tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85654763074596151672024-03-19T22:52:07.363-07:00Otro CuadernoAlejandro Armengolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12852447659876707120noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565476307459615167.post-46263210230543432862013-07-16T21:14:00.000-07:002013-07-16T21:14:15.676-07:00Cuba y los misiles
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Cuba Archive <info cubaarchive.org=""><o:p></o:p></info></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">10:16 AM (13 hours ago)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Ref. Breaking news today: Panama Seizes North Korea-Flagged Ship for
Weapons, NYT, and others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Reports on Cuba's missiles tied to North
Korea have long been in the news. See below selections from our files. A lot
more has been reported in Cuban and other media on the close friendship between
Cuba's and North Korea's leadership and military. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">It's probably no coincidence that a
high-level North Korea military delegation was just in Havana "to
strengthen ties between the allies."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">-- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Maria C. Werlau<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Executive Director<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Cuba Archive - Truth and Memory Project<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">www.CubaArchive.org<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">info@CubaArchive.org<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Tel. (973)701-0520<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">CUBA'S APRIL MISSILES<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"> Author:
Rowland Evans, Robert Novak<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"> Creators Syndicate Inc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Section: OP/ED<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">On April 25, U.S. spy satellites
discovered at least one and possibly "several" banned SS 20 missiles
in Cuba, a chilling contradiction of post-Cold War superpower benevolence that
is now under top-secret White House scrutiny
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Intelligence sources insist there is no
ambiguity about the missile's presence in Cuba, one of the world's last
Communist bastions, nor about its illegality. All SS 20s were banned by the
1988 INF Treaty, and all must be destroyed by May 31. Apart from that, the
Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement ending the 1962 Cuban missile crisis barred
offensive missiles from Cuba -- any and all kinds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Bush administration officials are trying
to develop a plausible theory for what they view as audacious conduct by the
Soviet military and Cuban President Fidel Castro. Few Soviet actions could stir
the patriotic juices along the Potomac as quickly as the transfer of SS 20s to
the Caribbean island dictatorship. That is partly why the news is being held
top secret while President Bush considers a July summit with Mikhail Gorbachev
and special aid for his crumbling country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">The only conceivable explanation would
appear to be linked to a minor proviso in the INF treaty that permits what is
called "museum piece display" of the SS 20, set up for viewing in
unarmed deployment. But the treaty demands full Soviet government consultation
with the United States before putting any weapon on public display. One U.S.
official told us that there is absolutely nothing to substantiate the
"museum piece" explanation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">This same little-known proviso was
employed by the Soviets and Cubans when a treaty-banned SS 4 medium-range
missile was anchored in Cuban soil near Havana last year over strong U.S.
objection. Its transfer there angered the Bush administration.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">When the Soviet Foreign Office earlier
told the United States that Moscow wanted to send an SS 4 to Cuba for that
purpose, the State Department protested. Despite the INF treaty, it said, even
a missile for sightseers, capable of firing warheads against the United States,
would damage relations with the Soviets
and generate a strong political backlash from American politicians,
particularly conservative Republicans. The episode has never been widely
publicized.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Then-Soviet foreign minister Eduard
Shevardnadze assured the United States in July that no SS 4 would be sent to
Cuba. Six months later, in December, the Soviet General Staff surreptitiously
shipped the missile to Cuba, and it was put in place as a "museum
piece." Shevardnadze's position on this issue, and his quick put-down by
the military, is believed here to have been one of the contributing factors in
his resignation, when he warned of a coming Soviet dictatorship.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">The discovery of the SS 20 is a far more
dangerous matter for U.S.-Soviet relations. It comes at a time of apprehension
here about the military's growing power within a Soviet system that seems
destined to grind to a halt. Yet the latest CIA studies suggest that the huge
country, riven by the divisive nationality issue, a bankrupt economy and the
collapse of Gorbachev's reform programs, is still mass-producing strategic
weapons, including mobile missiles, that dwarf anything being produced in the
United States. Indeed, Congress is not likely to fund any mobile missiles in
the coming year for a U.S. strategic force that still does not have even one of
them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Unreported elements of this surprising
attention to military power have been noted in Cuba, along with the discovery
of one or more SS 20s. A new signal intelligence (SIGINT) unit has been located
both by on-the-ground observation and by spy-satellite photography near Havana.
The military garrison surrounding the U.S. Navy's Guantanamo Bay Naval Station
has been beefed up by the addition of several thousand new Cuban troops.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">More ominous are intelligence findings
that suggest Cuba, with Soviet backing, may be developing a nuclear reactor
capable of producing weapons-grade fuel in a new facility near Cienfuegos, the
same area in which the one or more outlawed SS 20s have been placed. The
Soviets have long had a facility there suspected of handling nuclear warheads
to arm their strategic nuclear submarines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Sudden, inexplicable spasms are natural
in the life of expiring organisms, including empires. The savagely split and
dying Soviet system may be producing just such aberrations today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">But authoritative Bush administration
officials are not likely to accept that as any final answer to Castro's
missiles of April. They will soon be demanding a definitive response, and
Gorbachev will be compelled to give it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Copyright 1991 The Washington Post<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Record Number: 364232<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">US Department of State Daily Press
Briefing #84:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Thursday, 5/20/91<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Tutwiler<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Source: State Department Spokesman Margaret
Tutwiler<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Description: 12:05 PM, Washington, DC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Date: May 20, 19915/20/91<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Category: Briefings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Region: MidEast/North Africa, Eurasia,
Caribbean, Subsaharan Africa, Europe, E/C Europe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Country: Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey, Yugoslavia
(former), Cuba, South Africa, Israel, Ethiopia, Greece<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Subject:
Development/Relief Aid, State Department, Democratization, Military
Affairs, Terrorism, United Nations<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"> (ON THE RECORD UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">[Cuba:
Museum Display of Missles]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Q
Do you have any comment on reports of SS-20 missiles in Cuba? And has this been discussed with the Soviets?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">MS. TUTWILER: Number One, we are not aware of any SS-20
missiles in Cuba. As you all may
remember, it was about a year ago that we did tell you that the Cubans have a
static display of an inert Soviet SS-4 missile at a museum in Havana.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">The Treaty of the Elimination of
Shorter-Range and Intermediate-Range Missiles permits static displays of inert
missiles provided there is advance notification. The Soviet Union complied with the
provisions. The Soviets informed us of
this static display. We did talk about
this. It was almost a year ago from this
podium. It's an SS-4.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"> Q But
you're sure that there are no SS-20s?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">MS. TUTWILER: We're as sure as we can be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">CIVIL DEFENSE PERSPECTIVES<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">July 1991 (vol. 7, #5) 1601 N. Tucson
Blvd. Suite 9, Tucson AZ 85716 c 1991 J Orient<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Cuba. On April 25, US spy satellites
discovered at least one banned SS-20 missile in Cuba. Possibly, this might be
permitted under the proviso of the INF Treaty that permits a ``museum piece
display'' of an unarmed SS-20, although the Treaty demands full consultation
with the US before placing a weapon on display. Coincidentally, the ``museum''
happens to be located near a nuclear reactor capable of producing weapons-grade
material (Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Washington Post 5/20/91).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">This situation, especially when coupled
with the Soviet refusal to provide a photograph of an SS-20 before the day the
INF Treaty was signed, illustrates Senator Helms' doubts: (1) We don't know
what we're looking for. (2) We don't know where to look for it. (3) If we find
it, we don't know what we have found. (4) If we figure out what it is, we don't
know what to do about it (Andrei Nazarov, Chronicles, June, 1991).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">September 1991 (vol. 7, #6) 1601 N.
