The World Stage and its Useless Condemnations and Speeches Against Cuba.
By a count of 393 to 150, the European Parliament voted on Thursday, December 16, to condemn the communist regime in Cuba for its brutal crackdown following the Civic March for Change (15N) on November 15. Even including the 119 abstentions, the European deputies solidly supported chastising the Cuban dictatorship’s reaction to the popular demands for systemic change on the island. Additionally, the parliament’s declaration called for the release of the over 800 political prisoners languishing in jail since the 11th of July Cuban Insurrection (11J).
The same day, the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States (OAS) issued a statement requisitioning the unconditional release of Cuban political prisoners. In the document, the OAS General Secretariat also stated that it “urges Cuba to immediately allow a visit to the country by a Humanitarian Mission of the universal and/or inter-American system for the protection of Human Rights that can verify the state and situation of political prisoners.”
These diplomatic courses are of great moral fortitude. The symbolism behind the world’s most successful democracies repudiating Castro-Communism’s survival maneuvers exercised against the Cuban people is impacting. Are they, however, sufficient remedies? Can diplomatic moral reprimands bring about the end, or even the minimization, of human rights abuses? Experience tells us this is not the case when dealing with totalitarian models of political operation.
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