The price of dignity in totalitarian Cuba
Via Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter:
The price of dignity in totalitarian Cuba
"Totalitarian regimes are the denial of human dignity and the violation of all fundamental rights of our societies built upon democracy and the respect of the rule of law." -Viviane Reding
Ulises González Moreno
Extortion is one of the common practices of the dictatorship that operates in Cuba. Recent examples include trying to force a mother to choose between her son's unjust incarceration and becoming a government informant against innocent human rights defenders and now a labor activist given the choice of spending two years in prison for "predilection to social dangerousness"or once again becoming an informant spying on fellow labor organizers.
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