Posted on 03/07/2002 10:19:31 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
It turns out, however, that the Bush team is just getting warmed up. One reason a more assertive policy may be in the offing was the installation in January of Cuban-born Otto J. Reich as the State Department's top official for Latin America.
He joins other Cuban-Americans in key positions who, like Reich, have viewed Castro as a menace for years.
Shortly after Reich took office, the administration began a policy review of Cuba with a view toward determining Cuba's potential for damaging U.S. interests.
One issue under study, according to a senior official, is the role Washington says Cuba plays in international terrorism. Cuba is on the State Department terrorist country list, a designation based on ties Cuba maintains with other countries on the list, including Iraq, and the haven Cuba provides for foreigners linked to alleged terrorist organizations. [End Excerpt]
Bump!
This should go over well. Looks like somebody's gonna be cleaning up 10,000 bodies.
Would everyone please contact news programs and ask them to report on these Cubans.
If their attempt to get in Castro's face doesn't get coverage, these brave people truly will have died in vain.
Now - we can put down wagers as to when this story will make on Dan Castro-lover's news "show".
If only they had enough food the enemies of the people wouldn't have been able to trick them like this.
Hopefully Castro will end like Mussolini, strung up by his feet.
Thanks for the bump.
I applauded their actions, but I very much doubted any changes would come about. Although if this trend continues and more and more people start rejecting their government that could bring a revolution. That's the way I envision Castro and his regime of thugs would relinquish power. I don't think he'll do it from the goodness of his heart!
Castro frequently says his one-party communist system is more democratic than the Western model and denies the existence of political prisoners or repression of freedom of expression.
Castro is not a legitimate President. He is a petty dictator, the head of the only Party allowed to exist -- the Cuban Communist Party (PCC.) His sham elections of '93 and '98 were a futile exercise in deceit. People voted for him only because there wasn't anyone else to vote for. The Cuban Communist Party holds all the seats in the Assembly; no other parties are allowed. Castro's next sham election is going to be in 2003. This joke allows him to avoid indictment and any other criminal charges because he is acting as the "president," which he is not! He is and has been a tyrannical dictator since 1959.
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