Hopefuls Romney and Gingrich worried about Venezuela and Cuba

With promises of more jobs and a marked rhetoric against Cuba's Fidel and Raúl Castro and Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Republican challengers Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich returned on Friday to south Florida to fight for the Hispanic vote able to consolidate them as favorites for the presidential election next November.

Both candidates running for the Republican nomination labeled as "threat" and "foes" both the Castro brothers and President Chávez in a conference entitled "Inspiring Action," hosted by the Hispanic Leadership Network.

There, Romney vowed to appoint, in the event of being elected the US president in November, an official to oversee democracies and liberties in the region, AFP mentioned.

Gingrich, somewhat less energetic than Romney in that meeting, even affirmed that President Chávez could be the most important threat for the United States since the time of the Soviet Union, because of his partnerships in the Western Hemisphere and with the Iranian government of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.