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USA - CUBA CONNECTION - ADM
FREEDOM IS NOT FREE
ELIAN' FATE WAS DECIDED IN THE FALL OF 1995 BY DWAYNE O. ANDREAS CHAIRMAN OF
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND COMPANY AND FIDEL CASTRO OVER DINNER IN NEW YORK
CITY.
ARCHER DANIEL' MIDLAND SHAREHOLDERS
WATCH COMMITTEE
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ADM & CUBA
10-95 Dwayne Andreas and Fidel Caastro meet for dinner in New York City and
discuss ADM investing in Cuba.
Source: Washington Post Sunday Magazine 7-14-96
7-14-96 Dwayne Andreas announces he is going down to Cuba to see Castro. He
states, "It'll be sugar out, cooking oil in." He says he wants to build a
refinery in Cuba but will do it through a spanish subsidiary because of the
trade embargo.
Source: Washington Post Sunday Magazine 7-14-96
1997 Spanish Company Alfisca invests $65 million dollars in Cuba for
construction of a refinery for th production of alcohol from molasses.
Source: University of Florida Institute of Food and Agriculture Sciences,
Food and Resources Economics Department, Gainsville, FL 32611 Publication
IW98-7
10-8-99 Martin Andreas, senior vice president, said Archer Daniels Midland
would consider constructing a vegetable oil plant in Cuba if the market were
open.
Source: Decatur Herald & Review October 9, 1999
1-25-2000 Archer Daniels Midland sponsors U.S. Healthcare Exhibition in
Havana and has the largest display and sends the most people.
Source: Decatur Herald & Review, Paul Brinkmann Reporter.
1-27-2000 Humberto Cabezas head of International Relations for the Cuba
Ministry of Food said: "Archer Daniels Midland is not our competitor we
should cooperate"
Source: Decatur Herald & Review January 27, 2000
1-27-2000 The Cuban government is moving torward consideration of a
joint-venture-type relationship with Archer Daniels Midland Company for
distribution of soybeans and agriculture products in Cuba and possible
exports of Cuban products to other nations.
Source: Decatur Herald & Review 2-13-2000.
2-13-2000 Archer Daniels Midland plans for another trade exhibition in
Havana in December of this year.
Source: Decatur Herald & Review 2-13-2000
ILLINOIS-BASED ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND & THE STATE OF ILLINOIS & CUBA
5-4-99 Ron Warfield, President of the Illinois Farm Bureau, was part of the
American Far Bureau delegation that visited Havana, Cuba from May 4 through
May 8, 1999. The Farm Bureau has been carrying water for Archer Daniels
Midland for years.
Source: Illinois Farm Bureau and Decatur Herald & Review October 20, 1999
10-8-99 Remirez de Estenoz, chief of the Cuban Interests Sections visits the
board room of Archer Daniels Midland. He also visits the Governor of
Illinois and spoke at the University of Illinois.
Source: Decatur Herald & Review October 9, 1999
10-19-99 Governor Ryan of Illinois announces a 5-day trip to Cuba. G. Allen
Andreas, Chief Executive Officer, and Richard Reising, Senior Vice President
of Archer Daniels Midland will also accompany the governor on the trip to
Cuba.
Source: Decatur Herald & Review October 31, 1999
10-19-99 Governor George Ryan of Illinois in Cuba and speaks at Havana
University.
Source: Decatur Herald & Review October 31, 1999
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND, CONGRESSWOMAN MAXINE WATERS & CUBA
1-19-99 Fidel Castro entertains for six hours the U.S. Congressional Black
Caucus led by Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA). Also in attendance were
Congresswomen Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Julie Carson
(D-IN) and Congressmen Gregory Meeks (D-NY) and Earl Hilliardof (D-AL).
Source: AFROCUBAWEB
1-21-2000 In Havana for the U.S. Healthcare Exhibition Rep. Maxine Waters
(D-CA) relays purpose for visiting Cuba and reiterates position on Elian
Gonzales: "My purpose here has nothing to do with Elian's situation. My
position has not changed, he should be returned to his father"
Source: Maxine Waters Press Release 1-21-2000
1-25-2000 Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Barbara Lee (D-CA) attend opening
ceremony of U.S. Health Exhibition in Havana, and Congresswoman Maxine
Waters cuts the ribbon for the opening of the Archer Daniels Midland
sponsored fair.
Source: Decatur Herald & Review 1-26-2000
1-26-2000 Meeting in Miami of Elian and grandmothers held at Barry
University president Sister O'Laughlin's home. Dwayne Andreas is a large
donor to Barry University, and his wife earned a degree at Barry and is past
Chairman of the Board of Trustees. James B. Lieber author of "Rats In The
Grain" said, "There are strong
Archer Daniels Midland connections in all of this."
