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Book with new revelations on JFK
assassination published in Cuba
The book "1963, The Plot", which
affirms US Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA) and anti-Cuban
groups have direct involvement
in assassination of then US
President John F. Kennedy, was
published here Saturday.
Fabian Escalante, former head of
Cuba's State Security, wrote the
book in which he said Cuba was a
related victim of the plans to
murder Kennedy.
The book, in 248 pages, says the
masterminds and actual
perpetrators of the murder of
Kennedy will be discovered soon
and they will likely be found
inside the CIA and the
anti-Cuban groups based in
Miami, Florida.
Kennedy's murder was undoubtedly
backed by the US authorities,
Escalante said while presenting
the book, adding "they have
reasons, means and men trained
for such purpose."
According to the author, the
book lists 90 names of Cuban
exiles who might have been
involved in the assassination.
Opposition party confident of
winning Mexican presidential
elections
Mexico's opposition
Institutional Revolutionary
Party (PRI) said on Saturday it
will win the 2006 presidential
elections, local media reported
Saturday.
The party has been strengthened
as it recently achieved
victories in the governorship
elections in the states of
Chihuahua, Oaxaca, Veracruz and
Durango, PRI President Roberto
Madrazo noted.
He said Mexican President
Vicente Fox's government of
center-right National Action
Party (PAN) "already is on its
way out of the presidency."
The PRI ruled over Mexico since
1929 and was removed from the
presidency after the victory of
Fox in 2000.
Madrazo runs second in a recent
poll, still far behind Andres
Lopez, mayor of Mexico City, but
Lopez has not announced whether
he will contend in the coming
elections.
PAN's most likely candidate is
Interior Minister Santiago
Creel, who stands third in the
opinion poll.
Madrazo also said his party will
install Sergio Guerrero, former
governor of Durango, and
Patricio Martinez, outgoing
governor of Chihuahua, as
assistant secretary-generals to
its presidency in order to
"consolidate itself as the first
national political force."
Martinez was appointed because
of his awareness on the
situation of the Mexican border
with the United States and the
Mexican-US relations, Madrazo
added.
Brazilian gov't probes into
online trade of genetic samples
The Brazilian government has
investigated the presumed sale
of genetic samples of Brazilian
Indians through the Internet,
local press reported on
Saturday.
President of state-run National
Indigenous Peoples Foundation (Funai),
Mercio Pereira, has requested
the federal police to
investigate the case and the
Foreign Ministry to take
measures in view of the severity
of the situation.
Company Coriel Cell, a US
biotechnological firm, offered
through its Internet site,
genetic samples extracted from
the blood of Karitiana and Surui
Indians in the Brazil's
Amazonian state of Rondonia, at
a price of 85 US dollars, Funai
said.
Leaders of the tribes admitted
that some Brazilian and foreign
researchers came to their
villages years ago and collected
blood from at least half of the
350 individuals living in their
communities, Funai added.
The Brazilian Foreign Ministry
was reportedly to have asked its
diplomats in Washington to take
measures to force the company to
remove the mentioned information
from the website.
Coriel Cell was accused in 1996
of offering a sample of genetic
material of other Indian
communities in Brazil.
Currently, some 700,000 Indians
of 255 different ethnic groups,
with 180 different languages,
live in Brazil.
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