
Secretary of the Communist Party of Georgia to discuss bilateral relations.
He visits Tbilisi, capital of Georgia.
June 11 Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Humberto Perez arrive in Moscow to attend the
CEMA meeting. Fidel Castro is the only head of state not to attend.
Chairman of the USSR's State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations Yakov
Ryabov and Hector Rodriguez Llompart sign a construction protocol in Moscow.
Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas tells Prensa Latina that due to the escalating
anti-Cuban policy of the US, Soviet aid to Cuba grows in importance.
June 13 Fidel Castro sends a message to Soviet leader Chernenko expressing full support
for the CEMA economic summit.
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June 18-20
Mikhail Gorbachev, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee
receives Jose Ramon Machado Ventura to exchange information on the work done
by the CPSU and the PCC.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez presides over the final session of the CEMA meeting
where agreements on future development of the CEMA countries and economic
cooperation were approved.
First Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers Ivan Arkhipov says that
cooperation in the economic, scientific, and technical fields continue to broaden
with Cuba.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez attends the 14th session of the Soviet-Cuban intergovern-
mental commission for economic and scientific and technical cooperation in
Moscow.
June 20 A Bank of Cuba report says that last year Cuba resold $600 million of Soviet oil
imports to offset its loss of hard currency?a 57 percent increase over 1982.
July 9
Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Ryzhkov discusses Soviet-Cuban
economic cooperation with Carlos Rafael Rodriguez.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Ivan Arkhipov sign several documents to expand
,cooperation in economy, science, and technology.
President of the Central Planning Board Humberto Perez Gonzalez receives Petr
Andreyevich Paskar, First Deputy Chairman of the GOSPLAN to discuss
planning for food needs during 1986-90.
July 10 The Cuban Foreign Ministry categorically denies that it has received 10 Soviet
MIGs for Nicaragua, as reported in the US press.
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July 25
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives GOSPLAN official Paskar to discuss a national
food program within the framework for the development of economic, scientific,
and technical cooperation.
The Order of Jose Marti has been awarded to Andrey Gromyko in recognition of
Gromyko's friendship and solidarity with the Cuban revolution.
Member of the CPSU Central Committee Politburo Vorotnikov receives Perez
Galdoz, Deputy Director of the Cuban National News Agency.
The Soviet Union sends a message to Fidel Castro on the 31st anniversary of the
assault on Moncada stressing solidarity with Cuba's struggle for liberty, indepen-
dence, and peace.
Central Committee member Carlos Lage presides over a farewell ceremony for
students who will go to the Soviet Union and other socialist countries to study spe-
cialties in nuclear science.
July 26 Soviet Defense Minister Dmitriy Ustinov sends a message of congratulations to
Raul Castro on the occasion of the 31st anniversary of the assault on Moncada
Barracks.
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August 4
August 24
August 31
Fidel Castro announces in his 26th July speech that the Soviet Union is helping
Cuba build a four-reactor nuclear power plant near Cienfuegos.
TASS reports that in his 26th of July speech, Fidel Castro said that Cuba's
relations with Socialist countries are unbreakable.
The Soviet machine factory in Stanov has finished building a shipment of trucks,
70 ton capacity each, for transporting gasoline to Cuba. 100 trucks for cement and
molasses will also be built.
The Soviet ship Taras Shevchenko arrives in Cuba with some 800 Cuban students
who graduated from various universities in the Soviet Union.
Soviet Central Committee Politburo member Shcherbitskiy receives Juan Mor-
ente, recently appointed Consul General of Cuba, in Kiev to discuss strengthening
relations.
September 12 A Soviet delegation headed by I. V. Kapitonov, Supreme Soviet Deputy and
Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, stops in Cuba on its way to Mexico.
Soviet leader I. V. Kapitonov and Jose Ramon Ventura Machado and Armando
Hart meet in Havana and take a familiarization tour of Havana and visit
agricultural plantations.
I. V. Kapitonov and Jaime Crombet discuss the CPSU's and the Cuban
Communist Party's activities in developing certain sectors of the national economy
during a meeting in Havana.
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September 18
September 19
September 20
September 21
October 2
October 3
October 5
October 12
Minister of Culture Almeida greets a Soviet delegation headed by Boris Pastukov,
Central Committee member, who Will attend the Second International Book Fair
from 14-20 September.
