Viaje al Exterior

The Caribbean, Africa, Asia, Europe and Canada, 1973

 

Guyana
Georgetown
 
September 2
 
•    Arrival at the Timehri airport.
•    Conversation with Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana, at a sugar plantation in Diamond.
•    Conversation with Arthur Cheng, President of Guyana, and Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister, at the Government’s House.
•    Conversation with Guyanese leaders at Guybau House, residence of the Cuban delegation.
•    Conversation with Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana, during the farewell reception hosted at the Government’s House.
•    Words pronounced at the ceremony where some gifts were presented to the Cuban delegation.
 
September 3
 

•    Words pronounced at the bauxite industry in Lynden.
•    Conversation with Forbes Burnham, Prime Minister of Guyana, and Vice-minister Alexander Reid at Guybau House.
•    Interview granted to Guyana’s radio network.
 
Trinidad and Tobago
Port of Spain
 

•    Arrival at Piarco’s airport.
•    Press conference offered at Hotel Bel Air, adjoining the airport terminal.
•    Conversation with the Prime Ministers of Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Barbados at Hotel Bel Air.
 
Republic of Guinea
Conakry

 
September 4

•    Arrival at Gbessia’s airport.
•    Words pronounced during a mass rally at the ‘September 28th’ Stadium.
 
Algeria
Algiers
 

•    Arrival at Dar El Beida’s airport.
•    Conversation with Houari Boumediene, President of Algeria, at the airport’s protocol lounge.
 
September 7

•    Speech delivered at the Fourth Non-Aligned Countries Summit.
 
September 9

•    During the Summit’s session Fidel announced the decision adopted by the Revolutionary Government of Cuba to break diplomatic relations with Israel.
•    Meetings with some Heads of State attending the Fourth Summit of Non-Aligned Countries, at Club des Pins.
 
Iraq
Baghdad
 
September 11

•    Arrival at Baghdad’s International Airport.
•    Fidel attended a dinner hosted by the President of Iraq, Ahmed Sassan Al-Bakr, together with members of the council of the Revolution’s Command, representatives of the Communist Party of Iraq, the Kurdish Democratic Party as well as some labor and people’s organizations of Iraq, at the Republic Palace.
 
India
New Delhi
 
September 11

•    Arrival at Palam’s airport.
•    Words pronounced at the dinner hosted in honor of the Cuban delegation by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, at the Ashoka Hotel.
 
Vietnam
Hanoi
 
September 12

•    Arrival at Hanoi’s airport.
•    Private talks held with Pham Van Dong, president of Vietnam, at Protocol House No. 1.
•    Fidel laid a wreath at the Martyr’s Monument.
•    Speech delivered during the reception hosted by the Party and the Government of Vietnam in his honor, at the Government Palace.
 
September 13
 

•    Visit to Ho Chi Minh’s home.
•    Official talks held with representatives of the government and the Workers’ Party of Vietnam at the Government’s Palace.
•    Visit to the Dien Bien Phu Museum.
•    Conversation with a group of Cubans during his visit to the Cuban Embassy.
 
South Vietnam
September 14
 

•    Arrival at Dong Hoi city.
•    A jeep-drive to Vinh Linh city.
•    A halt in the road to talk with a group of girls who were members of a construction brigade in their home town.
•    A stop by the aid post K-15 where the wounded at Quan Tri were assisted.
•    Talks held with Pham Van Dong and several  officers of the army of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, at Vinh Linh.
•    Speech delivered at Vinh Linh.
 
Quan Tri
September 15
 

•    Speech delivered at Hill No. 241.
•    Conversation with Vietnamese heroes over lunch at the Cam Lo district.
•    A halt made when crossing the Ben-Hai River, after a dramatic encounter with three children wounded by an explosion of a Yankee bomb.  Following instructions by Commander Fidel, the children were immediately assisted by the Cuban doctors.
•    A warm welcome at a mass rally in the ‘Heroic Unit’ Artillery Company of the city of Kgu Thuy.
 
Quang Binh
 
September 16
 

•    Speech delivered at the province of Quang Binh
 
Hanoi
 

•    Speech delivered during the farewell reception hosted at Hanoi’s Presidential Palace.
 
India
Calcutta
 
September 17

•    Words pronounced at Calcutta’s airport protocol lounge.
 
New Delhi
 

•    Short interview granted at New Delhi’s airport.
 
Czechoslovakia
Prague
 
September 17

•    Arrival at Prague’s airport
•    Words pronounced during a toast in honor of President Gustav Husak, at Prague’s airport.
•    Press conference granted to the Czech television, at Prague’s airport.
 
Canada
Toronto
 
September 18

•    Dialogue with the Governor
•    Interview to the press