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Cuba dissidents oppose Bush`s crackdown
Havana, Oct 19: Cuban dissidents rejected US President George Bush`s tough new moves against Cuba, saying that tightened travel restrictions and propaganda won`t make things better.
Havana, Oct 19: Cuban dissidents rejected US President George
Bush's tough new moves against Cuba, saying that tightened travel
restrictions and propaganda won't make things better.
''These measures neither help the Cuban people nor do they help in creating true political change,'' said five small social democratic opposition groups in a declaration. Cuba must find its own pathway, they said yesterday.
Bush's stepped up pressure represented the ''persistent false course'' of North America's Cuba policy, the statement said.
Earlier this month, Bush announced that the US would tighten its enforcement of a travel ban to Cuba, boost the dissemination of information and open new doors for Cubans to emigrate to the US.
Bush also set up a committee for assistance to a free Cuba to plan for Cuba's transition from ''Stalinist rule to a free and open society''.
Political opposition groups are banned in Cuba. In April, 75 dissidents were sentenced to an average of 20 years in jail.
Most dissidents in Cuba reject the US trade embargo against the Caribbean island because it gives Fidel Castro's communist government an excuse to maintain its iron grip on power.
Bureau Report
''These measures neither help the Cuban people nor do they help in creating true political change,'' said five small social democratic opposition groups in a declaration. Cuba must find its own pathway, they said yesterday.
Bush's stepped up pressure represented the ''persistent false course'' of North America's Cuba policy, the statement said.
Earlier this month, Bush announced that the US would tighten its enforcement of a travel ban to Cuba, boost the dissemination of information and open new doors for Cubans to emigrate to the US.
Bush also set up a committee for assistance to a free Cuba to plan for Cuba's transition from ''Stalinist rule to a free and open society''.
Political opposition groups are banned in Cuba. In April, 75 dissidents were sentenced to an average of 20 years in jail.
Most dissidents in Cuba reject the US trade embargo against the Caribbean island because it gives Fidel Castro's communist government an excuse to maintain its iron grip on power.
Bureau Report