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NEWS
Posted on Thu, Oct. 09, 2003
CUBA POLICY
White House
meeting set for Friday
-- NANCY SAN MARTIN
The Miami Herald
More than 100 Cuban Americans are expected to convene in Washington on
Friday for a meeting with White House officials on Cuba policy.
Details of the meeting are sketchy but several of the invited guests
said that national security advisor Condoleezza Rice is expected to
announce the creation of a Presidential Cuba Transition Commission.
Among the invited guests are local Republican-elected leaders who signed
their names to a letter to President Bush in August urging him to make
changes to Cuba policy.
The letter echoed the message some Cuban-American leaders have delivered
recently to Bush: Get tougher on Cuban President Fidel Castro or risk
losing Cuban-American support in the 2004 election.
The Bush administration has said Cuba policy is under review, but no new
announcements have been made.
It is not known what role a new presidential commission would play.
''I'm invited, but I don't know what it's about,'' said Alberto
Hernández of the Cuban Liberty Council, a Miami organization that
supports the U.S. embargo on Cuba.
''There are lots of rumors but we won't know until we hear what they
have to say,'' Hernández said.
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