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FROM
CUBA
Melee
at Cuba's Latin American Medical School
HAVANA, Cuba, October 17 (www.cubanet.org)
- A melee among foreign students of the
Latin American Medical School at the beginning
of October ran for three hours until police
broke it up, and resulted in a number of
students wounded.
The fighting, involving mostly Venezuelan
students on the one side, and Dominican
students on the other, reportedly began
because the Venezuelans were having a party
in the nearby town of Santa Fe, to which
they didn't allow students of other nationalities.
A Chilean student, who said he had been
denied access, explained that "the
Venezuelans have special protection, and
they act as if they owned the place when
dealing with Cuban workers or other students."
The president and vice-president of the
school, once appraised of the incident,
showed up to calm things down. In attempting
to do so, the president was shoved by a
student who hasn't been identified. The
incident has caused some resentment among
workers and students, due to the president's
prestige and state of health.
The school is one of the showcases of the
Cuban government, training students from
all of Latin America. Last year, school
administrators in a note issued on the school's
third anniversary, said "This school
is one of the heart beats of our Comandante."
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