New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com Cubans revolt against W
Albor Ruiz
Thursday, June 3rd, 2004
The Great Communicator he is not, but history could remember President George W. Bush as "The Great Uniter." If you don't believe it, just remember that in Iraq he achieved what many had thought impossible: He brought together Shiites and Sunnis, who put aside historical enmity to present a united front against U.S. occupation.
Now he has done it again, this time in Cuba. Though no more than 200 delegates were expected at last month's "The Nation and the Emigration" conference in Havana, thanks to Bush, 521 Cuban-born people from 49 countries attended, including 242 from the U.S.
The number ballooned after Bush announced new, Draconian measures against the island on May 6. They included naming a "coordinator for the transition to democracy in Cuba" - that is, a Paul Bremer for Havana. This was widely taken, in Cuba and in Miami, as an intolerable infringement on Cuba's sovereignty.
"This is a decisive moment for Cuba," said Antonio Zamora, a Miami lawyer who was one of the founders of the powerful anti-Castro group the Cuban-American National Foundation and a veteran of the 1961 failed Bay  »