Reflections
by Comrade Fidel
ANOTHER TEA PARTY STAR
None other than Ileana Ros, the woman who kept the child Elián kidnapped
in Miami, the promoter of coups d’état, crimes such as those committed by
Posada Carriles and other heinous deeds, shall be travelling to neighbouring
Haiti, where the earthquake killed a quarter of a million people and the
cholera epidemic, in full swing, has taken the lives of almost 4,000 and is a
threat for the rest of the continent.
A dispatch from the DPA agency informs the following:
Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen will
visit
During her stay in Port-au-Prince, the Cuban-born
congresswoman said she hoped to receive a report on the ‘advances’ dealing with
reconstruction of the devastated country, as well as on the ‘continued
electoral controversy’ following the presidential elections of November 28th.
‘It is important for me to be able to go to Haiti, a
country that is very close to and beloved by the United states’, stated the
congresswoman from Florida, a state which is home to a great many Haitians.
‘It is very important for US interests and we have
personal interest in seeing that stability, democracy and free enterprise take
hold over there, she added.
I wonder whether the
But that is not all; another dispatch, this time from
the AP Agency coming from
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP)- Observers from the
Organization of American States shall recommend that the governing-party
candidate in the Haitian presidential elections be excluded from the second
round in order to give up his spot to a popular musician who ended up in third
place in the disputed first round of the elections, according to a copy of a
report obtained by The Associated Press.
The OAS had scheduled the presentation of the document to President René
Preval on Monday.
The report had not yet been made public, but AP obtained a copy and a
diplomat familiar with its contents confirmed its recommendations. Another
Foreign Affairs official said the document was in its last stage of being
edited and translated into French, but affirmed that the conclusions would
remain.
The Electoral Commission of Haiti will have to decide on how to answer
the appeal, but the recommendations of the OAS team could bear a lot of weight.
Three candidates consider they should be participating in the second round of
elections. After the preliminary results of the first round were announced, the
country was swept by a wave of unrest.
It is not foreseen that Preval would publically answer the report until
after Wednesday, the one-year anniversary of the devastating earthquake of
The second round was scheduled for Sunday, but it was delayed in part to
await the results of the OAS assessment that seeks to resolve the political
impasse. Officials have stated that the elections will not be held until at
least next month.
The country is completely calm. The fight against the epidemic is moving
forward successfully. During the last 17 consecutive days the Cuban Medical
Mission and the Henry Reeve Brigade have looked after 9,857 cholera patients
without one single death.
President Preval had spoken with the diplomatic representatives,
including the OAS representative, Brazilian writer Ricardo Seitenfus, about a
political solution to the complicated problem.
According to news received, after that individual was suddenly fired by
the OAS Secretary, the current problem came up. We hope that the
representatives from
Fidel Castro Ruz