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  From: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel)
  Subject: BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT REJECTS ANTI-CUBAN LAW
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  ** Topic: BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT REJECTS ANTI- **
  ** Written  1:30 am  Oct 31, 1992 by ax:rcue in cdp:reg.cuba **
  BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT REJECTS ANTI-CUBAN LAW
  
  
  Sao Paulo, BRAZIL, Oct. 30, 1992--(Transmitted by the Greater Sao
  Paulo Forum of Solidarity with Cuba; email: rcue@ax.ibase.br; see
  also our conference for.brascuba in apc's Alternex node in
  Brazil)
  
  Through its newly-appointed Minister of Foreign Relations,
  Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the Brazilian government announced
  today (Oct. 30) that it will not comply with recently approved
  anti-Cuban legislation in the U. S.
  
  The announcement was made at a press conference shortly after a
  meeting with President Itamar Franco.  Minister Cardoso stated
  that the Brazilian government considers this legislation an
  illegal interference in matters which are regulated exclusively by
  Brazilian laws and echoes the position of other governments in
  Latin America--Argentina, Uruguay, Mexico, etc.--and throughout
  the world.
  
  Minister Cardoso, an internationally renowned social scientist and
  one of the principal mentors of the "dependence" approach in the
  study of peripheral societies, was appointed to the post in the
  cabinet shuffle of the new Brazilian government of Itamar Franco,
  vice-president of temporarily (and probably permanently) removed
  president Fernando Collor who is now undergoing a process of
  impeachment under charges of improper conduct related to corrupt
  practices.
  
  Diplomatic relations between Cuba and Brazil were re-established
  in June 1986, during the first civilian government in Brazil in
  more than two decades and twenty-two years after the military
  dictatorship broke relations with the island.
  
  Since then, Brazil has been one of Cuba's most important
  commercial partners in Latin America.  The other side of the coin
  of Cuban exports to Brazil of bio-technological, computer and
  related products are Brazilian food, machinery, services and raw
  materials  shipped to Cuba.
  
  A highly important, joint-venture agreement for the exploration of
  oil in Cuban territorial waters between Petrobras, Brazil's
  government-owned petroleum conglomerate, and Cuban oil companies
  was announced by both governments several months ago.  However,
  shortly before the demise of the Collor government, Brazilian
  officials already in Cuba to formalize the agreement were
  surprisingly called back by the Brazilian government, without any
  explanations, and the deal was suspended.  Brazil's new government
  has not yet modified this situation.
  
  Minister Cardoso will be participating in several conferences in
  the U. S., including the New York area, in the next few days.  It
  seems appropriate for friends of Cuba in the US to try to make
  contacts with him in order to explain the views of democratic US
  citizens regarding US-Cuban relations and the importance of the
  Brazilian government as a potential mediating force in the efforts
  to end the US-imposed blockade.
  
  (WIDE DISTRIBUTION REQUESTED)
  
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