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To promote a peaceful transition to a Cuba that respects human rights
and political and economic freedoms

 

PAHO must face human trafficking claims. Germany seeking access to citizen sentenced to 25 year prison term for filming Cuba protests. Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela share similar torture practices

The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the regional office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO) ,"must face a lawsuit by Cuban doctors accusing it of helping arrange a program in which they were compelled to work in Brazil against their will, violating human trafficking laws", decided unanimously a three-judge panel of the D.C. U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, informed Reuters yesterday.

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) building in Washington DC.

Reuters reported that "according to the lawsuit, Cuba and Brazil used PAHO as an intermediary in order to avoid a direct agreement between the two countries which would have had to be approved by the Brazilian parliament." According to the same report "the Cuban government received 85% of the money paid by Brazil, with just 10% going to the doctors and 5% retained by PAHO as a fee. The funds passed through PAHO's U.S.-based bank account."

PAHO has been caught up in scandals involving the failure to report a viral outbreak of Zika in Cuba in 2017, and with the above case accused of human trafficking. Mary O' Grady described in her April 12, 2020 OpEd in The Wall Street Journal how  PAHO was profiting off the trafficking of Cuban doctors in an arrangement with the Castro regime and called for an audit of the regional office for the Americas of the World Health Organization (WHO) .The Yucatan Times also raided concerns from a Mexican perspective in the article "The Cuban medical brigades -A history of enslavement."

Too many believe the propaganda claims of the Castro regime, and do not mind profiting from human trafficking, but the reailty is far worse, not only for doctors, but also patients. If healthcare is so great in Cuba, why did a cancer patient risk his life windsurfing to reach the United States last week to obtain treatment for his cancer?

The New York Times reported on how Cuban doctors in Venezuela were ordered to deny or ration care to advance Nicolas Maduro's election prospects in the March 17, 2019 article, "It Is Unspeakable’: How Maduro Used Cuban Doctors to Coerce Venezuela Voters," including the denial of needed oxygen to deathly ill patients. Worse yet, not all the Cubans dressed up as medical doctors, according to this article, were doctors, some were secret police and they were practicing medicine without a license.

This relationship between PAHO, the World Health Organization, and the Castro dictatorship has resulted in dangerous lies. The 2016 claim of the World Health Organization Bulletin that in 2015 "Cuba became the first country in the world to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis as public health problems." When visiting Cubans that worked in the healthcare sector were asked about these claims, they just rolled their eyes.

Meanwhile, according to Avert, an NGO that provides information on HIV worldwide, “nearly 90 percent of new infections in the Caribbean in 2017 occurred in four countries — Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.”

More contagious diseases in Cuba are also covered up.

CiberCuba reported on April 1, 2020 that the mother of a young girl with coronavirus was detained after criticizing Raul Castro and Miguel Diaz Canel for the spread of the illness. Cynically, Diaz Canel on April 9, 2020 stated that "hiding information can be woefully lethal" but the official communist daily Granma warned that reporting "false or malicious news about the coronavirus" was punishable by up to four years in prison.

Let us examine what the regime considers "false or malicious news" based on how it has applied the policy in the past.

In 1997 when dengue broke out in Cuba, the regime tried to cover it up. When a doctor spoke out, he was locked up, sentenced to 8 years in prison. Amnesty International recognized Dr. Desi Mendoza as a prisoner of conscience, and he was released from prison in 1998 under condition he leave Cuba. The dictatorship eventually recognized that there had been a dengue epidemic.

A 2012 cholera outbreak once again demonstrated how the Cuban public health system operates. News of the outbreak in Manzanillo, in the east of the island, broke in El Nuevo Herald on June 29, 2012 thanks to reporting by the outlawed independent press in the island. Official media did not confirm the outbreak until days later on July 3, 2012. BBC News reported on July 7, 2012 that a patient had been diagnosed with Cholera in Havana. The dictatorship stated that it had it under control. Independent journalist Calixto Martínez was arrested on September 16, 2012 for reporting on the Cholera outbreak, and declared an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience. Cholera outbreaks would continue on the island.

The Castro regime succeeded in covering up the 2017 Zika outbreak, but eventually in 2019, due to sick foreign tourists diagnosed with the disease, it was traced back to Cuba. PAHO tried to excuse the failure in reportingas a "technical glitch." History of past outbreaks would indicate otherwise.

The lack of transparency and accountability has also been demonstrated in the current COVID-19 pandemic. This should not be a shock because secrecy, and repression are features, not bugs, in the Cuban communist system.

