Viaje al Exterior

South Africa, Namibia and Brazil, 1998

 

Brazil
 
Salvador de Bahia
 
August 31
•    Arrival at Salvador de Bahia airport.
•    Conversation with Antonio Carlos Magalhaes, President of the Brazilian Senate.
•    Meeting with members of the movement in solidarity with Cuba who belong to the Bahia-Cuba Cultural Institute, at the Othon Palace Hotel.
•    Meeting with Zezeu Ribeiro, candidate by the Socialist Workers Party to the government of Bahia and some trade union leaders at the Othon Palace Hotel.
 
Namibia
 
September 1st

•    Interview to the press at Namibia’s airport.
•    Conversation with Sam Nujoma, President of Namibia, at  Namibia’s airport.
 
South Africa
Durban
 

•    Arrival at Durban’s International Airport.
•    Conversation with Andres Pastrana, President of Colombia, at the Hilton Hotel.
•    Conversation with Yasser Arafat, President of Palestine, at the Hilton Hotel.
•    Conversation with Mohammad Khattami, President of Iran.
•    Conversation with Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Prime Minister of India, at the Hilton Hotel.
 
September 2

•    Speech delivered at the opening session of the Twelfth Summit of the Non-Aligned Countries Movement.
•    Exchange with Nelson Mandela, President of South Africa, during the opening session of the Twelfth Summit of the Non-Aligned Countries Movement.
•    Speech delivered during the first working session of the Twelfth Summit of the Non-Aligned Countries Movement.
 
September 3

•    Closing ceremony of the Twelfth Summit of the Non-Aligned Countries Movement at the Conference Center.
•    Conversation with Jose Eduardo Dos Santos, President of Angola.
•    Conversation with Omar Hassan Admed Al-Bashir, President of Sudan.
•    Conversation with Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe.
•    Fidel starts an official visit to South Africa at the invitation of Nelson Mandela after the conclusion of the Twelfth Summit of the Non-Aligned Countries Movement.
 
Cape Town
 
September 4

•    Speech delivered at the South African Parliament.
•    Speech delivered in the ceremony where he was awarded the Order of Good Hope, Grand Class, Grand Cross.
•    Tour around the maximum security prison where Nelson Mandela remained incarcerated in Robben Island.
•    Words pronounced at the official dinner hosted in his honor in Nederburg Estate.
 
Pretoria
 
September 5

•    Meeting with the groups in solidarity with Cuba at the Cape Grace Hotel.
•    Tour around the township of Soweto, a former black ghetto in South Africa.
•    Speech delivered at the Hector Peterson Memorial, the first child killed in the Soweto massacre in 1976.
•    Exchange with the photographer who captured the images of the apartheid regime in the ghetto of Soweto.
•    Conversation with Thabo Mbeki, Vice President of South Africa.
•    Meeting with health technicians and professionals who offer their services in South Africa.
 
Brazil
Brasilia
 

•    Arrival at Brasilia’s airport.
•    Interview to the press at Brasilia’s airport.
•    Conversation with Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of Brazil.