Comments on: Cuba: Human Rights Day

By: Global Voices Online » Cuba: The Revolution, 50 Years After

Global Voices Online » Cuba: The Revolution, 50 Years After — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:23:41 +0000

[...] as to how Barack Obama could respond to the US/Cuban embargo (among other issues, such as human rights abuses on the island), popular Cuban blogger Generation Y prefers instead to look forward: Men succeed [...]

By: Rick Viera

Rick Viera — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:44:34 +0000

When my grandmothers were ill & dying it was Fidel’s gov. that kept me from being at their bedsides, not the USA.

By: Davidoff

Davidoff — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:36:20 +0000

Very interesting report.
I have a few question, rather than comments:
1. Are ALL the human rights violated in Cuba. If you say yes, please read more about Cuba, from all kind of sources, or better, visit Cuba. That will help you learn the Good and the Bad, not just the Bad, that seems to populate those blogs.
2. Are ALL human rights respected everywhere else? Let’s take for example USA: Just recently the government, with the help of phone companies, decided that it was correct to violate the privacy of American citizens…Which of those blogs have said anything about violation of Human Rights in other countries, “democratic and free” countries?
3. Isn’t it a Human Right violation that I can’t visit my family, only once every 3 years, because of an American law? Search into that too, and blog about it. I am having a baby this year, if it is God’s will, and my parents in Cuba will not see my son or daughter for 3 years.
4. Decades of politics and stupidity in both sides (USA and Cuba) have made Cuban people suffer. Isn’t it time that this war (yes, wars are not always fought with guns) ends? Lift the embargo, and then the Cuban government won’t have the same old excuse/ lie.
5. I am not supporting the Cuban government, but this problem, as anything in life, is not black and white, read, visit places, talk to people, and try to see all the sides of the story.

By: Rick Viera

Rick Viera — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:18:58 +0000

As long as the dictatorial regime led by the Castro’s and the rest of their hand picked cohorts exist there will be no chance for change in their treatment of those Cubans seeking their Human Rights and freedom. I would hope that my people gain relief from their oppression at the regime’s hand be it by easing of some of the embargoes rules related to familial travel and monetary support for relatives, but not by contributing to the Castro government’s coffers.

By: luke weyland

luke weyland — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 13:14:07 +0000

Tiny Cuba with its 11 million people, remains under a US imposed 46 year old siege. US is determined to use every means possible to overthrow its leadership short of launching another invasion. Lift the blockade now . Close down Radio Marti, end US funding of groups wanting to violently overthrow the island government – and ban them as the terrorists they are. Then legitimate Cuban protest groups will have the chance to have their voices heard without being accused of being stooges from lands beyond their shores.