Germany's Foreign Ministry said on March 29, 2022 that "its diplomats are working to get access to a German citizen imprisoned in Cuba since last year," reports the Associated Press.

German citizen Luis Frómeta Compte sentenced to 25 years in prison for filming 11J protest with his camera.

Luis Frómeta Compte, a resident of Dresden who has both German and Cuban citizenship, was arrested on July 11, 2021, for filming an anti-government demonstration during a vacation in Cuba using his cell phone. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison in proceedings that do not meet international legal standards.

Prisoners in Cuba are at the absolute mercy of the Cuban dictatorship. Amnesty International and other human rights organizations are not allowed to enter the country and monitor the human rights situation there. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has not had access to Cuba's prisons since 1990. By comparison, between 2002 and the present the ICRC has visited the prison at the U.S. Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba over 100 times.

Cuba is not a healthcare superpower as regime apologists claim, but experts in the application of torture on prisoners with impunity and zero transparency. Worse yet, the regime in Havana has exported these practices to Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

The Prague-based Casla Institute released a report that demonstrated that "the dictatorships of Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela share patterns of Arbitrary Detention and Torture and ignore Regional and Universal Human Rights Protection Organizations."

 

 

 

 

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3/31/2022   A publication of the Cuban Studies Institute

“Bits of Cuban History” is a new series of weekly publications highlighting historical events and information from Cuba’s colonial and national periods.   We hope you enjoy this new publication.   Following is the 13th in this new series.     BITS OF CUBAN HISTORY   Annexation by the United States   Six thousand American troops participated in the British occupation of Havana in 1762-3, but the island was exchanged for Florida at the peace treaty of 1763. The independent United Stated flirted with the idea of annexing Cuba from the time of Thomas Jefferson’s’ administration. In the 1840s and 1850s, US leaders saw Cuba’s strategic importance in the Caribbean and feared British sea power there. Southern politicians were anxious to add another slave state to the Union, and Presidents Polk, Pierce, and Buchanan tried unsuccessfully to buy Cuba from Spain. The Ostend manifesto of 1854 recommended seizure if Spain would not sell.   Among Cubans at this time, the desire for separation from Spain focused on possible annexation to the US. Fearful the United Kingdom might force Spain to abolish slavery, or a Haitian-type rebellion occur, many Creole planters, and not a few writers and intellectuals, saw numerous commercial and security advantages in a close relation with the North. These élites seriously questioned the future of Cuba under Spanish rule, while characterizing the ordinary Cuban as “a slave, politically, morally, and physically.”  Annexation would ensure “Cuba’s peace and future success; her wealth would increase; liberty would be given to individual action, and the system of hateful and harmful restrictions which paralyzed commerce and agriculture would be destroyed.”     There were, however, risks in promoting annexation. Threatened with losing Cuba, Spain might free the slaves and use them against the white planters (as the British had done to a limited extent during the American Revolutionary War), or the Blacks themselves might see the struggle as an opportunity for liberation. Yet the example of Jamaica, where a slave revolt had been crushed just before Britain’s 1839 abolition of slavery, encouraged the annexationists, as did the awareness of their own power. In 1847 the pro-annexation Club the la Habana was formed and in 1847-51 Narciso López made several attempts to overthrow Spanish rule, apparently with annexation in mind.   Several events in mid-century weakened the annexationist movement. For one thing, the fears of the Cuban planters were somewhat appeased when Spain stiffened its resistance to British pressure to end slavery. The violent expansion of the United States into Texas, northern Mexico, and California, and the lukewarm attitude of its government to annexation were discouraging. The northern American states would not consider the admission of another slave state, while the southern states only wanted Cuba admitted as a slave state. The development of an incipient nationalism, particularly among Creole intellectuals, offered the élites an alternative to annexation, while López’s failure showed how little support the movement had among the mass of ordinary Cubans. Finally, the United States Civil War dealt a deathblow to those who still hoped for a close relation with a similar slave society.   By the 1890s, however, expansionists in the United States were again pressing for annexation and were almost successful when the Spanish-American War resulted in the first United States intervention. But, although there was still some support for annexation among Cuba’s economic élites, the US government felt it could not pursue it without the acquiescence of the general population, nor was it keen to assume the island’s huge public debt. Cuba was made independent in 1902. Only after the end of the second US intervention in 1909 did annexation cease to be a serious political option.   Read on Web

