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Column 060815 Brewer

Monday, June 8, 2015


Pollyannaish Obama
Visionless to Cuban
Stranglehold on People
By Jerry Brewer
At an absolute minimum, it is
inarguably peculiar as to why
U.S. favor is granted to a rogue
Cuban regime that has never
been elected.
It is also accurate to attribute
the decades of poverty and
misery to the legendary
economic mismanagement of
the island nation by the Castro
brothers.
Cubas exhausting socialist
experiment has consistently
failed miserably under the
leadership of Fidel and Raul
Castro. Interesting as well,
Cubas decades of annual Soviet
subsidies of billions of dollars,
and open trade with many
nations, failed the nation's 10
million plus citizens.
Venezuela, in correlation,
during the 14 year rule of the
late Hugo Chavez and now
under his protg President

Nicolas Maduro, has had more


lasting structural damage
inflicted on its government and
political institutions, economy
and people than by any other
president in the country's
history.
Hugo Chavez's devotion to his
mentor, Fidel Castro, ushered
in Bolivarianism as a similar
version of the Cuban system
forcing socialist perspectives on
the people of Venezuelan that
resulted in (continuing) horrific
sacrifices.
Far beyond the implications of
simply mismanaging and
squandering astronomical
amounts of Venezuelas oil
wealth, both the Cuba and
Venezuela leftist rogue regimes
have been routinely linked to
terrorism and drug trafficking.
Moreover, Hugo Chavez is said
to have acquired a massive
personal fortune while in office.
Assuredly, the most significant
issues that should have been
carefully examined and
competently investigated,
before seeking rapprochement
with the Cuban regime, were
the decades old to current
abuses of the human and civil
rights of the people of Cuba.
Why are the plights of Cuban
citizens consistently ignored,
when voluminous international
communications via social
media and some worldwide
news entities regularly run a

barrage of factual reports via


public access outlets?
This, as well, while ignoring
more than 50 years of U.S.
policy against a staunch Castro
Cuban Communist regime, that
has decades of blood on its
hands and that was reported
early into Fidel Castros ironfisted rule to be a travesty
against Cubas people. Plus
there were those who have been
routinely executed during the
Castros tenure.
Moreover, current head of state
Raul Castro has steadfastly
stated that Cubas Communist
ideology will remain.
And lest we not forget that the
Castro brothers have never
disguised their venomous
hatred of the U.S. Fidel Castro,
while president, stated,
Together we can bring
America to its knees. The U.S.
regime is very weak, and we are
witnessing this weakness close
up.
President Barack Obama chose
to make the decision with little
explanation or
acknowledgement of the true
suffering of the Cuban people,
suffering due to the rueful
policies and acts of the
oppressive Castro brothers
unwavering allegiance to their
ongoing Communist doctrine.
Although no relevant
concessions were made by the
Cuban dictatorial regime for

President Obamas personal


generosity, the Obama
administration was quick to
pronounce the actions as
something that would help
human rights almost
automatically.
Empty rhetoric from the
administration continues to
litter the disclaimer for such
action. A critical focus of these
actions will include continued
strong support for improved
human rights conditions and
democratic reforms in Cuba.
The promotion of democracy
supports universal human
rights by empowering civil
society and a persons right to
speak freely, peacefully
assemble and associate, and by
supporting the ability of people
to freely determine their future.
The U.S. efforts are aimed at
promoting the independence of
the Cuban people so they do not
need to rely on the Cuban
state.
Once again, arrests and
beatings appear to be
increasing significantly against
those attempting to speak
freely, peacefully assemble and
associate, and even remotely
determine their future. And
hundreds of Cuban dissidents
have been arrested anew
throughout the island nation.
Four dozen members of the
frequently targeted Ladies in
White were arrested as they
attended Sunday Mass recently
in Havana. In Santiago over 80

activists of the Cuban Patriotic


Union (UNPACU) were beaten
and arrested, some of which
had been previously released
under the Castro-Obama
agreement.
It appears that the Obama
administration is continuing to
ignore Cuban democracy
leaders, as dissidents from
Cubas Anti-Totalitarian Front
were arrested on May 27 as they
distributed images of political
prisoners being held in Castros
prisons.
Removing the "terrorist state"
label against the Cuban regime
that previous U.S.
administrations and allies
carefully attributed to the
Castro brothers for their
support for Iran, North Korea,
Russia, China, and Syria's
assault and murder of
protesters, demonstrates a
critical error in judgment or
complete lack of facts and
intelligence review.
Is it true, as many claim, that
the conflict with Cuba is merely
a U.S. arrogance against the
Cuban government and the
Castro regime in particular?
As far back as 2003, the
European Union accused the
Cuban government of
continuing flagrant violations
of human rights and
fundamental freedoms. In
2008, Cuba had the second
highest number of imprisoned

journalists of any nation in the


world.
Will despotic Cuba extend true
freedom and genuine rights for
the people before a world
audience and capitalism find
their way into Cuba?
I wouldnt take that bet.

Jerry Brewer is C.E.O. of


Criminal Justice International
Associates, a global threat
mitigation firm headquartered
in northern Virginia. His
website is located at
www.cjiausa.org.
TWITTER:
CJIAUSA
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