From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
Subject: CUBA: Women will be hardest hit by US embargo
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Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 22:32:58 GMT

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Reference: North America
Title: CUBA: Women will be hardest hit by U.S. embargo, says Cuban woman

nicosia, oct 26 (ips/george penintaex) -- women and children will
be the worst affected by new u.s. legislation which tightens the
trade embargo on cuba, says an official of a cuban women's group.

rebecca cutie cansino of the federation of cuban women has
described the so-called 'torricelli law' -- which got president
george bush's signature on saturday -- as both ''illegal'' and
''inhuman''.

the 'torricelli law' also known as the 'cuban democracy act'
extends the terms of the existing embargo imposed by the u.s. on
cuba in 1961 to subsidiaries of u.s. companies operating outside
of the united states.

speaking to reporters here monday, cansino said the new law,
''which pretends to pressure all governments to blockade cuba, is
a violation of all international law, and deprives the cuban
people of their right to self-determination and sovereignty''.

already, germany, britain, canada and other countries have
objected to the u.s. law, which they consider not only counter-
productive, but a violation of their own sovereignty. britain and
canada have already adopted counter-measures to ensure that it
does not affect subsidiary companies on their soil.

cansino said that with the collapse of the former communist
regimes in the eastern bloc, the consequences of the u.s. embargo
would be even more severe.

cuba is currently suffering from a shortage of raw materials,
foodstuffs, medicine, petroleum  -- products which they previously
got from the ex-soviet union at prices way below market values.

but cansino said cubans, particularly women, are finding ways
of overcoming problems created by the u.s. government's new law.
''we are making shoes with cloth or learning to fix old shoes, we
have turned to 'green pharmacology' and are using bikes for
transport because of the fuel shortage,'' she said.

cansino, who is here attending a meeting of the pan-cyprian
organisation of women's associations, said the new u.s. clampdown
has made cubans all the more ''anti-imperialistic'' and they were
now more determined than ever to see their system to survive.

despite washington's certainty that cuba will collapse like the
other former communist regimes of eastern europe, the country ''is
continuing on its way, developing socialism and improving its
system'', she added.

''cuban women are sure that only a socialist way of development
can eliminate the discrimination of women, that is why we all are
firmly determined to defend our process without foreign
interference,'' stressed cansino. (end/ips/wc/gp/tvh/92)

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