NationStates Jolt Archive

Because of the refusal of the real democratic
nations of the world, The European Union nations,
Canada, Australia, New Zeeland, Japan, Mexico,
USA and others to put in place an effective
international embargo of democratic nations.

Against a government they consider a dictatorship
government of over 46 years.

Most Cuban Americans feel the world hates them,
or dont like them, and they are alone against
a dictatorship government that will not change,
with trade, tourists and diplomatic relations
as they have now.

That is why those crazy Cuban Americans
think, act and feel the way they do.

is because every year at Geneva,
Cuban American political and social organizations
have to beg those same democratic nations
including the governments of thier hispanic
brothers and sisters to condem the Cuban government
for political and human rights abuses.

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La Habana Cuba

This feeling is a very real feeling
in the Cuban american community
even though they may be wrong on that feeling.

The democratic nations of the world
keep trading with Fidel Castro's Cuba,
keep having political and social relations.

Casro sometimes promises reforms
and never delivers.

President Fidel Castro has signed
countless international democratic documents,
and has not lived up to any of them.

President Fidel Castro has signed
documents from the Organization of American States.

President Fidel Castro has insulted almost every leader
of the Organization of American States, mostly the
hispanic world leaders and those same leaders turn
around and keep calling him a friend.

President Fidel Castro has insulted almost every leader
of the European Union, promised democratic reforms at
times, other times has repeated thier will be no reforms
and the European Union does nothing, but keep on trading
and talking with Fidel Castro about democratic changes
he keeps refusing to make.

So how are Cuban Americans supposed to feel
when they see all this going on for over 46 years.

I was friends with children of Cuban refugees during the time that I lived in Florida. I don’t think they felt the world had abandoned them, at leas the US anyway. Almost every man in their family served in the armed forces at one point, but then again, the US does embargo Cuba and does offer asylum to Cubans

Cuba's new crackdown

OUR OPINION: TELL REGIME: POLITICAL PRISONERS ARE NOT FORGOTTEN

The Miami Herald

Friday Aug 5th / 2005



Once again, Cuba is detaining dissidents and charging them with crimes that don't exist in any free country on Earth.

Some might tire of hearing the same old news, as if jailing people for peacefully criticizing an abusive government is normal. We tire of the dictator who continues to violate the human rights of Cubans and yet is courted like a rock star in parts of this region.

René Gómez Manzano, Oscar Mario González and Julio César López deserve better. The three prominent Cuban dissidents were arrested before they even had a chance to make it to a pro-democracy protest. Now they are being prosecuted under the same law used to punish 75 peaceful dissidents with lengthy prison terms in 2003.

Media throughout the world took notice of that crackdown, and calls to release the political prisoners rained down on the Cuban regime. Last year, the regime released 14 of those 75 prisoners, and the European Union rewarded it by lifting sanctions it had imposed because of the crackdown. The regime, though, hasn't changed its stripes.

Now Messrs. Gómez, González and López are among the 15 activists detained in connection with two peaceful protests in July. Their charges allege that they were involved in causing a ''public disorder.'' In reality, pro-government mobs were the ones beating on the dissidents.

Mr. Gómez already has served three years in prison for co-writing The Homeland Belongs to Us All, a critique of Cuba's one-party rule. Mr. González is a respected independent journalist. Mr. López is a pro-democracy militant with an independent library. Their ideas are dangerous only to a regime built on repression and lies.

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whatever they are you have a right to them.

Right, my thought on the issue:
Considering that it is currently illegal for American citizens to spend ANY MONEY WHATSOEVER in Cuba, you don't really need to feel all that left alone. The fact that the only nations to be treated similarly (or were, my passport isn't completely up to date) are Vietnam, Sudan, and North Korea (Iraq was on the list to, but as I said, my passport isn't up to date) and they don't have quite as harsh restrictions, you really shouldn't feel like you're being left alone.
I can understand that you don't like the idea that other governments treat a repressive government with respect that you have ancestral ties to. But consider that Myanmar, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Zimbabwe, and a couple others are currently (Chile and Greece when they were still under dictatorships) being treated with similar respect by the US, and I don't hear anyone decrying that, although there is much more reason to.
You are entitled to your opinion, but seeing as that you're pretty much the only one posting on this thread, please let it die if no one is willing to discuss.