Politburo member Jose Machado Ventura receives Boris Pastukhov, chairman of
the Soviet State Committee for Publishing Houses, Printing Plants, and the Book
Trade.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez opens CEMA's third executive committee meeting in
Moscow in his capacity as president.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Commander of the USSR Council of Ministers
Nikolay Tikhonov discuss international problems of mutual interest and bilateral
relations during a meeting in Moscow.
Vietnam and Cuba sign a contract on cooperation and exchange of editorials in
Havana. Contracts have also been signed with Bulgaria, Poland, and the Soviet
Union, during the Havana 84 book fair.
Ten deputy chiefs of governments sign the protocol on agreements reached dtiring
the 3rd meeting of the CEMA Executive Committee in Moscow. Carlos Rafael
Rodriguez examines the documents.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Ivan Arkhipov to discuss the trade accord, co-
operation in various sectors until the year 2000 and the revising of investments
programs.
Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Boris Ponomarev and
Cuban Ambassador to the USSR Lionel Soto discuss the international situation
and party relations.
At a ceremony in Moscow, Lionel Soto announces pledges made by Cuban workers
and students, who reside in the USSR, in honor of the third party congress and the
22nd World Youth Festival.
Boris Ponomarev, Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, receives
Central Committee member Lionel Soto in Moscow to discuss the international
situation.
USSR First Deputy Minister of Communications Gennadiy Kudryavtsev visits the
three joint Cuban-Soviet communications installations in Havana Province.
A scientific-technical cooperation protocol between the Soviet and Cuban Minis-
tries of Communications is signed in Havana. The protocol comprises more than
20 projects.
Aleksey Georgiyevich Petrishchev, USSR Minister of Mineral Fertilizer Produc-
tion arrives in Camaguey accompanied by Minister of Basic Industry Marcos
Portal. They visit industrial plants in Nuevitas.
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October 16
October 24
October 25
October 28
October 31
November 1
November 2
Trade Minister Manuel Vila Sosa and his Soviet counterpart Grigoriy Vashchenko
sign in Moscow the 1985-86 protocol for scientific and technical cooperation.
Havana press reports that a base for supertankers is being built in Matanzas at a
cost of more than $200 million. It will be built with technical and financial aid
from the Soviet Union.
Severo Aguirre del Cristo, President of the Cuban Movement for Peace and
Sovereignty of Peoples attends a coordination meeting for committee presidents
from socialist countries in Moscow.
Dimitriy Kartvelishvili, Chairman of the Georgia Council of Ministers, USSR,
receives Domestic Trade Minister Manuel Vila Sosa. They discuss Central
America and Cuba's economy.
GOSPLAN Chairman Nikolay Baybakov arrives in Havana and is greeted by
Humberto Perez, Vice President of the Council of Ministers. Baybakov will attend
the 39th CEMA meeting.
Fidel Castro receives GOSPLAN Chairman Nikolay Baybakov to discuss econom-
ic cooperation between the two countries in the coming five-year plan as well as for
the long term.
Soviet Prime Minister Nikolay Tikhonov arrives in Havana to attend the CEMA
conference. He is welcomed by Fidel Castro.
Fidel Castro and Nikolay Tikhonov, Chairman of the CPSU Central Committee
Politburo sign an economic, scientific, and technical cooperation agreement ending
in the year 2000.
Fidel and Raul Castro and Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers
Humberto Perez bid farewell to Nikolay Tikhonov, Chairman of the USSR
Council of Ministers, at Jose International Airport.
Fidel Castro and Nikolay Ryzhkov visit a nickel works complex in Moa, one of the
largest enterprises in Cuban industry being built with technical help of the Soviet
Union.
Fidel Castro and Nikolay Ryzhkov inaugurate the America's Guerrilla sculpture
dedicated to Che Guevara. The sculptor is located at the Punta Gorda nickel plant
complex in Moa.
Soviet television reports on an interview with Carlos Rafael Rodriguez in which he
reflects on the importance of the cooperation agreement signed and the importance
of the CEMA meeting in Havana.
Politburo member Juan Almeida is received in Moscow by Grigoriy Romanov,
CPSU Politburo member.
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GOSPLAN President Nikolay Baybakov and Humberto Perez sign the ceremonial
document of the second Cuba-Soviet meeting for economic and social development
for 1986-90. Baybakov departs Havana.
