China sells 620 buses to Cuba

[Judi Lynn]

China sells 620 buses to Cuba
HAVANA, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- A Chinese bus manufacturer will export 630 buses to Cuba, Beijing's state-owned Xinhua media group said Tuesday.

The deal with Zhengzhou-based Yutong Bus Co. Ltd. entails 430 "end products" and assembly parts for another 200 buses, and is worth nearly $50 million.

Cuba's Astro Bus will take delivery of the vehicles in January.

Financing for the deal was enabled by the Beijing Branch of China National Aero-technology Import and Export Corp.
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http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/article_1055726.php/China_sells_620_buses_to_Cuba

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Several years ago a Caribbean island, like Jamaica, or some other, had agreed to sell Cuba it's used buses as it was getting new ones.

_Bush's ambassador to that island, and whoever was working at the State Department, either Otto Reich or Roger Noriega, who made a special trip to the island to put the fear of God in them, both leaned on the authorities, warned them it wouldn't go well for them if they made the sale, and the sale was voided, leaving Cuba to make do with their home-made buses, "camelos," which are free to the public, but a little awkward.



camelo!

[CottonBear]

1. I like the pink paint job! I hope the new buses can run on bio-diesel.

Cuba is a leader in the use of alternative energy like solar and also reuses and recycles many products.

[afdip]

2. should have sold them to new orleans

[peacetalksforall]

3. Love it! Environment friendly mass transportation. Hey, China! We

need buses also.

[anotherdrew]

4. these busses are really mobile missle lauchers! invade now!

just wait for it, they'll be saying this in no time

[Mika]

5. In 1964 the CIA sunk a ship delivering busses British busses to Cuba

Any shipper is treading dangerous waters when doing business agin' the USA's wishes.


http://members.aol.com/bblum6/cuba.htm

One manufacturer who defied the embargo was the British Leyland
Company, which sold a large number of buses to Cuba in 1964.
Repeated expressions of criticism and protest by Washington
officials and Congressmen failed to stem deliveries of some of
the buses. Then, in October, an East German cargo ship carrying
another 42 buses to Cuba collided in thick fog with a Japanese
vessel in the Thames. The Japanese ship was able to continue on,
but the cargo ship was beached on its side; the buses would have
to be "written off", said the Leyland company. In the leading
British newspapers it was just an accident story.{16} In the
New York Times it was not even reported. A decade was to
pass before the American columnist Jack Anderson disclosed that
his CIA and National Security Agency sources had confirmed that
the collision had been arranged by the CIA with the cooperation
of British intelligence.{17} Subsequently, another CIA officer
stated that he was skeptical about the collision story, although
admitting that "it is true that we were sabotaging the Leyland
buses going to Cuba from England, and that was pretty sensitive
business."{18}

[Judi Lynn]

6. Thanks for the link. It contains a ton of worthwhile info.

Going to look it over closely later tonight when I have some more time. Really appreciate getting a chance to read this.

By the way, I had NO idea that bus event happened, among the other vicious things the U.S. has done to Cuba. Very, very crude and ugly.

[Mika]

7. Here's more links you'll like..

http://www.letcubalive.org/TERRFACT.htm

http://mediastudy.com/articles/av5-23-02.html

http://www.blackpoolandfyldecsc.org.uk/archive/ar41.html

http://www.blackpoolandfyldecsc.org.uk/



Enjoy. ;)

[Warren Stupidity]

8. Busses to Cuba? Its War! EOM.

[BayCityProgressive]

9. Socialist Solidarity is strong

after the soviet bloc collapsed China gave Cuba 15,000 bicycles, and Vietnam suplied them with pencils and paper for their schools. Laos sent food aid. That's why in Cuba many stores are named after Vietnamese cities like Hanoi. Also, China & Cuba are partnering their state owned medical businesses to develope cancer vaccines right now.