WORLD : Cuba Rejects Call for Plebiscite
A Cuban government official today dismissed as absurd a call by more than 100 intellectuals and entertainers worldwide for a plebiscite on President Fidel Castro’s rule.
“This referendum, or plebiscite, we did it 30 years ago and we have done it every day ever since,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Rolando Lopez del Amo said in reference to the January, 1959, triumph of the revolution. The signatories of an open letter to Castro, including film director Federico Fellini, writer Saul Bellow, actors Yves Montand and Jack Nicholson and novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, urged him to follow the example of Chile and let Cubans decide whether he should stay in power.
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