Jay Nordlinger:
There was a headline in the Miami Herald yesterday: “Cuba’s human rights abuses worse despite U.S. ties.” (Article here.)
Oh, yes. But I might question that word “despite.” Is the Castro dictatorship more brutal now despite President Obama’s normalization or because of it?
Last year, I talked with Berta Soler, the leader of Cuba’s Ladies in White. This is what she told me:
“The European Union, the USA, Pope Francis — they have turned their backs on us.” Obama promised that his new policy would empower civil society. “But we are seeing that what he has done is give a green light to the Cuban government to crush civil society.”
Yes, the green light.
If I were a journalist who had the opportunity to question Obama, I would ask, “What about this, Mr. President? Human-rights abuses are a lot worse since your opening. Is that something that concerns you? Does it make you reconsider the policy?”
My view is a very dark one. I think that Obama and his people simply wanted to poke their finger in the eye of the anti-Communists. My guess is, they view the Castros as basically on the “right side of history,” whatever their excesses.
And yet that scumbag Fidel Castro have gotten Standing Ovations from the Useless Nations and brain-dead liberals go gaga for him OPEN YOUR EYES PEANUT EATER KID(Jimmy Carter)and see Castro for the monster he is
Cuban human rights abuses don’t hold a candle to what goes on in China, but we don’t hear the GOP crying out for sanctions against China—most likely because so much money is being made there by U.S. corporations.
If you want to see improvements in human rights protections in Cuba, the first step is to normalize relations. 55 years of hard line policies didn’t accomplish a damn thing but the perpetuation of the status quo. If you aren’t seen as being part of a beneficial economic relationship, you have very little real influence.
Saudi Arabia has much worse human rights violations, but the Plover is willing to overlook them because they have a socially rightwing style government and of course don’t have legal abortion
Oh yeah and oil The Saudis have cheap oil
At least in Cuba women(COMMUNISTAS !!!!) can walk around alone without a male and not be whipped for it
Of course not.
And while many cuban’s live in abject poverty Castro has been giving standing ovations by those wretches and scoundrels from the United Nations and Obama a rubs elbows with Castro They both belong in prison for life