Tucson Blvd. Suite 9, Tucson AZ 85716 c 1991 J Orient<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">The Silence Is Broken<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">· Soviets deliver SS-20 Intermediate
Ballistic Missiles to Cuba with 3,000-mile range.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">· USA delivers $1.5 billion in grain
credits to the Soviets.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">· Maine's American Legion votes to
deliver 7-ton steel mobile civil defense shelter display.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">· Politicians just remain silent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">March 1992<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Vol. 49, No. 2<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Third World Ballistic Missiles: Are the
Facts Lost in the Numbers?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">By Lora Lumpe, Lisbeth Gronlund, and
David C. Wright<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">September 10, 1991<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Cuba. Cuba received 50 km range Frog-4
missiles from the Soviet Union in the mid-1960s. Later, 70 km Frog-7s were
transferred. The Cubans are thought to have a total of 65 launchers.(6) The
short range of both systems renders them useful only for combat on the island
or perhaps coastal defense. For the past 30 years Cuba has been almost
completely reliant on Soviet military aid. It has no arms production base.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">ttp://www.fas.org/asmp/library/articles/ballistic1991.htm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Lora Lumpe, a research analyst at the
Federation of American Scientists in Washington, D.C., is editor of the Arms
Sales Monitor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Lisbeth Gronlund, an SSRC-MacArthur
fellow in international peace and security, is at the Center for International
Security Studies at the University of Maryland, in College Park. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">David C. Wright is an analyst at the
Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Defense White Paper, published by the
Department of Defense in Washington DC<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Chapter Three North Korean Situation and
Military Threat<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Practicing unprecedented diplomacy
towards the West, North Korea has appealed to international organizations such as
the World Food Program and to Western nations, and has invited delegates from
Western governments to visit and see their situation more accurately. North
Korea propagandizes to its people that the European Union's voluntary offer to
provide the North with emergency support materials such as food and fertilizer
in May 1998 was a result of such diplomatic efforts. In addition, since early
1998 the North has been sending delegates to conferences in Non-Aligned
Movement countries, and has been increasing the number of high-level party,
government and military officials' visits to India, Syria and Cuba. Such
participation and visits have been made to expand exchanges, negotiate
investments and appeal for economic aid. In the meantime, the North's
negotiations with the Taiwan government to import nuclear wastes, for the
purpose of acquiring hard currency, have been suspended due to mounting
opposition from the international community.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">This Week - ABC News<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Sunday, October 5, 2003<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Host: George Stephanopoulos<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">[1]10:45:10 GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS (ABC NEWS)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Did you have anything else in mind
though, not discovering a void, but did you, what did you think might be a
surprise?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">[1]10:45:17 DAVID KAY (SPECIAL ADVISOR, IRAQI WMD
SEARCH)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">You know, George, what I had in mind is
I'm rarely gifted in having 1300 very bright and dedicated people who can use
all of the technology that the US, the UK and the Australians can put
there. We're inside the country. I know in that country we're going to find
remarkable things about their weapons program.
I would contend we've already found things that if they had been known
last December, January, February, you would have had headlines in all the
papers who now pick on the sentence "not yet found weapons"
trumpeting North Korean missiles going to Cuba, clandestine labs in the
biological program. There's a whole host
of stuff we have found.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">WASHINGTON — North Korean dictator Kim
Jong Il (search) agreed Thursday to continue discussions on his country's
continuing nuclear weapons program, but a defector from the communist country
said the United States shouldn't count on Kim to keep his promises.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">"He went ahead and broke his
promises, and I believe the same thing will happen again, this time," said
Hwang Jang Yop(search), an 81-year-old doctor and former secretary to North
Korea's main decision-making body, the Central Committee.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Kim met Thursday with China's No. 2
leader and agreed in vague terms to continue multinational talks aimed at
closing down his country's nuclear weapons program.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">The Bush administration welcomed the
announcement as "encouraging" and praised China for its involvement.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">"The discussions that the Chinese
leadership, Chinese leader Wu Bangguo, had in North Korea, does look like a
step in the right direction," said State Department spokesman Richard Boucher.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">As North Korea's highest-ranking
defector, Hwang is well-versed in Kim's behavior as well as that of China.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">"He believes that if China engages
further, that what they will do is tell the North Koreans, 'We don't object to
your having a nuclear capacity, but why don't you stop expanding it? Why don't
you express interest in getting rid of what you've got, even if you're going to
keep it, so that you can get aid from the West?'" said Rep. Chris Cox,
R-Calif., who met Thursday with Hwang to discuss insights into the North Korean
leader and his citizens' fears.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">According to Hwang, Kim's repression of
political dissent and use of mass-media brainwashing techniques exceed even
those used in Nazi Germany. The regime has imprisoned at least 300,000
so-called "political offenders" in slave labor camps and often jails
for life three generations of an offender's family.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">"Even in the Soviet camp system ...
