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...Haiti and Cuba are two of the countries under U.S. aid embargoes. This is completely unacceptable,” he said. “The primary problem is still money...
...Inside the Finlay, director Concepci?n Campa, a Politburo member, oversees an assembly line of vaccines for diseases such as hepatitis, tetanus and meningitis. When a meningitis epidemic hit the U.S. in the late '90s, the pharmaceutical giant Smith-Kline came calling - working around the softened U.S. economic embargo against Cuba - to buy a special vaccine that Campa herself had developed. Asked if Cuba had any bio-weapons research going on in its labs that Time couldn't see, Campa strongly denied it. "You see all this equipment we've imported, even for things as simple as conserving the low temperatures...
...impression left by these tours was that Cuba, even if it wanted to traffic bioterror, is too desperately strapped for cash to market anthrax instead of the more lucrative medicines for which countries such as Britain, Brazil - and the U.S. - have been buying up for millions of dollars in hard currency or medical and technical swaps in recent years...
...Cuba watchers agree that even Castro - a frustrated scientist who committed his communist revolution as much to medical research as sports prowess when he consolidated his power in the 1960s - probably wouldn't be foolish enough to compromise the credibility of labs like the CIGB and Finlay by allowing bio-weaponry to be produced in them. That doesn't mean, of course, that such research and production couldn't be going on. Cuba's advanced biological and chemical research capacity has long given the international community pause, especially after bioterrorism became such a broad concern after Sept. 11. "Cuba...
...Castro angrily denounced the charge as a "sinister" political move. And as Jimmy Carter pointed out on Monday during his visit to Cuba, the Bush Administration could give offer him no concrete evidence before he left that Cuba is developing bio-weapons. American politicians who advocate normalizing relations with Cuba say that the White House's accusation of Cuban bioterror, which came just a week before Carter's visit, is simply a means of appeasing anti-Castro Cuban-Americans whose votes carry weight for Bush - especially for his brother Jeb, who needs them to win a second term as Florida...