The Violation of Human Rights in Cuba
This 10th of December marked the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights approved in 1948 by the General Assembly of
the United Nations Organization. This Declaration has had relative
validity in many countries of the world and within that relativity has
certainly been important. But it must be said, with indignation, that
many governments openly and shamelessly violate this Declaration without
having to suffer any consequences on the part of the United Nations
Organization, nor any moral consequences in a serious and constant way.
In other words, there is moral condemnation, but it is rather weak.
It is all right that on every December 10th the civilized societies
around the world and many governments remember what the ideological
content of this Declaration means. What is not right is that there be no
emphasis on denouncing, on that important anniversary, the governments
that violate these human rights; a violation that makes them
incompatible with the democratic system and with the individual and
collective dignity of the peoples.
In the Western Hemisphere, here in the Americas, for the last
half-a-century there has been a systematic and totally reprehensible
violation of human rights in Cuba by the Marxist-Leninist totalitarian
tyranny of Fidel Castro and presently of himself and his brother Raúl.
This is a two-headed tyranny, although officially it is now presided by
the younger brother who is the chief of the armed forces that have
omnipotent powers in the land that José Martí envisioned for freedom.
Article 13 of the Declaration, to only mention one, says the following:
"1. Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within
the borders of each State. 2. Everyone has the right to leave any
country, including his own, and to return to his country." Actually, the
thirty significant articles of the Declaration are violated by the
tyranny of the Castro brothers. But just in this Article 13, every word
represents concepts that are scoffed by that tyranny and, of course, in
detriment to the long-suffering Cuban people.
In addition to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of the United
Nations Organization it should be taken into consideration that the
Inter-American Democratic Charter, in terms of human rights, is also
violated by the regime that Cuba has been suffering for the last fifty
years.
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