there was no extension of guilt to members of the family," said author
David Hawk, who documented one of the camp's activities for the Committee on
Human Rights (search) for North Korea. Hawk and his organization said the
prison camps are notable for their high number of unnatural deaths and for
their gruesome treatment of prisoners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">But the Moscow-educated lawyer and former
communist said Kim's iron grip is really limited to about 300 party officials
and bureaucrats. About 80 to 90 percent of the country is desperate for regime
change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">"He believes there could be a rapid
collapse of the regime if conditions were right," Cox said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">The State Department said it is also
interested in the information Hwang wants to share. Deputy Secretary of State
Richard Armitage met with Hwang Thursday, as have other State Department
officials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">"These are discussions that we need
to have in private," Boucher said. "I'll let [Armitage] describe his
views, but we find it very interesting and useful to talk to somebody with
firsthand experience. Obviously, it helps our thinking, and I'll leave it at
that."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">But, Boucher added, Hwang's insights will
not have bearing on U.S. intentions regarding multi-party talks with North
Korea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Asked if the reclusive Kim, rumored to be
an erratic alcoholic, is psychologically stable, Hwang refused to answer in
public.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">"Even though I may have information on
that, I really would rather not discuss it," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">But one lawmaker said Hwang did offer his
opinions of Kim privately.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">"I think Mr. Hwang believes [Kim] is
quite rational, quite cunning," said Rep. Jim Leach, R-Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Cox said Hwang, who left his family
behind when he escaped to South Korea in 1997, also gave information on
extensive and previously unknown exchanges of weapons and information between
North Korea and another communist dictatorship closer to home: Cuba.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Fox News' James Rosen and Teri Schultz
contributed to this report.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"> December 12, 2002<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"> http://www.strategicstudies.org/IraqWar03/Dec1202.htm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Iran’s Military Nuclear Capability,
Highlighted by Exclusive 1992 Report, Now Critical Part of Persian Gulf
Strategic Planning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Analysis. Defense & Foreign Affairs
Strategic Policy, the companion journal to the Global Information System (GIS),
in its February 1992 edition, carried an extensive report on the acquisition of
former Soviet nuclear weapons. The report, by then Contributing Editor (now
Senior Editor) Yossef Bodansky, relied on first-hand human intelligence sources
of the highest level. The information was independently verified to Defense
& Foreign Affairs by separate first-hand sources directly involved in the
Iranian nuclear weapons program, and some clear documentary evidence was also
shown at the time to Defense & Foreign Affairs chief Gregory Copley. The US
State Department at the time went to some lengths to ridicule the reports,
until strong Congressional pressure caused the State Department to issue a
retraction of the comments it made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">The 5,300-word, February 1992 report,
Iran Acquires Nuclear Weapons And Moves To Provide Cover to Syria, is
reproduced below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Special Report <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Iran’s Military Nuclear Capability,
Highlighted by Exclusive 1992 Report, Now Critical Part of Persian Gulf
Strategic Planning<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Analysis. Defense & Foreign Affairs
Strategic Policy, the companion journal to the Global Information System (GIS),
in its February 1992 edition, carried an extensive report on the acquisition of
former Soviet nuclear weapons. The report, by then Contributing Editor (now
Senior Editor) Yossef Bodansky, relied on first-hand human intelligence sources
of the highest level. The information was independently verified to Defense
& Foreign Affairs by separate first-hand sources directly involved in the
Iranian nuclear weapons program, and some clear documentary evidence was also
shown at the time to Defense & Foreign Affairs chief Gregory Copley. The US
State Department at the time went to some lengths to ridicule the reports,
until strong Congressional pressure caused the State Department to issue a
retraction of the comments it made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Now, substantial confirming data has
become available, much of it published in Yossef Bodansky’s new book, The High
Cost of Peace: How Washington’s Middle East Policy Left America Vulnerable to
Terrorism. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Defense & Foreign Affairs also
published several other reports on the Iranian nuclear weapons program and its
ballistic missile programs. The October-November 1992 edition of Strategic
Policy also included areport entitled Iran's Growth As a Gunpowder State
Jeopardizes Its Domestic Unity. That report consisted of an interview with Dr
Assad Homayoun, the last Imperial Iranian head of mission in Washington DC, and
the head of Azadegan Foundation, an Iranian nationalist movement. Dr Homayoun
is also still a Senior Fellow at the International Strategic Studies
Association (ISSA), the parent organization of GIS and Defense & Foreign
Affairs. That report is also reproduced below.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">In his book, The High Cost of Peace,
Bodansky outlines in even greater detail — based on accumulated intelligence
collection — the Iranian process of nuclear weapons acquisition from the former
Soviet Union, starting in 1991. In the book, he notes [pp76-77]: “<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD"> (…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Bodansky’s book also outlines planning
between Iran and its regional allies and the DPRK to jointly undertake a war
against the West,originally predicating the conflict to start during the 1992
US Presidential election process, a time adjudged to be one in which US
strategic decision making efficiency would be at its lowest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Iran Acquires Nuclear Weapons And Moves
To Provide Cover to Syria<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Iran is now in the final stage of
assembling three nuclear weapons from parts provided from the former Soviet
Muslim republics. Its indigenous nuclear program is also moving swiftly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Contributing Editor Yossef Bodansky
reports.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Excerpts:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Delivery of nuclear weapons by aircraft
is another matter, because it requires special maneuvers and specially-modified
