What about human rights?
Taking into context past U.S. history in financing and abetting people and groups that are allies to their interests, and taking into account it's deep hatred and obsession with Cuba, it is not surprising that imperial U.S. is in the forefront of the attacks on Cuba on the issues of human rights, also sponsoring and directing the exile groups and so called dissident groups here and abroad.
First of all forget about human rights. It has nothing to do with human rights. If it were then Cuba would be near the end of human rights list; not near the top. For Cuba is one of the countries which has done the most in the human rights arena. What the revolution has done to wipe out illiteracy, child labor, childhood diseases, should be commended; what Cuba has done for blacks and women -for they meant very little in yesterdays Cuba - giving them an opportunity to free health and education should be applauded. That is why many human rights activists and Nobel Peace winners, along with some of the best known Nobel prize winners in Literature, among them, Rigoberta Menchu of Guatemala, Adolfo Ezquievel, Garcia Marquez, Nelson Mandela, are supporters of Cuba and the Cuban revolution. This alone should tell you that there is something rotten in Denmark - at least you owe it to yourself to question what you've been told all these years about Cuba.
If it was about human rights then there would be a list a mile long, with all the countries in the world listed. Starting with Israel and Turkey, for to me they represent two of the world's most repressive states. Many on the list would include U.S. allies and U.S. puppet regimes, and would include one of the worse violators, uncle Sam. He would be first on the list; for all the crimes he has committed upon the people of the earth, his genocidal treatment of the Indian population, his plots against sovereign states - the countless invasions - which have caused pain in suffering among many people, the bombing of countries killing innocent men, women and children, his nuclear bombing of two Japanese cities, killing, maiming and scarring 100's of thousands of people. Please don't give me the argument - condoning this horrific act - about how the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor - they at least had the decency of attacking a naval installation - navy personnel not civilian population.
Turkey, now here is a monster, a gross violator of human rights, a mass murderer, a killing machine. It has a long history of repression and murder against those who dissent - reminds me of the Cuban exile but to a greater degree. But it's ok. They are not bad. You see imperial U.S. has bases there. And as long as the bases remain, and they remain loyal to their master they can get away with murder ; the lord executioner will look the other way. What would happen if the Turkish puppets decided to become really independent and reject the bases?
What about Israel? The Israeli police and army have killed countless of Palestinians, some of them innocent women and children; they periodically take tanks and demolish Palestinian homes; they bomb indiscriminately every other day , killing and maiming scores of men , women and children. To me next to the US, Israel are the leaders in terrorism and in human rights violations, while their armed forces are busy killing Palestinians on the ground their air force is constantly butchering and maiming innocent civilians. I'll never forget seeing a report from French TV and seeing an Israeli policeman hitting an Arab youth over the head with a large stone. Of course, as they are our ally you never get to see this on the six o'clock news. By the way Israel is the only nation, beside the US to vote against Cuba in the UN resolution condemning the embargo. Like father like son.
If what Israel is doing is not a systematic violation of human rights and terrorism then we need a new definitions for these words. Why does the US supports Israel so much? Allowing them to get away with literally murder and giving them as much as seven billion dollars of our tax money annually? We all know the answer.
Of course here in the U.S. there are no human rights violations, only civil rights are violated. Remember Martin Luther King was not a human rights leader, he was a civil rights leader. Of course if he was living in another nation he would have been known as a human rights leader. When the military shot university students in a peaceful demonstration during the Vietnam war, when the cops shot a defenseless man 41 times as happened in NY recently, when a police helicopter dropped a bomb on a building full of people in Philadelphia, killing many people, it was a violation of civil rights; not of human rights. I wonder what would happen if these things would have occurred in another country?
To me Washington should be put on trial for over two hundred years of human rights violations and terrorism. The genocide against the native Indian population, the two atom bombs detonated on civilian population, the scores of invasions which have caused the death of many, in Latin America; the plots and schemes which have resulted ultimately in the deaths of millions in Latin America alone, makes the US in my book the number one executioner; he is the one that should be on trial; he shouldn't judge others; instead he should be judged.
In light of all this, what we are talking about has nothing to do with human rights violations on the part of Cuba. Sure they may be human rights violation in Cuba but when we look at them and do away with the rhetoric and the exaggerations, we find that Cuba would be towards the end of the list. There are and have been worse violators of human rights. In Cuba there are no political murders, no nuns or priests murdered, no peasants murdered by paramilitary rightwing thugs. Furthermore, unlike some Latin American countries where there are street children living, and working on the streets and where daily, street children are murdered by the capitalist exploiters, Cuba has none.
But I guess children don't deserve to have human rights. Of course it is very convenient to ignore this very painful situation, specially if you think about the fact that these children are being exploited for capitalistic reasons; all these capitalists countries and their cronies don't want to touch this one. As far as I'm concerned - and I think of all of us of good faith - the worse human rights violation is when you allow a child as young as 8 or 9 to work for a living, to live on the streets without hope; to be exploited by the system. It's like Frei Betto a Catholic theologian once expressed on the question of democracy and human rights, that, "in Europe animals have more rights than the people of Latin America".
After more than 40 years of economic and military aggression on the part of the US, and the "exile", including countless acts of terrorism and biological warfare, all of which have failed, the new tactic is to use the human rights issue. They use the human rights issues as a smoke screen for their political agenda. This is the new modus operandi. They go to Geneva to condemn Cuba as a gross violator of human rights. This is by far the biggest scam yet, for if you know the history of the exile community like I do - I grew up among them - you would know that the exiles have been gross violators of human rights; they represent neither democracy nor human rights; their bloody history shows they represent the opposite, repression, greed and intolerance.
Don't kid yourself, all of the actions and efforts on the part of the US and the exile are focused on one aim: the destruction of Cuba's socialist government followed by the imposition of a "democratic" govt. under the auspices of imperial US.; to set up in the island a govt. run by the old masters - the Batistianos - and their spawn.