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MichaeltheGreat
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mooning the house that Ruth built.
Oct 1999
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Originally posted by faded glory
No, three reasons
1) Casto is a scumbag dictator who oppresses those who disagree and sends them packing on dingy boats to florida. |
As opposed to Bautista, who was a worse scumbag dictator, but American companies could deal with him to plunder Cuba's resources, as long as Bautista and his wife got their standard 10% kickback. Or in contrast to the enlightened, democratic rulers the US has supported elsewhere in this hemisphere.
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2)Castro almost brought us to WW3. We can never forgive him for doing this. |
Nope, we did that ourselves. The Cuban missile crisis was a direct response to the US putting missile batteries in Turkey pointed right at the underbelly of the USSR. Khrushchev decided to return the favor.
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3) We dont need his sugar,him and his expanisionist agenda's can stay right on that island (Grenada) |
Oh, but there's those good seegars, good rum, hot little Cubanas, white sand beaches. 
And who cares if he's got an expansionist agenda? It's not like we have a monopoly on that now, is it?
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David Floyd
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The bottom of a large bottle of beer
Jan 1970
time: 05:17
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2 Million Cuban Americans can "VOTE" here. Citizans in Cuba can't They are a strong political force. No one really wants to piss them off... |
Most of whom live in one place - Florida. One place with the 4th most electoral votes in the nation. One place with 2 million voters voting one way WILL swing the electoral votes to one candidate or another. Cuban Americans are, unfortunately, one group that has too much power, especially relative to their overall size.
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nt (obviously)
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Originally posted by paiktis22
nt (obviously) |
why do you lie
oh, I think that Castro is a bad distator but there is no reason for us to continue the Embargo
if he was anti-US there would be
Jon Miller
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Pittsburgh, PA
Apr 1999
time: 00:17
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Castro, darling of the international left. Too bad he's a dictator and a thug.
From www.amnesty.org
(A leftist organization which favors an end to the embargo)
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Individuals and groups peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly continued to face repression. Some conditional releases of prisoners of conscience gave rise to hopes that the attitude of the Cuban government towards dissidents might be thawing, but new sentences and a serious escalation in repression during the closing months of 2000 discouraged such optimism. Journalists, political opponents and human rights defenders were subjected to severe harassment. Several hundred people, at least 13 of whom were prisoners of conscience, remained imprisoned for political offences. The authorities continued to use short term detention, house arrest, threats and harassment to stifle and discourage political dissent. The courts continued to apply the death penalty. |
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In Cuba, repression of dissent is legitimized by the Constitution and the Penal Code. Some offences against state security, such as ''enemy propaganda'', as well as offences against authority, such as ''disrespect'', have been widely applied to silence critics. Others, like ''dangerousness'', are ill-defined and open to politically motivated misuse. At times, dissidents have been convicted of criminal offences believed to have been fabricated in order to discredit them or their organization or in retaliation for peaceful expression of their beliefs. Detained dissidents have on occasion been held for long periods without trial, or convicted after procedures that did not meet international standards for fair trial. |
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A number of members and supporters of opposition groups were detained without trial. More than 100 were rounded up and held briefly in the days around 10 December. |
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AI(Amnesty International) last visited Cuba in 1988. Since then the government has not responded to the organization's requests to be allowed into the country. |
www.hrw.org
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The Cuban government's intolerance of democracy and free expression remained unique in the region. A one-party state, Cuba restricted nearly all avenues of political dissent. Although dissidents occasionally faced criminal prosecution, the government relied more frequently on short-term detentions, house arrest, travel restrictions, threats, surveillance, politically-motivated dismissals from employment, and other forms of harassment. |
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Cuba's restrictions on human rights were undergirded by the country's legal and institutional structure. The rights to freedom of expression, association, assembly, movement, and of the press were strictly limited under Cuban law. |
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The government continued to prosecute people for "illegal exit" if they attempted to leave the island without first obtaining official permission to do so. Such permission was sometimes denied arbitrarily, or made contingent on the purchase of an expensive exit permit. |
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Another prominent activist who was still behind bars as of November was thirty-nine-year-old Dr. Oscar Elías Biscet González. Biscet received a three-year prison sentence in February 2000 for protests that included turning the Cuban flag upside-down and carrying anti-abortion placards |
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Whether detained for political or common crimes, inmates were subjected to abusive prison conditions. Prisoners frequently suffered malnourishment and languished in overcrowded cells without appropriate medical attention. Some endured physical and sexual abuse, typically by other inmates with the acquiescence of guards, or long periods in punitive isolation cells. Prison authorities insisted that all detainees participate in politically oriented "re-education" sessions or face punishment. Political prisoners who denounced the poor conditions of imprisonment were frequently punished with solitary confinement, restricted visits, or denial of medical treatment. |
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Penal code changes dating from the late 1990s had extended capital punishment to cases of drug trafficking with aggravating circumstances. |
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The authorities routinely detained and questioned independent journalists, monitored their telephone calls and visitors, restricted their travel, and put them under house arrest to prevent coverage of certain events. In May, in recognition of such tactics, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a U.S.-based press freedom group, named President Fidel Castro as one of the Ten Worst Enemies of the Press for 2001. |
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The government recognized only one labor union, the Worker's Central of Cuba (Central de Trabajadores de Cuba, CTC). Independent labor unions were denied formal status and their members were harassed. Workers employed in businesses backed by foreign investment remained under tight government control. Under restrictive labor laws, the authorities had a prominent role in the selection, payment, and dismissal of workers, effectively denying workers the right to bargain directly with employers over benefits, promotions, and wages. |
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Human rights defenders were systematically harassed. The authorities routinely used surveillance, phone tapping, and intimidation in its efforts to restrict independent monitoring of the government's human rights practices. In some instances, they employed arbitrary searches, short-term arrests, evictions, travel restrictions, politically-motivated dismissals from employment, threats and other forms of harassment against local activists. |
The left discredits itself by venerating these thugs. If Castro wants trade with the USA, he should restore siezed US property.
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07-02-2002 02:35
. As said, all things considered, Cuba isn't that bad...when compared to North Korea. That Gov is really fascist scum of the earth 
, mind me for saying. It's not like ideologies and nations are going to fall just because they don't trade with US 
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