US risks losing the plot over Cuba

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The US devotes an estimated $36-million a year in trying to take down the Cuban government. 40+ years of a bottomless pit of money and they haven't suceeded. LOL

Viva Cuba!!

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Unrelenting United States pressure on Cuba, set to ratchet up again at next week's United Nations Human Rights Commission meeting in Geneva, is testing relations between the Bush administration and a new generation of centre-left Latin American leaders.

As it has done each year since the early 1990s, the US will urge the commission to adopt a resolution condemning Cuba's human rights record. And Cuban officials predict that the US will again use “arm-twisting and threats" to get its way.

Republican attacks on President Fidel Castro's communist government intensified during last year's US election campaign. The Treasury Secretary, John Snow, tightened the 42-year-old embargo and vowed to “bring an end to ruthless and brutal dictatorship".

But US President George W Bush's victory has not eased the pressure. A Republican-led congressional committee gave a platform to Cuban dissidents last week to publicise Cuba's “atrocious'' behaviour. Porter Goss, the CIA chief, recently described Cuba as a source of regional instability.

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