Rice urges Cubans not to flee homeland

Aug 4, 2006

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday urged the Cuban people not to flee the island for Florida because of political uncertainty.

In brief remarks aired by U.S. government broadcast operations to the island, Rice promised the Cuban people humanitarian assistance when they begin "to chart a new course" after long years of communist rule.

"We encourage the people of Cuba to work at home for positive change," Rice said, signaling that the United States would not favor a mass exodus of the kind that Cubans undertook in 1980 and 1994.

Rice made the same point in an interview Friday with David Gregory on NBC's "Hardball."

"Clearly we believe that Cubans should stay in Cuba and be a part of what will be a transition to democracy," she said.

Her remarks to the Cuban people were aired on the heavily jammed TV Marti and Radio Marti. They came four days after the official announcement in Havana that President Fidel Castro was relinquishing power to his brother, Raul, because of an intestinal illness.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CUBA?SITE=FLPET&SECTION=HOME


See now that settles it. :sarcasm:

pssst...don't look now, Condi, but the ME is burning.

no other reason at all.

I'll take Raul over Condi any day!

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Our way or the highway

Dat's de USA way . . . .

(sigh)

distract.

It just kills me the way she keeps making these ridiculous statements. AS IF THE US WITH THE * ADMIN HAS ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT OTHER COUNTRIES AND WHAT GOES ON THERE!

Fleee fleee run run Castro dying things going fubar the rapture is here.
The sky is falling.

Condi so sick
Look at US carefully as it goes in a deep spin.
Man this all look like CARTOON.

Like to hear this program.

Looks like it is a one way ride down hill.

http://rms01.cites.uiuc.edu/ramgen/will/archives/mediamatters060730.rm

It is the July 30 program.

http://www.will.uiuc.edu/am/mediamatters/default.htm

:rofl:

:hug:

Me brain cramp much with information.

Sorry hard to retain more

Need to look at data really like only keep good data

Always use garbage can to trash bad data.

Who you? :rofl:

But the world will move on whether you see it or not.

Bye.

Reality is a Bitch

Jeckel and Hyde are with you. No. Yes!

:hug:

Got any covert yet.

Do not give up keep trying :rofl:

them Cubans don't seem to be fleeing or planning to. So's I was just wonderin'...
HAVE YOU NOTICED THE ENTIRE MIDDLE EAST IS ON FIRE?????????????????
As I say, just wonderin".........

in the future, when you are "free", you may not leave.

funny logic, these pnac-ers

Oh, really? Is it a Ouija board that's driving this comment, or are the plans already drawn up?

The Cubans already have their own transition/succession plan, and last I read, they weren't asking Condi or Chimpy for advice, or for their opinions.

I can see why other countries might want to say no thanks.

to say such stupid thing. What a fucking c...

And this is out Secretary of State??

... Journalists on state-controlled television derided the President’s message, joking that his list of those who oppose his plans for Cuba would be extremely long. “The only way to apply the Bush plan for regime change is by force,” said Rogelio Polance, the editor of Juventud Rebelde, the Communist Party youth newspaper ...

On Thursday, Granma, the Cuban Communist Party newspaper, reprinted an old speech by Raúl in which he suggested that control would pass directly to the party — and not to himself. The newspaper’s editor said in a television debate that the extract conveyed the idea that “the historic substitute for leadership is the party”. However, Cuban state media has also been busy trying to burnish the image of Raúl, who is not well liked ...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2299546,00.html

By Carl Mortished

... As speculation mounts over Cuba’s leadership in the post- Fidel Castro era, a Spanish oil company is finishing a seismic survey in Cuban waters off the coast of Florida.



Repsol YPF is surveying the geology of some 3,000 sq km of seabed using three-dimensional seismic mapping technology. It is early days but in May Repsol signed a joint venture agreement with Norsk Hydro and ONGC, the Indian state oil company, to share the Spanish multinational’s licence over six blocks covering some 10,000 sq km.

While the Spanish firm joined forces with Norwegians and Indians, American legislators sparred in Congress over America’s enduring embargo against trading with its long-standing island enemy. In May, two Republicans, the Idaho Senator Larry Craig and Jeff Flake, a Congressman from Arizona, sponsored joint bills in the Senate and the House of Representatives that would allow US companies to explore for oil in Cuba.

The embargo, in place since 1961, has done nothing to loosen President Castro’s political grip but has cost America little in economic terms. That could change, with Senator Craig pointing to the presence of Chinese drilling rigs in Cuban waters. “China is trying to lock up resources around the world, and they are locking up resources in our own backyard where we can’t even compete and play ball,” he said ...

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2299551,00.html

Man this bitch is scary lookin'!!