NEWS FLASH: 8 months after Obama’s capitulation to Cuba’s dictatorship, the Castro regime has become even more violently repressive.
According to President Obama, his complete surrender to Cuba’s apartheid dictatorship and giving them everything they ask for in return for absolutely nothing was supposed to improve the human rights situation in Cuba. In reality, the human rights situation in what is now Obama’s Cuba has worsened and all signs indicate it will only deteriorate further.
But who are we kidding here? Obama doesn’t give a rat’s derriere about human rights in Cuba or Cubans. He has a legacy to manufacture from the ashes of his disastrous foreign policy mistakes and if a few thousand Cuban dissident skulls have to be cracked open in order for him to get one, it appears obvious he feels that it is a very small price to pay.
Cuban opposition group reports at least 768 political arrests in August
The opposition Cuban Commission for Human Rights and National Reconciliation, or CCDHRN, on Wednesday reported that in August there were at least 768 political arrests on the communist island, the highest monthly figure so far this year, along with 21 cases of physical aggression during those arrests.
In its monthly report on political repression, the organization headed by dissident Elizardo Sanchez also said that eight opposition figures were the victims of so-called “acts of repudiation” and there was at least one act of vandalism carried out “by the secret political police and para-police agents.”
The CCDHRN noted “a worsening in the situation of civil and political rights in Cuba” and criticized the government of Raul Castro for not taking “a single significant step” toward the “necessary decriminalization of the exercise of such basic rights.”
The commission emphasized the “notorious” increase in police violence against dissidents on the island, who are subjected to “all sorts of physical mistreatment, taunts and threats.”
Among the cases mentioned in the report is the “brutal physical attack” suffered on Aug. 26 by activist Fernando Vazquez Guerra, a delegate for the dissident Patriotic Union of Cuba group in the east-central province of Camaguey.
According to the CCDHRN, “a national police captain … named Molina dealt (Vazquez Guerra) a blow on the head with his regulation pistol” after pointing it at him and pulling “the trigger three times without any bullets” in the chamber.
The text of the report also says that Vazquez was “knocked to the ground and kicked in the middle of the street.”
“The main cause for the attacks and arrests rests in the government’s repressive frame of mind,” said Sanchez, who called these actions against mainly “peaceful” activists “unnecessary.”
The CCDHRN is the only group on the island that tallies and releases figures on such incidents.
The Cuban government, meanwhile, considers dissidents to be “counterrevolutionaries” and “mercenaries.” EFE
Political arrests, you say? No such thing in Cuba, just as there are no political prisoners. Ask Cardinal Ortega, who’s “on the ground” and everything, and who’s been kept in his position despite being past the age of mandatory retirement–obviously, the Vatican chose to keep him in it. Besides, what would we know? Do you see anybody who counts even pretending to give a shit about what “those people” think? Move along.