Incredible how the language of Cuban intellectuals is the same as that of the Chavez administration, they defend the recent crackdown saying ''the distance, the disinformation and the traumas of failed socialist experiences''. It is not a problem of distance or disinformation, 75 members of the opposition were jailed and sentenced to up to 28 year in prison, and 42 of them were part of the Varela project, the most significant opposition project in Cuba in the last 40 years. The Varela project delivered over 11,000 signatures in a petition to the Assembly in Cuba and by now has grown to over 30,000. With the crackdown the project is simply halted. You have to love how the Libyan-led United Nations Human Rights Commission has failed to condemn the crackdown. Additionally, once again Jimmy Carter fell for the charm of Fidel Castro much like he did with Hugo Chavez. He is simply a naïve fool with a Nobel Peace Prize!
Note added: I also learned that Venezuela was the only Latin American country to vote against the motion to censor Cuba on Human Rights at the United Nations. Not unexpected, but I am definitely ashamed of this.
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