Timely and accurate information about the activities, capabilities, plans, and intentions of foreign powers, organizations, and persons and their agents, is essential to the national security of the United States … For that purpose, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of America, including the National Security Act of 1947, as amended, and as President of the United States of America, in order to provide for the effective conduct of United States intelligence activities and the protection of constitutional rights, it is hereby ordered as follows:

2.11 Prohibition on Assassination.

No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination.

Nuff said. This woman is very dangerous, as is President Bush and his right wing morons. She obviously doen’t believe in the Constitution, nor the Holy Bible; I believe there are words to the effect of: “Thou shalt not kill.”

Now, she’s had to admit that she lied, and indeed she did say what the film shows her saying.

But I suppose you have been to Cuba many times and examined that “worker’s paradise”. According to my neighbour, who was fortunate enough to leave Cuba as a kid, Cuba was a great place – for standing in lines…..the cooking oil line…..the 2 egg a week line…..the flour line….the bar of soap line…….The saddest thing about about Cuba? They have the MOST educated prostitutes in the world. This is due to the fact hookers can make more money than doctors……Pitiful……

Juan, with your fine suggestions, maybe you could help clean up the mess in Mexico. After you help clean up that Third World Narco State, which is loaded with resources and hard-working people – but RIFE with corruption and violence – maybe you would be so kind as to turn your “constructive” criticism to your neighbours.

“Fidel Castro — Mr. Pinochet’s nemesis and a hero to many in Latin America and beyond — will leave behind an economically ruined and freedomless country with his approaching death. Mr. Castro also killed and exiled thousands. But even when it became obvious that his communist economic system had impoverished his country, he refused to abandon that system: He spent the last years of his rule reversing a partial liberalization. To the end he also imprisoned or persecuted anyone who suggested Cubans could benefit from freedom of speech or the right to vote.

The contrast between Cuba and Chile more than 30 years after Mr. Pinochet’s coup is a reminder of a famous essay written by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, the provocative and energetic scholar and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who died Thursday. In “Dictatorships and Double Standards,” a work that caught the eye of President Ronald Reagan, Ms. Kirkpatrick argued that right-wing dictators such as Mr. Pinochet were ultimately less malign than communist rulers, in part because their regimes were more likely to pave the way for liberal democracies. She, too, was vilified by the left. Yet by now it should be obvious: She was right.”

Speaking of asassination.Are we actively trying to take this man out?

Without other avenues for redress, several Cuban exiles brought a historic human rights case before the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (hereinafter the commission), the human rights body of the Organization of American States (OAS), in 1994. Although Cuba is not a member of the OAS, the commission considers the Cuban government responsible for protecting the rights enshrined in the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man. On October 16, 1996, the commission approved a public report concluding that on July 13, 1994, Cuba violated the right to life of forty-one people who died when Cuban government boats rammed, flooded, and sank the 13 de Marzo, a hijacked tugboat loaded with civilians fleeing Cuba.129 The report also found that Cuba violated the right of personal integrity of the thirty-one survivors of the sinking, and violated the rights to transit and justice of all of the seventy-two persons who attempted to leave Cuba.130 The report provides shocking survivors’ testimony of the Cuban government’s deliberate attempts to sink the boat. Statements by President Castro and the Interior Ministry regarding responsibility for the incident provide a disturbing counterpoint to the victims’ experiences. Clearly, the government’s effort was to exculpate itself from responsibility, rather than conduct a serious investigation and punish those responsible for this incident.

Human Rights Watch

Cuba routinely denies human rights abuses, fails to investigate or punish those who commit them, and retaliates against those who denounce them, particularly prisoners.116 The persistence of human rights violations in Cuba is undoubtedly due, in part, to the fact that Cuban officials have faced virtually no consequences for the thousands of human rights violations committed in the past forty years. Yet, Cuba has clear obligations under international law to offer effective remedies to victims of human rights abuses, arising from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Cuba’s ratification of the Convention Against Torture.117

The Cuban government has committed egregious, systematic human rights violations since the 1959 revolution. But the exact numbers of victims wrongfully killed, imprisoned, tortured, exiled, arrested, or suffering other human rights abuses by the Cuban government is impossible to know, in part due to the government’s secrecy about its human rights practices. Human Rights Watch has monitored human rights practices in Cuba for over ten years. During that time, we have documented scores of cases of wrongful arrests, detentions, prosecutions, exile, and other abuses. Moreover, the human rights violations committed in the early years of the Castro government stand out as particularly severe. Historian Hugh Thomas, who acknowledged the impossibility of knowing precisely how many executions and other human rights violations had occurred, estimated that by early 1961, the Cuban government had “probably” executed some 2,000 Cubans, while by 1970, the government had, “perhaps,” executed 5,000. Thomas does not specify whether these executions occurred following trials, but notes that “in the case of political crimes, there [was] no rule of law.”118 Thomas cites a Castro speech in in 1965 in which the Cuban leader admitted that Cuba had 20,000 “political prisoners”—an unclear number of whom had participated in armed actions against thegovernment.119 Human Rights Watch is not aware of the Cuban government providing restitution to any victim or family member for any of these human rights violations.120

Human Rights Watch

Could you please name one?

Comment by braindead

Try it, and see what happens, chickenhawk.

You’re doing a heckuvajob, Elly!

Typical Bush apointee. The antithesis of everything the Committee stands for…

Oh, the Diplomacy!