In an interview with Pravda, Fidel Castro says the fraternal friendship and
multilateral cooperation between the USSR and Cuba has been and always will be
the basis of Cuba's foreign policy.
Fidel Castro bids farewell to Nikolay Baybakov, Vice President of the USSR
Council of Ministers, at Jose Marti International Airport.
During his speech commemorating the USSR's October Revolution, Jose Ramon
Machado Ventura reviews Soviet economic aid to Cuba and says that Cuba's
relations with the USSR are a source of pride.
Cuba commemorates the 67th anniversary of the USSR's October Revolution.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez, Jose Ramon Machado Ventura, and USSR Ambassador
Katuchev preside over the ceremony.
First Vice Minister of the FAR, Division General Ulises Rosales del Toro presides
over the FAR's central event commemorating the 67th anniversary of the Great
October Revolution.
During an interview in Havana with Prensa Latina, Soviet Ambassador Katushev
says that the USSR and its people would be by the Cuban people's side should the
US attack Cuba.
Fidel and Raul Castro, Juan Almeida, Ramiro Valdes, and Guillermo Garcia
attend a reception in Havana commemorating the 67th anniversary of the October
Revolution.
Alternate Cuban Ambassador to the UN Alberto Velazco San Jose says Cuba has
voted against a resolution adopted by the UN regarding the presence of Soviet
troops in Afghanistan.
The Cuban military delegation in the USSR headed by Division General Abelardo
Colome Ibarra meets with the new Soviet Minister of Defense Marshal Sergey
Sokolov.
A judicial cooperation and aid agreement is signed by Cuba and the USSR at the
Ministry of Foreign Relations in Havana.
The Council of State awards the Order of Solidarity to Mikhail Zimyanin,
Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in recognition of his work in solidarity
with Cuba.
Cuba and the USSR sign a sports accord for exchanges in sports and exchanges of
technical and skilled construction workers to build sports related buildings and
equipment.
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December 9-13 The first maritime safety meeting is held in Havana. In attendance are 200 Cuban
delegates, 12 from the USSR, Vietnam, Venezuela, France, and the United States.
December 13
December 17
December 18
December 20
December 21
December 22
December 24
CPSU Central Committee secretary Mikhail Zimyanin is presented in Moscow
with the Order of Solidarity bestowed by Cuba's Council of State.
Ambassador to the USSR Lionel Soto speaks.
Raul Castro meets with Marshal of Aviation of the Soviet Union Yevgeniy
Savitskiy. Savitskiy holds a press conference saying Fidel's recent speeches
merited the approval of the Soviet people.
Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers meets with Cuba's Ambassa-
dor to the USSR Soto to discuss the development of petroleum production in the
Varadero-Cardenas Basin.
Marshal of the Soviet Union Semen Kurkotkin arrives in Cuba heading an Armed
Forces delegation. He is greeted by Politburo alternate member Abelardo Colome
Ibarra.
Soviet Marshal Semen Kurkotkin visits the General Maximo Gomez Revolution-
ary Armed Forces Academy in Havana.
Raul Castro signs the condolence book for the death of Dmitriy Ustinov.
Ambassador of the USSR in Cuba, Konstantin Katushev accompanies him.
Raul Castro bids farewell to a delegation, presided over by Division General
Colome Ibarra, representing the party, government, and the FAR at the funeral in
Moscow of Dmitriy Ustinov.
Raul Castro receives Marshal of the Soviet Union Semen Kurkotkin. Raul
expresses his profound grief and sincere condolences on the occasion of the death
of Defense Minister Dmitriy Ustinov.
In a message addressed to top Soviet authorities and published by TASS, Fidel
Castro said that in the death of Soviet Defense Minister Ustinov, Cuba has lost a
sincere friend and loyal comrade.
Havana press reports that the Cuban delegation to the funeral of Dmitriy Ustinov
has served as an honor guard at the foot of the coffin of the the deceased defense
minister.
December 26 Granma reports that Fidel Castro met with Soviet Air Marshal Eugeni Savitski
and a Soviet war veterans delegation in Havana.
Fidel and Raul Castro met with the delegation of Soviet war heroes headed by
Marshal of Aviation Yevgeniy Savitskiy. The delegation met with students and
workers and visited military units.
