Much Ado About Muy Poco - Bush’s Cuba Policy Speech « Platicando

“President Bush’s Cuba policy speech today at the State Department was heavy on symbolism and light on new policy initiatives. Present on the same stage as Bush were the family members of several Cuban dissidents. The President promised to maintain the trade embargo, extended access to Cuba to foreign aid programs he knows Fidel Castro will reject and sketched the outlines of an “international multi-billion dollar Freedom Fund for Cuba” without specifying how much his Administration would chip in. As the President acknowledged, “Few issues have challenged [the State Department] — and our nation — longer than the situation in Cuba.””*

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