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By Manuel Cereijo, INGMCA@aol.com.
Revista Guaracabuya.
· Since 1986, Castro has developed a very large and sophisticated
biotechnology industry.
· It has 9 very large BioCenters, and 160 small ones
· MainCenters: The CIGB (Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Center),
established in 1986, at a cost of $150 million dollars
· BIOCEN, National Preparations Center, modeled after the Soviet
Biopreparat, established in 1992, at a cost of $15 million dollars
· CIM, Center for Molecular Immunology, established in 1994, at a cost
of $20 million dollars
· It is estimated that between 1986 and 2001, Castro has invested
$3,500 million dollars in the biotechnology industry
· The total export from the industry, in 10 years, has been $150
million dollars
· There was an intensive and extensive interrelation between the former
Soviet Union and Cuba on biotechnology, as testified, amomg others, by Ken
Alibek.
· Cuba has a bilateral agreement with Iran on biotechnology. Since 1998
to May 2001, Cuba built and equipped Iran's major Biotechnology Center,
inaugurated by Castro on May 2001
· There is a bilateral agreement between Cuba and Iraq on
biotechnology, since 1998. At this moment, Dr. Rodrigo Alvarez Cambra, a well
known Cuban orthopedic surgeon, and who performed surgery on Saddam Hussein, and
one of his sons, is now in Iraq, finalizing an agreement.
· There is a bilateral agreement between Cuba and Lybia on
biotechnology.
· The World Healh Organization has classified countries, depending on
their biological industry development in 5 categories. Cuba has been classified
in # 4. Only the G7 countries are on #5.
· Scientific and intelligence organizations have expressed that any
country with the capacity and technology to produce vaccines, interferon,
synthesize proteins, (all of which Cuba does) is capable of producing
bioweapons.
· There are over 20 scientists, and engineers, who worked in these
Centers, who are now in exile, working on research labs in the USA, Switzerland,
Germany, and Puerto Rico. They all have expressed the sophisticated capacity of
Cuba in biotechnology.
· DON'T FORGET: THIS IS THE SAME CASTRO THAT IN 1962, DURING THE
MISSILE CRISIS, TRIED TO FORCED KRUSCHEV INTO LAUNCHING A SURPRISE NUCLEAR
ATTACK AGAINST THE UNITED STATES.
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The organization continues to record a shift from long term prison
sentences to other forms of punishment and harassment including: short term
detentions; interrogations; summonses; official warnings; threats;
intimidation; eviction; loss of employment; restrictions on travel; house
searches; house arrests; telephone bugging; and physical and verbal acts of
abuse.
"This harassment is used not just against specific individuals known
for their dissident activities, but to suppress larger protests and pro-change
movements," Amnesty International said.
An unofficial moratorium has been declared on executions. Although this is
a welcome step, legislation allowing the use of the death penalty is still in
place and some 50 people are still on death row. Amnesty International has
received reports that death row prisoners have at times been subjected to poor
conditions amounting to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.
"It is high time the government of Cub stopped stifling non-violent
dissent," Amnesty International said, asking for all "prisoners of
conscience" to be released, for the laws that allowed their detention to
be amended and for all forms of harassment of political dissidents and human
rights activists to cease.
"At a time when more and more countries around the world are turning
their back on the death penalty, we welcome the de facto moratorium on
executions and urge the Cuban authorities to go one step further, by
abolishing this cruel and irrevocable form of punishment and commuting all
existing death sentences to prison terms ," the organization added.
The report: Cuba: the situation of human rights will be available on the
web at: http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/recent/AMR250022002
Public Document
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International's press office in London, UK, on +44 20 7413 5566. Amnesty
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