U.S. Convenes Anti-Castro Panel

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday chaired the second session of a panel to "hasten and ease a democratic transition" in Cuba and spoke of change partly by denying the Castro government money and supplying the Cuban people with information.

Official U.S. policy is to undermine the planned succession in Cuba from President Fidel Castro, 79 and apparently ailing, to his 74-year-old brother, Raul. It has been left unclear how to bring that about, although Cuba has been under an economic embargo from the United States since 1961, two years after Castro took power.
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In a statement after the meeting, Rice noted that the panel was formed "to explore ways the U.S. can help hasten and ease a democratic transition in Cuba."

"Reconvening the commission at this time sends an important message to the people of Cuba, the current dictatorship and our friends and democratic allies," she said. That message is, she said: "After 46 years of cruel dictatorship, now is the time for change in Cuba."

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-cuba-transition,0,4949020.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

Seeing that she is a neo-con/Straussian toady, a proven liar, and a partner in instigating illegal wars killing thousands of people to get control of their oil, issues of ethics and morals would not be relevant.

LOL

SHE HAS NO MORALS

SHE IS A KILLER AND A WAR CRIMINAL

language......and tactics......of the cold war.

Cuba's Castro is a much better leader for his people than the Bush Bunch are for the US; I wonder what he could have done without sanctions!

Right now, Venezuela is paying for the poor of South America to have eye surgeries in Cuba. Fidel provides the expertise, Venezuela pays the shot.

I can't imagine Bush and his cabal worrying about the poor being able to see.

off the misery of foreigners, and they're probably not happy that misery will be alieviated in a way that doesn't make a buck for American corporations in the short term.

.. unless he became an eye surgeon recently. :) Its the Cuban Ministry of Health with funding allocated by the Cuban National Assembly (parliament) that have provided the means for the eye surgeries for the poor to be undertaken. It is Cuban Drs, nurses, assistants, techs, and all of the Cuban people who have provided the expertise.

Cuba does actually have a full and complete government infrastructure - elected too.

They don't actually want to get rid of Castro anymore than they actually want to ban abortion. They'd lose an issue that captures a demographic group that wouldn't otherwise support Republicans or their economic agendas.

Some sort of all-compassionate angel sent from abovea? Please.

We should put a millstone around Condi's neck and throw her over the site in which the USS Maine was sunk!

the Operation Northwoods plans could be pulled out, dusted off and with a little fine tuning will no doubt work just fine.

Bay of Pigs invasion this time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Pigs_Invasion

Hmmm...

trying to foul up the Cuban people's lives like they have done in Iraq. Is there no end to this insanity of illegaly interfering in other sovereign countries.