[ppi] [ppiindia] Cuba, Venezuela gain at Ibero-American summit

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Inside and on the streets 
Cuba, Venezuela gain at Ibero-American summit
By John Catalinotto 

Published Oct 21, 2005 11:07 PM 
Washington's aggressive policies suffered two defeats in Salamanca, Spain, in 
mid-October: one diplomatic, at the Ibero-American summit, and one in the 
streets.

Leaders of 19 Latin American countries plus those of Spain, Portugal and 
Andorra met in Salamanca and voted unanimously to condemn the U.S. blockade of 
Cuba. They also supported another Cuban proposal that CIA terrorist Luis Posada 
Carriles be extradited to Venezuela. Posada is considered the organizer of the 
bombing that downed a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing 73 people, including a 
fencing team made up largely of teenagers.

While similar summits had earlier protested U.S. economic strangulation of 
Cuba, this was the first one to use the word "blockade" to describe these 
policies. Cuba has long said they amount to a blockade, while the U.S. uses the 
softer word "embargo." Many of the countries involved oppose U.S. policies 
because they not only hurt Cuba but punish those countries that trade with the 
socialist island.

The decision stung Washington enough that its embassy in Madrid said it wanted 
to express "concern" about the development to the Spanish government. Their 
concern was that the decision was too friendly to Cuba.

Whether this diplomatic victory will change Cuba's ability to trade with the 
world is still to be determined. But Cuba and Venezuela won another battle in 
Salamanca, this one in the streets.

In solidarity with the two revolutionary Latin American countries, progressives 
from Spain and Portugal massed in Salamanca Oct. 15 on the last day of the 
summit.

According to organizers' estimates, between 10,000 and 15,000 people, including 
1,000 who came by bus from all over Portugal, marched in Salamanca and rallied 
outside the Wurzburg Sports Arena in a cold rain. After authorities revoked 
permission to meet in the arena, demonstration organizers decided to hold the 
rally in the same locale, but outside.

In an attempt to discourage protesters, the Spanish Civil Guard held up the 
Portuguese at the border for individual identification, although this is no 
longer supposed to happen in the European Union. Hundreds of the Portuguese 
protesters were thus delayed and arrived too late for the march, but in time 
for the rally.

A small group of 200 right-wing, anti-Castro Cubans stayed behind a protective 
barrier of Spanish police.

A report from the Red Current organization in Spain described the events this 
way: "The shouts and the slogans in solidarity with the Cuban and Venezuelan 
people and their revolutionary processes were ceaseless during the long march 
that overflowed the streets of the city. These slogans mixed with those which, 
justifiably, denounced the role of Spanish imperialism in the recolonization of 
Latin America and those acknowledging the struggles of other people, like the 
Boli vians or the Colombians."

Earlier in the day, 5,000 people called together by leftist groups from the 
Spanish state demonstrated against Spain's King Juan Carlos and against the 
institution of the monarchy. 


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