Business trade with Cuba

Ana Maria Lamar.

Att.: Gov. Kathleen Blanco
Re: Business trade with Cuba. JOE DOE VS. UNOCAL

Ignorance is no longer your excuse to turn a blind eye to human rights violations in Castro's leftist military dictatorship, it is greed and poor judgment.

JOE DOE VS. UNOCAL: "Aiding and abetting Human rights violation committed by others abroad" may impose a very serious economic liability and sanctions to you and your unethical greedy friends. US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena California has ruled FIRMS ARE LIABLE FOR ABUSE ABROAD! UNOCAL SETTLED THE DISPUTE WITH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN COMPENSATION! UNOCAL WILL ALSO PROVIDE EDUCATION PROGRAMS TO REAFFIRMS ITS COMMITMENT OT HUMAN RIGHTS. (Unocal to Pay, Paul Chavez, The Charlotte Observer, Paul Chavez, Dec. 13, 2004))

Rendering economic assistance to the perpetuation of innumerable crimes in Castro's private hell is abominable. Exploitation and modern slavery of the Cuban Worker is the law governing Foreign Investment in Castro's Cuba.

1. Foreign businesses cannot hire or pay Cuban workers, it is a monopoly of Castro's Regime. The empoverish worker is paid in non-convertible pesos but the Regime collects and robs their salaries in dollars. The employing agency pays US$500 per month per worker, and the Cuban Worker receives less than 500 pesos, US $15 per month. Decree Law 77, Foreign Investment Law.
No wonder Castro is considered by Fortune Magazine among one of the wealthiest tycoon of the world, while the Cuban Worker suffers poberty or death at sea.
2. Apartheid: Castro's Tourist Industry discriminates and bars nationals from their premises.
3. The Labor Union is under the strick control of the Military Dictatorship and prohibits independent trade unions. There is no right to assemble, no right to collective bargaining, no right to hold strikes, no right to free speech. Legitimate rights of the worker are labelled as "a crime against the state"".
4. Arrests, harrassment, sanctions, physical aggressions, harsh prison terms, unlawful house entry, confiscation of books and educational material are just a few of the abuses suffered daily to Cubans.
5. Military Dictatorship enforces brutal force upon dissenters.

Imprisoned independent labor union leaders, heroic men, black and white, young and old are suffering behind bars because they rose in defense of free speech and the rights of the Cuban Worker to organize free labor unions and educate Cuban workers about Union and Labor practices. These heroic Cuban men will attest at this legal suit against foreign greed, corruption, and exploitation of the Cuban Worker.. Our independent labor union leaders need not be identified as JOE DOE; Seven heroic Union leaders, prisonners of conscience, were sentenced to a total of 150 years in Cuba. They are:

1. Carmelo Diaz Fernandez, 63 years of age. President Union Syndical Cristiana,
2. Miguel Galvan Gutierrez, 38 years of age, Executive Board Member, Centro Nacional de Capacitacion Sindical y Laboral.
3. Pedro Pablo Alvarez Ramos, 53 yeas of age, Secretary General, Consejo Unitario de Trabajadores Cubanos.
4. Nelson Molinet Espino 37 years of age, President, Confederacion de Trabajadores Democraticos de Cuba (Federation f Cuban Democratic Workers
5. Hector Raul Valle Fernandez, 35 years of age, Vice-President, Confederacion de Trabajadores Democraticos de Cuba.
6. Ivan Carrillo Hernandez, Executive board Member, Confederacion Obrera Nacional Independiente de Cuba (Cuba's Independent National Worker's Federation).
7. Alfredo Felipe Fuentes 26 years of age, Federacion Sindical
The International Labor Organization has adopted a resolution that condemns the government of Castro on June 11, 2003.

The persecution, imprisonment and assassination of freedom loving citizens in Castro's totalitarian state has been consistently documented and condemned by the United Nations Commission of Human Rights in Geneva and by the Inter American Commission of Human Rights of the Organization of American State (OAS) and many other for the past 45 years. Partial lists document from 77,000 to 103,722 deaths only for political reasons.

Castro's exploitation is fiercely incremented and foreign investors choose to ignore the crimes and collaborate with Castro because of greed. Independent Union Rights Advocates, journalists, librarians, professors, religious leaders, economists, labor union leaders, the sick and the blind, blacks and whites are being deprived of their freedom WHILE HANDSHAKES, COCKTAILS AND BUSINESS DEALINGS ARE CONDUCTED.

Justice in America's Court will deal accordingly with Foreign Investment in Cuba. Soon, there will be an Independent Union Leaders in Cuba vs. Foreign Investment and those repressed and serving prison sentences under the most unimaginable filth, isolation, torture and malnutrition solely for supporting the United Nations Declaration of Human rights will be heard. Turning a Blind Eyes to these abuses and becoming Castro's accomplice will not be tolerated in America.

It is is to the advantage of Free and Prosperous Societies to demand the Cuban government respect for labor rights, union rights and human rights. Make sure Castro complies with your request. Ask the Castro Regime to free our brothers who have been unjustly sentenced to long prison terms. Inform foreign investors doing business in Cuba that our workers'rights and salaries are trampled upon.

The life of Military Dictatorship in Cuba is endangered by Castro's poor health, please use good judgment on your future dealings with Castro. The Cuban government recently executed three rafters, young Cuban blacks escaping from Castro's exploitation. The horrendous firing squad is still active in violation of Article 25 of the 1940 Constitution of Cuba.

We caution foreign investors that legal action at US Courts will be taken against multinational corporation in Cuba who collaborate with Castro's Regime and accomplices will be held economically responsible for aiding and promoting modern slavery.

Assisting Castro's Regime perpetuate its criminal grip over Cuba is in violation of all moral and civil code.

A. M. Lamar

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