U.S. Pressure on Cuba May Increase: Otto Reich views Castro as menace- One even said President Bush's first year in office was little more than an extension of Clinton era policies toward the island. It turns out, however, that the Bush team is just getting warmed up. One reason a more assertive policy may be in the offing was the installation in January of Cuban-born Otto J. Reich as the State Department's top official for Latin America. He joins other Cuban-Americans in key positions who, like Reich, have viewed Castro as a menace for years.
Cuba Calls U.S. LatAm Official Reich a 'Terrorist'--State TV aired a round-table discussion on Reich which was announced earlier Thursday by Cuba's ruling Communist Party, in a short communique on the front page of its daily Granma, as a discussion on "Otto Reich: a Terrorist in the U.S. Government." "Right from the start of his activities in such an important position, he has begun pouring out his sick and visceral hatred of the Cuban Revolution," the communique said of Reich, a Cuban-American known for his opposition to Castro.
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