[Marxism] Cuba VP to attend UN session, speak in NYC

["Fred Feldman" <ffeldman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

CUBA SOLIDARITY NEW YORK
PO Box 423
New York, NY 10044
cubasolidarityny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dear Sisters and Brothers,

We are excited to announce that the Cuban delegation that will attend the
Fall opening sessions of the United Nations will be headed up by Jose Ramon
Machado Ventura. The delegation, the highest level one since the visit of
Fidel Castro in 2000, will also include Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque
and Cuban Communist Party head of International Relations Fernando Remirez.

Machado Ventura will be the featured speaker at the special public event n
Monday, September 22 from 7-9 PM at the Church of the Intercession at 550 W.
155th Street @ Broadway. Companero Machado Ventura is a long-time Cuban
revolutionary fighter and leader and was recently elected as First Vice
President of the Cuban Council of State, succeeding Raul Castro in that
position. 

A trained medical doctor Machado Ventura was an early fighter in the July
26th Movement as a medical student and fought under the commands of Che
Guevara and Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra. He was promoted to the rank
of Captain in 1958 where he went to Oriente Province to establish a second
guerrilla front under the command of Raul Castro. There he was placed in
charge of the revolutionary movement's medical services, establishing a
network of hospitals and dispensaries. Machado Ventura was promoted to the
rank of Major Comandante, the highest rank in the Rebel Army.

Since the triumph of the Revolution on January 1, 1959 Companero Machado
Ventura was national Minister of Health from 1960-1967 playing the central
role in the establishment of Cuba's world-class medical system and has
carried out many revolutionary and government assignments in agriculture,
transportation, and education. Since 2006 he has been responsible for Cuba's
amazing international education programs that benefit working people around
the globe and are a shining example of solidarity and internationalism. He
is a long-time elected member of the National Assembly of People's Power and
was elected First Vice President of the Cuban Council of State following the
election of Raul Castro as President when Fidel Castro chose not to seek
re-election as president for reasons of health.

Many of you have responded to previous emails, have obtained tickets, and
are on the list. The deadline to get on the list to attend this important
event will be Friday, September 19 at 4:00 PM. Because of the need for
enhanced security, this event will be ticketed. The $5 cost of a ticket will
be collected at the Church. Doors will open at 5:30 PM and we expect to
start the program at 7:00 PM sharp. You will need a picture ID to enter the
Church. It is important to respond to this email ASAP with your name (and
those of friends and family) that want to attend the September 22 event.

>From a political point of view the September 22 special event takes place as
Cuba begins to mobilize and organize to recover from the devastation
of Hurricanes Gustav and Ike and as pressure mounts of the US government to
lift its economic war so that Cuba can purchase needed materials. So far
Washington has offered a consciously insulting $100,000 and the sending of a
"damage assessment team" (as if the Cubans are not capable of assessing what
has happened)! Furthermore in recent days US subversion against Bolivia and
Venezuela has stepped up and Washington's ambassadors to both countries are
being expelled. This registering the growing class polarizations and
confrontations within Latin America as Washington tried to regain the
initiative from the past decade of anti-imperialist resistance and popular
mobilizations in the struggle for the interests of working people.

In solidarity,

Ike Nahem
Jaime Mendieta
Wellington Echegaray
Jason Corley
Nellie Bailey
Dena Barbara
Robert Gold
Norman Hodgett


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