Syria or Cuba

Gonz

Gonz

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it is so much nicer in Havana :lol:

Cuba on Thursday sentenced the last of 75 dissidents convicted after one-day trials of collaborating with U.S. diplomats to undermine the communist government.

Governments and human rights groups around the world have condemned the speedy crackdown, which began with a massive roundup of opponents on March 18. The subsequent trials resulted in sentences ranging from 6 to 28 years.

The United States has repeatedly denied the government allegations and criticized the prosecutions. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Thursday called for the release of the dissidents.

"Nearly 80 representatives of a growing and truly independent civil society have been arrested, convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms in summary, secret trials," Powell said in a statement. "Their only crime was seeking basic human rights and freedoms."
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Syria's a higher priority, but I'm sure we have a battalion we could spare for toppling Castro.

Now here's one that I will just go ahead and say I want it done because I'm tired sick and tired of hearing about the bearded, cigar-toking bastard. He's got no nukes, and freeing the Cuban people is just a bonus. Alright, Squiggy?

Where is Squiggy??? ?(
 
Yeah he said he lost his shift keys and something else. Yup ever since he passed the bar Squig just can't live without those Caps. Amazing really because i wouldn't have thought that Squig had ever passed a bar in his life. HA!......Ahem....yeah.:flame:
 
Since Syria is backpeddaling incredibly quickly, Cuba it is

Reuters Friday, April 18, 2003; 7:12 PM By Anthony Boadle

HAVANA (Reuters) - Communist-run Cuba said on Friday it would not allow a visit by a U.N. envoy to probe alleged human rights abuses on the island following the worst crackdown in decades on opponents of President Fidel Castro.

Facing growing international isolation, Cuba said it was considering the withdrawal of a request to join a European Union preferential trade and aid accord with former colonies due to European criticism of its rights record.

Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque said Cuba reserved the right to shut down the U.S. diplomatic mission that Havana has charged with spearheading efforts to undermine the Caribbean island's one-party Communist state.

In the past month, Cuba has rounded up 75 dissidents and imprisoned them for terms of up to 28 years in a move to stamp out budding pro-democratic opposition to Castro, despite widespread international criticism of the arrests.

Last week, Cuba shocked human rights organizations with the execution by firing squad of three men who hijacked a Havana Bay ferry in a failed bid to cross the Florida Straits to the United States.
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