Cuba, Venezuela: World Scene

Washington Times Combined dispatches and staff reports.

    CUBA     Official criticizes European countries     HAVANA — Cuba lashed out at the European Union yesterday, accusing the 15-nation bloc of serving U.S. interests through recent criticisms of the Fidel Castro government.     Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque accused Spain's government of funding dissident groups that Havana claims are being organized by the United States.     Later, the government urged Havana residents to join a protest planned for today outside the embassies of Spain and Italy.          VENEZUELA     U.S. revokes visa of anti-Chavez general     CARACAS — The United States has revoked the U.S. entry visa of a former Venezuelan army general who was dismissed for taking part in a coup last year against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the U.S. Embassy in Caracas said yesterday.     Gen. Enrique Medina Gomez, a former military attache at Venezuela's embassy in Washington, was also a ringleader of a nonviolent disobedience campaign in Caracas last October by more than 100 anti-Chavez military officers.