"CUBA ADMITS TO HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES"

The title of this post would have been a more apt and accurate headline for this Reuters article today, which talks about the report on human rights on the island released Friday to the UN by the dictatorship. But instead, Reuters lifted their headline straight out of the propaganda provided to them by the regime.

Cuba says U.S. embargo blocking human rights

HAVANA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Cuba has blamed the long-standing United States trade embargo for limiting human rights on the communist-run island, in a report to the United Nations released on Friday.

"The policy of hostility, blockade and aggression by successive U.S. governments against Cuba has been a serious obstacle to full enjoyment of human rights and fundamental liberties of Cubans," said the report, which Cuba submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council.

To Reuters, however, this is not so much a story about Cuba than it is a story about the US and its policy towards the communist dictatorship. Just like the regime, Reuters does not want the reader focusing on the abuses being committed on the island, they instead want the reader to focus on the US government's embargo of the regime. Like I have mentioned here many times before, to the MSM and the Castro apologists this is not about Cuba, or about Cubans, or about liberty, or about justice; this is about the US.

So a few hundred-thousand Cubans have been tortured and jailed, tens of thousands executed, and eleven-million are kept as slaves--that's a small price to pay for these people to get their point across.

Posted by Alberto de la Cruz at January 17, 2009 06:44 AM

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Posted by: j2tharome at January 17, 2009 07:48 PM