Message to the European Union

The castro regime, faced with even more dire economic repercussions, recently released a handful of political prisoners in order to appease the European Union and reinstate diplomatic ties with same. The EU, ever the self-serving, omnipotent tourist, anti-American entity that it is - has fallen for castro's smoke and mirrors and relented.

EU and Cuba relations warm up.

Of course, the castro regime, ever in control of any poltical situation, has begun to cozy up once again with a select few members of the EU.

But the EU list is far from complete. Fidel Castro’s government only plans on reviving ties to those EU members who no longer invite dissidents to official embassy affairs in the Caribbean island’s capital. Among those not included are the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

The Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Cuba has no interest in renewing diplomatic ties with these four nations. Why? Because these nations opposed any softening of the diplomatic restrictions imposed by the EU for castro's encarceration and mistreatment of dissidents and prisoners of conscience.

But the remaining members of the European Union, perhaps faced with the possibility of no Cuban cigars and Cuban rum and - God forbid! - no more quaint, inexpensive, sex tourism for their omnipotent citizens, have lifted their diplomatic sanctions agaisnt their bearded pimp. After all, what would castro's Cuba be without fat, sun-burned Europeans strolling the Malecón with their paid-in-full, mullata jineteras at their side?

The following is an open letter to the members of the leaders European Union from Cuban exiles groups regarding their lifting of diplomatic sanctions via Net For Cuba International. I post it here as I feel obliged to do so, even though I find it somewhat unrealistic and incredibly optimistic in its expectations from the European Union.

Cuban Exile condemns European Union's position regarding Cuba

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE

The organizations listed below want to present to the world-wide public opinion the following message:

The present Spanish administration heads the position of those who struggle in the Old Continent to reduce the sanctions against Havana, underhandedly trying to isolate those who want to maintain them. Apparently during the secret agreement made in Havana November 26 2004 between the government of Cuba and government of Spain, it was agreed between both parties that Cuba would release some of the hundreds of political prisoners and in return the Spanish government would present this as a test of good will by the Cuban dictatorship to the Committee of the Council for Latin America (COLAT)

This disguised and dishonest game already produced results between the members of the Committee of the Council for Latin America(COLAT) and perhaps are getting results among other corrupt representatives of some of the members of the European Union. We do truly believe that no government needs more tests and elements, than forty-six years of a mono-partisan dictatorship, hundreds exterminated by the regime, hundreds of pacifist citizens jailed, an exile of more than two million Cubans and the endorsement that the very same Commission of Human rights of the United Nations even offers, where from its core and for more than one consecutive decade condemns the Cuban dictatorship for its constants and repeated violations to the Human rights.

The dictatorship in existence since 1959, late and after four decades the European Union took some small positive steps in favor of opening the necessary space for our dissidence and pacifist opposition, small compared with the size of the real cruelty implemented by the Cuban government. Although we had wanted more support and solidarity from the men and governments of good will, we accepted because our people suffer.

Now all the indicators point towards a shameful return of the European Union to their old positions of complicity with the dictatorship.

Few and manipulated liberations of political prisoners who never should have been imprisoned, is no sufficient reason to yield before a regime that publicly "releases" and behind the scenes retrieves more victims as it’s done from the beginning.

To ignore the right that our opposition has to participate in the democratic activities of its representations in the island is a right of freedom, if some European governments do not want to recognize that right and does not want to share with our opposition, it would be preferable that it closed his representation in our island.

We want to clarify to the world that we will condemn openly and with all our forces any change that the European Union makes in favor of the Cuban dictatorship and against our political prisoners, our freedom fighters, and our people.

We want to go on record that we will not remain with our arms crossed before the enemies of our freedom.

With God’s help, the accumulated sanity and political wisdom will reveal to the European governments that their position is on the side of the Cuban people and not of his old and discredited dictatorship.

Ing. César L. Alarcón
Presidente Movimiento Cubano Unidad Democrática.

Rigoberto Carceller
Coordinador General Plataforma Cuba Democracia Ya.

Ernesto Díaz Rodríguez
Secretario General Alpha 66

Ahmed Y. Martel
Director Net for Cuba International.

Cmte. Húber Matos B.
Secretario General de Cuba Independiente y Democrática (CID)

Dr. Wilfredo Ventura
Director World Health Care International

Posted by Val Prieto at January 6, 2005 09:23 AM

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