Cuba

February 19, 2008 - 11:39am

With Castro out, Sires hopeful of Cuba's future

By Max Pizarro
Tags: Albio Sires, Cuba

 

U.S. Rep. Albio Sires today responded to the news that Cuban President Fidel Castro has stepped down from power.

"It makes it perfectly clear that he’s very ill, and he’s not competent enough to run the country, otherwise he would not have given up the reins of 50 years," said Sires. "All the speculation of the last months that he’s coming back, I think we can put that to rest."

Sires, who was born in Cuba and immigrated to West New York as a child, said he hopes the end of the Castro era leads to democracy and free elections.

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SEN. MENENDEZ STATEMENT ON CUBAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY'S SELECTION OF RAUL CASTRO AS PRESIDENT

February 25, 2008 - 5:10pm
Tags: Senator Menendez, Cuba, Raul Castro,
Release Date: Feb 24 2008

WASHINGTON – Today, the Cuban National Assembly picked Raul Castro to be president of that country’s Council of the State and filled other leadership positions on the Council with members sympathetic to his authoritarian rule. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is of Cuban descent and has been a leading critic of the regime in Cuba, released the following statement:

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