TIJUANA, MEXICO
Labor conference to feature Cuban leaders
By Bob McCubbin
San Diego
The U.S.-Cuba Labor Exchange has completed initial
arrangements for an important labor conference in the Mexican
city of Tijuana, directly across the U.S.-Mexico border from
San Diego. The U.S. government denied visas for the leaders of
the Confederation of Cuban Workers to enter this country.
Many U.S. and Mexican labor union leaders and rank-and-file
unionists are expected to attend the Tijuana conference.
Of particular note, however, are the Cuban leaders who will
be featured speakers at this conference: Pedro Ross Leal,
general secretary of the Confed eration of Cuban Workers (CTC);
Heydée Montes Cabrera, member of the National
Secretariat of the CTC; Osvaldo Martínez, director of
the World Economic Research Center; Leonel González
González, director of Foreign Relations of the CTC;
Manuel Montero Bistilliero, director of the Americas Department
of Foreign Relations of the CTC; and Edison Earl Brown,
official interpreter of the CTC.
The conference will focus on U.S.-Cuba relations, the
U.S.-dominated Free Trade Area of the Americas--known as the
FTAA in English and ALCA in Spanish, and immigration
issues.
The conference will be held on the weekend of Dec. 10-12 at
the Palacio Azteca Hotel in downtown Tijuana. Registration will
begin on Friday at 6 p.m. and a reception will welcome the
Cuban guests at 7 p.m.
For more information or to pre-register--strongly
recommended--write: U.S. Cuba Labor Exchange, P.O. Box 39188,
Redford, MI 48239, U.S.A.; call 313-561-8330; or email laborexchange@aol.com.
Reprinted from the Oct. 21, 2004, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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