July 31, 2006
Venezuela and Human Rights
Carlos Sabino wrote an excellent editorial on Venezuela's Mari Pili Hernádez's recent remarks before the U.N. Council on Human Rights about her nations policy. Sadly, castro's Cuba is their model.
With surprising frankness, Venezuela's deputy minister of foreign affairs, Mari Pili Hernández, recently set out the guidelines for her government's views on the subject of human rights. Appearing before the new Council on Human Rights at the United Nations, Hernandez, who is directly connected with President Hugo Chávez himself, stated, "All rights are important, but it is a lot more important to feed oneself than to be part of a political party, to have an honorable job than to live in a democratic system, to know how to read and write than to have freedom of expression."As if any doubt remained about the meaning of her words, the Venezuelan representative added that the "economic and social" rights should play a "predominant role" over the "civilian and political" rights during the Council's debates.
The ideas of the deputy minister, who represents the official position of the Venezuelan government, reflect the same views of totalitarian states that have darkened most of the 20th Century. Imagine a country where the people can read and write, eat every day and hold "honorable" jobs, but where they cannot form political parties, have no freedom of expression, and where there is no democracy. A situation where "economic" rights have priority over "political" rights, that is, where people are guaranteed some goods and services, such as education, health care or housing, but where no one can hold political meetings, no one can send news abroad, and it's forbidden to access the Internet or criticize the government.
Would you like to live in such a place?
Well, if you answered yes you can do so without much difficulty. All you need to do is ask for the proper visa and travel to fidel castro's Cuba. There, in exchange for an obsolete, primitive and very unequal system, as well as an education that is mostly government political propaganda, the citizens have no right to decide what their jobs will be, cannot engage in commerce or industry, cannot travel abroad or emigrate, and are obliged to show up at all the public demonstrations organized by the regime. This is also a country where people who commandeer a boat to escape from tyranny are sentenced to death, or are sentenced to 25 years in a grim prison for the "crime" of sending news reports abroad.
Read the rest at Mexidata.
Posted by Ziva at July 31, 2006 03:51 PM
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This all doesn't matter. The US too busy for Latin America. The Mideast makes better election year press. This lack of Latin American policy will bite us worse than the islamic nuts ever did.
We have many illegals in the country who are sympathetic to the nuts che/chavez/castro. Remember the immigration protests. They were waving pictures of che. And these guys live next door! If obrador pulls off his coup things will be even worse. We better get loud before its too late. There will never be a better time to free Cuba. The longer we wait the less likely that it will happen.
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at July 31, 2006 04:38 PM
They are getting so fucking bold that they are actually telling the truth about their putrid philosophy. Time to start getting nervous...
Posted by: George L. Moneo at July 31, 2006 05:16 PM
When Cuba got her seat on the Human Rights Council that gave them an international stamp of approval. Don't you know, democracy is now a relative term, nothing to do with freedom, ditto "rights". Wrong is right, right is wrong, and reality is whatever the "official" press says it is. Welcome to the left.
Posted by: Ziva at July 31, 2006 05:23 PM
CNN says:
Cuban President Fidel Castro is transferring power provisionally to brother Raul while he undergoes an operation, Cuban TV announces.
!!!
Posted by: Eleggua at July 31, 2006 09:30 PM
Val! Val! Where the hell are you??? Are stuck on the Palemetto???
Posted by: Piruli at July 31, 2006 09:42 PM
Question, everyone. Why would the Cuban government be ever so 'truthful' and publicly announce that the foul barbudo is having 'emergency surgery'? When they could have kept this underwraps without word getting out?
Posted by: Piruli at July 31, 2006 09:45 PM
He's been to hospital before, dammit, he never signed over power!
Maybe another test to get Cubans used to Raul but maybe it's REAL
Sepsis, oh let it be sepsis.
Posted by: Eleggua at July 31, 2006 09:45 PM
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