Cuba Chronology – July 1985

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  • The Council of State announces the release of Humberto Perez Gonzalez from his post as Vice President of the Council of Ministers and Minister President of the Central Planning Board.
  • Council of Ministers Vice President Jose Lopez Moreno is appointed Minister President of the JUCEPLAN and Raul Cabrera Nunez, Minister of Construction.
  • Reuters reports that Havana is considering a major government shakeup including a more prominent role for Fidel Castro’s younger brother, Raul, and a new Foreign Minister.

2 July

  • Bolivian Minister of Social Services and Public Health Dr. Javier Torres Goitia arrives in Cuba and is greeted by his counterpart, Sergio del Valle.
  • He decorates Fidel Castro with the Bolivian Health Order and thanks Cuba for donating an intensive care unit to the La Paz children’s hospital.

4 July

  • Fidel Castro presides over the party’s 12th plenum. A decision is made to postpone the Third Party Congress until 4–7 February 1986.

5 July

  • Deputy Director of the Communist Party Central Committee’s Foreign Affairs Department Eloy Valdes arrives in Addis Ababa. He meets with Ethiopian party official Ashagre Yigletu.
  • President of the National Assembly Flavio Bravo receives British parliamentarians George Foukes and Robert Jackson to discuss the unpayable Latin American foreign debt.
  • Fidel Castro discusses the political situation, foreign debt, and the creation of the new international economic order with the 650 Cuban delegates who will attend the 12th World Youth and Student Festival in Moscow.
  • Fidel Castro sends a congratulatory message to Cape Verdean President Aristides Pereira on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of Cape Verde’s independence, reiterating his determination to strengthen cooperation.

8 July

  • A water quota assignment plan is implemented in Havana to counter the prolonged drought that has hurt agriculture throughout Cuba.

9 July

  • Vice Foreign Minister Ricardo Alarcon arrives in Argentina. In an interview at the airport, he says the subject of Latin America’s foreign debt will be discussed with Argentine officials.

10 July

  • Fidel Castro presides over the eighth regular meeting of the National Assembly of the People’s Government.

11 July

  • The National Assembly of the People’s Government approves the release of Deputy Jorge Lezcano from his post as Assembly Vice President and ratifying Severo Aguirre to replace him.
  • Addressing the American Bar Association, President Reagan characterizes Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, and Nicaragua as “a confederation of terrorist states.”
  • At the National Assembly meeting, Fidel Castro responds to President Reagan’s address to the Bar Association, calling Reagan crazy and deranged.
  • Havana press announces that Fidel Castro, in a lengthy interview with publisher Jeffrey Elliot and US Congressman Mervyn Dymally, says Cuba’s relations with the United States have worsened since Reagan took office.
  • Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez of Spain cancels a planned tour of Cuba, Peru, and Ecuador that was to begin on 19 July.
  • Officials from a British chemical enterprise and the Cuban State Committee for Economic Cooperation agree to increase cooperation in public health, basic industries, and sugar.
  • Vilma Espin heads a delegation to Nairobi, Kenya, to participate in the UN women’s conference.
  • Fidel Castro and Rene Rodriguez meet with visiting Colombian Congressman Dr. Jaime Betancur, who delivers a message from President Belisario Betancur.
  • Vice Foreign Minister Alarcon arrives in Montevideo and meets with President Sanguinetti and Foreign Minister Enrique Iglesias.
  • Uruguayan Foreign Trade General Director Isidoro Hodara, Foreign Ministry International Economic Affairs Director Jose Maria Areneo, and 25 Uruguayan industrialists arrive in Havana to discuss aspects of the recently reestablished trade relations between the two countries.

13 July

  • Fidel Castro discusses Latin America’s foreign debt with a Brazilian labor delegation that will participate in the trade union conference on 15 July.

15 July

  • Carlos Rafael Rodriguez meets in Havana with Eduardo Santos, Spain’s Under Secretary of the Industry Ministry, who heads a delegation of Spanish industrialists.

16 July

  • Carlos Rafael Rodriguez denies that recent cabinet changes had anything to do with the 45-day postponement of the Third Party Congress.

17 July

  • President of the National Energy Commission Joel Domenech opens the “Energy Under the Revolution” exhibit in Havana. He says Cuba saved 225,000 tons of oil during the first half of the year.
  • The Latin American-Caribbean Workers Conference on the Foreign Debt opens in Havana with more than 300 labor leaders from 30 countries attending.
  • Prensa Latina reports that Fidel Castro has invited Latin American representatives to meet in Havana on 30 July to discuss the region’s foreign debt.
  • Cuban Ambassador to the UN Oscar Oramas sends a letter to the president of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization accusing the United States of violating the Tlatelolco Treaty.
  • Havana press reports that Carlos Roca Caceres, Deputy of the American Revolutionary Popular Alliance of Peru, says Peru will establish relations with Cuba.

18 July

  • Labor leaders attending the debt conference pledge overwhelming support for Cuba’s proposal that the region’s foreign debt be canceled and agree that 23 October will be the “Day of Action Against the Foreign Debt.”
  • Politburo member Pedro Miret heads the Cuban delegation to Nicaragua attending festivities commemorating the sixth anniversary of the Sandinista revolution.
  • According to Paris press reports, the Paris Club says Cuba’s 10 leading creditor countries have agreed in principle to a major reorganization of the 1985 debt.

19 July

  • Fidel Castro expresses “unwavering solidarity with Nicaragua against US aggression” in his message to Nicaraguans on the sixth anniversary of the 1979 Sandinista revolution.

20 July

  • Deputy Foreign Trade Minister Manuel Estefania and Uruguayan official Isidoro Hodara sign economic agreements concerning industrial, agricultural, and meat products.
  • Peru’s President-elect Alan Garcia rejects a call by Fidel Castro for Latin American nations to refuse to pay their combined foreign debt of $350 billion.

22 July

  • Latin American journalists participate in a seminar on Latin American and Caribbean foreign debt at the Jose Marti International Journalist Institute in Havana.

23 July

  • Foreign Minister Malmierca arrives in Algeria and meets with President Chadli Bendjedid and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ahmed Taleb Ibrahimi to discuss international matters and the Nonaligned Movement Ministerial Conference scheduled for September.

26 July

  • Carlos Rafael Rodriguez receives the credentials of the new Nicaraguan Ambassador to Cuba, Luis Enrique Figueroa Aguilar.

29 July

  • Fidel Castro, speaking in Guantanamo City on the 32nd anniversary of the assault on the Moncada Barracks, blasts the United States for stationing troops on Guantanamo Bay.

30 July

  • Fidel Castro sends Peruvian President Alan Garcia best wishes for success in his new post and offers Cuba’s support.

31 July

  • Uruguayan President Sanguinetti praises the initiative by Fidel Castro to promote continental dialogue on the foreign debt problem at a press conference in Lima.
  • The Latin America-Caribbean debt conference opens in Havana. Fidel Castro explains the general rules governing the meeting to the participants.
  • O Estado de Sao Paulo reports that Fidel Castro says his country “wants and wishes” to reestablish diplomatic relations with Brazil and he believes that Brazil may be “the key to the solution of the Latin American debt problem.”

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July 1, 1985
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