Followup to a story posted a couple of weeks back...
Saturday, July 30, 2005
HAVANA, Cuba (AFP): Cuban dissidents called the naming of a US coordinator for a Cuban transition to democracy an interference in domestic affairs.
"Any transition in Cuba is for Cubans to define, lead, organize and coordinate," said Oswaldo Paya, leader of the Christian Liberation Movement and promoter of the Varela Project, which circulated a petition seeking democracy in Cuba.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Thursday the appointment of Caleb McCarry as US Cuba transition coordinator, tasked with helping speed Cuban President Fidel Castro's downfall.
Other dissident groups that opposed the appointment on the same grounds were the Progressive Arch and the Cuban Human Rights and National Reconciliation Commission, all of which are illegal, but tolerated by the Communist regime.
"It is inappropriate," said Elizardo Sanchez of the commission.
"I have no doubt about the good intentions of those who made this decision, but it will allow the Cuban government to raise the specter of foreign interference in the internal affairs of our country," he said.
"This appointment ... constitutes an attack on our national sovereignty," said Manuel Cuesta Morua, spokesman for the Progressive Arch.
"At the same time it is humiliating -- an attempt to substitute our ability to determine what should or should not happen in Cuba," he said.
However, the appointment was applauded in Miami, Florida, among anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami, in the state of Florida, governed by US President George W. Bush's brother, Jeb Bush
From Caribbean net news online:
http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/2005/07/30/reject.shtml
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