Fidel Castro - PUBLIC OPINION CAMPAIGN lyrics

(Excerpts) Caracas--Replying to a journalist who asked him how he thought it was possible to end the dictatorial regimes of presidents Trujillo, Somoza, and Stroessner, Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro said at the press conference at the Cuban emba**y in Caracas that in his opinion it would be enough to have an understanding among the free Latin American nations and to organize a public opinion campaign. "It is with this idea in mind," Fidel Castro added, "that I am putting before the Venezuelan Congress the idea of a democratic bloc of the Latin American nations." Questioned about the new Cuban Government's intentions regarding relations with the United States, Fidel Castro declared that for the time being he did not see anything that might change the excellent relations between Cuba and the United States. About the executions of war criminals which were labeled "summary" in some countries, the Cuban leader said that all those who thus far had been shot had first been tried by normally constituted tribunals, and that if in several instances the executions may have seemed hasty it was because the guilt of the defendants had been abundantly proved by those who had been tortured or by relatives of those who had been a**a**inated. Finally, asked why he had sent a cable to Cuba banning the televising of the war crimes trials, the Cuban revolutionary leader said that he had made this decision to prevent the later showing of these debates for purposes of propaganda against the Cuban revolution. -END-