Chronicle on Cuba - October 2006

Security

October 8: Speaking at the closing session of the Fourth Congress of the Jose Marti Pioneers Organization, Raul Castro said that they [the US] should not be mistaken with this small country home to an honourable and peaceful people, "If they pick a fight with us they will met by a potent olive-green force (…) We want the best for our people, but they want the worst." Raul Castro announced that a military parade would take place in Havana on December 2, to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Revolutionary Armed Forces, during which a display of the army’s modernized weapons systems would take place. He also said that another military parade would take place on November 30 in Santiago de Cuba, on occasion of the 50th anniversary of the uprising of that city in support of the landing of the revolutionary forces of the Granma yacht. (Granma, 10/10/06)