December 10 is International Human Rights Day, so you might think it is an exercise in futility for a Cuban opposition group to petition the Castro dictatorship for official permission to present activities to commemorate the day. After all, this year's day will mark the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document that represents everything the dictatorship is not.
But the move by the Agenda for Transition, made up of some of Cuba's most prominent dissidents, was not a wasted effort, because it revealed, again, what a bunch of cowards make up the dictatorship. They not dare allow activities that celebrate the value of human rights — and reveal how respect for those rights is so sorely lacking in Cuba —because to do so would undermine their own legitimacy.
Meanwhile, expect the dissidents will have plenty to say and protest on Dec. 10.
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