ANALYSIS/OPINION:
Cubans have been out in the streets, protesting decades of oppression and poverty. They’ve been beaten and arrested for – as the New York Times phrased it – “Shouting ‘Freedom’ and other anti-government slogans.”
That’s not wrong if you understand that the protestors are not generally “anti-government.” Their opposition is specifically directed toward the socialist dictatorship that denies them basic human rights.
In theory, that should galvanize the United Nations Human Rights Council. In practice, as UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer has pointed out, the 47-nation UNHRC “has failed to take a single action: no resolution, no urgent session, no commission of inquiry.”
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