Harriet Harman comes out with one of the most disgraceful statements by a government minister in a while, in today’s Independent. Here’s the exchange:
Now, Castro is not some cuddly Marxist but a brutal dictator. Harman’s statement is either an expression of extreme ignorance or of a double standard which sees no evil on the left.
The Freedom in the World survey gives a few examples of the kind of regime that Castro ran:
All political organizing outside the PCC is illegal.Political dissent, spoken or written, is a punishable offense, and those so punished frequently receive years of imprisonment for seemingly minor infractions.
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Access to the internet remained tightly controlled. It is illegal for Cubans to connect to the internet in their homes.
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