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Cuba's long-time archnemesis Roger Noriega announced his resignation as US assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, the last in a series of government platforms from which he has been taking pot shots at Cuban President Fidel Castro for the last 20 years. Early reaction from the island was lighthearted as National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcon told reporters, "I'm going to miss him a lot if he doesn't appear before the cameras talking, saying dumb things. He's really a very funny person." But the joking quickly gave way to bitter invective as official Cuba learned who, or more to the point what, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice intends to replace Noriega with.
On July 28, the Bush administration named Caleb McCarry to the position of Cuba transition coordinator, a position created last year on the theory that the US could determine the nature of a post-Castro government. Rice, announcing the appointment, said the White House policy was to "accelerate the demise of Castro's tyranny." She said McCarry, a little-known Republican Party activist and staff member of the House International Relations Committee for...
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