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This Central Intelligence Agency Directorate of Intelligence reference aid, ALA 83-10064, is dated June 1983. It lists major international and domestic events affecting Cuba between 1 January and 31 December 1982, arranged alphabetically by country, plus sections on the Nonaligned Movement and the Palestine Liberation Movement. Entries include Cuban troops in Angola, Cuban support for Argentina in the Falklands dispute, and trade and cooperation agreements with many nations. It does not discuss UFOs.
“Independence Day”2 pages
Confidential January 11 January 15 January 20 January 22 January 23 February 23 February 25-27 February 26 February 27 March 16 March 20 March 26 April 1 Confidential Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264 NICARAGUA Cuba ofifiers 400 scholarships to Nicaraguan students in September 1982, some 1,200 Nicaraguan secondary students are currently studying in Cuba. _ Cultural Minister Armando Hart visits Nicaragua for the first time to participate in activities marking the 115th anniversary of poet Ruben Dario’s birth. Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas welcomes Alejandro Martinez, heading a Nicaraguan Foreign Trade Minister delegation to Havana. Carlos Rafael Rodriguez discusses bilateral trade in 1981 and examines the prospects of increasing trade and cooperation with Nicaraguan Foreign Trade Minister Alejandro Martinez. _ Guillermo Garcia and Foreign Trade Minister Ricardo Cabrizas meet with Alejandro Martin to discuss matters of mutual interest. Havana accuses the US of being involved in a terrorist bombing that killed three people at the Sandino International Airport in Managua on 20 February. PDRY President Ali Nasir, returning to Cuba after his two-day visit to Nicaragua, meets with Fidel and Raul Castro before leaving for Algeria. Transportation Minister Guillermo Garcia Frias arrives in Managua. He says that the economic plan announced by President Reagan is merely alms and will not re- solve any problems. The Nicaraguan Health Ministry reports that the 171 Cuban doctors, 68 nurses, and 43 medical aides working in Nicaragua treated over 2 million people from July 1979 to December 1981. At the invitation of Fidel Castro, Dr. Rafael Cordova Rivas, a Nicaraguan Government official visits the Siboney Farm and the 26 July School City and other tourist sites in Santiago de Cuba. US Navy Secretary Lehman says that any US naval blockade aimed at stopping arms shipments from Cuba to Nicaragua could easily lead to a global war if Soviet ships become involved. Nicaraguan leader Ortega sends a letter to Fidel Castro requesting an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to explain ‘fimperialist threats” to Nicara- guan independence and sovereignty. Fidel Castro sends a message to Libya’s Chief of State Qadhafi stressing that the nonaligned movement will stand by Nicaragua in the face of US aggression. The Nicaraguan youth who had embarrassed the US by reversing his story that he was sent to fight with leftist guerrillas in El Salvador, attends a Young Communists’ Convention in Havana. 108 Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C05143264
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