Senior Administration Official Holds Background Briefing On the President's Speech On Cuba
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Senior Administration Official Holds Background Briefing On the President's Speech On Cuba
SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL HOLDS BACKGROUND BRIEFING ON THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH ON CUBA
OCTOBER 23, 2007SPEAKERS: SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALNATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL SPOKESMAN GORDON JOHNDROE[*] SENIOR ADMINISTRATION OFFICIAL: Thank you all very much. Thank you for doing this at this hour. The President will give remarks on Cuba tomorrow. He will start out the speech by noting that one of the success stories of the last several years has been the overall advance of economic and political freedom across Latin America, and juxtaposed against that is the fact that there is still one country that traps its citizens in a failed system, and that country is Cuba.And the President will then go through some of the promises that the regime made in its early moments, and then discuss and describe for the listeners what Cubans deal with on a day-to-day basis and what have been the results of this 48-year totalitarian reality. He will talk about the denial of basic rights -- the Cuban people's denial of basic rights, such as things that they cannot change jobs, they cannot change addresses without the express approval of the state, that they're subjected to neighborhood watch programs, that there are efforts to limit what they have acces...See the full content of this document
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