In a speech before the U.S. State Department on Wednesday, the U.S. leader called on the international community to provide political and financial aid for Cuba in the event of any uprising against the Castro government.
"You have the power to shape your own destiny," Bush said, addressing the Cuban people, who he characterized as "restive".
The U.S president also made an appeal to the Cuban military and security forces, saying "Will you defend a disgraced and dying order by using force against your own people, or will you embrace your people's desire for change?"
However, Perez Roque, reacting to Bush's call for change in Cuba, said, "You are not a liberator, Mr. Bush. You are a brutal repressor. Your government has invaded, massacred and tortured in the name of liberty."
He also added that, "The speech of George Bush in the U.S. State Department is understood as a plea for violence, a call for the use of force to topple the revolution and impose his ideas on Cuba."
Perez Roque also called on the U.S. to stop interfering in the country's internal affairs, and to lift its embargo of Cuba, in place since 1962. The UN General Assembly is due to vote on a resolution on the economic blockade next Tuesday, and is expected to, as it has done every year since 1992, to tell the U.S. to lift the embargo against the Caribbean island.
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