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Cuba, USA and human rights
by - (posted by Julio) Saturday July 14, 2001 at 02:36 PM

Cuba recommends to USA not to give recipes in human rights Geneva, 28th march (PL) Cuba recommended United States to assume a position of humility and to desist of to give recipes and models on human rights to the countries of the South neither to grant certificates of genuineness.

When making use from their right to rejoinder during the 57 session of the Commission of human rights of the UN that takes place here,the Cuban representative he noticed to the northern delegation of the inopportune thing of giving advice when their democracy model goes by an evident crisis.

This way Juan Antonio Fernández, alternating representative of the delegation of that Caribbean nation, responded to the American ambassador Shirin Tahir-Kheli ,who to before the finish of yesterday's day session, made use of the reply right to the speech of the Cuban chancellor, Felipe Pérez Roque, who talk in the morning.

In their late intervention, the North American diplomat criticizes Pérez Roque's statement that in the island the human rights are not violated, appealing to supposed existent difficulties in Cuba to exercise the expression rights, association, meeting and toward what she call "I progress human and peaceful."

Juan Antonio Fernández insisted in that the northern delegate manufactures a Dantesque panorama of the human rights in the island, but she don't speak of the institutional racism, the oppression to the nigger people and the hunt of immigrants in the south frontier of United States, among other wrongs.

He added that they should worry but to investigate the irregularities of a democracy model in crisis, in the one that alone half of the citizens registers to vote and a third of them doesn't go to the urns.

The Cuban representative doubts that it can be truly democratic a nation where a president is chosen for alone the population's fourth part with right to the vote.