April 21, 2005
fidel strikes out
fidel castro's resolution to the UN Human Rights Commission was shot down.
In a resolution (E/CN.4/2005/L.94/Rev.1) on the question of detainees in the area of the United States naval base in Guantanamo, rejected by a roll-call vote of eight in favour to 22 against, with 23 abstentions, the Commission would have requested the Government of the United States to authorize an impartial and independent fact-finding mission by the relevant special procedures of the Commission on Human Rights on the situation of detainees at its naval base in Guantanamo.The result of the vote was as follows:
In favour (8): China, Cuba, Guatemala, Malaysia, Mexico, South Africa, Sudan and Zimbabwe.
Against (22): Armenia, Australia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Eritrea, Finland, France, Germany, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Mauritania, Netherlands, Peru, Republic of Korea, Romania, United Kingdom and United States.
Abstentions (23): Argentina, Bhutan, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Canada, Congo, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Indonesia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Swaziland, Togo and Ukraine.
The US response was as follows:
LINO PIEDRA (United States) in an explanation of the vote before the vote, said the United States opposed and would call for a vote on the resolution. It was a blatant retaliatory act for the adoption of L.31 and had nothing to do with human rights. It was a mirror highlighting the contrast between a country like the United States, and a country like Cuba. It was ironic that the country sponsoring the resolution had denied access to Special Rapporteurs and the Red Cross. Cuba had long lost the high ground when it came to Commission mechanisms. Countries should reject this resolution, which called for an impartial investigation in Guantanamo. This was already occurring, and was being done by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which had had repeated and regular access to the detainees, monitoring that they were being treated acceptably, and had met with officials of the United States Government at the highest levels. The issue raised difficult issues that could raise passions and criticisms, but the international community had been witness to unimaginable situations in Cuba, including it refusing access to detainees to monitor their situation. Both American and international media continued to provide comprehensive coverage and analysis of this issue.Regarding the substance of the resolution, the United States had maintained a dialogue with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Special Rapporteurs on this issue, and had provided written information and responses, and provided briefings. The question of access was one that continued to be under serious consideration and review. The resolution was based upon a false premise. Even the totality of these factual considerations did not justify this resolution, which was out of order, out of place, and unworthy of consideration by the Commission, and it should be rejected.
Game over, fidelito. You lose.
H/T Miguel.
Posted by Val Prieto at April 21, 2005 05:22 PM
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Now we can add "el maximo descarado" --or roughly translated, the "maximum hypocrite" to his lengthy list of titles, because this is the very same individual who hasn't let the United Nations human rights representatives into his own country (which he and his marionettes claim is the "biggest" and "purest" democracy in the entire planet!) and who, just a week or so ago, said he didn't care "un bledo" (in other words, didn't give a fig) for the very mechanisms that he sought to put into motion against the United States.
He must have his entire digestive system "en remojo" after having to swallow all this bitter bile!
Posted by: Julio C. Zangroniz at April 21, 2005 07:20 PM
A tyrant is such until the day people lose all fear for him. And exactly that has happened to cagastro. He is just a pathetic elderly criminal. Nobody fears him anymore. The worst part is to see how low has he sunk Cuba with the help and complicity of his lefty-cheerleaders. He is just tumbling down, and we are lucky enough to see his final fall one of these days... As Val wrote, it would come the day we least expect it and joy will fill the hearts of many millions of people (sorry lefto-pinkos for your heartbreak)
Until that moment, it's our duty to unsettle him and his cohorts (here and there) by all means. Blogging hurts him, so let's keep on Blogging for the Free Cuba!
Posted by: CB at April 21, 2005 08:54 PM
Today I had a long conversation with a new friend of my wife’s, a 27 year old Brazilian girl living in the USA for 10 years.
VERY well educated, well traveled, wealthy family. The works.
My wife casually mentioned the “Tarjeta de racionamiento” in Cuba and she looked at us as if we were out of our minds. Then she just wanted to know EVERYTHING about Cuba and she couldn’t get enough…. The part that bears telling within this thread is her disposition about Castro, she says “But, he is only a CLOWN isn’t he?’ I mean LOOK AT HIM!
According to her MOST young people in Brazil think Castro is just a figure head and that he could NOT be REALLY leading the country. That the usual way any Cuban issue is treated in Brazilian newspapers is that the Cuban people have chosen to remain isolated with this lunatic as a banner carrier ring master but with able people in the background running a tiny little NOTHING island. Cuba is (as far as the Brazilian pop-culture goes) a total non-entity of not more importance than some little island in the middle of the pacific.
It took a good part of 2 hours to explain to her that Cuba used the be the 3rd richest country in the Americas, and how Castro has destroyed EVERYTHING we once had.
She was flabbergasted, literally jaw dropped and eyes wide open asking, and WHY DOESN’T SOMEONE KILL THAT CLOWN! (They DO find him funny in Brazil, go figure that!) Another 20 minutes of explaining the lack of arms in Cuba, his multiple doubles, his custom of never sleeping in the same place twice etc. I tell you this girl’s head was spinning!
She mentioned that Lula NEVER refers to Castro with any sense of seriousness and that in more than one occasion Lula has mentioned that the only thing Castro has left are empty threats. Like a petulant little child “If you don’t do what *I* want I will bring you so much trouble, you’ll wish you were dead”
Of course THIS makes him a total fool in the eyes of the Brazilians. What statesman would stoop to this? So they just think, “we’ll he is a senile prick, speaking out of his ass”
My reply was that THAT exactly is the problem , the rest of Latin American see him as a buzzing fly, you deal with it for 30 seconds and get back to dinner.
Now, she fully understood HER country had NO sugar industry before Castro, that by the grace of Castro’s utter stupidity, Brazil has been able to tap into a few economic areas in which they were never contenders in pre-Castro days, like Sugar and Coffee.
The OAS doesn’t even want to tackle the Cuba issue , why should they ? Cuba proposes a stupid resolution at the UN assembly and the world goes GO FUCK YOURSELF…
It is VERY interesting to see Castro through the eyes of a 27 year old Brazilian woman. He means NOTHING. There’s no HATE but there’s no passion or LOVE it is just a THING – a complete non-entity. A Zombie that dresses in fatigues and performs 5 hours ventriloquist tricks. That is it.
AND as his reign continues that seems to be his destiny, to go NOT with a bang but with a whisper and perhaps a giggle. Unfortunately for us Cubans we know that is NOT his plan. At this moment , the blackest hour in his 50 years of darkness , his evil soul can not tolerate that he has become a JOKE , a parody . He LONGS for that BANG, and god protect our brothers and sisters in Cuba, because I deeply fear he WILL make it happen.
Posted by: KillCastro at April 22, 2005 12:30 AM
Hey guys, if anybody is receiving e-mails from amc@uri.edu and they have an attachment containing a virus let me know. I noticed that I get aone of those messages whenever I post a comment that particularly lashes the left and cagastro. It comes as a .zip attached to the message.
I suspect that it is a so called tracer, used to pinpoint the location of a computer. Maybe courtesy of a member of the G2 at University of Rhode Island (or at a site that mimics its mail format)
Posted by: cb at April 22, 2005 07:17 AM


