Totalitarianism: It’s what’s for breakfast every day in Cuba

Listening to organizations such as the Cuba Study Group, you would never glean from their statements that Cuba is under the yoke of a brutal totalitarian dictatorship that has enslaved 11-million people and rules the island with an iron fist. When you read their “solutions” for Cuba, it can all be solved with a few million dollars here, and a few policy changes there, as if totalitarian dictatorships were reasonable and were not all that interested in maintaining the stranglehold on power they enjoy.

Fortunately, Capitol Hill Cubans is around to give them a lesson on what the true definition of totalitarianism is:

A Lesson in Totalitarianism, Pt. 2
As we previously posted, the Cuba Study Group’s Carlos Saladrigas gave the following quote to the AP yesterday:
As long as the Cuban economy was a totalitarian economy, the argument for an embargo was that you are hurting the Cuban state. As the Cuban economy becomes directed toward the private economy… then it begs the question as to whether the embargo is really hurting the government or the people.”

Just this morning, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released the State Department’s 2010 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.

The very first sentence of the Report’s Cuba section reads:

Cuba, with a population of approximately 11.4 million, is a totalitarian state led by Raul Castro, who held the positions of chief of state, president of the council of state and council of ministers, and commander in chief of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.”

Thus, it begs the question (again) of Mr. Saladrigas — if lifting sanctions helps Cuba’s totalitarian state, then why are you proposing to do just that?

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