At Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter: Policy paper shows correlation between US engagement and rising repression in Cuba
Summary:
- Levels of violence and numbers of arbitrary detentions have grown exponentially during the 18 months of secret negotiations between the Castro regime and the Obama administration.
- Human Rights defenders were victims of brutal, life threatening machete attacks in the same month that secret negotiations between the Obama administration and the Castro dictatorship started.
- The December 17, 2014 announcement of normalized relations was surrounded by repression, violence and death.
- There has been an explosion of arbitrary detentions in Cuba, jumping from an average of 550 per month to 742.
- The Castro regime has been implicated in heightening repression against pro-democracy activists in Venezuela, including extrajudicial killings.
Read the full paper here.
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you assume Kerry and Obama care. It’s all about the Legacy™ regardless of the oppression, human rights abuses, etc. If they could do the same here, they would – for the Children