They were even talking about a nuclear reactor that was out of
control. Hours later, it was informed that four nuclear plants
close to the most affected area were under control. There was
also information about a tsunami 10 metres high that had the
entire Pacific area on tidal wave alert.
The earthquake originated at a depth of 24.4 kilometres and 100
kilometres from the coast. Had it happened at a lesser depth and
distance, the consequences would have been more serious.
There was a shift in the earth’s axis. It was the third
phenomenon of great intensity occurring in less than two years:
Haiti, Chile and Japan. Man cannot be blamed for such tragedies.
Every country, surely, will do everything it can to help the
hard-working people who were the first to suffer an unnecessary
and inhuman nuclear attack.
According to Spain’s Official College of Geologists, the energy
released by the earthquake is equivalent to 200 million tons of
dynamite.
The most recent information, from AFP, states that the Japanese
electric Company, Tokyo Electric Power, informed that according
to government instructions, they had released some of the vapour
containing radioactive substances...
“We are following the situation. Until the present there is no
problem...”
“They also indicated that there were breakdowns related to the
cooling of three reactors in a second nearby plant, Fukushima 2.
“The government ordered the evacuation of surrounding areas for
a radius of 10 km in the case of the first plant and 3 km in the
case of the second one.”
Another earthquake, a political one and potentially more
serious, is the one taking place around Libya, and it affects
every country, one way or the other.
The drama that country is living through is in full swing and
its outcome is still
uncertain.
A great hubbub broke out yesterday in the US Senate when James
Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, stated before the
Armed Services Committee that he didn’t believe Gaddafi had any
intention of leaving; because of evidence at their disposal, it
seems that he is “in this for the long haul”.
He added that Gaddafi has two brigades that “are very loyal”.
He pointed out that the air attacks carried out by the army
loyal to Gaddafi “mainly” caused damages on buildings and
infrastructure rather than civilian casualties.
Lt. Gen. Ronald Burgess, Director of the Defence Intelligence
Agency, at the same hearing before the Senate, said that it
seemed Gaddafi had staying power unless some other dynamic
changes at this time.
“The opportunity the rebels had at the start of the popular
uprising has ‘begun to
change’, he assured.
I have no doubt whatsoever that Gaddafi and the Libyan leaders
committed an error in trusting Bush and NATO, as it can be
inferred from what I wrote in my Reflection on the 9th.
Nor do I doubt the intentions of the United States and NATO to
intervene militarily in Libya and abort the revolutionary wave
shaking the Arab world.
Countries that are opposing NATO intervention and defending the
idea of a political
solution without foreign intervention harbour the conviction
that the Libyan patriots shall defend their Homeland until their
dying breath.
Fidel Castro Ruz
March 11, 2011
10:12 p.m.
