Panamanian authorities’ warning shot to anyone not willing to kiss Raul Castro’s ring:
Rosa María Payá, the daughter of the late Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá, was briefly detained on Sunday at Panama’s airport and threatened with deportation to Cuba if she caused any public disturbances at the Summit of the Americas, according to an account she gave on Twitter.
Payá was released after being questioned and her personal items were subjected to a careful review by authorities, in what was later described by the Foreign Ministry of Panama as “a bureaucratic error.”
Big Brother’s “bureaucratic error,” that is.
“Summits are a waste of time and money for real countries,” as Mary O’Grady stated,
But this one will be useful for Cuba, which will be allowed to join the group for the first time, and on its own terms. It’s hard to put a finger on the lowest point in Obama foreign policy, but its abject submissiveness regarding this meeting in the U.S. backyard is a serious contender.
Back in 2001,
OAS members signed the “Democratic Charter,” requiring the suspension of nondemocratic governments.
That was then. Now, not only is the murderous Communist regime attending, Panama is warning dissidents to keep quiet.
What a disgrace.
