Cuba 'considers releasing more political prisoners'

[dipsydoodle]

The Cuban government is considering another large-scale round of political prisoner releases.

In July, President Raul Castro agreed to free 52 prisoners arrested in a crackdown on opposition groups in 2003.

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Human rights and dissident groups in Cuba have now been asked by the Catholic Church to help identify all remaining political prisoners on the island.

This has raised speculation that President Castro is considering freeing all the prisoners once a consensus can be reached on who they are.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11472901

[Billy Burnett]

1. I thought all prisoners in Cuba were political prisoners.

Personally accused, arrested and jailed by Dr Castro himself.

:rofl:

[Judi Lynn]

2. I thought it's where he keeps his sacrificial victims, and his meals!

We have been told he eats the babies all gone.

It's like a living refrigerator!

I'm certain I heard that some of the Miami "exile" lunatics claimed they couldn't let Elian return to Cuba because Fidel Castro would use him as a Santeria sacrifice.

Then, Newsmax ran a photo taken by the next door neighbor of Miguel Gonzalez' Washington lawyer, who was snapping photos out her window to sell to Newsmax the night the attorney had an outdoor party for the Gonzalez family in his back yard, and they claimed the photo she snapped of the lawn troll standing near his air conditioner unit was a statue of a Santeria deity.

U.S. American right-wing journalism at its noble best.

[flamingdem]

3. Now this is priceless!

Even better if it was a lawn jockey for extra layers of wingnuttiness.

>the photo she snapped of the lawn troll standing near his air conditioner unit was a statue of a Santeria deity.

[bherrera]

4. Only a portion are political prisoners

The crime rate in Cuba is low, but they do have criminals. Therefore a distinct approach must be made, to encourage those guys to release political prisoners. The problem is caused by the nature of Cuban law, which is very repressive, to keep the Cuban people in bondage under the control of the communists. Now they are moving away from communism, firing workers to make them businessmen. But this is not going to work if they keep the people enslaved to those who rule at the top, who are a corrupt group of people who call themselves communists. These guys, of course, are not true communists, they use the system to rule and become rich.

[flamingdem]

5. I'm curious about why you post on this topic

Your level of knowledge, sometimes admitted by you, is very low on the subject of Cuba. You use terminology that a right wing extremist would use and have no sense of nuance. Please make a point of adding something to the conversation other than repeating what sounds like right wing propaganda. This site is for democratic voices, not republican or ultra right wing voices, if we wanted that we could read the comments sections in the Miami Herald.