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-DATE19920410 -YEAR1992 -DOCUMENT_TYPE-AUTHOR-HEADLINECastro Addresses UJC Congress Closing Session -PLACECARIBBEAN / Cuba -SOURCEHavana Cuba Vision Network -REPORT_NBRFBIS-LAT-92-071

-REPORT_DATE19920413 -HEADER========================================================================== Report Type: Daily report AFS Number: FL1004192792 Report Number: FBIS-LAT-92-071 Report Date: 13 Apr 92 Report Series: Daily Report Start Page: 19 Report Division: CARIBBEAN End Page: 21 Report Subdivision: Cuba AG File Flag: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Language: Spanish Document Date: 10 Apr 92 Report Volume: Monday Vol VI No 071 Dissemination: City/Source of Document: Report Name: Headline: Subheadline: Havana Cuba Vision Network

Latin America Castro Addresses UJC Congress Closing Session Participates in UJC Debates

Author(s): President Fidel Castro during the two day plenary sessions of the Union of Young Communists, UJC, Congress in Havana on 2-4 April-recorded] Source Line: Apr 92 FL1004192792 Havana Cuba Vision Network in Spanish 0100 GMT 10

Subslug: [``Excerpts'' of remarks made by President Fidel Castro during the two day plenary sessions of the Union of Young Communists, UJC, Congress in Havana on 2-4 April-recorded] -TEXTFULL TEXT OF ARTICLE: 1. [``Excerpts'' of remarks made by President Fidel Castro during the two day plenary sessions of the Union of Young Communists, UJC, Congress in Havana on 2-4 April-recorded] 2. [Excerpts] [Passage omitted on comments by other delegates] No, I was

thinking about this. There were all kinds of the one-day mobilizations. I remembered yesterday that I was recently told that once almost 5,000 people from Havana were mobilized to Melena del Sur, that was in 1980 or 1981, for one day. This is completely crazy-the amount of transportation. The number of people does not matter if there are not enough trucks because then the potatoes lay for three or four days in the fields. If 5,000 men dig the potatoes, they need to be bagged, loaded, and then they need to be transported. Everything needs to be planned. 3. Before, almost all the mobilizations were for one day and there were a great many, except those that were mobilized for the cane harvest and all these things. Even Havana had a lot of people participate in this. This also happened a little bit with the mobilizations for national celebrations. The celebration for the October Revolution was held on 7 November. 4. I saw these mobilizations. They began early, at 0700, 0800 and by 1000 everyone was coming back. It was a colossal cost in trucks. It was a show, a picnic, or something like that. I said well, if they are going to work why not work the whole day. To work only two, two and a half, or three hours! Why not get organized and if there is not enough work for everyone then do not take them, leave them there in the area, in the municipality fixing up a park, cleaning, doing other things. 5. Nevertheless, if the one-day mobilizations did not exist, the populace of Havana Province, for example, would not be able to participate, from the province, not from the city but from the province, because there are all kinds of one-day mobilizations. Now, the people from Alquizar, Guira, Bejucal, from all these places, they live close-three, four, or five kilometers. They are not used to the idea of staying in a camp. I do not know if it would be easy to persuade them, being three or four kilometers from their homes, to leave their homes to stay at a camp. We have to consider this; we need more camps, plus cost, plus food, all these kinds of things. 6. We cannot talk in absolute terms of eliminating the one-day mobilizations because the one-day mobilizations can work in many small villages. They can get there on bicycles. Some people can go and return to their homes, if they are so close-three, four, or five kilometers. Because do not forget that Havana Province has approximately 19 municipalities, no? [unidentified delegate answers: Yes] 19 municipalities. They are small, isolated villages like Nueva Paz, Nueva Paz [repeats]. 7. Those from Nueva Paz can help there. They have plantains next door. They have a lot of crops next door. They can leave their homes in the village and walk to the fields to work there. Of course we cannot do without all of the people. Because Havana Province's duty is to produce food. The agriculture duty

