A U.S. plan to help Cubans communicate should be applauded

A U.S. plan to help Cubans communicate should be applauded
By Editorial Board, Monday, April 7, 1:20 AM

HUMAN RIGHTS Watch's 2014 annual report paints a somber picture of
political life in Cuba. "The Cuban government continues to repress
individuals and groups who criticize the government or call for basic
human rights," the report notes. "The government controls all media
outlets in Cuba and tightly restricts access to outside information,
severely limiting the right to freedom of expression. Only a tiny
fraction of Cubans are able to read independent websites and blogs
because of the high cost of and limited access to the Internet."

It is worse than scandalous that Cuba's 11 million people are still
trapped under these conditions some 55 years after Fidel and Raul Castro
came to power on a promise of national liberation. Yet a recent story in
the U.S. press and comments by certain U.S. politicians about it imply
that Americans should be terribly upset about the Obama administration's
efforts to relieve the Cuban nightmare.

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