MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency

Cuba criticizes “post-Castro” US policy

Cuba criticized United States Monday for creating the post of “transition” adviser for the Fidel Castro regime, describing the move as a “crude” meddling in the internal affairs of the island.

Last Thursday U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced she was appointing Caleb McCarry as Cuba "transition coordinator" and coordinator of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, which was created last year by Washington to speed the transition to democracy in the island.

"Another servant against Cuba in Bush's Court" was the headline in the Cuban Communist Party's official newspaper Granma with which McCarry's appointment was received.

U.S. President George W. Bush is "once again meddling crudely in the internal affairs of Cuba by naming one of his men to publicly coordinate subversive activities against the island" Granma said.

The newspaper said the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba wants "first, to assassinate the Cuban Revolution, and later to impose a society here blended in the White House".

"It is the responsibility of the civilized world to act to see that the Cuban family is reunited under political and economic freedom" underlined Mr. McCarry said when taking office of his new post.

McCarry previously worked with the Representatives House International Relations Committee's Republican staff.

Washington analysts believe the White House is preparing for a possible unstable post-Castro era given his age, 78, frail health and "weak revolutionary spirit, when the icon is gone".