aircraft. This problem was solved in late September 1991, when Cuba and
Iransignificantly upgraded their nuclear cooperation [see Defense & Foreign
Affairs Strategic Policy, Winter 1991-92]. A high-level delegation led by Fidel
Castro Diaz-Balart, the Soviet-trained head of Cuba's nuclear effort and Fidel
Castro's son, visited Tehran and inspected several nuclear facilities, including
the Bushehr plants. The delegates were received by Pres. Hashemi-Rafsanjani to
discuss "topics related to bilateral cooperation and current
affairs". At the end of the visit, Cuba and Iran signed a cooperation
accord on nuclearissues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Cuba's unique significance lies in the
military expertise it has acquired from the USSR as part of the Soviet planning
for operations in a possible nuclear world war. The USSR has maintained in the
Cuba Armed Forces nuclear-capable delivery systems for a future war. Most important
is a MiG-23BN (upgraded Flogger-F) regiment based in a closed part of the San
Antonia de los Banos air base near Havana, and sheltered in an extensive net of
tunnels in the mountains adjacent to the base. Gen. Rafael del Pino explained
that these Floggers were "ready for nuclear delivery". [See also
Strategic Policy, Winter 1991-92.] The September 1991 deal between Iran and
Cuba involved the exchange of nuclear delivery techniques and technology for
oil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">(Special Report: Iran’s Military Nuclear
Capability, Highlighted by Exclusive 1992 Report, Now Critical Part of Persian
Gulf Strategic Planning, Iraq War 2003: Background & Lessons, Global
Information System, GIS Special Topical Studies, December 12, 2002.http://www.strategicstudies.org/IraqWar03/Dec1202.htm.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">LAND-BASED BALLISTIC MISSILES<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">http://www.aeronautics.ru/archive/wmd/ballistic/ballistic/hwasong6-01.htm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">"It is possible that some 400 `Scud
B' and `Scud C' variant missiles were exported by North Korea to Cuba, Egypt,
Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria and Vietnam. However, there is no confirmation that
Cuba, Egypt, Iraq or Libya received `Scud C' variants, and the numbers are
difficult to determine..."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Source: Jane's Strategic Weapon Systems<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">`SCUD C' variant (Hwasong 6) Type<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Intermediate-range, road mobile,
liquid-propellant, single warhead ballistic missile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Development<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">It is believed that the development of
the `Scud C' variant was started in North Korea by the Fourth Machine Industry
Bureau in 1984, following on from the successful reverse engineering of the
SS-1 `Scud B' missiles received from Egypt. The origins of the design for
increasing the 300 km range of the `Scud B' to 550 km for the `Scud C' variant
are not known, but could have come from earlier Russian designs or from the
Chinese. It is interesting to compare the approach taken by the North Koreans
with that taken two or three years later by Iraq. Whereas the Iraqi design was
similar, in that the fuel and oxidant tanks were enlarged and the warhead
weight decreased, the workmanship in the North Korean case was superior as they
fully modernised the airframe using lighter steel skins. The Iraqi design,
known as Al Hussein, increased the length of the basic `Scud B' airframe from
11.25 m to 12.46 m, by welding in a body plug from a cannibalised missile
section. The North Korean variant retains the original `Scud B' 11.25 m length,
but carries more fuel by redesigning the fuel and oxidant tank shapes. A
reverse engineered Russian MAZ 543 Transporter-Erector-Launcher (TEL) vehicle
was also developed in North Korea, to carry both the 'Scud B' and 'Scud C'
variants. A series of test launches was made between 1987 and 1990. The first
reported full range launch test of the North Korean `Scud C' variant was in
October 1991 and full-scale production started in 1992.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Unconfirmed reports in 1997 suggested
that a longer-range version of the `Scud C' variant is being developed, with
the payload reduced to 300 kg and the range increased to 800 km.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Description<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">The `Scud C' variant developed by North
Korea has a length of 11.25 m, a body diameter of 0.88 m and a launch weight of
6,400 kg. The payload is believed to be 770 kg, with a redesigned warhead
assembly that can carry unitary HE, unitary chemical, biological, chemical
submunition or HE submunition types. It is not known if the warhead assembly
separates from the motor section after motor burnout, as in the Russian design.
The fuel and oxidant tanks have been enlarged, with a total propellant weight
believed to be 4,500 kg. The propellants are believed to be UDMH and IRFNA, and
the total burn time is around 72 seconds. It is believed that the inertial
guidance system from `Scud B' has been upgraded and that the `Scud C' variant
has an accuracy of 700 to 1,000 m CEP. Control during the boost phase is carried
out by graphite vanes in the motor exhaust. The minimum range is probably
around 100 km and the maximum range is 550 km.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">The North Koreans have several types of
TEL vehicles in use, including the reverse engineered Russian MAZ 543
associated with the `Scud B' variant, MAN and Nissan converted tractor and
trailer vehicles.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Operational status<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Development of the `Scud C' variant
(Hwasong 6) started in North Korea in 1984, and production started in 1991/92
at the former `Scud B' facility near Pyongyang, but was later transferred to a
large underground facility at Kanggye in Chagang-Do province. It is believed
that North Korea was producing from 50 to 100 `Scud B' and `Scud C' variant
missiles per year during the late 1980s and early 1990s with several upgrades
being incorporated in the later built missiles. Production has now been slowed
and has probably ceased, except for specific export orders. Around 200 `Scud C'
variant missiles are believed to be in service in North Korea with 50 TEL or
fixed launch sites. These missiles are believed to be located at four main
sites; Singye in Hwanghae-Pukto province, Sariwan in Hwanghae-Namdo province,
Okpyang in Kangwon-Do province and at Chunggang in Chagang-Do province. Each
missile regiment has four battalions, and each battalion has six TELs and
around 175 men. It is possible that some 400 `Scud B' and `Scud C' variant
missiles were exported by North Korea to Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria
and Vietnam. However, there is no confirmation that Cuba, Egypt, Iraq or Libya
received `Scud C' variants, and the numbers are difficult to determine as Iran
and Syria are assembling missiles and have set up their own production lines.
It is reported that 60 missiles were exported to Iran in 1991, and that Iran
made a flight test in may 1991. Iran then started to assemble and test and
eventually to build its own missiles, which are known as Shahab 2 missiles.
