LETTER FROM CUBA by Syd Williomson (Havana) ih
This letter will be a round-up of this month's newSe I don't know how people felt over the Leyland bus contract in Britain bat it went over big here. The Cubans like our buses vory much and nee a ages this was 2 tremendous blow to the U.S.ie — keep up the pressure.
Since the brutal assassination of the Panamanians there have been quite a few meetings of solidarity with Panama which culminated Ree
(a) A speech by Fidel in which he stated that the governments o the Latin .merican countries should come to the aid of Panama by giving Panama a loan of between $8 and $10 million (this is the amount which the U.S.A. threatens to withdraw), but if they didn't Cuba alone would lend Panama this amount without a conditions of a kind. This of course signifies what in reality Aimorican aid amounts to; if a small country like Cuba can do this after only 5 (difficult) years of socialismg and (b) A huge domonstratior in front of the old governmont buildings |
in inportant mooting is t king placo in Gragil of trade unions from Urxzil, Cuba, Panama, Uruguay, Venezuela, rgentina, Bolivia and Chile to discuss the possibility of a united trade union organisation called C.U.T.A.L. (Congress of Unity of the workers of Latin America). Already they have formed the Permanent Trade Union Council of Latin America. Among the things the latter has agreed to ares
(a) solidarity with the Cuban revolution not because of sentimental reasons but ones of self-interest;
(b) a call to the workers of the Americas to demonstrate against U.S. plans of aggression against Cuba and for the re-establishment of dipomatic and commercial relations with Cuba3
(c) solidarity with the peoples of Spain and Portugal;
(d) to establish committees of solidarity with the people of Venezuela in their fight for freedome