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naaman fletcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 03:32 PM
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Cuba: Raúl Castro Imprisons Critics, Crushes Dissent
From the fascists at human rights watch:

Raúl Castro's government has locked up scores of people for exercising their fundamental freedoms and allowed scores more political prisoners arrested during Fidel Castro's rule to languish in detention. Rather than dismantle Cuba's repressive machinery, Raúl Castro has kept it firmly in place and fully active.



http://www.hrw.org/americas/cuba
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protocol rv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 03:57 PM
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1. Satire: I spit on Human Rights Watch, pfuaa!
The corpo fascists at Human Rights Watch are known to be in the CIA's pockets. As you know the US builds bases in Colombia, and in Colombia a mass grave is reported to have been found. And the government of Colombia sent their planes to Ecuador, in a deep incursion into Ecuadorian territory, about 1500 meters from the border, they dropped bombs, and killed a FARC leader. And on top of that they had the gills to claim a computer survived and had all this information about the FARC to shame President Correa and his friends.

As everybody knows, the FARC doesn't buy bomb proof suitcases for their portable computers, and it's well known they eat only suitable vegetables they grow in the jungle, like ocumo and other roots. And we have to remember they are also holding many hostages which they offered to return if they get something in return, and President Chavez tried to get them to release these guys, so he invited the FARC leader to visit him (with the Colombian's permission, who had deep interest to take pictures of these FARC guys when they came out of the jungle).

Which reminds me Cuba has a huge health industry, something above 20,000 Cuban doctors work in Venezuela. Cuba also has a light bulb business. I don't know exactly what they do to get those lightbulbs, because as far as I know there are no lightbulb factories in Cuba (they do make good wax candles). These lightbulbs they install in Venezuelan homes, but I'm not sure how much they get paid for it. But it can't be much because these Cubans are all skinny so they probably don't eat much.

And Cuban doctors go from Cuba to Haiti to help the poor Haitians, many of them being crazy because they had buildings fall on their heads. As you know, many intellectuals protest because Cuba has been condemned by the European Union for its human rights violations. What do the Europeans know about this, when they are people descended from Cristobal Colon and Hitler? And the Spanish are well known to be wrong all the time, they are famous for paying incredible salaries to lousy football players who go to Real Madrid and yet they can't win a cup if it kills them. So this idea their judge has about ETA training FARC in Venezuela is pure imagination. Which reminds me the only reason that judge decided to start saying those things is because he received the same information from the famous computer they blew up in Ecuador. And we already discussed this subject, a computer doesn't survive a bomb unless it's inside a bomb proof suitcase. And if you saw the Oscar winning film The Hurt Locker, you know when a bomb goes off it really blows up things.

This is all I have to say about Human Rights Watch.

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Zorro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-20-10 05:17 PM
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2. Pretty good summary but you left out one thing
The US has reconstituted the Fourth Fleet to attack Venezuela and take control over the oil fields, and is preparing the airfield on Curacao as a forward staging base.

Oh, and the 30,000 Cubans in Venezuela are there for humanitarian reasons.
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