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Bolton Threatens to Satisfy All the Whores of Havana:
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May 13 -- There has been much ado about the recent statements of Undersecretary of State John Bolton, where he announced that the United States government was adding three more countries to President Bush's already unfortunate definition of a purported “Axis of Evil.” U.S. Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche today offered a typically LaRouche comment, in reaction to hearing news of Cuban President Fidel Castro's response to Bolton's inclusion of Cuba in the newly expanded “Axis.” The background to the story is the following. On May 6, Bolton had told a Heritage Foundation audience in Washington, D.C. that “for four decades, Cuba has maintained a well-developed and sophisticated biomedical industry, supported until 1990 by the Soviet Union. This industry is one of the most advanced in Latin America and leads in the production of pharmaceuticals and vaccines that are sold worldwide. Analysts and Cuban defectors have long cast suspicion on the activities conducted in these biomedical facilities.” In his public response, Castro called Bolton a liar, reported on the achievements of Cuban medicine, and said the country's laboratories were open to the world. To all of which LaRouche responded: “Bolton's remarks are foolish at best. Even if there had been merits to aspects of his charges, it is not useful to get the U.S. involved in yet another situation it can't handle. Bolton reminds me of the typical American who would travel to Cuba in the pre-Castro days, proceed to get royally drunk, and then loudly threaten to satisfy all of the whores of Havana. It's this kind of typical ‘gringo' attitude that gives a dirty name to being a gringo American, if Bolton didn't have it already.” -30- |