Weekly Report - 14 October 2003
CUBA: Bush creates `post-Castro' unit
Announcements focus on tightening the embargo; dissidents within Cuba don't see them bringing about much change.
Leaders of Cuba's opposition dismissed as domestic US electioneering a speech by President George Bush Jr on 10 October in which he restated his administration's hardline stance on Cuba and announced the creation of a commission `to plan for the happy day when Castro's régime is no more.'
Key excerpts of what Bush portrayed as `new initiatives intended to hasten the arrival of a new, free Cuba':
Leaders of Cuba's opposition dismissed as domestic US electioneering a speech by President George Bush Jr on 10 October in which he restated his administration's hardline stance on Cuba and announced the creation of a commission `to plan for the happy day when Castro's régime is no more.'
Key excerpts of what Bush portrayed as `new initiatives intended to hasten the arrival of a new, free Cuba':
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