From: "Macdonald Stainsby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 22:22:32 -0700
To: "Leninist International" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [L-I] Fw: U.S. renews Cold War on Cuba
New York Times. 16 May 2001. Helms and Lieberman Seek to Aid Dissidents
in Cuba. EXcerpts.
WASHINGTON, May 15 Seeking to shift the United States' policy toward
Cuba, two influential senators, backed by the largest Cuban exile lobby,
will introduce legislation on Wednesday to send $100 million in aid to
government critics and [so-called] independent workers in Cuba during
the next four years, Congressional officials said.
The bill's sponsors, Senator Jesse Helms, the Republican chairman of the
Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, Democrat
of Connecticut, say their goal is to provide government opponents in
Cuba with the tools they need to subsist and continue their work.
The legislation would authorize the president to send cash, food,
medicine, telephones, fax machines and other items [most likely weapons]
to [so-called] nongovernmental groups in Cuba, which would then
distribute the aid. The plan would mark the first effort by the United
States to provide direct support for Cuba's internal opposition, though
advocates did not say how they would overcome obstacles that its
government is certain to erect.
... Supporters of the legislation said they were modeling their approach
on American support for the Solidarity movement in Poland in the 1980's.
The bill, titled the Cuban Solidarity Act of 2001, is the first major
legislative proposal by hard-line critics of Mr. Castro in five years.
In a statement prepared for delivery on Wednesday, Mr. Helms said the
United States must seek out new tools beyond the four-decade-old
American trade ban to end President Fidel Castro's "stranglehold" on the
Cuban people. "With enactment of this legislation the United States
government will move beyond merely isolating the Castro regime," the
statement said. "Indeed we can undermine Castro's isolation."
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