United States submitted its first-ever universal periodic review report before the UN's human rights council -- which counts China, Cuba … Posner replied "thanks to very many of the delegations for thoughtful comments and suggestions" shortly after Cuba said the U.S. blockade … of Cuba was a "crime of genocide," Iran "condemned and expressed its deep concern over the situation of human rights" in the United…
for 29 years.On the other side of the globe, 85 percent of Venezuelans said they don't want their country to resemble communist Cuba … The number of political prisoners in Cuba fell to the lowest level since 1959.Haiti suffered a horrendous earthquake, a cholera epidemic…
“I can see that Cuba is much more impoverished than Haiti,” observed Gelsy Lavéque, a recent Haitian visitor to Cuba. … His crime was trying to flee Cuba on a tiny raft. … So what's the alternative if you can't flee Cuba?…
Remember when filmmaker Saul Landau complimented Fidel for having "brought a greater equality in terms of wealth distribution (to Cuba … Possibly that is because in Cuba, doctors double as secret police, or is it the other way round? … At any rate, it is reassuring to know that in Cuba, house calls are made.…
employs an intelligence agent from Cuba (an official Terrorist-Sponsor) named Margarita Alarcon to consistently bash U.S. policy towards … Cuba. … "Cuba has superb systems of health care and universal education.…
Barbara Lee was in Cuba in April 2009 with a Congressional Black Caucus delegation that returned enraptured. … But, given the Congressional Black Caucus’ constant swooning over Castroite Cuba, no abhorrence of Stalinism (total or even partial … Granted, major differences abound between Stalinist Cuba and the late segregationist South Africa.…
…this is why we still don’t have a trade relationship with Cuba.” … (CIA operative in Santiago Cuba, Robert Weicha.) … So we should make it clear to Castro that we want to help Cuba.”…
Ground control to Director Wyatt: In fact, the only genuinely popular rebellion in Cuba in the 20th Century was against Che Guevara … beasts," I titled the chapter, using the phrase one used to describe their desperate freedom fight against the Soviet occupation of Cuba … Ground Control to Director Wyatt: Thank your lucky stars you were born in England in 1972 instead of in Cuba around 1940.…
Chesimard and all other individuals who have fled the United States from political persecution and received political asylum in Cuba … She eluded capture for several years until 1986 when she made her way to Cuba. There she was granted political asylum. … The ones in Cuba have already been convicted of murder in U.S. courts.…
Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan and Pakistan not to be telling Russians how they should behave in lands closer to them than Grenada or Cuba … And when we recall how JFK and Ronald Reagan reacted when Russians were meddling in Cuba and Central America, can we not understand…
“More McCarthyite rubbish from this Cuba-exile kook!” snarl liberals. … After whooping up the Reds in Spain Hemingway whooped up the Reds in Cuba. … Picture that boatload of sloppy drunkards staggering around the decks of Pilar off Cuba. "Hey Manolo!"…
regime co-founded by Che Guevara jailed 35,150 Cuban women for political crimes, a totalitarian horror utterly unknown—not only in Cuba—but … Espin in 2006 the Washington Post gushed that: “she was a champion of women’s rights and greatly improved the status of women in Cuba … Actually, in 1958 Cuba had more female college graduates as a percentage of population than the U.S.…