The event was organized by the UN Cuban Association and attended by representatives from 138 non-governmental organizations that, in their final declarations, termed President George W. Bush s government genocidal.
About 10 panels deliberated and presented papers on several aspects of this issue, and there were speeches on the economic, trade and financial siege against Cuba.
Presbyterian Pablo Oden Marichal talked of the several attempts by the US Interest Office in Havana to manipulate religious organizations.
"Yoruba" Cultural Association president Antonio Castaneda accused Washington of abusing visa authorization to travel to Cuba.
Writer Enrique Ubieta criticized US rejection of Cuban humanitarian aid in other countries.
The panel and Tubal Paez, president of the Union of Journalists of Cuba, denounced illegal activities of those media used to violate the local radio-electronic space with subversive propaganda.
Others analyzed suffering and damage caused to Cuban women, while doctor Olga Miranda talked on the Bush Plan s intention of returning nationalized properties to transnational companies to satisfy the Florida-based counter-revolution.
Historian and writer Fabian Escalante, Union of Writers and Artists representative Jesus Arboleya and other panelists discussed the dangerous Bush Plan s secret annex and its real significance.
According to information and declassified documents, the CIA planned from 1958 to 2000 about 634 projects to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro.
Participants commented on how today it is evident they want to use the same strategy against Venezuelan statesman Hugo Chavez and Bolivia s Evo Morales. (Cubaminrex-PL).