Friday 10 April 2015

La Siempre Fidelísima Isla

Cuba does not have a human rights record comparable to that of America's number one ally in the world, Saudi Arabia. Where has?

But the American blockade and general vilification of Cuba has only ever served to attract sympathy to a regime that did not deserve it.

Cuba is the country to which one ought to move if one wants a government that persecutes homosexuality.

The Cuban pretend-exiles are in fact economic migrants and free to go back any time they like.

Far from being conservative, they merely wish to restore the Cuba that existed before 1959, a giant drug den and brothel for the American super-rich.

Hence the refusal of the late Oswaldo Payá, of his Christian Liberation Movement and of its Varela Project to have anything to do with them, and their refusal to have anything to with that Project, or with that Movement, or with Payá.

From that background comes Marco Rubio, denying that trade with the United States and fraternisation with Americans would lead to political freedom.

They need not, necessarily. But is he really saying that? Is the Republican Party? Well, I never.

Now, onwards to the Nobel Peace Prize for the Pope.

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