Around 60 missiles and 12 TEL were exported to Syria starting from 1991, who
then set up assembly and test and later production facilities with the help of
Iran. Three missiles were tested in Syria between 1992 and 1994, and a further
four missiles were tested in 1997. It is believed that 'Scud C' variant
technologies were sold to Egypt and Libya. Flight tests of `Scud C' variant
missiles have been made in both Iran and Syria from 1991 onwards. Vietnam is
reported to have ordered some `Scud C' variant missiles from North Korea in
1998, and an offer was made to Sudan in 1999 to set up a manufacturing facility
for 'Scud B' or 'Scud C' variant missiles probably in co-operation with Iran.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Castro Calls for Closer Ties with North
Korea<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">Source: AFP, Feb 7, 2002 - "Castro
congratulates Kim Jong-Il on 60th birthday"<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Cuban dictator Fidel Castro congratulated
his Axis of Evil counterpart Kim Jong Il on the occasion of the "Beloved
Leader's" 60th birthday, and called for stronger ties between the
communist nations, state media said Thursday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">In the birthday message received on
Tuesday, Castro wished Kim "great success and good health and
happiness," the North's official Korean Central News Agency said.
"Your devoted efforts exerted to lead the struggle of the Korean people to
foil the hostile acts of the imperialist powers and build socialism and the
country earn our admiration and respect," Castro was quoted as saying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">"Availing myself of this significant
occasion, I would like to reiterate our strong will to steadily expand and
strengthen fraternal ties and cooperation between the peoples, parties and
governments of the two countries," he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Kim turns 60 on February 16 and the
anniversary is being marked as a major holiday by the Stalinist state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Since the collapse of the Soviet bloc,
North Korea and Cuba are among the last believers in orthodox communism. Both
countries are on the . <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">See Also: AFP, Feb 7, 2002 - "Castro
congratulates Kim Jong-Il on 60th birthday."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD"> Raúl Castro se reúne con altos oficiales de
Corea del Norte<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">La Habana, 27 nov 2004 (EFE).- El
ministro de Defensa de Cuba y segundo hombre del régimen, Raúl Castro, se reunió
hoy con el vicemariscal norcoreano Kim Yong Chun y otros miembros de la
delegación militar que preside.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">En un "ambiente amistoso que
caracteriza las relaciones entre las fuerzas armadas de ambos países",
según la prensa local, Raúl Castro, hermano menor del presidente Fidel Castro,
junto a otros altos cargos militares cubanos y coreanos, hablaron sobre sus
respectivos esfuerzos dirigidos a fortalecer la defensa nacional.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">En la jornada de hoy se condecoró con la
Orden de la Solidaridad al vicemariscal norcoreano, mientras que con la Medalla
Fraternidad Combativa fueron galardonados el general de Ejército, Pak Zae
Gyong; los coroneles generales Ri Yong Guil y Pak Sung Won, y el mayor general
An Yong Gui.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">El resto de los miembros de la comitiva
militar norcoreana fue galardonado con la Distinción Servicio Distinguido del
Ejército cubano.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">La delegación de Corea del Norte llegó a
La Habana el pasado martes, y poco después colocó una ofrenda floral en la
tumba del general de las guerras cubanas de independencia, Antonio Maceo, y de
su ayudante, el dominicano Panchito Gómez, y luego participó en una ceremonia
militar en el Mausoleo, situado en el Cacahual, al oeste de la capital.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">En esa ocasión los militares norcoreanos
fueron acompañados por el general Alvaro López Miera, jefe del Estado Mayor
General del Ejército cubano; el embajador norcoreano en la isla, Pak Tong Chun,
y otros oficiales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Kim Yong Chun y su delegación visitaron
además una unidad militar de defensa antiaérea, donde fueron recibidos por el
deneral de división Ermio Hernández, jefe del Estado Mayor Occidental.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Luego recorrieron una gran unidad
blindada y visitaron la sede del Estado Mayor del Ejército Occidental en la
capital y sostuvieron conversaciones oficiales con el jefe del Estado Mayor de
las Fuerzas Armadas cubanas.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">North Korean, Cuban Foreign Ministers
Meet to Enhance Ties<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">177 words<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">10 September 2009<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Yonhap English News<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">SEOUL (Yonhap) -- Foreign ministers of
North Korea and Cuba met in Pyongyang on Sept. 4 to discuss ways to enhance bilateral
ties, state media said. The North Korean Foreign Minister Pak Ui-chun and his
Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez, during the talks, reconfirmed their
governments' desire to keep developing friendly ties between the two countries,
the North's Korean Central Broadcasting Station (KCBS) said. The ministers also
exchanged opinions on a series of issues of mutual interest, it added. Before
the talks, North Korea's ceremonial head of state Kim Yong-nam, president of
the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA), and Choe Thae-bok,
chairman of the SPA and secretary of the Workers' Party, met with Rodriguez at
Mansudae Assembly Hall in Pyongyang, KCBS said. Jose Manuel Galego Montano,
Cuban ambassador to North Korea, hosted a welcoming reception for the Cuban
government delegation led by Rodriguez. Pak and Education Minister Kim Yong-jin
attended the reception.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD"> The Cuban delegation arrived in Pyongyang on
Sept. 3.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">North Korea's Top Military Chief Meets
with Cuba's Armed Forces Chief<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">NTD Television June 1, 2013<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">North Korea's hardline military chief Kim
Kyok-sik met with the Cuba's armed forces chief, General Leopoldo Cintas Frias,
in Havana on Sunday (June 30).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">The four-star general, in his 70s, has