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December, 28
December 30
December 31
A delegation from Leningrad Province headed by First Deputy Chairman Rudolf
Praust arrives in Santiago de Cuba to attend the 26th anniversary of the revolution
celebrations:
A Soviet naval task force arrives on a friendship visit. The destroyer Otlichny is
accompanied by escort ships Zadornyy and Razitelnyy, a diesel submarine, and a
tanker.
Raul Castro receives Soviet Vice Admiral Ryabov. Ryabov termed the strengthen-
ing of Cuba's defenses as positive and necessary because of increasing US
aggressiveness.
The USSR Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and Council of Ministers sends a
message to Fidel Castro on the 26th anniversary of the revolution reiterating
unvarying solidarity.
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October 13 Talking to reporters on his plane after a trip to Spain, Pope John Paul II indicates
that he is ready to visit Cuba as soon as Cuba sends him an invitation.
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January 10
February 1
February 3
February 4
February 14
March 7
April 10
April 13
April 24
June 15
June 18
June 20
Venezuela
El Diario de Caracas calls for an improvement in Venezuelan-Cuban relations and
discloses that a commission appointed by President-elect Lusinchi will travel to
Havana in February.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Jose Ramon Fernandez arrives in
Caracas at the head of the delegation that will attend the presidential inauguration
of Jaime Lusinchi.
Vice President of the Council of State Jose Ramon Fernandez conveys the best
wishes of the Cuban people, party, and Government to the new chief of state of
Venezuela, Jaime Lusinchi.
Jose Ramon Fernandez meets with Venezuelan Secretary of State, Isidro Morales
Apul and former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez and other Venezuelan
officials in Caracas.
El Nacional in Caracas reports that Jose Ramon Fernandez says the Central
American issue can only be resolved by peaceful means such as talks and dialogue,
and certainly not military options.
According to Venezuelan media, the four terrorists who were jailed on charges of
blowing up a Cubana aircraft on 6 October 1976, will remain in jail.
Paris press reports that on 6 March Cuban police shot a high school teacher
seeking refuge in the Venezuelan Embassy in Havana by climbing over a fence
surrounding the embassy.
A 28-year-old Cuban citizen is killed by police when he tries to seek asylum at the
Venezuelan Embassy in Havana.
Venezuelan President Lusinchi asks Havana to explain the killing of a Cuban who
tried to enter the Venezuelan Embassy in Havana on 10 April, the second such in-
cident this year.
After meeting with Venezuelan President Lusinchi, US Special Envoy Shlaude-
man rejects broadening of the Contadora peace process to bring in Cuba.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry announces that 11 of 16 Cubans who entered the
Venezuelan Embassy in Havana in 1980 have voluntarily left the embassy in
recent days to resume their normal lives.
According to officials in Caracas, Venezuela's new Social Democratic Government
has decided to seek better relations with Cuba.
Cuba and Venezuela agree to another five-year extension of an agreement on the
hijacking of planes and ships, which was originally signed in July 1973 and
renewed in 1979.
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February 1
February 3
February 4
February 14
March 7
April 10
April 13
April 24
June 15
June 18
June 20
Venezuela
El Diario de Caracas calls for an improvement in Venezuelan-Cuban relations and
discloses that a commission appointed by President-elect Lusinchi will travel to
Havana in February.
Vice President of the Council of Ministers Jose Ramon Fernandez arrives in
Caracas at the head of the delegation that will attend the presidential inauguration
of Jaime Lusinchi.
Vice President of the Council of State Jose Ramon Fernandez conveys the best
wishes of the Cuban people, party, and Government to the new chief of state of
Venezuela, Jaime Lusinchi.
Jose Ramon Fernandez meets with Venezuelan Secretary of State, Isidro Morales
Apul and former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez and other Venezuelan
officials in Caracas.
El Nacional in Caracas reports that Jose Ramon Fernandez says the Central
American issue can only be resolved by peaceful means such as talks and dialogue,
and certainly not military options.
According to Venezuelan media, the four terrorists who were jailed on charges of
blowing up a Cubana aircraft on 6 October 1976, will remain in jail.
Paris press reports that on 6 March Cuban police shot a high school teacher
seeking refuge in the Venezuelan Embassy in Havana by climbing over a fence
surrounding the embassy.
A 28-year-old Cuban citizen is killed by police when he tries to seek asylum at the
Venezuelan Embassy in Havana.
