Mass anti- American march in Cuba

[madmax]

Mass anti- American march in Cuba

'Free Cuba! Fascist Bush!'
Friday, May 14, 2004 Posted: 12:19 PM EDT (1619 GMT)

'Protesters hold a poster portraying Bush as Hitler and a Nazi swastika.

HAVANA, Cuba (AP) -- Cuban President Fidel Castro launched an immense anti-American protest on Friday with denunciations and ridicule of President Bush, saying the U.S. leader was fraudulently elected and trying to impose "world tyranny."

The Cuban leader led a sea of Cubans past the U.S. diplomatic mission here on the oceanfront Malecon Boulevard in a demonstration organized by the communist government against new U.S. measures aimed at squeezing the island's economy and pushing out Castro.

The crowd chanted "Free Cuba! Fascist Bush!"

Castro said the march was "an act of indignant protest and a denunciation of the brutal, merciless and cruel measures" announced last week by Bush to tighten the 44-year U.S. embargo on the island.

The 77-year-old Castro, dressed in his usual green military uniform and field cap, appeared to walk with difficulty, favoring a leg, as he led the march for about 800 yards, sometimes waving a small flag before getting into a waiting car and leaving'

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/americas/05/14/cuba.us.march.ap/index.html

It's amazing that Castro can walk freely amongst his people while bush* needs so much protection even in his own country.

[catzies]

1. There's an American Embassy in Havana?

I didn't know that.

[bigbillhaywood]

5. Diplomatic mission, but not an embassy. nt

[karabekian]

2. /shrug

"an act of indignant protest and a denunciation of the brutal, merciless and cruel measures"

kettle meet pot

I wonder what the disidents who were jailed by Castro for 20-30 years think about this?

[donsu]

3. hardly

nt

[bigbillhaywood]

4. Question: if you had the world's superpower, only 90 miles off your

coastline, supporting dissidents, trying to foment counterrevolution and topple your government for the last 45 years, making several assasination attempts on your life, and trying to restore the corrupt American corporate puppets that helped the US rape Cuba for decades, what would you do with the dissidents? Let them do whatever they want and wait for the US-sponsored counterrevolution?

I don't support Castro's dictatorial power. I oppose all dictatorships, no matter how benevolent. But there are certain objective material conditions that must be recognized to put Castro's human rights abuses in perspective. The US may have to worry about terrorist attacks, but it doesn't have to worry about a foreign power toppling the government and exploiting the people. Bush does not have these excuses.

[bigbillhaywood]

6. This looks more to be an anti-Bush rally than an anti-American rally, I

guess AP likes to equate the two.