Castro Rejects EU Sanctions, Calls Bush "Nazi-Fascist"

Reuters ^ | June 7, 2003

[nwrep]

Castro Rejects Europe's Diplomatic Sanctions; Calls Bush Admin. "Nazi-Fascist"

Sat June 07, 2003 02:06 PM ET

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro accused the European Union on Saturday of joining Washington in ganging up on Cuba after the EU cut back diplomatic and political ties in response to a crackdown on dissidents.

"We must all remain calm, because a gang, a mafia, has joined the Yankee imperialists ... disgracefully serving the Nazi-fascist government of the United States," he told some 7,000 people in a rally in a working-class suburb of Havana.

While Castro did not name the EU, the comments clearly referred to the EU's decision on Thursday to put diplomatic sanctions on Cuba.

That decision was made after the Cuban government put to death three ferry hijackers who were trying to make it to the United States and gave 75 dissidents and journalists jail terms of up to 28 years.

They had been accused of working with Washington to undermine the government of Castro, who has been in power since a 1959 revolution,

The EU decided unanimously to limit high-level government visits and to reduce the participation of its 15 member states in cultural events in Cuba. The EU also said it would invite Cuban dissidents to receptions celebrating European national days, which Cuban officials no longer attend.

Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque on Friday accused Brussels of bowing to pressure from the United States, Cuba's archenemy 90 miles across the Florida Straits.

But Diego Ojeda, spokesman for European External Affairs Commissioner Chris Patten, denied that the EU had been influenced by Washington and said that the Commission was just as critical of the United States for using the death penalty.

"The decision-making process is completely autonomous," he said. "When we sense a marked deterioration of the situation, we react accordingly."

On Castro's language, Ojeda said: "Those words speak for themselves."

The limited measures by the EU, Cuba's largest trading partner and foreign investor, came after the European Commission froze Cuba's request to join the Cotonou Agreement.

Joining the aid accord for former European colonies would have been a boon for Cuba, where poverty is widespread.

The crackdown on Castro's opponents and the execution of three men who hijacked a ferry came days after the EU opened an embassy in Havana.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Castro - The Stalin of the Caribbean

[Montfort]

"Neo-fascist."

Does Castro get the Democrat Party's daily fax?

[rvoitier]

Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will only hurt liberals.

[Arpege92]

This sounds like a possible "Documentary" in the making for Michael Mooreon!!!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

NEVER FORGET


...21st Century = The Century of FREEDOM...

...as our best Self-Defense in Time of War =

...President BUSH promising FREEDOM's Return to:


-Communist Cuba
-Communist Vietnam
-Communist North Korea


REPUBLICANS = The FREEDOM Party
DEMOCRATS = The Anti-FREEDOM Party


NEVER FORGET

[nerdwithamachinegun]

Maybe I'm a little shakey on history from my edumacation in a public school but isn't "Nazi" an acronym for "National Socialist"?

GWB may be spending more on big government but he's hardly a socialist.

I'd bet a dollar to a doughnut that Castro gets that daily fax in one form or another.

[nwrep]

Maybe I'm a little shakey on history from my edumacation in a public school

You are a little shaky on history. The name/slogans and the actions of the Nazis did not always match. Read any of the authoritative Nazi/Hitler biographies (such as the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer) to understand how much of Nazism was Socialism as we understand it and how much was Fascism.

You will be shocked to see the extraordinary complicity of big businesses and capitalists in the rise of Nazism, the utter disdain Hitler had for communists and socialists, as well as the reluctant inclusion of socialist slogans in Nazi propaganda as a means to lure the vast numbers of unemployed.

[DannyTN]

"Does Castro get the Democrat Party's daily fax? "

No he writes it!

[KneelBeforeZod]

HA! that moustache isn't fooling anyone.

[rottweiller_inc]

well lets just empty our over crowded prisons and send them to cuba. Castro is sure to think that fair.

[Willie Green]

"We must all remain calm, because a gang, a mafia, has joined the Yankee imperialists ... disgracefully serving the Nazi-fascist government of the United States," he told some 7,000 people in a rally in a working-class suburb of Havana.

Ol' Fidel is still living in the 20th Century.
He doesn't understand that Dubya has gone global.
There's nothing "national" about him whatsoever.

[Yardstick]

[Castro] told some 7,000 people in a rally in a working-class suburb of Havana.

What other sorts of suburbs are there in Havana? Isn't everyone a worker in Castro's paradise?

[risk]

...President BUSH promising FREEDOM's Return to:
-Communist Cuba
-Communist Vietnam
-Communist North Korea

One day!

[WOSG]

I'm with you on that ... see my sig...

[ALOHA RONNIE]

1 Day during a BUSH Presidency =

FREEDOM's Return to:


-Communist Cuba
-Communist Vietnam
-Communist North Korea


4-California Cities have just endorsed Vietnam's Flag of FREEDOM as the Official Flag for their Vietnamese-American Community's own Functions.

1. Westminster CA
2. Garden Grove CA
3. San Jose CA
4. Milpitas CA

When the same Proclamation was heard by the Democrat-Controlled California State Assembly's Rules Committee for adoption for all 400,000+ Vietnamese-Americans in the State...

All the Democrats voted "NO" and thus killed it twice..!!


NEVER FORGET this when you next go to the Polls to vote for Republicans ONLY.

[jjm2111]

In effect though, Nazism WAS socialism. I read Rise and Fall (great book, but garnered a lot of dirty looks on the train).

Workers were assigned positions and were not allowed to switch jobs w/out state permission. Individuals were not allowed to start businesses w/out state permission.

While Hitler WAS cotemptible of communists, his government had many socialistic aspects.

[Archimedes2000]

>>>>You will be shocked to see the extraordinary complicity of big businesses and capitalists in the rise of Nazism, <<<<

Interesting, since even Shirer states in the R&F of the 3rd Reich that this is not true.

>>>>the utter disdain Hitler had for communists and socialists, as well as the reluctant inclusion of socialist slogans in Nazi propaganda as a means to lure the vast numbers of unemployed.<<<<

Nonsense. Hitler's party included socialist slogans from the outset of the the party, because the Nazi's were, in fact, socialists. As for disdain of communists, this is also untrue.

"There is more that binds us to Bolshevism than separates us from it. "There is, above all, genuine revolutionary feeling, which is alive everywhere in Russia except where there are Jewish Marxists. I have always made allowance for this circumstance, and given orders that former Communists are to be admitted to the party at once. The petit bourgeois Social-Democrat and the trade-union boss will never make a National Socialist, but the Communist always will"

Adolph Hitler

[Guillermo]

You are correct, but trying to educate the "Hitler was a Communist" crowd is like beating your head against the wall.

The Nazi's despised left wingers, socialists and communists.

They also despised small businesses, banning them in the late 30's.

[Guillermo]

Yeah, uh, it's "Adolf."