Rand Paul’s support of detente with Cuba is like how Jeb Bush supports Common Core, the facts and details don’t matter, the image & perception, maintained by being ignorant of the details, are all that matter. Paul thinks he can ignore the reality of Castro’s government and its history just as Bush thinks the content of the Common Core curriculum is irrelevant to qualifying it as a good policy.
Rand Paul and Obama support torture in Castro’s prison island.
ARMANDO VALLADARES
Painter, poet and writer, Valladares suffered 22 years in Castro’s dungeons as political prisoner of the Cuban Communist regime. Valladares received the Liberty Award from de Pen Club and adopted by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience. He was liberated thanks to the intervention in his favor by the President of France, Francois Mitterand.
Valladares served on the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush Sr. President Reagan, after reading Valladares’ prison memories “Contra Toda Esperanza”, he appointed him as head of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Commission in Human Rights in Geneva.
Due to Valladares’ successful intervention, the Cuban regime was condemned for the first time by the Commission for its gross violation of human rights. Ronald Reagan awarded Valladares the second highest civil decoration of the United States, the Presidential Medal. He was also honored in receiving the Superior Award, which is the highest distinction given to diplomats by the Department of State.
The Valladares Foundation defends the children rights. He is the author of Alma del Poeta, Desde mi Silla de Ruedas, El Corazón Con Que Vivo y Cavernas del Silencio.
According to Valladares: “During those years, with the purpose of forcing us to abandon our religious beliefs and to demoralize us, the Cuban Communist indoctrinators repeatedly used the statements made by some representatives of the American Christian churches. Every time a pamphlet was published in U.S., every time a clergyman would write an article in support of Castro’s dictatorship, a translation would be given to us, and that was far worse for the Christian political prisoners than the beatings or the hunger. Incomprehensible to us, while we waited for the embrace of solidarity from our brothers in Christ, those who were embraced were our tormentors.”