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>From: "Martha R. Herbert" <herbert at HELIX.MGH.HARVARD.EDU>
>Subject: FW: Castro's view of WTO
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>"Using armored vehicles, tear gas -- which even made the delegations
>staying
>in
>
>hotels queasy -- and, on top of that, pepper gas. Brutal methods,
>dragging
>
>people through the streets. Six hundred arrested. What would happen if
>such
>
>behavior took place in Cuba? What would they say if they saw an army,
>the
>
>National Guard, occupying the city? Tons of masked men with horrifying
>
>outfits to scare people, thousands of police in all directions, men
>being
>
>dragged, horses and other animals to attack people? They would say
>that it
>
>was a flagrant and massive violation of human rights and that,
>therefore,
>
>they had to use the NATO formula to conduct a 'humanitarian'
>intervention."
>
>
>-Fidel Castro, receiving the Cuban delegation upon its return from
>Seattle
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