House, Senate Plan To Give Millions To Cuban Dissidents To Fight For “Democratic” Change…

Associated Press Laurie Kellman August 2, 2006 at 10:24 PM

The White House and Congress, caught unaware by Fidel Castro's illness, prepared Wednesday for a possible showdown in Cuba as lawmakers drafted legislation that would give millions of dollars to dissidents who fight for democratic change.

"The message will be, `The United States stands with you,'" Sen. Bill Nelson (news, bio, voting record), D-Fla., one of the bill's authors, said in an interview. "Be ready to assert your independence."

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