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July 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“Any day they want it, we will sit with them at a negotiating table,” the
Cuban president proclaimed, clad in military uniform.
But he insisted the conversation would go both ways: “Equal to equal, we will
also discuss subjects concerning the United States.”
The United States has maintained a five-decade economic embargo on Cuba.
State Department Assistant Secretary Mike Hammer said that while the United
States was willing to talk with Cuba, the Communist authorities first had to
ensure rights for their people.
“This administration has repeatedly stated that the US government is open to
forging a new relationship with Cuba, but Castro’s government must begin by
allowing the Cuban people to exercise their human rights and determine their
future,” Hammer told a press conference.
He also hit out at the “despicable” arrests of dissidents during Paya’s
funeral.
“Our message is very clear to the Castro government… that they need to begin
to allow the political freedoms that the Cuban people demands,” Mr Hammer
added.
Washington has demanded a “full and transparent investigation” of Paya’s
death, which Cuban authorities say was a car accident.
Paya, an engineer and fervent Roman Catholic, was one of the first dissidents
against the Castro regime to seek wholesale political and economic change.
He won the European parliament’s Sakharov prize for human rights in 2002.
Cuban authorities say the 60-year-old died when his rental car went off the
road and hit a tree. Another Cuban dissident in the car was also killed, but
the vehicle’s two other occupants – political activists from Spain and
Sweden – received only minor injuries.
The two Europeans are being held and have not made any public statement about
the accident.
Castro meanwhile also denounced what he said were small groups of dissidents
who want to “recreate in Cuba what happened in Libya and Syria.”
July 26 is the anniversary of the 1953 attacks that Fidel Castro and his
supporters mounted against two military barracks. Although these first
attacks were unsuccessful, they are considered the beginning of the armed
struggle that ultimately led to Fidel Castro’s seizure of power on January
1, 1959.
His brother took over as head of state in 2006.
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