[NYTr] Bush's Threats Against Cuba Condemned Worldwide

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Bush's Threats Against Cuba Condemned Worldwide

Havana, Oct 26 (acn) General Secretary of the Venezuelan Workers Union, 
Orlando Chirino voiced in Caracas his strong rejection to the anti-Cuba 
speech pronounced by US President Bush on Wednesday and said if Cuba 
were attacked it would receive the unconditional support of Venezuela 
in defense of its people and revolution.

Chirino said that the US policy towards Cuba on this occasion seems 
desperate, and as a result of its defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan, 
reports Granma newspaper.

In the Dominican Republic, the Regional Coordinator for Solidarity with 
Cuba said the island is not alone. A similar stance was taken by the 
Cuba Solidarity Campaign of Great Britain and MPs from that country. 
The organization issued a press release underlying that Bush left open 
the possibility of a direct aggression against Cuba; an act it says 
will find Latin America and the world alongside the revolution.

 From Luanda, the Angola-Cuba Friendship Association called the US 
president out of line in his statements. "Bush is rowing against the 
tide," said Fernando Jaime, the group's secretary general, who noted 
that Angola will always support Cuba.

Other pronouncements in support of Cuba and rejecting Bush's threats 
came from the Broad Front Party of Costa Rica, the Communist 
Refoundation Party of Puerto Rico and the Uruguayan Coordinator of 
Solidarity with the Cuban revolution. The groups spoke out against the 
US blockade on the island and other forms of aggression.

The Communist Party of Spain called Bush's speech "one more affront to 
international law" and called on the European governments to respond to 
"this clear act of interference."

The international press highlighted the new attacks against Cuba from 
President Bush and the immediate response from Cuban Foreign Minister 
Felipe Perez Roque.

The Peruvian daily La Primera said that "Cuba is an obsession for 
Bush." Likewise, the main Mexican newspapers, like La Jornada, and 
important Argentinean papers including Clarin and Pagina 12, allotted 
space for Cuba's response to the new hostility from George W. Bush.