President Bush is pushing for the overthrow of Fidel Castro, the dictator of Communist Cuba.
WASHINGTON - Eager to please a key Florida constituency, President Bush directed his secretary of state and his Cuban-born housing secretary Friday to recommend ways to achieve a transition to democracy in Cuba after 44 years under Fidel Castro.Secretary of State Colin Powell and Housing Secretary Mel Martinez will chair a panel that will “plan for the happy day when Castro’s regime is no more and democracy comes to the island,” Bush said during a Rose Garden ceremony.
“The transition to freedom will present many challenges to the Cuban people and to America, and we will be prepared,” the president said.
Bush also said the United States would step up enforcement of existing restrictions against the communist regime, such as a ban on tourism by Americans, and crack down on the trafficking of women and children in Cuba. The United States also will launch a public outreach campaign to identify “the many routes to safe and legal entry” for Cubans who try to flee their homeland, he said.
“We’ll increase the number of new Cuban immigrants we welcome every year,” Bush added. “We are free to do so, and we will for the good of those who seek freedom.”
I am happy to see that President Bush is taking a stance against a tyrannical dictator.
Now if only our government would take the same condemning stance against EVERY dictatorship of the world, we would be a whole lot better off.
