HAVANA -- (AFP) -- Cuba on Thursday criticized an anti-Castro group for
             sending a rubber dinghy laden with medicine to the island's shores, calling the
             mission an infringement on its sovereignty.

             The remote-controlled inflatable boat, which arrived at the capital Monday, was
             the work of ``a band of terrorists who are desperate to make an attack of any
             kind on our government,'' said Foreign Minister Alejandro Gonzalez.

             The boat was sent by the Miami-based Democracy Movement as a humanitarian
             gesture, marking what the group called ``a new tactic in our non-violent strategy.''

             But Gonzalez said Cuba ``rejects and renounces all activities of this nature,''
             adding the communist regime of President Fidel Castro will ``do whatever is in our
             power to defend the sovereignty of our country.''