of Havana Province, especially the miscellaneous crop enterprises, is to produce food for the populace, for the City of Havana, and produce food for Havana Province, which has 700,000 inhabitants, and food for the City of Havana, which has 2.1 million inhabitants. 8. That is supposed to be the task. Of course, Havana Province also produces milk for the City of Havana and the province. Havana Province also produce sugarcane. Havana Province produces more than half a million tons of sugar. You could say that Havana Province produces sugar for the rest of the country. In general, it has a productive agriculture program, but its most important, fundamental task is to produce food. 9. Before, that food, the agriculture sector in general- when the population was a lot smaller, when the populace was fed with a lot less resources, that is, they received a lot less food-all these crops destined for the city were produced by the provinces. What has happened is that if you went to any village, there was so much social development that everyone was working in something, in some service, bakery, transportation, child care center, school, polyclinic, business. Many times we asked, where are the people of all these villages, of all these municipalities? How many agriculture workers are there? 10. I had a study done because the Guira Enterprise, with approximately 300 or 200 plus caballerias, had a little more than 200 workers. So, where were the people? The people were in the city. We had created many forms of employment. A lot of employment that is not fundamental right now. We cannot give up this worker pool, of everyone, of that immense populace which is spread throughout the whole province. I understand that some cooperatives are helping a lot. 11. I understand that, for example Guira mobilizes approximately 700, 800 persons every day. They mainly work in cooperatives that are close by. Now, perhaps what has to change is the concept. Perhaps what must be established is that those who now go for one day should go for a complete day and that they get there using simple means, by bicycle, or walking; once in a while if it is a little farther by using some kind of vehicle. But we cannot talk about eliminating one-day mobilizations because we would have to house all these people, build camps. Where would we put them? 12. It is not the same for the City of Havana. What was really crazy were the mobilizations from the City of Havana to the fields for one day. Today they go for 15 days. If we are going to do it better, we would build camps for contingents. This would be the optimum thing to do. In my opinion, it seems we would be doing ourselves great damage, from a conscientious point of view, a political point of view, if we were to look for a solution to the capital's food problem without allowing the people in Havana to participate. 13. go In my opinion, it is phenomenal what the medical students have done to

[rephrases] all the university students, not only in Havana but throughout the whole country. It began here but it has already spread. You do not know how much they have helped. You do not know the satisfaction it gives to see the spirit there is in these camps. The way they are working. The serious way they work. It is something truly impressive. It is something truly revolutionary. 14. I am sorry that Tania, who is such an efficient leader, organizer, and who also knows how to communicate, was not able to express everything about these 15 days, from 15 to 29 March, because is was a magnificent, excellent, extraordinary thing. If you had heard about it here it would have served as an incentive to all the youth, to all the delegates of the congress. Well, if we had organized 70 contingents, these students would not be participating, no university students would be participating. 15. The revolution that has occurred, and which I was explaining yesterday, is that there has also been an enormous influence on the agriculture workers. The agriculture workers are working twice as hard as before. The students from schools in the fields are working, producing two or three times more than what they produced before they were combined with the camps. The students from the schools in the fields are working a lot better. There has been a complete change in every sense. 16. If we were to let ourselves be carried away by the idea that the most useful thing would be to create 60, 65, or 70 contingents that would work for two, three, or four years, then the people would not participate in this struggle, and it seems vital to me that the people participate in this struggle; among other reasons, so that the people will understand certain phenomena. If they do not participate, they will not understand. I believe that our population, especially in Havana, is getting a great political and revolutionary education because we speak of ideology but if they do not know anything, if they do not know everything, if they do not know what it costs to produce a pound of potatoes, if they do not know what hard work is, if they do not participate in the solution of these problems, politically we would lose a lot, ideologically we would lose, revolutionarily we would lose. That is why I believe that with these mobilizations, what must be clearly defined is what kind of one-day mobilizations must be eliminated. [passage omitted with remarks by delegates] 17. This is important because here every so often we panic over fuel, gas, other fuels, and to have a charcoal reserve-think what having 0.5 million sacks of charcoal would mean. That is almost one sack per household in Havana. In a similar situation if they lacked fuel, gas, lacked something, this would

resolve a lot, really. 18. That is why we plan to increase charcoal production in Cienaga. It is very important. That is why it is so important that the Brazilian ovens function. [passage omitted with remarks by delegates] 19. We are creating a reserve of scientists. Because even if we cannot use all of them immediately we are going to need them in the future and instead of having them misusing the time it is better to have them involved in a preparation process. [passage omitted with remarks by delegates] 20. What you say is important not only for the scientific-technical training of these youths but in the training of the revolutionary consciousness, a patriotic feeling, a feeling of responsibility, a loyalty to the country, because the enemy tries to steal information. They try to steal many of these youths. I believe that you should not let immature people, people that are not solidly trained, have contact with the enemy. They should not be exposed to the influence of ideas and become involved in relationships with the capitalists. 21. Sometimes we are not strict enough when it comes to this. We are not careful enough. Sometimes we do not make good choices of the kind of people that get involved with these elements because the enemy will try to hit us as much as possible in this field, steal our technologies, steal our brains also. 22. I believe that we require the same things of a scientist that we require of a soldier or specialist; that is, solid ideological training and an unconditional loyalty to the revolution and the nation. What you said is important not only from a scientific- technical point of view, it is important from a political, moral, revolutionary point of view. I personally agree 100 percent with what you have said. [applause] -END-

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