Source: The London Financial Times January 28, 2000
1-27-2000 Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) and Barbara Lee (D-CA) meet with Juan
Miguel in Havana.
Source: Maxine Waters Press Release January 27, 2000
1-28-2000 Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) holds meeting to convey support for
Elian's grandmothers' cause.
Source: Maxine Waters Press Release January 28, 2000
2-13-2000 Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) promises to set up symposium of American
Companies in Washington, DC to push for end of embargo.
Source: Decatur Herald & Review February 13, 2000
2-17-2000 Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said she was catapulted into action on
this case, because she is the descendant of slaves whose families were
destroyed by slavery. Waters said families should not be separated by
governmental bureaucracy or by anyone else.
Source: Maxine Waters Press Release February 17, 2000
3-21-2000 rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) urges Attorney General Janet Reno to
exercise her authority, stop this madness and return Elian to his father,
his relatives and his schoolmates in Cuba immediately.
Source: Maxine Waters Press Release March 21, 2000
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND, NATIONAL COUNCIL OF CHURCHES & MAXINE WATERS.
1996 Dwayne Andreas donates $1 million to the council's "Burned Churches
Fund". the Shareholders Watch Committee cannot confirm that any black
churches were built with this money. But in 1997 the AFROCUBAWEB was
established.
Source:Mark Tooley Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, DC
1998 Dwayne Andreas donated $200,000 to the National Council of Churches.
Source: Mark Tooley Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, DC
10-11-99 Andrew Young, Archer Daniels Midland boardmember and committee
member of the public policy committee at Archer Daniels Midland is installed
as President of the National Council of Churches.
Source: Methodist News Feature, Tel 212-870-3803
10-11-99 Dwayne Andreas donates $100,000 to United Council of Churches. At
the time Andreas explained he was an old friend of Joan Brown Campbell, the
outgoing general secretary.
Source: Mark Tooley Institute on Religion and Democracy in Washington, DC
10-12-99 Robert Edgar elected General Secretary of National Council of
Churches. Edgar and Young worked together in Congress and look forward to
working together at the National Concil of Churches.
Sources: Methodist News Feature November 12, 1999
1-6-2000 Rep. Maxine Waters (D-DC) Supports National Council of Churches of
the USA's role in the return of Elian Gonzales to the Cuba Council of
Churches to be then turned over to Juan Gonzales.
Source: Maxine Waters Press release January 6, 2000
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND AND WILLIAMS & CONNOLLY LAWYER GREGORY CRAIG
REPRESENTING JUAN M. GONZALES,
3-20-2000 In a letter to Gregory Craig March 20, 2000 we asked Craig if
Archer Daniels Midland was paying his legal bills. We received no answer,
and his secretary said he would call back which he never did.
3-28-2000 Gregory Craig told Diane Sawyer in an interview that we have been
trying to get the family in Miami to cooperate for over three months. When
did he go to work for Juan Miguel Gonzales?
Source: Sawyer Interview 3-28-2000
5-7-2000 In a conversation with Ms. Middleworth of Church of te Society
David Hoech of Archer Daniels Midland Shareholders Watch Committee got
confirmation from Middleworth that Dwayne & Inez Andreas donated $10,000 to
the legal fund for Juan M. Gonzales (on type). Claudia Madding who has been
Dwayne Andreas' secretary, close friend and also a corporate officer at
Archer Daniel's Midland has told reporters that Dwayne and Inez didn't
donate the money. Ms. Middleworth did not lie, but Claudia did. They would
lie, because as James Lieber, author of: "Rats In The Rain" said, "There are
strong Archer Daniel's Midland connections in all of this".
ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND'S POWER OVER THE PRESS
5-12-2000 Paul Brinkmann reporter of the Decatur Herald & Review is removed
from covering Archer Daniels Midland Company. he was the first to break the
story of the company's involvement in Elian Gonzales's fate (Decatur herald
& review 1-27-2000) exposing Andrew young's connection to the United Council
of Churches. He was going to run a column about the company's extended
connections in Elian's saga, but it never made the paper.
Source: Conversations between Brinkmann and Hoech
1-28-2000 Nancy Dunne of the London Financial Times has never returned calls
or e-mails after we supplied her with the information and sources to do her
story "Boy at heart of a bitter Cuba political struggle." We hope she didn't
get to much flack.
IS ELIAN GONZALES ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND'S SUGAR BABY?
The company needs to get control of the sugar as Archer Daniels Midland's
biggest profit comes from high fructoe corn syrup. Andreas' nephew Martin is
on FBI tapes telling Mark Whitacre that Uncle Dwayne would do anything for
money, and he meant anything. the company is rotten from top to bottom, and
Dwayne Andreas' creed of greed has left many victims in his wake. Poor Elian
is one of many!
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