Venezuelan President Lusinchi asks Havana to explain the killing of a Cuban who
tried to enter the Venezuelan Embassy in Havana on 10 April, the second such in-
cident this year.
After meeting with Venezuelan President Lusinchi, US Special Envoy Shlaude-
man rejects broadening of the Contadora peace process to bring in Cuba.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry announces that 11 of 16 Cubans who entered the
Venezuelan Embassy in Havana in 1980 have voluntarily left the embassy in
recent days to resume their normal lives.
According to officials in Caracas, Venezuela's new Social Democratic Government
has decided to seek better relations with Cuba.
Cuba and Venezuela agree to another five-year extension of an agreement on the
hijacking of planes and ships, which was originally signed in July 1973 and
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February 16
February 19
February 23
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April 10
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May 9
May 16
May 17
Vietnam
Pedro Palacio, heading a Cuban delegation for the Committee for Solidarity with
Vietnam, reaffirms Cuba's support for solidarity during a meeting in Hanoi with
Hoang Tung, Communist Party Secretary.
Le Khac, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam
arrives in Cuba and is greeted at Jose Marti International Airport by Ricardo
Cabrizas.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas and Foreign Trade Vice Minister Andres Yebra
Garcia begin trade talks in Havana with a Vietnamese delegation headed by
Foreign Trade Minister Le Khac.
Fidel Castro sends an anniversary greeting to Le Duan, General Secretary of the
Communist Party of Vietnam confirming Cuba's solidarity with their people and
party.
Nguyen Duc Thuan, member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party
of Vietnam departs for Cuba to attend the 15th Congress of the Central
Organization of Cuban Trade Unions.
Jorge Lezcano, chief of the Cuban delegation attending the Advisory Conference
of Socialist Parliaments in Hanoi meets with the chairman of the National
Assembly of Vietnam, Nguyen Huu Tho.
Vietnam's Vice Minister of Culture Tran Van Phac attends the 12th conference of
the heads of the cinematographic services in socialist countries held in Havana.
First Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Viera receives Vietnamese Ambassador Hoang
Luong in Havana to express Cuba's support for the Vietnamese people.
Vietnamese Army heroine Ta Thi Kieu visits Cuba at the invitation of Fidel
Castro. Upon receiving Kieu, Jesus Montane expresses support for the Vietnamese
people. Keiu meets with Vilma Espin.
During a meeting with Vietnamese heroine Ta Thi Kieu, Jesus Montane says that
President Reagan's recent China visit has increased the threat to peace and
security in Southeast Asia.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane receives Vietnamese Minister Vo
Dong Giang. Montane expresses Cuba's full support for the Vietnamese people's
struggle against Chinese expansionism.
The Cuban Foreign Ministry issues a statement condemning China's acts of
aggression against Vietnam's northern border provinces since early April.
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September 6
September 20
September 29
October 25
October 26-27
October 27
October 30
November 30
December 7
December 19-25
Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba Hoang Luong, on behalf of the State Council,
presents the friendship order to Prensa Latina News Agency and its Director
General Gustavo Robreno.
Vietnamese Ambassador to Cuba Hoang Luong, in a press conference in Havana,
says that the two countries are in the same situation, and have the same tasks: pro-
duction and national defense.
Fidel Castro sends a message to Le Duan, Truong Chinh, and Pham Van Dong on
the occasion of the SRV national day expressing solidarity between the parties,
people, and governments.
Vietnam and Cuba sign a contract on cooperation and exchange of editorials in
Havana. Contracts have also been signed with Bulgaria, Poland, and the Soviet
Union, during the Havana 84 book fair.
Minister of Transportation Guillermo Garcia Frias receives a Vietnamese delega-
tion headed by Truong Thi Nhan, Director General of Foreign Trade Transporta-
tion to discuss maritime transportation.
To Huu, Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Vietnam arrives in Havana
to attend the 39th CEMA meeting. He is met at the airport by Pedro Miret, his
counterpart.
To Huu and his delegation visit the construction site of the first atomic electric
plant of Cuba, in Cienfuegos and tour the Isle of Youth.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Vietnamese leader To Huu to discuss the Latin
American situation and the Caribbean. Huu reaffirms Vietnam's support for Cuba
against US aggression.
To Huu meets with Rene Rodriguez Cruz, PCC Central Committee member to
express his gratutide to the Cuban Committee for Solidarity with Vietnam for its
efficacious activities in support of Vietnam.
