[Mb-civic] BBC E-mail: Planning for a Cuba without Castro

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In Washington, the Bush administration has appointed Caleb McCarry as "transition co-ordinator" for Cuba. 

He says his job is to help Cubans "recover their freedom after 47 years of brutal dictatorship". 

To achieve this, Mr McCarry has a budget of $59m to "hasten the transition" and to ensure that neither Raul Castro nor any of the other "pretenders", from Vice President Carlos Lage to Foreign Minister Perez Roque, automatically continue the current system. 


** Planning for a Cuba without Castro **
Nick Caistor reports on the forces both within and outside Cuba which are manoeuvring for the succession.
< http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/programmes/crossing_continents/4899414.stm >


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