Raul Castro

February 25, 2008 - 4:10pm
PRESS RELEASE

SEN. MENENDEZ STATEMENT ON CUBAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY'S SELECTION OF RAUL CASTRO AS PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON – Today, the Cuban National Assembly picked Raul Castro to be president of that country’s Council of the State and filled other leadership positions on the Council with members sympathetic to his authoritarian rule. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is of Cuban descent and has been a leading critic of the regime in Cuba, released the following statement:

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February 19, 2008 - 11:23am

Menendez reacts to Castro news

Senator Bob Menendez said that Fidel Castro’s resignation as Cuban President isn’t great news, but he hopes the Cuban people will take to the streets to peacefully protest the Castro regime.

“This is not the cause for celebration that some would believe. This does not represent the replacement of totalitarianism with democracy,” said Menendez. “Instead, it is the replacement of one dictator with another.”

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