'Health reasons' keep Castro from inaugural (in Uruguay)

[Mika]

'Health reasons' keep Castro from inaugural
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/11017981.htm

MONTEVIDEO - Cuban President Fidel Castro has canceled plans to travel to Uruguay today for its presidential inauguration ''for health reasons,'' president-elect Tabaré Vázquez told reporters Monday.

Vázquez did not elaborate on the comment made as he entered a hotel before a meeting with Spain's Crown Prince Felipe.

Cuba's official media had reported Sunday that the Cuban delegation at the swearing-in of the leftist Uruguayan would be led by Foreign Minister Felipe Párez Roque without saying whether Castro, 78, would attend the event.

Maybe Mr Castro has learned that US assassins & jackals are on the prowl in Uruguay for the inauguration of "leftist" president-elect Tabaré Vázquez, where Hugo Chavez and Mr Castro were to attend (maybe you remember the threads where Mr Castro had warned Mr Chavez of US assassination plans, as discussed in this thread started by Say_What,

-Castro joins Latin American Left to celebrate first win in Uruguay-
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1270284

[Judi Lynn]

1. He knows what's probable, when he makes an announced trip.

It hasn't been that long since the group of Miami Cuban "exiles" were caught in Puerto Rico with their materials, ready to blow him up as he addressed a large crowd of students in a university auditorium.

Wasn't it the Cuban intelligence who alerted the police before they could slaughter the crowd in order to get Fidel Castro? Very ugly people. They don't care what is sacrificed in their drive to repudiate the Cuban revolution which drove them out by killing one of the leaders.

Convenient for the would-be assassins that the President of Puerto Rico, at the time, was a confederate of the Miami "exiles" and she pardoned them all before leaving office, as well as calling Miami "exiles" to tell them their heroes were on the way home.

He has every reason in the world to look at each situation very carefully, for sure.

[Say_What]

3. There was an assassination plot involving CANF leaders in PR

but the bomb plot was in Panama. Not surprisingly, it was the CANF who went to bat for these well known terrorists too. Here's a couple of articles about the two different incidences for anyone interested.

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Castro death plot trial set for Nov 12 in Puerto Rico

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) -- Seven Cuban exiles will go to trial in
Puerto Rico on Nov. 12 on charges of plotting to assassinate Cuban
President Fidel Castro, a date set on Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge
Hector Laffitte.

The judge also gave the defence a May 20 deadline to file motions in the
case, so that prosecutors will have time to respond to them and the judge to
rule on them before the trial.

The seven Cuban-American defendants, including a leader of the powerful
exile group, Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), have been
charged in a failed plot to kill Castro during a Latin American summit
meeting in Venezuela in November 1997.

Four of the men -- Angel Manuel Alfonso, Angel Hernandez Rojo, Juan
Battista Marquez and Francisco Secundino Cordova -- were arrested in
October 1997, after the U.S. Coast Guard boarded their boat and found
two assault rifles and other military equipment. The boat was travelling off
the west coast of Puerto Rico.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/belligerence/trial2.htm

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Cash found in rooms of 4 suspects in Castro plot

PANAMA -- Police found a large sum of cash, tens of thousands of dollars, in the
hotel rooms of four Cuban exiles arrested here last week in connection with a
supposed plot to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro.

Sources familiar with the investigation said the men claimed the money was to
buy advertising on Panamanian radio and television stations denouncing Castro's
visit to Panama last weekend.

The four exiles -- Luis Posada Carriles and Miami residents Gaspar Jiménez,
Pedro Remón and Guillermo Novo, all veterans of numerous anti-Castro plots --
were arrested Friday after the Cuban leader accused them of planning to
assassinate him during last weekend's Ibero-American summit here.

None of the men have been charged. But the Cuban government has asked for
their extradition to face charges there stemming from their decades-long war on
Castro.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/belligerence/cash.htm

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Panama pardons Cuban exiles in Castro plot

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama's outgoing president has pardoned and freed four Cuban exiles jailed for plotting to kill Cuban President Fidel Castro, in a move that could rupture diplomatic ties between the two nations.

President Mireya Moscoso, who leaves office next week, said on Thursday she freed the Cubans for humanitarian reasons and her government said they were deported but gave no details. Sources in Miami said three of the plotters had arrived there.

Moscoso said she pardoned the four because they were convicted for relatively minor crimes rather than attempted murder and she denied suggestions the United States had pushed her into it. The country's incoming president opposed the pardons.

The pardoned men were among six sentenced in April for their part in a failed attempt in 2000 to bomb a University of Panama auditorium where Castro was due to speak during a summit of Iberian and Latin American leaders.

http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/posada/pardons-plot.htm

[Say_What]

2. Cuban Foreign Minister Arrives in Uruguay

One of President Tabaré Vázquez first official acts will to be restore diplomatic ties to Cuba--the Bushistas can't be too happy about that. ;-)

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Montevideo, Mar 1 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Pérez Roque arrived in this capital on Tuesday as head of a delegation attending the inauguration of Uruguay´s president-elect Tabaré Vázquez.

...In a warm ceremony, the Cuban top diplomat was welcomed by a large crowd holding Cuban flags and banners reading "Long Live Cuba", "Long Live Fidel".

http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B29096886-4204-4F6F-955D-74764CDC0019%7D&language=EN

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Leftist leader set to take office in Uruguay

MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY - Thousands of people took to the streets of Uruguay at midnight, setting off fireworks in an early celebration of Tuesday's inauguration of the country's first ever leftist government.

Tabare Vasquez and his Broad Front coalition, which includes former Communist guerrillas, beat out Uruguay's established, more conservative parties to win the Oct. 31 election.

...Eduardo Galeano, one of Uruguay's most famous writers who was forced into exile during the 1970s, calls the new president an honest man who is inheriting an economy in crisis and a heavy debt load.

"That's Uruguay nowadays, a country in intensive care," said Galeano. "So it will be difficult, this task of resurrection, no? It's a big challenge."

http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/MSN/world/national/2005/03/01/uruguay-vasquez050301.html