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Bush denounces cuba spanish broadcast { May 20 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/5904574.htm http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/5904574.htm Posted on Tue, May. 20, 2003 President Bush denounces Castro in radio address By TIM JOHNSON tjohnson@herald.com WASHINGTON - President Bush marked Cuban independence on Tuesday with a radio address denouncing Fidel Castro and a private meeting with former political prisoners, low-key events that reflected White House concern that U.S. policy on Cuba is displeasing growing numbers of people. In a brief statement, Bush said: ``My hope is for the Cuban people to soon enjoy the same freedoms and rights as we do. Dictatorship has no place in the Americas.'' Radio Martí, the government-operated station that beams to Cuba, broadcast the full 40-second statement in Spanish in the morning. At mid-afternoon at the White House, Bush met in the Roosevelt Room with 11 Cuban activists, one-time political prisoners and relatives of prisoners. The meeting was closed. In a sign of growing strains over Cuba policy, three Cuban-American Republican legislators from South Florida who favor sharply stepped up pressure on the Castro regime issued a tepid statement of support for the White House but stayed away from the meeting. The small meeting contrasted with last year's events marking Cuban independence day, in which Bush laid out a series of initiatives aimed at coaxing Cuba's one-party regime to take steps toward politicial pluralism. Bush hosted a huge open meeting at the White House, then flew to Miami for a rally, in which he pledged to maintain pressure on the Castro regime. In the past two months, Castro has carried out the most brutal repression of any in Latin America in the past decade, jailing 75 dissidents and democracy activists and executing three disaffected Afro-Cuban youths who attempted to hijack a ferry. The only other Cuban American in Congress, Rep. Bob Menendez, a Democrat from New Jersey, blasted Bush for what he called the president's ''dismal record'' on Cuba.

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