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| Bush pledges to keep Cuba embargo |
| US President George W Bush has vowed to maintain the trade embargo on Cuba for as long as the government in Havana keeps its "monopoly" on power.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 25-October-2007
3:27:40 AM |
| Mr Bush said he looked forward to a world without Cuban leader Fidel Castro and urged greater global action to promote democracy in Cuba.
He denounced present-day Cuba as "a tropical gulag".
Cuba rejected Mr Bush's appeal and accused him of promoting violence to bring about a change of regime.
In his first major address on Cuban policy in four years, Mr Bush adopted an uncompromising stance towards the leadership of Cuba.
"As long as the regime maintains its monopoly over the political and economic life of the Cuban people, the United States will keep the embargo in place," he said in a speech at the US State Department.
Dissidents praised
Mr Bush spoke of citizens there who, he said, had no freedom of employment or expression, who lived in dire circumstances and who feared beatings for pursuing the lives they wanted.
Now is the time to support the democratic movement growing on the island," he said.
"Now is the time to stand with the Cuban people as they stand up for their liberty. And now is the time for the world to put aside its differences and prepare for Cubans' transitions to a future of freedom and progress and promise."
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