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 Editorials | At Issue | March 2006 
Cuban Retirees Condemn Bush's Plan to Takeover Cuba
 ACN
| | Ministers and vice ministers from eight countries and experts on international bodies were on hand for the event along with 400 delegates who had attended the Second Conference on Social Security. |
avana - Cuban retirees and pensioners joined growing national clamor against the Bush administration's so-called Plan to Assist a Free Cuba, during a demonstration held this week at Havana's Jose Marti Anti-imperialist Plaza.
A pronouncement was read asking, "Who is supporting the US president in his quest to dismantle one of the most prized conquests of the revolution like the social security in our country, where no one is left unprotected?" Antonio Leon del Monte read the document, approved as a special resolution during the recently concluded Second Conference on Social Security, in the presence of Esteban Lazo and Juan Carlos Robinson, both members of the Communist Party's political bureau.
During the event, Lazo and Robinson presented Social Security Awards to the Social Workers Program, and to the research project on the psychosocial study of disabled persons and the social and clinical-genetic psycho-pedagogical study on mentally handicapped people in Cuba.
Labor and Social Security Minister Alfredo Morales said that the most recent raise in pensions and salaries cost more than 4.26 billion pesos and came during a year when Cuba was financially stressed by damage caused by a hurricanes, high oil prices and the more than 45-year economic, financial and commercial blockade by the US.
Minister Morales pointed out that during this same period the Bush administration reduced funding for social programs in the US and abandoned the people of New Orleans leaving them to the mercy of hurricane Katrina. This, despite having received several warnings of the potential danger of hurricane flooding.
Ministers and vice ministers from eight countries and experts on international bodies were on hand for the event along with 400 delegates who had attended the Second Conference on Social Security, where improvements in the quality of life, physical and mental health, and better services were discussed. |
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