U-S official says U-S seeks Cuba's 'liberation'
WASHINGTON The top man at the State Department's Latin America bureau says President Bush is committed to the "liberation of Cuba" by giving moral and political support to the Cuban people. In a speech, Roger Noriega also said the U-S has a post-Castro plan for providing social, economic and other types of assistance to Cuba. The assistance is conditioned, in part, on whether Cuba is on a democratic path.
Noriega said the Cuban people need to start thinking about Castro's mortality as well as their own lives.
Noriega said the transition to the post-Castro era is essentially under way, and he cited the 78-year-old Castro's recent fall, when he broke an arm and a knee.
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