Editorial. Published Friday, July 28, 2000, in the Miami Herald.

The irony-of-the-week award: A recent editorial in Granma, the regime's mouthpiece, claims to be fighting for the "constitutional rights'' of U.S. citizens to "know the truth,'' to travel to Cuba, to "sell agricultural products'' wherever they want (meaning Cuba) and to be safe from criminals who illegally come to the United States (from, you guessed it, Cuba).

As columnist Pablo Alfonso of El Nuevo Herald points out, Cuba's own citizens cry out for such basic rights as freedom to speak the truth, freedom to travel abroad, freedom to sell goods. Numerous dissidents have demanded the right to travel abroad, which the regime restricts vengefully; to see the truth via broad access to news and information, not just to government blessed media; to sell and produce products in their own businesses, which are illegal. Where is Granma to defend them?

The Cuban regime's hypocrisy would be laughable if it weren't so perverted.

Copyright 2000 Miami Herald

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