A judicial cooperation and assistance agreement in civil, family, and criminal
matters is signed in Havana by Minister of Justice Juan Escalona and Vietnamese
Minister of Justice Phan Hien.
The Vietnamese ship To Lich arrives in Havana after 35 days at sea, signaling the
inauguration of Cuba and Vietnam.
Division General Sixto Batista Santana and Vice Admiral Aldo Santamaria visit
Vietnam and attend the 40th anniversary celebrations of the People's Army of
Vietnam.
December 20 Raul Castro attends a reception at the Embassy of Vietnam in Havana for the
Vietnamese National Army's 40th anniversary.
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Division General Sixto Batista arrives in Hanoi to attend the celebration of the
40th anniversary of the Vietnam People's Army.
The delegation of the Revolutionary Armed Forces led by Division General Sixto
Batista Santana departs Hanoi after attending the celebration of the 40th
anniversary of the Vietnam Army Day.
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Western Sahara
Prime Minister of the Saha-ran Democratic Arab Republic Mahfoud Ali Beiba
meets in Havana with Carlos Rafael Rodriguez and Jesus Montane; Cuba
reiterates its support for Western Sahara.
April 6 President of Western Sahara Mohamed Abdel Assid receives Manuel Torres, Vice
President of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation.
During the first session of the Cuban-Western Sahara Intergovernmental Confer-
ence on Economic and Scientific-Technical Cooperation, a protocol and a
cooperation agreement is signed.
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Yugoslavia
The delegation headed by Borut Miklavcic, Minister of Public Health of Slovania,
Yugoslavia, which is visiting Santiago de Cuba, tours the Saturnino Lora
Provincial Hospital and new polyclinic.
April 21 Cuban Ambassador to Yugoslavia Aramis Fuentes condemns all attempts to link
the presence of Cuban internationalist troops in Angola to the independence of
Namibia at a seminar in Belgrade.
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July 10
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September 20
October 1
October 3
October 5
Yugoslavia's Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs Raif Dizdarevic receives Jesus
Montane to exchange views on the state of relations with an emphasis on their fu-
ture expansion and promotion.
Ali Sukrija, President of the LCY Central Committee receives Jesus Montane who
delivers a message from Fidel Castro. Party relations and bilateral relations are
positively discussed.
Politburo member Jesus Montane visits the Josip Broz Tito memorial center and
lays flowers on President Tito's grave before departing Belgrade.
Minister of Communications Pedro Guelmes departs for Yugoslavia. He meets
with his counterpart Pljalcic to discuss bilateral cooperation and trade matters in
the communications field.
Minister of Communications Pedro Guelmes ends a working visit to Yugoslavia.
He and Yugoslav officials examined the possibility of increasing bilateral coopera-
tion in communications.
Yugoslavia's Federal Secretary for Foreign Trade Milenko Bojanic and Foreign
Trade Minister Cabrizas discuss issues of commodity exchange and economic
cooperation in Belgrade.
Foreign Trade Minister Cabrizas and Croatia's Premier Anti Markovic discuss the
possibility of Yugoslav oil industry of Zagreb participating in construction of
tanker port and oil base in Cuba.
Ricardo Cabrizas and Ante Markovic discuss economic cooperation and develop-
ing trade, particularly Yugoslavia's participation in development of the pharma-
ceuticals industry in Cuba.
Yugoslav Prime Minister Milka Planinc receives Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo
Cabrizas. Both express satisfaction with economic activities aimed at increasing
the volume of exchanges.
October 27 Vice President of the Federal Executive Council of Belgrade Borisav Srebric
departs for Havana to attend the 39th CEMA meeting.
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November 28
December 19
December 29
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle arrives in Belgrade. He meets with
Mitja Ribicic, member of the League of Communists, to discuss the Contadora
Group and the Nonaligned Movement.
During an interview in Belgrade, Politburo member Sergio del Valle and Mitja
Ribicic, LCY president, praises the Contadora Group's efforts to achieve a
peaceful solution to the Central American crisis.
Talks between Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Secretary Loncar and Deputy Foreign
Minister Linares end. The current international situation and the Nonaligned
Movement were discussed.
In an interview with Prensa Latina in Belgrade, Yugoslav official Mito Pejovski
discusses bilateral relations and trade with Cuba that amounted to $20-30 million
in 1984.
