Delighting in U.S. Leadership Void, Castro Regime Rounds-Up Record # of Political Prisoners in 2014

Reaganite Republican ^ | 22 October 2014 | Reaganite Republican

[Reaganite Republican]

What happened to Raul Castro's 'reforms'?

Watchdog/advocacy group 'The Cuban Commission for Human Rights" (CCHR) has now documented over 8000 political arrests -that we know of-
by the vile Castro regime this year, already beating last year's (2013) tally of 6424 hapless souls thrown in filthy Cuban prisons to slave, starve, and die.

10,000 new prisoners is well within the realm of possibility now, trouncing previous records of 2074 political arrests in 2010, 4123 arrests in 2011, and 6602 in 2012.

So there's no denying that the year 2014 -under the leadership of 'reformer' Raul Castro- has brought the harshest Stalinist repression in the history of an already-very-repressive-country.

Do keep in mind that these numbers merely represent political arrests that have been thoroughly documented...  untold others are suspected. 

And with Obama asleep-at-the-wheel and Europeans spending big money at Cuba's lucrative government-owned resorts- there is basically no righteous pressure on the Castros whatsoever...

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[Reaganite Republican]

***ping***

[fruser1]

I don’t think the number of arrests in cuba have ever depended on US action or presence worldwide.

Maybe a false belief that Raul is a softie compared to Castro is emboldening activists.

Or, it might have something to do w/global warming. Natives getting restless in the heat and all that.

[Reaganite Republican]

I believe Reagan had them back on their heels... they knew the world was watching anyway, unlike now were Europeans vacation there and look the other way

[webheart]

What’s with all the hyphens? Aalready-very-repressive-country doesn’t need any hyphens. Just say already very repressive country. Asleep-at-the-wheel doesn’t need any hyphens. It’s an idiom. Just say asleep at the wheel. Rounds-up is not a noun. A round-up is where they gather a bunch of cattle together, but they round them up, they don’t round-up them. Go round up the cattle.