Recently Cuba held their “elections”. At the same time some dissenters, including Guillermo Fariñas decided to hold a conference to dicuss the conditions that must be met if elections are to be fair and transparent.
Among the attendees to this conference, were a Czech and a Slovak, members of the European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations. As you might have guessed, this did not go very well with the local authorities and both men were deported without any communication with their respective embassies. Slovakia is already demanding an explanation from Cuba.
And this is the government we should be extending our hand to? The goverment that we should engage in talks? The government that we should befriend?
I don’t know about you, but I cannot condone that my government whose tenets are “liberty and justice for all” engage in any type of trade or talks with a government that not only represses its own people but also foreigners who want to learn about their “fair and transparent” elections.
And for the record my feelings extend to countries such as China as well.
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Well, time to start acting in kind. The Czech government should round up the Cuban Ambassador in Prague, as well as any embassy officials, in the dead of night and send them off on the first available plane. You wanna play hardball? Let’s play – I’ve got the bats and gloves.
I read this and think of all the “anti-imperialism” clowns who say “who are we to tell the CUBAN PEOPLE how they should run their government?”
Well, we’re the Cuba people – what’s your point? Not you Golden Boy, the detractors. Does physical location alter the human genome? Last time I checked, the answer was still no.
Agreed. I also notice “the detractors” are the same who in the next breath openly attack the overwhelmingly reelected President Uribe for not turning around Colombia fast enough.