The face of Raul Castro's -- and Barack Obama's? -- Cuba

The face of Raul Castro's -- and Barack Obama's? -- Cuba
February 16, 2015

That a Cuban opposition activist might almost be beaten to death in his
own home by a Castroite thug after President Barack Obama on Dec. 17
announced his rapprochement with Havana, comes as absolutely no surprise
to anyone familiar with the nature of Castro regime and the foolishness
of Obama's surrender.

Obama gave up the farm and in return, the Castros had to change nothing,
especially the ways it oppresses and represses the Cuban people.

Consider what happened on Sunday: A total of a dozen Cuban Ladies In
White were arrested in Havana and Holguin while trying to march to Mass.
And in Santiago de Cuba, police detained almost 70 activists with the
opposition Patriotic Union of Cuba and Citizens for Democracy.

The dangerousness of that deal is found above on the face of Rolando
Diaz Silva, a Cuban opposition activist viciously attacked in his home
on the morning of Feb. 11 by a thug wielding a metal pipe.

Capitol Hill Cubans offers the details:

The attack has been attributed to tactics by Castro's security forces
that seek to intimidate lesser-known dissidents and dissuade them from
joining opposition groups.

After being beaten nearly to death, it took over four hours for an
ambulance to arrive at Diaz Silva's home.

A group of six dissidents who protested the lack of medical attention
were subsequently beaten and arrested by the authorities. They include
Lourdes Esquivel, a Ladies in White activist, and Mario Alberto
Hernandez, a recently released political prisoner from Obama-Castro's
"Group of 53."

The Castro dictatorship is responsible for what happened to Diaz and
those who tried to come to his aid.

But also accountable is the Obama administration for taking a position
that what happened to Diaz, and every day to Cubans subjected to the
whims and cruelties of the Castro regime, will not alter the path Obama
set forth on Dec. 17, no matter how much it costs the Cuban people.

The more the U.S. changes its Cuba policy, the more the Castros stay the
same.

Source: Uncommon Sense: The face of Raul Castro's -- and Barack Obama's?
-- Cuba -
http://marcmasferrer.typepad.com/uncommon_sense/2015/02/the-face-of-raul-castros-and-barack-obamas-cuba.html