Posted on 07/16/2004 12:37:05 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
President Bush accused Cuba's Fidel Castro on Friday of welcoming sex tourism and contributing to a global problem of human trafficking, as he courted Cuban voters in Florida, a pivotal state in the election.
"The regime of Fidel Castro has turned Cuba into a major destination for sex tourism," Bush said, adding that the Cuban president "welcomes sex tourism" as a source of hard currency for his government.
Addressing a conference on human trafficking, Bush quoted Castro as saying that prostitutes in Havana were the cleanest and best educated in the world.
Bush said that comment was evidence that Havana was encouraging sex tourism. Castro praised Cuban prostitutes for having a college education in a documentary interview by the U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone.
Cuba's government, born of a revolution against a corrupt U.S.-backed dictatorship that allowed Mafia-run gaming and prostitution to thrive in Havana in the 1950's, strongly denies tolerating sex tourism. Police have cracked down on the trade.
The Department of Justice (news - web sites)-organized conference was aimed at touting the administration's efforts to crack down on the trafficking of people across borders for forced labor such as prostitution and sweatshop work.
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More biased propaganda from Reuters, the favorite of Al Qaeda terrorists everywhere, until they decide to blow themselves up.
(Hmmm..wonder if its related..)
At last someone is doing SOMETHING about the outsourcing of American jobs.
;^)
Oh my.
Run-on sentence alert.
It is Reuters, so you know this part is totally honest. (sarcasm now off)
No wonder the New Dems love Castro.
Hehehehehehehehe....
There's an Enzite (sp?) commercial in there somewhere.
Hard currency inserted into the soft, moist underbelly of the sulty Caribbean. Repeatedly.
It's about time our leaders pointed out that the moralistic swine on the Left are not only the biggest butchers in human history, but that all of their talk of "human rights" is a cover for ongoing oppression and brutality.
I'd always heard that we backed Castro until he turned commie. Is Reuters spinning again?
Correcto, my friend. And there is NOTHING "Reactionary" about you. Support for freedom and human rights is always the hallmark of a true progressive.
Castro had the support of the US until his deceit became obvious. Incidentally I have many Cuban friends (old guys related to my girlfriend) who were strong supporters of Castro, until they were totally, absolutely betrayed.
Agreed....If the administration is serious about fighting terrorism, it should not only do so in the Middle East, but 90 miles from our shores. Castro is a terrorist and tyrant and must be toppled..I am tired of reading the liberal media saying Bush is kowtowing to Miami's Cuban community. It was liberal weakness that got those to Cubans to Miami in the first place...However, the Cuban dissidents on the island have got to start fighting and tear down the Castro government from within!!!!
BTW, doesn't the Cuban commie propaganda machine's hystrionic denials on this matter sound EXACTLY like press releases from the Democrat National Committee.
I listen to Radio Havana almost every night and their newscasts and statements from Castro's government sound like releases from the Democratic National Committee!!!
I KNEW that rat party propaganda machine sounded familiar!
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