There is an impressive and scathing Op-Ed in Epoch Times today written by Cuban-Canadian, Nelson Taylor Sol, who lives in Ottawa. While Canada continues to stream tourists, business, and cash into the coffers of the Castro regime, providing the tyranny with more resources in which to repress the Cuban people, Nelson reminds his fellow Canadians that what the Cuban people need is not the continued support of a despotic regime, but the support of the actual Cuban people.

The Cuban People Need Canada’s Support

The death last month of Orlando Zapata, Cuban prisoner of conscience, reveals once again the intrinsic evil of the Castro dictatorship.

Hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children have died during the five decades of communist rule in Cuba. Several generations of Cubans have never enjoyed the most basic rights or freedoms. Nevertheless, the Castro brothers, Fidel and Raúl, have not been able to silence the voices of those who, like Zapata, prefer physical death to the spiritual death they feel under communism.

What Cubans want is freedom. What Cubans desire is unequivocal support from the rest of the world in getting that freedom. What good are condolences and demands for change from Canada’s head of foreign affairs for the Cuban people? Actually, such actions are negated by Canada’s continued trade, investment, tourism, and political ties, which actually have supported the Castro regime. It is difficult to reconcile the principled stand Canada has against the military junta in Burma—or its opposition to the American policy of embargo—with the acceptance given the Castro brothers.

Read the entire excellent editorial HERE.