HUMAN-CAPITAL
Cuba Defends Its Human Capital
Havana, Sept 29 (PL) Cuban President Fidel Castro refuted the US government"s accusations that Cuba is not fulfilling the migratory agreements signed between both countries.
Among other aspects, such agreements include 20,000 visas per year to those Cubans who want to emigrate to the United States, which the US claims have already been fulfilled this year.
During the closing session of the 6th Congress of the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), the president told the 1,500 delegates and guests that the US accusations are based on Cuba"s failure to give visas to professionals who have received visas from the Washington Interest Section Office in Havana to emigrate to the United States.
"They say that Cuba makes it difficult for physicians, computer specialists and other professionals to emigrate, but as far as I know, we have not signed any brain drain agreement," the Cuban leader said satirically to applause from the audience.
Fidel Castro censured the systematic intellectual sacking of Latin America by luring its professionals with the high salaries they would receive in the United States, and stressed that that would not be the case of the Island.
"Cuba is not a brain incubator," asserted the Cuban president, "and if it were, it would be to help needy countries, not to fill the pockets of looters."
In the context of this conflict, the president gave a detailed discussion of Cuban educational advances, citing the high number of students in high school or at equivalent teaching levels.
Now, we must struggle that an even larger number of students go on to university, in order to achieve a society with an integral general culture, expressed Fidel Castro.
The Cuban president said that all the country"s efforts go to strengthening the economy and the living conditions of the people and there is no doubt that these objectives will be reached.
In another part of his speech, Fidel Castro stated that "the greatest of all our peoples" works has been to resist the almost 45 years of US aggression and blockade."
President Castro added that Washington has invested 45 years in trying to destroy the revolution and this Island, which could fit into US territory almost 90 times and which population is 30 times less.
The CDR was founded in 1960 at the initiative of Fidel Castro to neutralize terrorist activities that were determined to destroy the then young revolution.
Today, it has 8 million members over 14 years of age, representing 93 percent of Cubans.
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