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   Cuban Economists Respond to Fidel Castro’s Call

CUBA, July 15, 2010.- At the request of Cuban revolution leader Fidel Castro, economists in the island will analyze the danger of a new war in the Middle East and evaluate alternatives to deal with the effects of such a peril.
        
Sc.D. Joaquin Infante Ugarte, holder of the 2000 national economy prize, told ACN that Fidel traveled once again into the future to warn the world of U.S. and its allies’ intention to attack Iran.

Regarding Fidel’s request to assess what Latin American countries could do in case the war unleashes, the economist said the Cuban leader is right when he says economists have to picture the world after a nuclear war first and then make the analysis.

For Michael Vazquez, Economic Consultancy CANEC S. A.’s advisor, if a war takes place in the Middle East, Latin America would have no other choice but to further unite and take advantage of their markets and resources to survive.

Vazquez said: “even if we are able to produce everything a human being needs to live, materialistic people will have to change their minds and we'll have to reach higher levels of self-sufficiency in the fields of production and services and turn the region into a true Bolivarian Alliance for the People’s of Our America.”

Accountant Manuel Estefania Seoane told ACN that Fidel turned to economists to raise the awareness of the danger of a holocaust, whose damage to the human species and the environment would be irreversible.

Seoane made reference to a trip he made to Hiroshima and Nagasaki back in 1983-84 in which he saw first hand the horrible consequences of the atomic bombings

The interviewees pointed out how encouraging it was for them Fidel Castro’s appearance on the Round Table TV program and his visit to the World Economy Research Center, where he asked economists to discuss the serious dangers of a nuclear war. (Cubaminrex - ACN)