been in Cuba since Friday on an official visit to strengthen ties between the
allies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Kim Kyok-sik visited military
installations and held talks with top Cuban government officials.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">North Korea, along with Cuba, is one of
the world's last communist countries. Over the past year, it has been
ratcheting up pressure on neighbour South Korea. Relations have been strained
with China and it threatened to bomb the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">In April, former Cuban leader Fidel
Castro warned ally North Korea against war as tensions on the Korean Peninsula
rose.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="ES-TRAD">--- El ministro de Defensa de Cuba recibe
a delegación militar de Corea del Norte<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD"> 30
de junio de 2013•EFE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">El ministro de las Fuerzas Armadas
Revolucionarias (FAR) de Cuba, Leopoldo Cintra Frías, recibió hoy en La Habana
a la delegación militar de Corea del Norte encabezada por el jefe del Estado
Mayor General del Ejército Popular, Kim Kyok Sik, informó la televisión
estatal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">El general de cuerpo de ejército cubano y
la delegación norcoreana intercambiaron sobre temas de interés bilateral y
destacaron el buen estado de las relaciones, según indicó el telediario.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">En la reunión también estuvieron
presentes jefes principales del ministerio de las Fuerzas Armadas de la isla.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span lang="ES-TRAD">Durante su visita oficial a Cuba, el
general Kim Kyok Sik resaltó los lazos de "hermandad" entre ambos
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lunes 1 de julio su estancia en Cuba, donde cumplió una agenda que incluyó
recorridos por unidades militares de las FAR, entre ellas, la de tanques de
"La Gloria Combativa Rescate de Sanguily", ubicada al oeste de La
Habana, y sitios económicos, históricos y culturales.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--EndFragment-->Alejandro Armengolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12852447659876707120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565476307459615167.post-88951389185516227112009-04-01T15:06:00.000-07:002009-04-01T15:11:14.466-07:00Cuban Am letter<div align="justify">March 31, 2009<br /><br />Dear Member of Congress:<br />As leaders of national and local Cuban-American organizations, we are writing to urge you to co-sponsor “The Freedom to Travel to Cuba Act (S. 428 and H.R. 874),” which would restore the right to travel to Cuba for all Americans.<br />President Obama said, “There are no better ambassadors for freedom than Cuban Americans,” and he promised in his campaign to remove all restrictions on the right of Cuban Americans to visit their families in Cuba and provide them with financial support.<br />While it is our hope and expectation that President Obama will honor this commitment to our community, we strongly believe that Americans of all backgrounds should have the legal right to travel to Cuba and stand with us as ambassadors for the values, ideas, and freedoms that our country represents.<br />It is up to Congress to change the law, and empower all Americans to engage in cultural, religious, humanitarian and educational contacts with the Cuban people, and we believe that the time for making that change is now.<br />The primary sponsors in the Senate are Senators Dorgan, Enzi, Lugar and Dodd. In the House, the primary sponsors are Representatives Delahunt and Flake<br />Cuba is the only country in the world to which the United States prevents its citizens from traveling. By supporting and working to pass this bill, you will take the historic step of ending this counterproductive and unjust policy and replacing it with one that is consistent with America’s values and the best interests of the people of the United States and Cuba.<br />We urge you to co-sponsor Senate Bill S. 428 or the House bill H.R. 874. Please contact Senator Dorgan’s office or Senator Enzi’s office; or, in the House please contact Representative Delahunt’s office or Representative Flake’s office with questions or to cosponsor this important and timely legislation.<br /><br />Respectfully,<br /></div><div align="justify">Jose M. Estevez<br />La Alianza Martiana<br />California<br /><br />Sandra M. Alfonso<br />President<br />American Health Inc.<br />Louisiana<br /><br />Ariel Fernandez<br />Founder<br />Asho Productions<br />New York<br /><br />Marisela Perez<br />Boston Police Department<br />Massachusetts<br /><br />Patricia Gutierrez Menoyo<br />Cambio Cubano<br />National<br /><br />Dr. Alberto N. Jones<br />President/Founder<br />Jennifer and Silvia Jones<br />Alicia Bailey<br />The Caribbean American Children Foundation<br />Florida<br /><br />Sgt Carlos Lazo<br />Veteran of the Operation Iraqi Freedom<br />Center for Democracy in the Americas<br />Seattle, Washington<br /><br />Delvis Fernandez Levy, PhD<br />Founder and President<br />Cuban American Alliance Education Fund (CAAEF)<br />California/ National<br /><br />Elena E. Maroth<br />Cuban American Alliance Education Fund (CAAEF)<br />California<br /><br />Luis Rumbaut<br />Attorney<br />Cuban American Alliance Education Fund (CAAEF)<br />Washington D.C. / National<br /><br />Patricia L. Morán<br />Cuban American Alliance Educational Fund (CAAEF)<br />Washington DC, Maryland<br /><br />Regino Diaz<br />Cuban American Alliance Education Fund (CAAEF)<br />Texas/ National<br /><br />Alvaro Fernandez<br />Cuban American Commission for Family Rights<br />Miami, Florida<br /><br />Juan M. Alamo<br />Director/ Treasurer<br />The Cuban Artists Fund<br />New York<br /><br />Alfredo Duran<br />Cuban Committee for Democracy (CCD)<br />Miami, Florida / National<br /><br />Jose Manuel Palli<br />Cuba Legal Forum<br />Miami, Florida<br /><br />Rubén G. Rumbaut<br />ENCASA- Emergency Network of Cuban American Scholars and Artists<br />Professor at the University of California, Irvine<br />California/ National<br /><br />Dr. Lillian Manzor<br />ENCASA - Emergency Network of Cuban American Scholars and Artists for Change in US-Cuba Policy<br />Cuban/Latino Theater Archive<br />University of Miami, Florida<br /><br />Juan C. Artigas<br />EMRN Group, Inc.<br />The U.S.- Cuba Lift the Embargo PAC, Inc.