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WASHINGTON - President Bush, ever pushing for a Cuba without Fidel Castro, wants allies around the world to offer money and political support so the island can be ready to transform itself. It is Bush's vision for Cuban regime change: providing help on the outside, prodding change on the inside. Seizing on Castro's fading health as a rare opening, Bush was to ask other nations Wednesday to help Cuba become a free society. In remarks prepared for delivery at the State Department — his first standalone address on Cuba in four years — Bush looks to the day when Castro...

FORT LAUDERDALE, United States (AFP) - President George W. Bush slammed Cuba for being the only country in Latin America without democracy, but vowed that "the tide of freedom" would one day reach the communist island. "Only one country in this hemisphere sits outside this society of democratic nations, but one day the tide of freedom will reach Cuba's shores as well," Bush said in a speech before the Organization of American States' general assembly here. The United States has had an embargo against Cuba for more than 40 years, and the Bush administration has tightened sanctions on travel and...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush will be committed during his second term to the ``liberation of Cuba'' by extending moral and political support to the Cuban people, a top State Department official said Friday. Roger Noriega, who heads the department's Latin American bureau, also said that once Fidel Castro is no longer in power, the United States is ready to support broad economic and political reform in Cuba ``to ensure that vestiges of the regime don't hold on.'' Noriega noted that Washington has a blueprint for providing social, economic and other types of assistance to Cuba in the post-Castro era....

WASHINGTON — President Bush on Thursday marked Cuban Independence Day (search) by reaffirming his support for democracy in the communist country ruled by Fidel Castro (search). "We stand firmly with the 11 million Cubans who still suffer under the repressive Castro dictatorship and who dream of a prosperous and free future," Bush said in a statement. "The United States is working for the day when a free Cuba will rejoin the community of democracies in the Americas," he said on the 102nd anniversary of Cuban independence from Spain (search). A year ago, Bush voiced solidarity with Cubans in a radio...

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- Cuban President Fidel Castro launched an immense anti-American protest on Friday with denunciations and ridicule of President Bush, saying the U.S. leader was fraudulently elected and trying to impose "world tyranny." The Cuban leader led a sea of Cubans past the U.S. diplomatic mission here on the oceanfront Malecon Boulevard in a demonstration organized by the communist government against new U.S. measures aimed at squeezing the island's economy and pushing out Castro. The crowd chanted "Free Cuba! Fascist Bush!" Castro said the march was "an act of indignant protest and a denunciation of the brutal, merciless...

The following is an editorial reflecting the views of the United States Government:The Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba has issued its report. It makes clear the objectives of U.S. policy toward Fidel Castro’s Communist regime. The Commission was set up in October and comes after Castro’s brutal March 2003 crackdown that resulted in long prison terms for seventy-five Cuban dissidents and members of civil society. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell says that the U.S. hopes that the release of the report will encourage “nations across the globe [to] better support the efforts of the Cuban people to...

Piatkowski For Congress Republican Candidate For the House of Representatives 13th Congressional District More about Richard W. Piatkowski Piatkowski Condemns Castro’s Institutionalized Terror Against the Cuban People Congressional Candidate Supports President Bush’s Initiative for a New Cuba For Release Immediate: 05/12/04 Contact:Anthony Olszewski 201-795-0909 201-798-2085 Concerning the condemning of three Cuban dissidents to prison, Castro’s latest offense in a seemingly infinite series of crimes, Richard Piatkowski, Republican candidate for the House of Representatives, 13th Congressional District, today issued the following statement:“That hopeless despot Fidel, last tyrant of the Americas, continues to block the road to Democracy for the Cuban...