| From: | "Karen Lee Wald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |
| Subject: | Height of Hypocrisy : Bush lashes Cuba before Latin America trip |
| Date: | Wed, 20 Mar 2002 22:08:01 -0800 |
Don't you just HATE hypocrisy? Anyone have a short summary of the worst abuses in Central and Latin America during 1976, when George Sr. was director of the CIA (everything from the bombing of the Cuban airliner to the assassination of Letelier and Moffitt in DC and the dirty war in Argentina, to name a few) and his subsequent years as Reagan's VP, and other US-sponsored and supported gross violations of human rights in the hemisphere (to keep it short)???Send it to me if you an compile such a list...
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Karen Lee Wald
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Subject: Bush lashes Cuba before Latin America trip
Copyright 2002 Agence France Presse
Agence France Presse
HEADLINE: Bush lashes Cuba before Latin America trip
DATELINE: WASHINGTON, March 20
President George W. Bush condemned Cuba as "an incredibly repressive regime," and urged UN condemnation of the regime in Havana as he prepared for a three-nation visit to Latin America.
Asked whether he would urge voting against Cuba in meetings of the UN Commission on Human Rights, from which Washington was dropped last year, Bush replied: "I wouldn't say voting against."
"I'm just going to remind the Human Rights Commission to remember that Cuba is an incredibly repressive regime. It's the one non-democratic government" in the Western Hemisphere, he told a roundtable of Latin American reporters here Tuesday.
"They put people in prison if they don't agree with you .... there's no rule of law there. It's the rule of one person. He's been there for a long period of time and, unfortunately, the people of that country are suffering as a result of him," he added.
"So it's a vote for liberty and freedom, and that's something (Cuban President Fidel) Castro doesn't believe in," said the US leader.
Bush leaves for the region Thursday on a trip that will take him to Monterrey, Mexico, for a UN development conference; Lima, for meetings with Andean leaders; and San Salvador, where he hopes to push his free trade agenda with Central American leaders.
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights opened its annual six-week session in Geneva on Monday with the United States participating only as an observer for the first time in its 56-year history.
As an observer, Washington will not be entitled to vote nor present resolutions or proposals at the March 18 to April 26 meetings, leaving a question mark over traditional attempts to condemn China and Cuba among others.
The loss of the seat last year, which US officials privately blamed on European nations' insistence on backing themselves in the election, rankled the nascent Bush administration as well as Congress, which threatened to condition payment of US arrears to the United Nations on re-election.
"We continue to have very strong interest in human rights in Cuba," spokesman Richard Boucher said recently. "We have a strong interest in human rights in China. We'll watch that carefully, that situation."
However, a European diplomatic source in Geneva said on Thursday that the EU would not sponsor a resolution condemning either China or Cuba.
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