Panel Seeks Steps for Cuba Regime Change (fuck bush)

We are trying to IraqNam Cuba. i don't want these Evil fucks in Miami to be backed by the us and seize control. Shit. i hope they are prepared millitarily now, castro is up there in age. Maybe a pact with Venuzuela would help. Shit times like this i wish the ussr was still there, so they non agression pact would still stand. The us hates the fact that cuba is surviving wdespite the blockcade. If it was lifted the people would inch towards prosperity. It's okay America will get theres, this nation is a bunch of greedy fucks. Fuck you Bush. I've posted a quote from castro followed by the article.

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There were times when we were swimming in a sea of circulating money. Our national currency experienced an extraordinary devaluation, and the budget deficit reached 35% of our gross domestic product. I could see intelligent visitors almost faint from shock. Our peso, the national currency, dropped to a value of 150 to the dollar in 1994. In spite of this, we did not close down a single health care centre, a single school or daycare centre, a single university, or a single sports facility. Nobody was fired and left on his own without employment or social security, even when fuel and raw materials were most scarce. There was not even a trace of the customary and hideous shock policies so highly recommended by the Western financial institutions.

Every measure adopted to confront the terrible blow was discussed not only in the National Assembly, but also in hundreds of thousands of assemblies held in factories, centres of production and services, trade unions, universities, secondary schools and farmers', women's and neighbours' organisations as well as other social groups. What little was available, we distributed as equitably as possible. Pessimism was overcome both inside the country and outside.

During those critical years, the number of doctors was doubled, and the quality of education was improved. The value of the Cuban peso increased sevenfold, from 150 to the dollar to 20 to the dollar, between 1994 and 1998, and has since remained consistently stable. Not a single dollar fled the country. We acquired experience and efficiency on a par with the immense challenge facing us. Although we have still not reached the production and consumption levels we had before the demise of socialism in Europe, we have gradually recovered at a steady and visible pace. Our education, health and social security rates, as well as many other social features, which were the pride of our country, have been preserved, and some have even been improved.

The great hero in this feat has been the people, who have made tremendous sacrifices and offered immense trust. It was the fruit of justice and of the ideas sowed throughout over 30 years of revolution. This genuine miracle would have been impossible without unity and without socialism.

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=589&ncid=734&e=3&u=/ap/20040503/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/us_cuba

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WASHINGTON - A government commission is recommending to President Bush (news - web sites) a series of measures to cut U.S. dollar flows to Cuba as part of a broader policy to hasten the end of the country's communist system, an administration official said Sunday night.


A commission report, in preparation for six months and overseen by Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites), also calls for steps to overcome Cuban jamming of U.S.-government sponsored radio and television broadcasts to Cuba, the official said.


The official, asking not to be identified in advance of the report's public release, said it urges increased support for Cuban dissidents and families of political prisoners and also calls for measures to encourage foreign governments to distance themselves from the Cuban regime.


Last October, Bush announced the creation of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba and set a May 1 deadline for completion of a report. The concept and the timing appeared to be linked to maintaining in the November elections the solid support Bush received in 2000 from Cuban-Americans in Florida. Without their backing, the election would have gone to Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites).

fuck these assholes!

for the Cuban people! I think many other people from all over the world would be there too. Cuba is a beautiful and much loved country and I think B* would be toast if he tried to destroy it!

what's odd is i am a novelist so i would resemble orwell and hemingway amongst others during the spanish revolution.

supported and applauded by many Americans and Europeans. I'm sure there will be those who will do the same if Castro is overthrown by the Bushistas. I'm sure the Pope would be very displeased, also, if Catholic adherants in Cuba were under duress.

"The AP reports that a U.S. Treasury Department office has assigned five times as many agents to investigate Cuban embargo violations as it has to track bin Laden's and Saddam's money." www.cursor.org

Not that I'm for invading them, not at all. But Castro has brought nothing but poverty and political political oppression to Cuba. He's a thief, a liar, and a murderer.

during the pre-Cuban revolution. It was a cesspool of crime, government repression, abject serfdom/poverty, widespread illiteracy, poor health care. Typical dictatorial abyss between the wealthy and the poor. Mush of that disease has diminished since the Cuban revolution and under Castro's leadership. Castro is a well educated man with idealistic precepts that an equitable life should be available for all Cubans. Your statement is indicative that you know little about Cuba and it's history.

Made it ok to steal peoples land? Imprison, torture, and murder any political opposition to this day? Ok eh?

I suggest you read about Cuba. Actually, I suggest you go down to South Florida and talk to some of the families, if you had the guts.