Today I had the pleasure of welcoming to Jimmy Carter, who was U.S. president between 1977 and 1981 and the only one, in my view, serenity and courage enough to address the issue of U.S. relations with Cuba. The circumstances were certainly not conducive to our complex world. The existence of a truly free and sovereign country in our hemisphere will not be reconciled with the ideas of the fascist extreme right of the United States, he managed to defeat the purposes of President Carter, which earned him the Nobel Peace Prize . Nobody gave him free. Revolution always appreciated his brave gesture. In 2002 he received warmly. Now he reiterated his respect and appreciation. Can really
ruling oligarchy that superpower resign his insatiable desire to impose its will on the rest of the world? Can he do justice to this end a system that generates increasingly the presidents like Nixon, Reagan and W. Bush, increasingly destructive and less respect for the sovereignty of nations?
The complexity of today's world, does not leave much room for memories that are relatively recent. Carter's farewell, on Wednesday, agreed with disturbing news of the nuclear accident triggered by the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which continue to arrive and they can not be ignored, no only by its importance but also the practical and almost immediate impact that derives from them for the world economy.
Today the Associated Press reports from Japan:
"The crisis in the Japanese nuclear plant damaged by the tsunami worsened on Wednesday after the nearby sea water showed the highest radiation levels so far."
"In Fukushima, the filtered radiation has penetrated the earth and sea and has been introduced in vegetables, unpasteurized milk and even water until Tokyo, 220 miles south."
"Meanwhile, the Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko visited for one hour at a group of evacuees in Tokyo. "
Reuters, meanwhile, reports from Tokyo:
" Japan on Wednesday updated its standards for nuclear power plant, the first official recognition that their rules were insufficient when an earthquake damaged one of its facilities, triggering the worst since Chernobyl nuclear crisis in 1986. "
" The announcement was released after the Government acknowledged that there is no end in sight to the crisis and a jump levels of radioactive iodine in seawater is added to the evidence of leaks at reactors around the resort and beyond. "
"Findings of plutonium in the soil of the plant raised the public alarm about the accident, which has eclipsed the humanitarian disaster caused by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11 that left 27,500 dead or missing."
"Before the disaster , 55 nuclear reactors in Japan They provided about 30 percent of the country's electricity. It was expected that the percentage climbed to 50 percent by 2030, among the largest in the world. "
" New readings showed a jump in the 3355 radioactive iodine times the legal limit, said the state agency for nuclear safety, although The agency played down its impact, saying that people had left the area and had stopped fishing. "
" Hundreds of engineers have struggled for nearly three weeks to cool the reactors at the plant and prevent a catastrophic merger of energy bars, although the situation seems to have left behind the nightmare scenario. "
" Jesper Koll, director of equity research at JPMorgan Securities in Tokyo, said a long battle to control the plant and stop leaks of radioactivity perpetuate the uncertainty and act as a drag on the economy .
"'The worst case scenario is that this not be extended by one, two or six months but for two years or indefinitely 'he said. "
" A byproduct of nuclear reactions that can be used in nuclear bombs, plutonium is highly carcinogenic and one of the most dangerous substances on the planet, experts say. "
A third agency, DPA, from Tokyo states:
" The Japanese engineers are still unable to stop the nuclear crisis nearly three weeks after the accident in the Fukushima nuclear plant. The Tokyo government begins to study this extraordinary measures to stop the release of radioactivity from the facility. "
" The idea is to cover the reactor with a kind of tissue. Recent high iodine-131 measurements at sea are an indication of increased radiation. Greenpeace also warned of serious health hazards to residents after own measurements. "
" Experts believe that the process to definitively rule out a possible merger kernel can take months. TEPCO has promised to improve working conditions for technicians, more and more nervous and exhausted. "
While these events take place in Japan, the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela visited Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia targets, promoting economic agreements and closer ties with countries in our hemisphere determined to be independent.
At the University of La Plata, where the tyranny promoted by U.S. wiped out, many thousands of Argentines, more than 700 students ─ of which 40 of the School of Journalism ─ Chavez Rodolfo Walsh received the award in honor one of the heroic revolutionary journalists killed.
I not only Cuba and there are many people willing to fight to the death for their homeland. Fidel Castro Ruz
March 30, 2011
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