Castro targets White House during revolution anniversary speech

[truthpusher]

http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/world/12229973.htm

Posted on Tue, Jul. 26, 2005
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Castro targets White House during revolution anniversary speech
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BY VANESSA BAUZA
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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HAVANA - (KRT) - President Fidel Castro commemorated the 52nd anniversary of his revolution by taking aim at his nemesis, the Bush administration, and bitterly accusing it of financing and promoting recent anti-government dissident demonstrations.

Castro, addressing an auditorium full of Communist Party leaders and handpicked supporters, called the top U.S. diplomat in Havana a "grotesque character" and sternly warned that future protests planned by Cuba's dissidents will be thwarted "as many times as necessary." His warning referred to two demonstrations this month in which dozens of dissidents were detained after clashes with government supporters.

Dressed in his military uniform, Castro, who turns 79 next month, used much of his speech to promise improvements in Cuba's decayed infrastructure. Many of the island's 11 million residents are plagued by frequent power outages and are struggling to recover from a bruising hurricane earlier this month.

Responding to widespread discontent over the island's dilapidated electrical grid, Castro said the government has invested $282 million in equipment and material to improve outdated power plants. He predicted Cuba's electrical output would double by the end of the year.

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complete story: http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/world/12229973.htm

[guajira]

1. He's right about the B* WH organizing and financing anti-Cuba

activities in Cuba. This is what happens when we allow Miami to run our US/Cuba foreign relations.

B* likes to talk about freedom, but we Americans do not have the freedom to travel 90 miles to a peaceful, friendly Caribbean Island. My hope is that B* gets impeached, then serves time for war crimes.

[Mika]

2. Not even a mention that a hurricane destroyed the elec. grid..

.. only mentioning the blackouts - without ANY context whatsoever.

Typical US brainwashing media.

:puke:

[Judi Lynn]

3. Louisiana Builds Bridge to Cuba

July 27, 2005

Louisiana Builds Bridge to Cuba
The state's governor is spearheading an effort to foster partnerships with the communist nation for current and future export deals.

By Dana Calvo, Special to The Times


BATON ROUGE, La. — In March, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco took a trip to the Caribbean and returned with an unusual souvenir: a $15-million deal for state agricultural exports to Cuba, a small-but-growing trade partner.

Blanco, accompanied by three dozen businesspeople and port executives, was only the fourth U.S. governor to visit the communist-run island nation since the United States began restricting trade in 1960 in an attempt to oust President Fidel Castro.
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Hannah Haring traveled with Blanco for Louisiana Pride Catfish, a Wisner, La., company founded by Haring's grandfather. The visit produced no immediate deals for the catfish producer because its products are expensive by Cuban standards. But Haring said she hoped that an eventual lifting of the embargo could mean boom times if free-spending tourists return to Cuban resorts.

"I think we'd be in," she said, thanks to business relationships she established with Cuban buyers.

Mobile, Ala., has maintained a sister-city relationship with Havana since the 1980s, and the possibility of future shipments to Cuba's capital is one reason Alabama recently invested $80 million to transform Mobile's harbor into a container port and has earmarked an additional $400 million for that purpose.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-cubatrade27jul27,0,7736739.story?coll=la-home-business
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