They've been missing lately from the Uncommon Sense diet, but there's always plenty of rice and beans — except for maybe in Cuba — to go around.
Will there be room in a free and democratic Cuba for a communist party?
If there isn't, and a post-Castro government bans the communists — as the Castros have banned all non-communist political groups — can Cuba be really free and democratic?
Should Cubans-in-exile who have called for negotiations with the Castros, be subject to criminal prosecution by a future "free and democratic" Cuba?
And don't those planning for Cuba's future, have a vision that goes beyond settling old scores?
My answers: Yes, no, hell no and I sure hope so.
Cuban Triangle, here and here, and Mambi Watch, here and here, offer food for thought.
Some of the rhetoric coming from Unidad Cubana, but I have no quarrel with five of its main points:
— Freeing of political prisoners.
— Creating a transition government.
— Creating a new constitution.
— Recognizing political parties.
— Writing a new electoral law that would allow elections that “guarantee the participation of all the Cuban nation.”
Spain's Socialist government again has chosen the dark side in Cuba, refusing to invite dissidents to attend its national day festivities Oct. 12 in Havana, so as to not hurt Madrid's new-found relationship with the dictatorship.
It's another sign of Spain's appeasement of tyranny, which is no surprise, but what I don't understand is this quote from Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel "Don't call me Chamberlain" Moratinos:
"We have had success with the dialogue over human rights and concrete results. Political prisoners are free to walk the streets, we have the capacity to intervene and we are promoting the interests of our country," he told parliament."
Apparently, amorality causes very fuzzy thinking, and no, his meaning did not get lost in translation.
Cuban dissident leader Martha Beatriz Roque is unimpressed.
"Spain is supporting the dictatorship of Fidel Castro," she told Misceláneas de Cuba, in an interview. Spain's "only interest is to ingratiate itself with the Spanish companies on the island, to provide them security and confidence."
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