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Mpinga Kasenda, permanent secretary of the Political Bureau of Zaire and Luis
Delgado Perez, the new Cuban Ambassador. to Zaire, discuss cooperation in the
fields of culture, health, and agriculture.
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Zambia
President of the National A.Seinbiy of the Peoples Government Flavio Bravo.
departs for the Congo, Angola, and Zambia. Before departing, he stresses
strengthening relations With the three cOuntries.
April 4 Zambia's Minister for Youth and Sport Ben Kakoma says Zambian youth have a
lot to learn from Cuba in politics, sports and community organization during a
meeting with youth leaders.
October 1
October 3
October 4
Zambian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lameck Goma arrives in Havana accompa-
nied by Walter Fills, Chief Assistant to President Kenneth Kaunda. Acting
Foreign Minister Viera greets the visitors.
Zambia's Foreign Minister Lameck Goma and Jesus Montane discuss the
fraternal ties which exist between the two countries and world issues of interest to
the two parties.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives Zambian Minister of Foreign Affairs Lameck
Goma to discuss the African situation, especially the independence of Namibia,
and Central America.
Lameck Goma delivers a message from President Kenneth Kaunda to Fidel
Castro. They discuss the international situation, especially southern Africa,
Central America, and the Caribbean.
October 5 President Kaunda, in an interview with a Cuban journalist in Lusaka, says the
conditions for revolution in South Africa are now ripe.
December 6
December 7
December 19
December 20
Zambia's President Kaunda meets with Cuban Ambassador to Zambia, Heriberto
Feraudy Espino, to discuss bilateral relations. Kaunda reiterates his friendship for
Fidel Castro.
Three cooperation agreements in the areas of public health, agriculture, and sports
are signed with Zambia in Havana.
Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets with Zambia's Minister of National Planning and
Development Henry Meebelo to discuss bilateral talks on economic and scientific-
technical cooperation.
Zambia's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Musuka arrives in Cuba and is re-
ceived at Jose Marti International Airport by Giraldo Mazola, Vice Minister of
Foreign Relations.
Isidoro Malmierca and Otema Musaka of Zambia discuss matters related to the
African national liberation struggle, especially Namibian independence and the
fight against apartheid.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane meets with a delegation from the
OAU's committee of liberation, presided over by Zambian Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs Musuka.
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September 20
September 24
Zimbabwe
Deputy Foreign Minister Oscar Oramas arrives in Harare; he discusses bilateral
relations with Minister of Foreign Affairs Witness Mangwende and signs a
cultural agreement.
Speaking to reporters in Harare, Deputy Foreign Minister Oramas says Cuban
troops would not leave Angola until they have fulfilled their engagement in that
country.
Alfonso Frage presents his credentials as the new Ambassador to Zimbabwe to
President Canaan Banana.
Minister of Interior Ramiro Valdes arrives in Harare, Zimbabwe on an official
visit.
Ramiro Valdes tells the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation that Cuba and
Zimbabwe would like cooperation between the two countries to include defense.
Ramiro Valdes is received by members of the State Security Ministry in Masvingo
Province to discuss strengthening the fraternal relations between the peoples and
governments.
During a press conference in Harare, Ramiro Valdes expresses the firm conviction
that his visit to Zimbabwe has strengthened and consolidated relations between
the countries.
November 1 Zimbabwe press reports rumors that some of the Cubans to be evacuated from
Ethiopia and Angola may wind up in Zimbabwe and Ghana.
November 6
Zimbabwe's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Witness Magwende, arrives in Havana.
He and Isidoro Malmierca discuss the international situation, especially Central
America and the Caribbean.
November 7 Vice President of the State Committee for Economic Cooperation receives
Zimbabwean Foreign Minister Witness Mangwende to discuss cooperation.
Politburo alternate member Jesus Montane receives Zimbabwean Foreign Minis-
ter Witness Mangwende.
November 9 Fidel Castro and Zimbabwean Foreign Minister Witness Mangwende discuss the
international situation and bilateral relations during a meeting in Havana.
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Cuban Ambassador to Zimbabwe Perez says in a news conference that there are
about 140 Zimbabweans training in Cuba in different disciplines, and the two
countries may sign an economic accord in 1985.
In a news conference in Harare, Cuban Ambassador Alfonso Frage Perez says
that Cuba and Zimbabwe may sign a trade and economic accord next year.
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