Nobel Physics
laureate opposes
anti-Cuba campaign
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Outstanding poets from Latin
America and the Caribbean join the "In Defense of
Cuba" appeal
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Repercussions in Spain
Pedro de la Hoz
RUSSIAN scientist Zhores Alfiorov, winner of the
2000 Nobel Prize for Physics, rejected the latest
anti-Cuba campaign orchestrated by international
right-wing forces and is demanding respect for the
Cuban government’s sovereign decisions.
Alfiorov
made his statement in Moscow during a meeting at the
State Duma (Parliament) to review scientific
cooperation between Cuba and Russia.
Both Alfiorov, recognized for his innovations in
high-speed semiconductors, and Ivan Melnikov, vice
speaker of the Duma, signed the appeal, "In Defense
of Cuba," promoted by the Mexican chapter of the In
Defense of Humanity Network.
The document, which condemns the interventionist
statements of the European Parliament, was also
signed by Colombian Fernando Rendón, founder of the
International Poetry Festival in Medellin;
Ecuadorian writer and poet Raúl Pérez Torres, winner
of the Casa de las Americas Prize; and Jamaican
essayist Keith Ellis, a special guest at the Nicolás
Guillén Colloquium and Festival of Music and Poetry,
which opened this Monday in Havana.
In Spain, where the corporate media has lined up
behind the anti-Cuba campaign, 1,576 intellectuals,
activists, academics and solidarity organizations
have signed the appeal.
