It is sad that there can be no honest discussion of this country on this board.
There can't? I didn't notice that in the rules...
Since it is permitted, shall we have some honest discussion then?
Some socialism! It is dependent on capitalist tourism for survival.
Reading this comment I can't help but ask a few follow-up questions: 1) Is tourism inherently antithetical to socialism? 2) Is socialism impossible in countries without complete resource self-sufficiency? 3) Are you recommending the DPRK model of socialism to Cuba? 4) Or should socialism in Cuba simply be abandoned unless it can be spread to the rest of the world immediately (its not as though they haven't tried)?
I wasn't specifically referring to the text of the opening post. If anything I was referring to the title.Since that interview is conducted by people who themselves have a limited and self serving idea of human rights, its no surprise they ask questions in the most favourable possible manner.
I don't disagree about the interviewer, thats what media is like, be it PRAVDA, FOX, or the BBC... It would be a shame to avoid discussion of the media though, just because this is the case, rather let us just acknowledge it is always the case. As to the title I guess its a little inflamatory for some; I just lifted it from the title of the interview...
Party leaders and member will talk endlessly about progress they need to make on human rights.... but only ones they acknowledge as being important or 'relevant to Cuba'.
What country doesn't do this? Canada, the USA, and other Western countries deny a number of positive rights to their citizens despite being party to UN conventions requiring those rights... they simply aren't regarded as "relevant" or "important." I'm still a little confused though, since I have no source for your statement about the talk of "party leaders," which human rights are being dismissed as not "relevant to Cuba"? I know here in Canada that rights such as those to shelter, clean water and food are considered irrelevant but I'm not certain which rights are considered irrelevant in Cuba?