<br />Florida<br /><br />Geni Gomez<br />Director<br />Freddie Mac<br />Virginia<br /><br />Isidro (Chilo) Borja<br />President<br />Foundation for Normalization of US/Cuba Relations<br />National<br /><br />Elena R. Freyre<br />Executive Committee<br />Foundation for Normalization of US/Cuba Relations<br />Miami, Florida<br /><br />Julio V Ruiz, MD<br />Secretary to the Board of Directors<br />Foundation for Normalization of US/Cuba Relations<br />Miami, Florida<br /><br />Marisela Fleites Lear<br />Green River Community College<br />Washington<br /><br />Omar Martinez<br />Student<br />Juris Doctor/Master of Public Health<br />Indiana University Bloomington<br />Indiana<br /><br />Ariel Hidalgo<br />Bureau of Human Rights<br />INFOBURO<br />Florida<br /><br />Instituto de Estudios Cubanos<br />Miami, Florida<br /><br />Margarita Fazzolari<br />Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization<br />Casa de las Americas<br />New Jersey/ National<br /><br />Joe Perez<br />COB & CEO<br />J Perez Associates, Inc.<br />Long Beach, California<br /><br />Manuel Hildalgo<br />Latino Economic Development Corporation<br />Washington DC<br /><br />Eileen Del Pino<br />Register Nurse<br />Los Angeles County Department of Public Health<br />California<br /><br />John Paul Cabrera, BASW, PPS, MSW<br />Los Angeles Unified School District<br />California<br /><br />Ricardo A. Gonzalez<br />President<br />Madison-Camaguey Sister City Association<br />Wisconsin<br /><br />Carmen Rumbaut<br />Madison-Camaguey Sister City Association<br />Wisconsin<br /><br />Rev Leonides Penton Amador<br />President<br />La Mano Amiga Internacional Inc.<br />Florida<br /><br />Teresa Gutierrez<br />Activist<br />New York Committee to Free the Cuban Five,<br />New York City, NY<br /><br /><br />Andres Hernandez<br />Partido Democrata Cristiano<br />National/ International<br /><br />Silvia Wilhelm<br />Executive Director<br />Puentes Cubanos<br />Miami, Florida<br /><br />Lorenzo Gonzalo<br />Sub director de Radio Miami<br />Broward County, Florida<br /><br />Siro del Castillo<br />Solidaridad de Trabajadores Cubanos<br />National<br /><br />Laura Urgelles<br />The Washington Ballet<br />Washington, DC<br /><br />Jorge Milanes Pino President/Founder<br />West Coast Cuban American Alliance<br />California<br /><br />Anthony O. Perez<br />California<br /><br />Daniel Batista<br />Virginia<br /><br />Ernesto J. Sallés<br />Alexandria, Virginia<br /><br />Fidel Garcia<br />Washington DC<br /><br />Lisa R. Zuccato-Perez<br />California<br /><br />Rafamali and Heather Ramirez<br />Georgia<br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">* note all organizations are listed for identification purpose only.</span></div>Alejandro Armengolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12852447659876707120noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8565476307459615167.post-66502131786456960912009-01-09T01:39:00.000-08:002009-01-09T01:44:01.535-08:00Biografía de Bruce Rogow<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMvXysRnXL9mUNAhMOvsbqQ8Pnmjh0nViRTJwbFmY9MtXkZOkeYexua4YU8RKgPJBs5ZffCiLX5OBWNa4i4SNUpFNukTJe329u9MW5M-VmGYMz9hH1JEwHiRdNFInCWYbDlIn1u_NerYo/s1600-h/bruce.JPG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276125188854147762" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 280px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMvXysRnXL9mUNAhMOvsbqQ8Pnmjh0nViRTJwbFmY9MtXkZOkeYexua4YU8RKgPJBs5ZffCiLX5OBWNa4i4SNUpFNukTJe329u9MW5M-VmGYMz9hH1JEwHiRdNFInCWYbDlIn1u_NerYo/s400/bruce.JPG" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="justify"><strong>Bruce Rogow has been</strong> a professor of law at Nova Southeastern University Law Center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, since 1974. In 1978-79, he was co-dean of the Law Center, and in 1984, Acting Dean. Before joining Nova, he was on the faculty at the University of Miami. Mr. Rogow has taught Civil Procedure, Federal Jurisdiction, Constitutional Law, Appellate Practice, Criminal Law and Legal Ethics.<br />In addition to teaching, Mr. Rogow has litigated extensively over the past 44 years. He has argued hundreds of civil and criminal cases in federal and state appellate courts, including eleven cases in the Supreme Court of the United States.<br />He was Supreme Court counsel in Beach v. Ocwen Federal Bank, Seminole Tribe v. State of Florida, Florida Bar v. Went For it Inc., Campbell v. Acuff-Rose, Argersinger v. Hamlin, Gerstein v. Pugh, Ingraham v. Wright, Mathews v. Diaz, Davis v. Scherer, co-counsel in Fuentes v. Shevin, and was appointed by the Supreme Court to<br />represent the petitioner in Francis v. Henderson. In two cases, Waldron v. United States, and Arthur v. Hillsborough County, the Supreme Court granted certiorari and reversed the decisions below without argument.<br />In the 2000 Presidential election litigation, he was counsel in the Supreme Court for the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board in Bush v. Palm Beach Co.Canvassing Bd. He was co-counsel in United Haulers v. Oneida-Herkimer Solid Waste<br />Management Authority, decided favorably in April 2007. In December 2007 he was retained by the Kentucky Retirement System to prepare its lawyer for a January 2008 Supreme Court argument in Kentucky Retirement System v. EEOC. The case was decided in favor of the Kentucky Retirement System.<br />Mr. Rogow has been listed in every edition of The Best Lawyers In America for the past twenty years. In the newest edition he has been named in four categories: Appellate Law, Commercial Litigation, White Collar Criminal Defense and First Amendment Law. He is also listed in Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He is one of three lawyers in Florida to have been Board Certified in both civil and criminal appellate law and was elected to the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers. Mr. Rogow is also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.<br />Mr. Rogow has also won numerous awards over the years for his public service,<br />litigation, and teaching, including the Reginald Heber Smith Award from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association and the Playboy Foundation First Amendment Award. In 2000, he was awarded the James C. Adkins Award, given to Florida’s outstanding appellate jurists or practitioners. He was the first practicing lawyer to receive the award. In 2006 he was a finalist for Most Effective Appellate Lawyer in South Florida and in December 2007 he was named the Most Effective Appellate Lawyer in South Florida. In 2008 he was chosen as one of Florida Trend’s<br />2008 Florida Legal Elite.