Frustration and hatred toward
the Cuban nation

BY DEISY FRANCIS MEXIDOR —Granma daily staff writer

A calm reigns in Cuba, which is upsetting a small group of extreme-right wing dinosaurs in the United States and particularly in Miami. The badly named "transition" for Cuba is a word that is not part of the vocabulary of Cubans over here in the island. For us today’s news is of working more and better to fulfill our commitment to Fidel. In the face of the frustrated hopes against our nation, the treachery and the threats, we are rising up united in a tireless battle.

Innumerable messages wishing the President a rapid recovery continue arriving in the country; their common denominator is the desire for his good health and for him to take care of himself, while there in that city in the south of Florida they are still exacerbating hatred.

Yesterday George W. Bush made inadmissible statements in which he demonstrated his perennial ignorance. He said that these are times of uncertainty here, and that the United States is totally committed to backing desires for a democratic Cuba. What uncertainty could he be referring to? That was one of the questions addressed on last night’s Cuban television Roundtable that analyzed the empire’s new aggressive plans against our people.

The program referred to a meeting of "five pillars who went to the White House"—read Cuban-American Congress members— and who asked the National Security Council for more broadcasting hours for Radio and TV Martí, with the objective of destabilizing and provoking the Cuban nation.

Details of this meeting have not been made public. Could it be that they spoke of the Bush Plan secret paragraph against Cuba? "Hopefully they’re still dreaming, hopefully it won’t occur to them to embark on any new adventure, for here every Cuban is a warrior," specialists affirmed.

It was also noted that, for its part, the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) has urged civilian and military uprisings on the island and are inviting the Cuban army to stage a coup. "This is the clearest evidence that they don’t know anything about our nation," program guests concluded.

The Roundtable announced that certain extreme-right representatives have tried to promote laws or bills to accelerate the handover to internal mercenaries of the $80 million proposed in the Bush Plan.

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