Fidel Castro's Concerns about Food vs. Biofuel Widely Covered
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- Date: 31 Mar 2007 09:06:43 -0700
GUATEMALA CITY, March 30.- Fidel Castro's article published Wednesday
on the
danger posed to humanity by using food crops such as soybeans and corn
for
making fuel continues to receive widespread media coverage around the
world,
reported Prensa Latina.
Participants at the Third Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and
Nationalities meeting in Iximche, Guatemala, rejected the Bush
administration's initiative of using food, particularly corn, for
massive
fuel production.
"We have a long tradition as corn growers, and using corn to produce
fuel
would be a sacrilege, commercializing our heritage for the benefit of
the
big corporations," said Cesar Tahu, a Quiché Mayan.
In Managua, President Daniel Ortega agreed with his Cuban counterpart
saying
that large-scale production of ethanol as a fuel would jeopardize food
production.
In Ecuador, the major dailies El Universo, La Hora and Expreso, as
well as
several radio stations and web sites, featured the article written by
Fidel
Castro.
Likewise, in Bolivia, El Mundo, Correo del Sur and La Razon gave prime
space
to the ideas expressed by the Cuban leader on the use of biofuels for
automobiles.
In Vietnam, the Quan Doi Nhan Dan newspaper highlighted Fidel's
warning
about "the sinister idea of converting food into fuel." In Beijing,
the
digital press gave considerable space to the article published
originally in
Granma newspaper, in which the Cuban president warns that ethanol
production
threatens 3 billion people around the globe with hunger.
GRANMA
March 31, 2007
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