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| Pjgg78 | Feb 18 2013, 02:04 PM Post #1 |
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![]() I would like to personally welcome Mr. Raul Castro and the Cuban Delegation to Brazil and the city of Rio de Janeiro, it is with great pleasure that we host this meeting. It is our hope that in this meeting we can discuss matters of mutual benefits to both our nations in such areas as trade and security and increase bilateral trade, aid and cooperation in the aforementioned areas between Brazil and Cuba. We also hope that the spirit of mutual aid, cooperation and solidarity that both our governments are aiming to achieve through this meeting at a bilateral level may be achieved at a wider multilateral level in Latin America in the future. |
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| Patria O Muerte | Feb 18 2013, 06:38 PM Post #2 |
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![]() Raul Castro - President of Cuba Thank you very much madame president, I am honored to be held in one of the most beautiful and historic cities in the Americas! This city in fact, is also the new birthplace of a civil change for the working people of your nation, and represents the bright, and just future of Brazil among their latino brothers and sisters. I would like to speak to you today on Cuba's future booming agricultural industry; as you may have seen, our recent revamping and modernization of our agriculture will provide a massive potential to increase our traditional exports. Indeed, Cuban sugar cane, as common as blades of grass on our island are of particular importance to us, with our interest being specifically to promote a new ethanol industry in order to offset our dependence on gasoline and costly oil. Ethanol we have found, can also power our thermo-electric power-plants rather than burning conventional oil. Brazil is a world leader in alternative fuels and both of our nations would have much to gain from creating refineries in Cuba, both for domestic and international export within the hemisphere and outside our peripheries. I would also like to speak to Brazil if they would like to become an observer nation in ALBA, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America? And lastly, Cuba would like to increase cooperation with Brazil in defense matters, for we too must contend with would-be smugglers attempting to ship narcotics, people, and other illegal substances through our territorial waters. Indeed the only other alternative at this point, would be for America to suddenly stop demanding cocaine and marijuana; yet, it appears that will not stop any time soon. Cuba has recently begun restructuring it's military to be suited towards a permanent self-defense role, and also to utilize our best soldiers for an international assistance and peacekeeping cadre. It is therefore our sincere wish to help Brazil in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. Our close proximity to Haiti, coupled with our continuous efforts in sending aid and humanitarian personnel to the Haitian people only demands that we too take up our equal share of the international responsibility in assisting a lasting peace, and institutional groundwork to continue proper governance on the island. |
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| Pjgg78 | Feb 19 2013, 01:18 PM Post #3 |
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Thank you for your kind words Mr. President. Indeed Brazil is very committed in growing and developing not only economically but more important socially as well, In the last 2 decades we have been able to remove several millions of Brazilians from poverty and made significant advancements to drastically reduce crime and corruption, however there's still much work to be done. Brazil has one of the most modern and the largest agricultural industry in Latin America and in fact we have been world leaders in alternative fuels for several years, particularly in ethanol fuel. Most Latin American countries have a very favorable climate for sugar cane culture which is the source of ethanol fuel. That puts Latin America in an excellent position to become the main world source of ethanol production. Indeed the dependence from oil is a problem, oil will disappear from our planet in a few decades and ethanol is a great alternative to reduce oil dependence eventually replace it as the main fuel source. taking all these factors into account we agree that it would be of mutual benefit to our nations a Brazilian investment in sugar cane and ethanol production in Cuba and we are willing to make such an investment and share our expertise in the area. Brazil is honored by your invitation to become an observer in ALBA and it is with great pleasure that we accept your invitation. Brazil is also undergoing an extensive military modernization and retrofitting program, without well trained and well equipped Armed Forces capable of efficiently ensure and enforce national security and sovereignty all the investment made in growth and development is at risk. We know very well what is dealing with all kinds of criminals that you have mentioned as we to deal with them on an almost daily basis, specially in the most remote areas of our nation like the Amazon Rainforest. Our jungle patrols comprised of highly trained and very specialized soldiers, that are widely regarded as the best jungle warfare forces in the world and trained in the Jungle Warfare Training Center in Manaus which is also widely regarded as the best in the world, face them in real combat with intense shootouts occurring very frequently. We have also been very committed to humanitarian and peacekeeping missions and we have a nearly 20 years operational experience in several different countries and with different in this kind of noble and rewarding missions. We will gladly cooperate with Cuba in security issues, we are willing to provide military training courses to your forces in several areas such as jungle warfare and humanitarian and peacekeeping missions and we would integrate such forces into the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. |
