Cuban Chronology 1982

Confidential
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Confidential
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PANAMA
Panamanian President Aristides Royo receives Ramon Castro, heading a delega-
tion of Cuban technicians to Panama to exchange experiences with Panamanians
in the livestock-agricultural sector.
In a TV interview in Panama, Jorge Blanco, president-elect of the Dominican
Republic, says he does not foresee political relations with Cuba.
Fidel Castro and Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meet in Havana with Panamanian
President Royo and Foreign Minister Jorge Illueca to discuss international topics,
particularly the Malvinas situation.
Panamanian President Royo, on a 24-hour official visit to Venezuela, says that
Cuba should attend the next meeting of Latin American foreign ministers while
the US should remain out of it.
Havana reports that 30 Colombian citizens and an Ecuadoran, convicted of drug
trafficking and of violating Cuban waters or airspace, have been pardoned and
deported via Panama. A
Osmani Cienfuegos, Manuel Pineiro, and Jose Naranjo visit Panama to discuss
bilateral relations and the Central American situation with President Ricardo de
la Espriella.
Panama radio reports that the twelve members of the Chinchonero Popular
Liberation Movement, who arrived in Panama on 25 September from Honduras,
left for Cuba. The Honduran Chinchoneros group that recently held a large
number of Honduran personalities hostage for over a week in San Pedro Sula
arrives in Havana from Panama.
Panamanian Colonels Roberto Diaz Herrera and Marcos Justines, Minister of the
Presidency Gabrial Castro, and Adviser Romulo Escobar arrive in Havana to
discuss Central America.
The visiting Panamanian delegation delivers a message from President de la
Espriella to Fidel Castro continuing talks initiated in Panama on Central America
and relations with Cuba.
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