It’s been a full year since President Obama announced he would recognize the dictatorship of Raul Castro, and the tally so far is grim. Cuba is further than ever from becoming a democracy where people enjoy normal civil liberties; it is in fact closer to becoming what China specialist have identified as a rival model, a “resilient authoritarian regime.”
Just last week, the Castro regime thumbed its nose at the
world by
arresting between 150-200 dissidents on Human Rights Day. The dictator,
Raul Castro, knows he can act with impunity because the world has never
complained about what he does, and now that, too, includes the United States.
For 34 consecutive Sundays—that is, almost since
President Obama extended his hand in friendship to the country’s
oppressors—regime-organized mobs have blocked a brave group of middle-aged
women known as the Ladies
in White from marching after church service. These women are always
insulted, often beaten and occasionally arrested.
Meanwhile, Castro has put family members in
charge of a corrupt regime that can now expect to have durability after the two
Castro brothers pass from the scene. Castro’s son-in-law, Gen. Luis Alberto
Rodriguez, controls an estimated 90 percent of the Cuban economy through the
holding company he leads, GAESA. As Bloomberg put it recently about would-be
foreign investors, “wait until they learn all roads lead to Raul Castro’s
son-in-law.....To Read More.....
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