Havana, Oct 26 (acn) The General Secretary of the Venezuelan Workers Union, Orlando Chirino voiced in Caracas his strong rejection to the anti-Cuba speech pronounced by US President Bush on Wednesday and said if Cuba were attacked it would receive the unconditional support of Venezuela in defense of its people and revolution.
Chirino said that the US policy towards Cuba on this occasion seems desperate, and as a result of its defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan, reports Granma newspaper.
In the Dominican Republic, the Regional Coordinator for Solidarity with Cuba said the island is not alone. A similar stance was taken by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign of Great Britain and MPs from that country. The organization issued a press release underlying that Bush left open the possibility of a direct aggression against Cuba; an act it says will find Latin America and the world alongside the revolution.
From Luanda, the Angola-Cuba Friendship Association called the US president out of line in his statements. "Bush is rowing against the tide," said Fernando Jaime, the group's secretary general, who noted that Angola will always support Cuba.
Other pronouncements in support of Cuba and rejecting Bush's threats came from the Broad Front Party of Costa Rica, the Communist Refoundation Party of Puerto Rico and the Uruguayan Coordinator of Solidarity with the Cuban revolution. The groups spoke out against the US blockade on the island and other forms of aggression.
The Communist Party of Spain called Bush's speech "one more affront to international law" and called on the European governments to respond to "this clear act of interference."
The international press highlighted the new attacks against Cuba from President Bush and the immediate response from Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque.
The Peruvian daily La Primera said that "Cuba is an obsession for Bush." Likewise, the main Mexican newspapers, like La Jornada, and important Argentinean papers including Clarin and Pagina 12, allotted space for Cuba's response to the new hostility from George W. Bush.
