Castro government blasts Bush's new policies

President Fidel Castro

Tuesday, October 14, 2003

HAVANA, Cuba: U.S. President George W. Bush's newly toughened policies towards Cuba has come under fierce criticism from the Fidel Castro government. 

"Cuba again denounces these new provocations and aggressions by the neofascist American government," the island's leadership said in an editorial published in the Communist Party daily Granma yesterday. It blamed the new policies on a measure to placate anti-Castro Cuban exiles inorder to win their votes.

Cuba said the measures have an "electoral stink" showing "the unlimited commitment of the American government to the extreme right and its obsession with destroying the Cuban revolution's example."

The editorial also stated that the measures will especially hurt American citizens as rules are tightened to bar most U.S. travel to the island.

President Bush announced on Friday, 10th October, that the United States would tighten restrictions against the island, including new limits on American tourism, and would allow more Cubans to emigrate to the United States. He also called for a commission to plan for the day Fidel Castro's rule ends.

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