Magic trick of the day – Disappearing Cuban women
Magician Sarah Stephens
Sarah Stephens from Center for Democracy in the Americas (talk about a misnomer) pulls off an amazing and mystifying magic trick in her latest post at Havana Note. In an article about the rights of women in Cuba consisting of:
- 18 paragraphs
- 932 words
- 4,544 characters
... Stephens manages to make not one single mention of the daily abused Ladies in White, political prisoner Sonia Garro, or any other of the countless Cuban women who have been abused, attacked, violated, raped, or imprisoned by the Castro dictatorship.
With a wave of her magic wand, Stephens made all these Cuban women disappear.
Either Streep or Glenn Close could easily play her. Bad sign.
I forgot Vanessa Redgrave, if she's still alive.
Well, I expect she admires Simone de Beauvoir, who drooled over Che. Bad sign.
Let's ask Zoé Valdés what she thinks of this "expert," shall we?
In Cuba, this is known as "cara 'e tranca."
Oh, I also forgot Jodie Foster. Like, Duh.
[...] A couple of days ago, we told you about Sarah Stephens, Executive Director at the Center for Democracy Dictatorships in the Americas, and her mystifying magic trick where she writes an entire report on women's rights in Cuba without mentioning one single woman from the Ladies in White or any of the countless other women in Cuba's opposition who have been harassed, beaten, violated, raped, and imprisoned. Considering the Castro dictatorship's well documented, decades-long propensity for violence against women in Cuba, this was quite a feat of skill and expert sleight of hand by Ms. Stephens. [...]