Mario J. Viera Gonzalez / Cuba Voz
HAVANA, APRIL, (Mario J. Viera Gonzalez, Cuba Voz) - The decision of the government of Cuba to show the Czechs what an "act of repudiation" is goes beyond being a unilateral confrontation. Castro refuses to be censured in an international forum, and shows it by organizing last-minute
marches of supposedly popular support, recruiting students, the military and workers employed in enterprises directed exclusively by the government.
This "combative march" is a warning to Europe, which, according to a mediocre official propagandist (government journalist) was characterized as hypocritical and racist. Castro launches the challenge to Europe with an act of repudiation towards the Czech Republic, which he includes in
his accusation of corruption at the United Nations's Commission on Human Rights.
The Czech Republic, born of the Velvet Revolution that defeated a communist dictatorship subject to the dictums of the Soviet Empire, is considered by the Havana regime as a nation governed by "miserable lackeys" and its diplomatic seat in the Cuban capital as a "repugnant symbol
of treason and lackeyism", very violent terms in reference to a state with which diplomatic relations are maintained and which might lead to a rupture of those relations.
It is interesting to note that such expressions were never present in official Cuban discourse in reference to the government of the former Peoples Republic of Czechoslovakia while presided by Gustav Husak, a government forged under the squeak of Soviet tanks when through fire and blood the
spring revolution in Prague was aborted by the combined forces of the Warsaw Pact.
Castro has categorically rejected the doctrine of "humanitarian insurgency", but in 1968 he backed without reserve the armed insurgency of the Soviet Union over Czechoslovakia to mediate in favor of the band of lackeys in a political conflict which only concerned the Czechs.
Regardless, Castro now goes farther and defines--according to the words of a moderator in one of the "informative" round tables that override the habitual programs of Cuban television as entities without their own personality, "dependent nations", any state which on any occasion
has voted against a Resolution unfavorable to the Cuban government, or has abstained and now has modified its position in order to support the resolution of the Czech Republic accusing Havana of violating human rights.
Before the final vote which would condemn Castro's government could take place, the governmental daily Granma declared the United States an isolated nation within what it now calls "the corrupt Commission on Human Rights", while the same edition announcing the march on the Czech
embassy points to the "harvest of five failures" (of the United States) in Geneva.
Precisely, in this occasion Granma informed that the "corrupt" Commission had approved five resolutions which the U.S. had opposed. One of these was proposed by the Cuban delegation and another which was said to have been presented by the non-aligned nations, which called for
governments not to employ unilateral means and in particular those that would involve extraterritorial actions. A clear allusion to the politics of the embargo the U.S. maintains against the government presided by Fidel Castro.
The contradictions are glaring, and show that the government of Cuba believes it has every right to act however it pleases, to denigrate and jail everyone who opposes it politically, and to interpret in a sui generis manner the precepts of the Declaration of Universal Human Rights, without
anyone being able to question or censure it.
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