Cuba says Gov. Bush is urging an attack - On U.S. news show, Alarcón claims plot*** Appearing on ABC's This Week, Ricardo Alarcón, the leader of Cuba's National Assembly, said Florida's governor was urging President Bush to invade the island…………….. Alia Faraj, Gov. Bush's press secretary, said that the governor has not changed his views on Cuba. ''Gov. Bush has been very clear in his position that he does not condone Castro's repressive regime,'' she said, according to a report from The Associated Press. ``Americans should continue to show their support for the brave men and women who continue to seek change through continued support of an economic embargo and travel restrictions…………….. oe Garcia, spokesman for the Cuban American National Foundation, said Sunday that Alarcón's statements fit a pattern used in times of stress by the Castro government. ''This is a regime that for the last 44 years has been preparing for a U.S. invasion,'' Garcia said. ``Anytime they are suffering a crisis, they externalize it. It is someone else's fault -- the Miami mafia, the U.S. or puppet leaders in Latin America.''***
United States should deal with Cuba through third parties*** For three black Cubans who hijack a Havana ferry in a desperate attempt to reach U.S. shores, it's death by firing squad, but we don't hear a peep from civil-rights activist Jesse Jackson or any other black U.S. leaders who would normally cry racism. Cuba predictably blames its carnage on Uncle Sam. There are protests the world over, even from several of Castro's old commie friends. The U.S. government weighs its options. It expels 14 Cuban diplomats - a record - for spying. Round and round we go in this tit-for-tat diplomacy. Will Cuba kick out James Cason, our man in Havana?
Will the United States keep selling any Cuba assets that arrive on our shores? It's another subplot in this 44-year-old power play. The U.S. government has been auctioning off hijacked planes that arrive in Miami to pay a Cuban-American woman who, by court decree, is entitled to big bucks from the Cuban government for having been jilted by her husband, who turned out to be a Cuban spy who infiltrated exile groups. Talk about government policy wrapped in the wrath of a woman scorned.
Will there be another rafter crisis as Cuba's bankrupt communist economy continues to struggle? Will Cuba's dissident movement be revived after this latest crackdown? Will Europe and Latin America make Cuba accountable for its human-rights violations?***