Pedro Martori, Delegado en Canada,
por Centro para la Democracia en Cuba de Montreal.
Advisors:
Walter Pine and Thelma Roper
Oswaldo Hernandez
Petition Effort
Be it known:
That the U.S.-Cuba Energy Summit was organized by Cuba Petroleo in 2006 to promote trade with Cuba.
That a petition has been sent to the seven sponsors of the Energy Summit asking them to not trade with Cuba. The Don't Trade With Cuba petition was sent to each of the seven sponsors by the Secretary of the Cuba Liberty Project together with the on line signatures on January 2006.
Also, the following letter was sent by the President of the Cuba Liberty Project to the National Foreign Trade Council.
To the National Foreign Trade Council:
The Cuban government has been eliminating joint ventures that Europeans had
with Cuba. A great number of companies like Spanish milk Penasanta have left
the island due to this crackdown by Castro. The government keeps all the
profit
and does not provide compensation to those investors. Of course all along we
have known of that.
The Castro government has failed to pay any of the debt that it owes to other
countries making Castro a debtor. An example a merchant marine ship was
reposessed by one of the Scandinavian countries for failure to pay.
It surely does not take a space cadet to figure out that as long as he is in
power there will be no capitalism within Cuba. Castro has stated it time and
time again.
To you the National Trading Council what part of there being no capitalism in
Cuba as long as Castro is in power, do you all not understand? DUH!!!!!!
Alfonso Gutierrez
Cuando se quiere se puede
Enero 31, 2006
En la Ciudad de Mexico, alegadamente bajo presiones del gobierno de Washington,
pidió a los cubanos abandonar el local, segun afirmó el organizador del evento.
Kirby Jones, presidente de la Asociacion de Comercio Cubano-Estadounidense, alegó
que el gobierno norteamericano llamó a Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., y
presionó a la cadena hotelera a fin de que ordenara a los cubanos abandonar el
Sheraton. Jones organizó la reunion, de tres dias de duracion, que fue inaugurada el
jueves. Valero Energy Corporation, la refineria mas grande de Estados Unidos, asi
como el departamento de desarrollo economico del estado de Luisiana y el puerto de
Corpus Christi, en Texas, participaron tambien en el evento. Judith Bryan, vocera de
la embajada de Estados Unidos en la Ciudad de Mexico, no pudo confirmar si el
gobierno de Washington presionó a Starwood. Pero dijo que "la ley estadounidense
prohibe a personas y entidades norteamericanas proporcionar servicios a personas o
entidades cubanas, y el Sheraton, como empresa subsidiaria de una compañia
estadounidense, debe acatar las leyes de Estados Unidos".
Cuba Liberty Project
