Javier Dominguez, the North American Director of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP), presentation and Q&A
1199/SEIU Building,
310 West 43rd St.
(bt 8th and 9th Aves, Times Square subway stop)
In recent days there has been much press coverage regarding a major speech by President Fidel Castro discussing the important economic gains made by Cuba in the past period, which have put the worse disruptions and hardships of the “Special Period” behind them.
(In the speech Fidel also addressed and ridiculed the latest bullshit from the CIA Dis- information Factory on his having Parkinson’s Disease) The progressive improvements in the Cuban economy, highlighted by growing trade and exchange with Bolivarian Venezuela, have created new possibilities to tackle and overcome the inequalities and corruption that inevitably accompanied the economic measures reluctantly undertaken by the Cuban government following the near-collapse of the economy during the onset of the Special Period when trade and commercial exchange with the former Soviet Union and eastern European bloc countries collapsed overnight some 15 years ago. Javier will focus on these questions and also talk of the remarkable mobilization that Cuba was able to carry out to rapidly recover from the flooding of Havana from Hurricane Wilma last month.Following Javier’s presentation and Q&A, there will be a break and the previously scheduled business meeting of CSNY will take place which those gathered are welcome to attend. The brief CSNY meeting will focus of two items. First, organizing a broad New York-New Jersey delegation to attend the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela which starts on January 24, 2006 and, secondly, organizing a broad, united mass rally in February, 2006 in support of the Cuban 5 at a major venue such as Town Hall. The arguments before the full 11th circuit Appeals Court will be heard in late February.
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