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| Patria O Muerte | Feb 19 2013, 04:04 PM Post #4 |
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On the first order of business, Cuba would welcome contingents of the Brazilian navy and airforce to come visit the island to conduct joint exercises with us and Venezuela in the upcoming new year. This inaugural exercise will be under the overall command of the Venezuelan navy, next year the Cuban airforce will be responsible for command and control. We would hope to add brazil into this exercise as an overall commander in coming years to come as well. Secondly, we would like to discuss the size and scope of Brazil's investment in dual ownership ethanol distilling refineries. We would also like a small baggase raw-extraction facility to be built in Haiti to aid their nation's economic recovery. And lastly, would Brazil be willing to make a contribution of aid in either pesos or equipment towards the AEBC? |
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| Pjgg78 | Feb 20 2013, 09:52 AM Post #5 |
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Brazil would be honored to participate in such an exercise so we are available to send our carrier task group to join this exercise next year. The bagasse raw extraction facility in Haiti is an excellent idea and would be an important contribution to Haiti's economic recovery. Regarding our investment in the ethanol infrastructure we will have to take into account the total cost of the project and how much Cuba is able to spend and we are willing to cover the rest. What kind of equipment does AEBC require? |
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| Patria O Muerte | Feb 20 2013, 11:44 AM Post #6 |
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Primarily flexfuel engines, semi-modern dry-goods carriers (semi-trucks), construction equipment and materials for making raised concrete beds for urban farms. Primarily though, Brazilian experts would be of greatest aid. |
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| Pjgg78 | Feb 20 2013, 12:47 PM Post #7 |
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We shall send a team, or more if needed, of experts, and i think we can also contribute equipments that you've mentioned. |
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| Patria O Muerte | Feb 20 2013, 02:42 PM Post #8 |
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Excellent news Madame president! Cuba would also like to inquire upon the possible purchase and re-launch of Brazil's MBT program; I speak specifically of the Osorio. Cuba's aging T-55's and T-62's require a more modern replacement as the cost of maintaining such ancient vehicles is exceeding their worth. |
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| Pjgg78 | Feb 21 2013, 09:32 AM Post #9 |
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It was a project from 1982 and despite it entering competition against the best of that era, including the M1 Abrahams, and stood its ground against them it didn't enter production. Now it is an outdated project, however it does provide an excellent base and could easily be modified and updated to a modern state of the art main battle tank. Taking into account Cuba's interest in the project and Brazil's need for a replacement for our current main battle tanks in the future we could restart this project. |
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| Patria O Muerte | Feb 21 2013, 10:13 AM Post #10 |
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I don't believe it's neccesary to scrap the original concept, in fact as we see with many nations, keeping older models still serves a need for fire support elements with maneuver capabilities. I do believe an updated model would be an extremely lucrative idea for South America. I've been in talks with Venezuela on proposals for a Latin American Standard MBT, much in the manner the Leopard series has achieved success in Europe. Cuba would be willing to provide engineering assistance through our many technical universities whilst also willing to sign on as a junior partner. I believe Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia and Nicaragua would also be extremely interested in replacing their aging Soviet, French, and American MBT systems. Alba is currently in talks to discuss creating a supranational budget, for humanitarian, economic and military matters in accordance to GDP PPP, therefore members pay equal shares. Cuba will also be ready at the beginning of 2014 to send two battalions of newly trained light infantry jungle warfare forces. While all our troops are trained to fight in our terrains, these 1000 men and women are to be especially employed in anti-drug capacities, particularly to aid Ecuador and Venezuela in their interdiction missions. Edited by Patria O Muerte, Feb 21 2013, 10:18 AM.
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