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From
Our Mailbag
BY MARELYS VALENCIA-Granma International staff
writer-
MESSAGE TO THE INTERNATIONAL
NAUTICAL COMMUNITY
Twelve years ago, the
Hemingway International Nautical Club of Cuba was
created. On anniversary of that event, the club
sends out a greeting to all of the clubs and
individuals of the world who have enjoyed and
participated in its activities. Here is an excerpt:
“Thank you very much for your friendship and support
in our efforts to contribute to the development of
sports, recreation and nautical tourism in Cuba. We
would like to take advantage of this opportunity to
affirm that friends of the sea will always be
welcome at our Yacht Club.” The message ends with a
stanza from a song sung by several generations of
Cuban ocean-lovers:
“To sail, to fish, to dream,
with stars bearing witness,
make the sea your friend,
and you will have a sea of
friends.”
The International Nautical
Club’s e-mail is
yachtclub@cnih.mh.cyt.cu
MEXICAN SUPPORT
The summit in Guadalajara,
Mexico, did not just provoke protest demonstrations
in the streets of that country. Our editorial
offices also received messages like the following:
“I want to express my solidarity with the Cuban
people and their President; I have read the
apologies offered to the Mexican people for not
attending the summit, I consider his reasons to be
very fair and that he showed great courage in
stating them as openly and clearly as he has. I
firmly condemn the embargo and am in total agreement
with that summit’s superficiality and lack of
valuable content for our Latin American peoples.”
This was written by Dr. María Concepción Rodríguez,
of Mexico.
Irisela Sánchez also tells
us that she has been closely following the
aggressions against the Cuban people. “I recently
read the note relating to the infamy of the Yankee
government in tightening the noose so that foreign
currency entering Cuba cannot be used. And many of
those of us who travel to the island for recreation,
sisterhood and/or health, do it fully knowing that
while it may be a grain of sand, we are contributing
to the economy of our second country. That is why
what I have just read makes me exceedingly indignant,
and I want to tell you that in my home in the
Federal District, the home of the Sánchez Pérez
family, we have hung a small Cuban flag in a window
looking on to the street.”
A WAR THAT WILL END BADLY
Sylvio Le Blanc of Canada
sent us his opinion on what is happening in Iraq. He
comments that “the result of the war in Iraq will be
a more destabilized region, an increase in acts of
terrorism throughout the world and large numbers of
dead soldiers and civilians. The ‘liberators’ will
never be heroes, just as they never were in Viet Nam,
except for Bush’s disciples.”
RECEIVED WITH THANKS
Eugenio Díaz Iglesias, of
Mexico, asks for clarification from us regarding an
article that we published last week entitled “Video
of decapitated U.S. citizen in Iraq staged by the
CIA.” This material was taken from the
www.rebelion.org
website, Eugenio, and because of its impact, we
reprinted part of it in our newspaper.
From the United States, R.
Walth, a Nicaraguan, expresses solidarity with us. |