<br />Mr. Rogow has represented governmental entities, public officials, trial and appellate judges, law firms, lawyers (including F. Lee Bailey), and corporations in major trial and appellate work. His clients in 2007– 2008 included Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch, Donald Trump, Don King, David Koch (Koch Industries), Kentucky Derby winning jockey Jose Santos (whose defamation case against the Miami Herald he settled in March 2008 for a confidential sum), Richard Scrushy, the former CEO of HealthSouth Corp., a State Senator (whose convictions he reversed in December (2007), a mayor and three municipalities and all the pari-mutuels in Dade and Broward counties. In<br />March 2007, representing Morgan Stanley, he reversed the $1.5 billion judgment entered against it in West Palm Beach with directions to enter a judgment in favor of Morgan Stanley. In 1995 he secured the reversal of a $52 million judgment against Florida*s largest sugar companies, and the reversal of a $1.7 million contempt judgment against an attorney. In 1993 and 1994 he won Florida Supreme Court victories for a mayor denied municipal pension benefits, and for a special taxing<br />district denied self-governing authority. In 1997 he reversed a million dollar federal judgment against Palm Beach County. In 1998 he obtained reversal of an order quashing charging liens, allowing lawyers to pursue their claims to 25% of Florida’s $11 billion tobacco settlement. In 1996 his Florida Supreme Court victory for a brain damaged child led to a $9 million settlement and in 1998 he was appellate counsel in a civil rights case against the State which was settled for $17.75 million. In July 1999, he obtained a federal appellate affirmance establishing Indian Tribes’<br />immunity from suits by the State under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. In February and March 2006 he reversed a potential billion dollar class action against Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and obtained a jury defense verdict in a $25 million suit against Jet Aviation International, Inc. and Hirschmann Industrial Holdings, Ltd., major Swiss companies. In May 2006 he reversed a multi-million dollar award against a physician and won an appellate decision for the Mayor of Miami -Dade County<br />allowing a strong Mayor change of government to be presented to voters. In December 2006, he reversed an obscenity conviction and obtained the release of a Russian entrepreneur who had been incarcerated on the charge.<br />Since May 2006 Mr. Rogow has argued fifteen appeals in the various Florida District Courts of Appeal and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He argued four cases in the Florida Supreme Court in 2007-2008 and in March 2008 reversed a trial court and prevailed in the Fourth District Court of Appeal for the City of Hollywood, Florida in a major eminent domain case, and upheld a $5 million fraud judgment against a corporation and its principal. He lectured in Tallahassee on Appellate Practice Before the Supreme Court of Florida in June 2006, June 2007<br />and June 2008; was a featured speaker for the Florida County Judges Conference in July 2006 and the Florida District Court of Appeal Judicial Conference in June 2007. In October 2006 he was a panelist for the State Bar of Georgia’s “11 Circuit Appellate Practice th Institute” in Atlanta. The subject was “Characteristics of Effective Oral Argument.” In Nov. - Dec. 2000 he represented Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore and the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board in numerous cases in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme Court of Florida. In July 2000,<br />he obtained a federal permanent injunction against enforcement of the Miami-Dade County “Cuba Affidavit,” which required applicants for cultural grants to swear they had no ties to any Cuban nationals. He successfully defended Palm Beach County on appeal in a Title VII employment discrimination case in April 2000; and in 1999, he won a defense decision for the City of Boca Raton in United States district court in the first trial under the Florida Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1998; a decision affirmed by the United States Court of Appeals in 2005<br />Earlier, he successfully defended the Chief of the Seminole Tribe of Florida against federal and state Endangered Species Act criminal charges for killing a Florida panther on the Reservation, and 2 Live Crew in their federal and state obscenity trials and appeals. He obtained the acquittal of a South Florida mayor charged with theft in office. He successfully represented the Cuban Museum against the City of Miami*s attempt to evict the Museum for its artists’ political views, obtaining a<br />federal injunction against the City. He also obtained the first federal court appellate decision declaring that a musical work was not obscene. His Supreme Court success in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music established copyright protections for commercial parodies.<br />Among Mr. Rogow’s successful criminal appeals are Siplin v. State (Fla. 5th DCA 2007) (reversing convictions with order to acquit); Pizzo v. State (Fla. 2d DCA 2005 and Fla. Sup. Ct.2006) (reversing fraud convictions); Billie v. State (Fla. 3d DCA 2003) (reversing second degree murder conviction and life sentence); Hebel v. State (Fla. 2d DCA 2000) (reversing conviction and 12-year sentence for sexual battery) (in February 2001, he tried the case in Arcadia, Florida, and obtained an acquittal); United States v. Arnold, 117 F.3d 1308 (11th Cir. 1997) (reversed money<br />laundering and Travel Act and conspiracy, for Brady violation); United States v. Kramer, 73 F.3d 1067 (11th Cir. 1996) (reversed money laundering conviction and 20 year sentence, reversed $9 million forfeiture); DeFreitas v. State, 701 So. 2d 593 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997) (reversed agg. assault w/ firearm for prosecutorial misconduct; fundamental error).<br />Over the years Mr. Rogow has handled numerous criminal trials and appeals as well as federal habeas corpus proceedings and appeals, and has been repeatedly appointed by the Florida Supreme Court to represent indigent prisoners. In November 2007, in Spera v. State, he reversed an 11-0 4th DCA en banc decision with a 7-0 Florida Supreme Court victory and in July 2008 he established the right in Florida to<br />seek post-conviction relief for defendants whose lawyers advise them to reject a favorable plea offer (Morgan v. State).<br />Mr. Rogow has served as a consultant to lawyers and legal aid organizations, and as an expert witness on attorneys’ fees; has lectured to judges and lawyers; writes, and has been President of the Legal Aid Society of Broward County, Florida, and Special Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida, Special Counsel to The Florida Bar and a Special Assistant Attorney General.<br />Mr. Rogow’s professional career began in 1965-66 when he was staff counsel for the Lawyers* Constitutional Defense Committee, representing civil rights workers in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.<br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Fotografía: el abogado Bruce Rogow, en esta foto del 13 de noviembre de 2000 en Miami (Ed Cox/AP).<br /></span></div>Alejandro Armengolhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12852447659876707120noreply@blogger.com3