Castro challenges Bush for area hearts and minds
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Cuban President Fidel Castro on Sunday scoffed at Bush administration efforts to ease social problems in Latin America, boasting his poor country could run circles around the United States in health and education aid.
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Putting an end to nearly five decades of animosity between Cuba and its ideological foe the United States depends entirely on Washington, Cuban leader Fidel Castro said in an editorial published on Monday.
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NEWPORT, R.I., June 28 -- President Bush on Thursday openly anticipated the death of ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro, picturing it as an opportunity to bring freedom to the Caribbean island after nearly half a century of iron-fisted rule by the fiery communist leader.
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Cuba's ailing leader, Fidel Castro, says he does not want to 'cling' to power
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President Bush insisted this afternoon that the confrontational U.S. approach to Cuba will endure until there is a change in its communist government and challenged the rest of the world to support efforts to bring democracy to the island nation.
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Convalescing Cuban leader Fidel Castro accused President George W. Bush on Friday of planning to deceive Pope Benedict over the war in Iraq.
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HAVANA - After Fidel Castro's first TV interview in three months, some Cubans said the ailing leader appeared healthier than he has in a long time. But in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood, people greeted the new video with skepticism.
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Two devastating hurricanes have given President Bush something his political advisers couldn't dream up: the chance to play comforter in chief in a battleground state he is determined to win again.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush issued a stern warning yesterday that the United States will not accept a political transition in Cuba in which power merely shifts from one Castro brother to another rather than to the Cuban people.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush, seizing on Fidel Castro's fading health as a chance for rare change, will ask other nations today to help Cuba become a free society one day by committing money and political capital to the cause.
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The Bush administration proposed Friday that Cubans hold a referendum to decide if they want to be ruled by Raul Castro, who is acting leader of the communist nation while brother Fidel recovers from surgery.
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An essay signed by Fidel Castro criticized President Bush on Friday for asking Asia-Pacific leaders to cooperate in a new framework on climate change that could compete with other international efforts.
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Taking up Raul Castro's invitation to speak their minds without fear of reprisal, more Cubans have begun publicly complaining and challenging government policies on everything from limits on Internet access to travel restrictions.
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President Bush will be committed during his second term to the "liberation of Cuba" by extending moral and political support to the Cuban people, a top State Department official said Friday.
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NEWPORT, R.I., June 28 -- President Bush openly anticipated the death of ailing Cuban President Fidel Castro today, picturing it as an opportunity to bring freedom to the Caribbean island after nearly a half century of iron-fisted rule by the fiery Communist leader.
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The largest delegation from the U.S. Congress to visit Cuba since 1959 arrived in Havana on Friday seeking to open a dialogue with the communist government of acting President Raul Castro despite White House opposition to such contacts.
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President Bush, seizing on Fidel Castro's fading health as a chance for rare change, will ask other nations Wednesday to help Cuba become a free society one day by committing money and political capital to the cause.