Cuba Lauded by the UN Human Rights Council for its respect for Human Rights

[minionofmidas]

UN Human Rights Council=probably the most missnamed organization in the world

Makes the UN a bigger joke than it already was.



Now please...PLEASE somebody defend them or Cuba.  I need a good forum related laugh.

What can I say... yes the UN Human Rights Council is something of a joke.

For a fifty year old dictatorial regime, Cuba sure has an excellent human rights record... you're looking really, really ridiculous when you treat Castro as "Axis of Evil" material... not that that's reason enough to be jubilant if I were Cuban.

[minionofmidas]

no offense, but what makes you think human rights are violated in Cuba?

One small one is that you can't, you know, leave.

Last I checked, almost 10% of the Cuban-born population of the world lived elsewhere.

[minionofmidas]

no offense, but what makes you think human rights are violated in Cuba?

One small one is that you can't, you know, leave.

Last I checked, almost 10% of the Cuban-born population of the world lived elsewhere.

And changes are that they got there floating on a door.

I may remind you...

In 1995 the US government entered into an agreement with the Cuban government to resolve the emigration crisis that created the Mariel Boatlift of 1980, when Castro opened the docks to anyone who wanted to leave. The result of the negotiations was an agreement under which the United States was required to issue 20,000 visas annually to Cuban emigrants. This quota is rarely filled; the Bush administration has refused to comply with the act, issuing only 505 visas to Cubans in the first six months of 2003. It has also blocked some Cubans who have visas.

[minionofmidas]

If I drove three miles north of here and stood on a street corner handing out pamphlets about Cuba's "respect for human rights", I'd get lynched.

Oh, I don't think anyone is denying that.