Cuban Chronology 1982

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Confidential
The second meeting of nonaligned countries health experts meet in Havana.
Minister of Public Health Sergio del Valle attends the opening session; a work plan
to be presented in May is approved.
Havana press reports that approximately 400 persons have been arrested in
Havana during the past few days as part of a campaign to eliminate immorality in
state and private businesses. Fidel Castro attends the inauguration ceremony of
the Comandante Pinares General Hospital in San Cristobal which cost 12 million
pesos and has more than 380 beds.
Granma reports that 17 top Cuban baseball players and coaches have been
suspended and face trial for conspiring with gamblers to fix games. The
Department of State issues a press report charging that Fidel Castro, last
December, ordered a boost in arms shipments to guerrilla forces in El Salvador to
disrupt the 28 March elections.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee approves a bill authorizing government
sponsorship of Radio Marti, which will broadcast news and US opinions to Cuba.
An unidentified US Government officials confirms Le Monde’s article that
Secretary of State Haig recently sent US Ambassador at Large Walters to
Havana, where he met with Fidel Castro.
Havana press reports that Cuban police have arrested dozens of farmers and
illegal middlemen at the free farmers’ markets in Havana for selling goods stolen
from the government.
Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdes presides at the main celebration of
the 20th anniversary of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) in Havana.
Fidel and Raul Castro attend the fourth congress of the Union of Young
Communists.
A Delta Airlines Boeing 727 with 103 people aboard is hijacked in Miami and flies
to Cuba, where the hijackers surrender to Cuban authorities and the aircraft and
passengers return to the US.
In an interview published by Madrid’s El Pais, Carlos Rafael Rodriguez says that
Cuba does not supply arms to El Salvador and that economic conditions in Cuba
have worsened.
The Nassau press reports that the Cuban Council of Ministers issued Decree-Law
50 in February authorizing joint Cuban-foreign companies to invest in property in
Cuba.
The Treasury Department announces that American Airways Charter, a Miami-
based firm specializing in tourist flights to Cuba, is controlled by Cuba and has
been barred from continued operations.
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