The Common Position and Selective Blindness

The Common Position and Selective Blindness / Angel Santiesteaban
Posted on February 11, 2014

The worst blind spot is the one you don't want to see.

While the European Union was planning to change its Common Position, the
totalitarian Cuban regime was imprisoning the opposition on the eve of
receiving the presidents for the CELAC Summit.

In these moments of economic crisis, there is no greater urgency for the
European countries than to address and to reverse their rates of
inflation and unemployment. They've thrown aside ethics and scruples in
order to decide to open up relations with the Cuban regime, never mind
the fact that there are violations of human rights, imprisonment of the
opposition, violent beatings of those who demonstrate peacefully and
assassinations of the most outstanding leaders.

We know that the Castro brothers won't permit any imposition that would
give space to the dissidence. They won't even sign the United Nations
Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights, which in this 21st century, should be the minimal
condition of any State to earn respect from the international community.
That would be the small contribution that the European Community could
give to the Cuban people, and it would be the only credible step for
Raúl Castro if it's really his intention to offer openings and
improvements to Cuban society in general.

Ángel Santiesteban-Prats

Lawton Prison Settlement, January 2014

Please follow the link to sign the petition to have Amnesty
International declare Angel Santiesteban a prisoner of conscience.

Translated by Regina Anavy

10 February 2014

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