Cuban Chronology 1982

Confidential
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August 1
August 23
September 1
September 6
September 9
September 19
September 24
September 27
October 1
October 3
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Coordinator of the Nicaraguan Junta Ortega stops over in Havana, in an interview
for Radio Reloj, he charges that his country has been the object of a covert
invasion by 2,000 former Somozist.
Politburo alternate member Roberto Viega heads a delegation to Nicaragua to
participate in the festivities honoring the third anniversary of the revolution.
The Honduran newspaper Heraldo reports that four hundred deserters from
Nicaragua’s Army captured 27 Cuban advisors and executed them for torturing
political prisoners.
Nicaragua’s National Planning Minister, Commander Ruiz, says that the $80-
million cooperation agreement signed with Cuba on 31 July will aid recovery from
flood damages that occurred in May.
Fidel Castro meets, at the La Rosita Farm of the Union of Young Communists,
with the second group of medical students who will be leaving for Nicaragua.
Havana press announces that close to 12,000 children from Nicaragua, PDRY,
and 10 African countries will study on the Isle of Youth, 2,000 more than last
year.
Minister of Agriculture Arnaldo Milian attends the 18th Food and Agriculture
Organization meeting in Managua. He accuses the US of using food as a weapon
to pressure developing countries.
A Nicaraguan National Patriotic Front (FPN) delegation arrives in Cuba to learn
about agricultural cooperatives, labor laws, the Committees for Defense of the
Revolution, and trade union work.
Nicaragua’s Voice of Sandino reports that three members of the FSLN are
visiting Fidel Castro in Cuba.
A Cultural Cooperation Agreement for 1982-85 between the Sandinist Association
of Culture Workers and the National Union of Cuban Writers and Artists is
signed in Havana.
A delegation of Nicaraguan Youths from the 19th July Young Movement is
visiting Santa Clara; they have toured places of historical and cultural interest for
the past 2 weeks in Havana.
Osmani Cienfuegos and his delegation visit Nicaragua to discuss the Central
American and Caribbean situation with members of the Junta and FSLN
National Directorate. Foreign Minister Malmierca discusses bilateral relations
and matters under consideration by the UN with the foreign ministers of
Nicaragua, Spain, Peru, and Argentina at the UN.
Managua press reports that a delegation of Nicaraguan construction workers
composed of Alejandro Solorzano, Jose Torres, and Oscar Danilo Hidalgo, visited
Cuba.
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