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President Bush’s answer to Uruguay's President Jorge Batlle’s request that the U.S. ends the commercial embargo against Castro’s Cuba, the main center of international terrorism in this hemisphere, was very reassuring. We are witnessing, once more, the cowardice and lack of leadership of Latin American and European politicians when confronting the two great evils menacing the world today, the partnership of the Islamic terrorism and Fidel Castro’s terror network, we come to appreciate more deeply that we have in president Bush a man of integrity and principle who says what he believes and believes deeply what he says.

In the meanwhile, American Senators and Representatives are working against the clock to get the American taxpayers involved into financing Castro's economic imbroglio; "CUBA SEEKS DEBT RESTRUCTURE AS DLRS SCARCE-SOURCES", according to Reuters' Marc Frank who reported from Havana in February 22, 2002.

Cuba owes billions of dollars to countries that have been selling it food during the embargo. The country is rated a very high debt risk by Dun & Bradstreet of 131 countries reviewed, only five --- Angola, Congo, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe and Iraq --- are considered worse deadbeats.

"A number of European banks and trading companies, which rolled over short-term debt into medium-term debt in recent years…The communist-run island is not a member of the International Monetary Fund or any other multilateral lending institution, and has defaulted on long-term debt and interest payments since 1986.”

Are the American taxpayers willing to take over their shoulders the burden of propping up with our hard earned money a terrorist country whose leader just in May 2001 pledge to destroy us?