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To promote a peaceful transition to a Cuba that respects human rights and political and economic freedoms   Remembering: Danish student gunned down in Havana 25 years ago. Carlos Eire sets Pedro Pan record straight. Cuban defector returned to rescue family The Czech writer Milan Kundera correctly observed that"the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." This CubaBrief aims to highlight three important moments in Cuban history that are too often ignored, or misrepresented. A European student gunned down by a soldier of the Castro regime is forgotten, or written out of history. Operation Pedro Pan, which successfully saved thousands of Cuban children from a life of communist indoctrination, is downplayed and often misrepresented as something else in mainstream media to create fodder for partisan debate. Thankfully Professor Carlos Eire set the record straight below in the National Catholic Register. Joachim Løvschall was studying Spanish in Havana in the spring of 1997. He was gunned down by a Cuban soldier in Havana 25 years ago today on March 29, 1997. On September 28, 1997 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published an article by Kim Hundevadt titled "Dangerous Vacation" that outlined what happened to Joachim Løvschall according to the official version giving by Havana on the events leading to this young man's death: Around 23:30, a person matching Joachim Løvschall's description was in a bar named Segundo Dragon d'Oro. The bar lies in the hopeless part of town, around the Revolutionary Plaza which is dominated by ministry and other official buildings of harsh concrete architecture, and lies empty at night. At 2:45am he left the bar, after becoming intoxicated. Around 20 minutes later, he was walking down the Avenue Territorial, behind the Defense Ministry. Joachim Løvschall walked, according to the Cuban authorities, first on the sidewalk that lies opposite the Ministry. Midway he crossed over to the other sidewalk, considered to be a military area, though it is not blocked off. The Cubans have explained that Joachim Løvschall was shouted at by two armed guards, who in addition fired warning shots, which he did not react to. Therefore, one guard shot from the hip with an AK-47 rifle. The first shot hit Joachim in the stomach and got him to crumble down. The second shot hit slanting down the left side of the neck. Cuba is a dictatorship, and the failure to recognize that fact has cost lives, and will continue to do so. That foreign government officials would downplay this brutal crime, when violence is visited on their nationals, endangers more lives. Below is a report by Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter published today. Finally, a Cuban defector flees Cuba in a MIG-23 and returns in a civilian plane to rescue his family when official channels in Havana refused to allow the family to be reunited through more conventional means. Orestes Lorenzo Perez, a courageous defector who fled Cuba in a MiG-23 on March 20, 1991, but was rebuffed afterwards by the Castro regime when he tried to get his family out, took matters into his own hands. On December 19, 1992, Perez left from the Florida Keys in a small civilian plane, flying low across the ocean. His wife was given a note to meet him at a location about 165 miles from her home in Havana with their two sons. He successfully rescued his wife and children returning to the United States. The Aviation Geek Club reported on this event on their website that should be remembered in aviation history. These three moments provide insights both into the nature of the Cuban dictatorship, and the courage of those who challenge it.   Notes from the Cuban Exile Quarter, March 29, 2022 25 years without justice for Danish student gunned down in Havana by a soldier  "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." - Elie Wiesel, Nobel Lecture 1986 Joachim Løvschall: December 7, 1970 - March 29, 1997 Joachim Løvschall was studying Spanish in Havana in the spring of 1997. He was gunned down by a soldier of the Castro regime in Havana, Cuba twenty five years ago today on March 29, 1997. The identity of the soldier was never revealed to Joachim''s family. No one was brought to justice. Joachim's family is not satisfied with the official explanation. The last time they saw Joachim On March 28, 1997 Joachim Løvschall ate his last dinner with white wine in a little restaurant called Aladin, located on 21st street in Havana. He went to the Revolutionary Plaza and bought a ticket to the Cuban National Theater. Following the performance he went to the theater's bar, Cafe Cantante, and met up with two Swedish friends. They each drank a couple of beers, but soon left because Joachim did not like the music. At 23:30, they said good bye to each other on the sidewalk in front of Cafe Cantante.  Joachim was never seen alive again. Last seen in the front of Cafe Cantante  The Castro regime's version of what happened On September 28, 1997 the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published an article by Kim Hundevadt titled "Dangerous Vacation" that outlined what happened to Joachim Løvschall and presented the Castro dictatorship's version of the events leading to this young man's death: Around 23:30, a person matching Joachim Løvschall's description was in a bar named Segundo Dragon d'Oro. The bar lies in the hopeless part of town, around the Revolutionary Plaza which is dominated by ministry and other official buildings of harsh concrete architecture, and lies empty in at night. At 2:45am he left the bar, after becoming intoxicated. Around 20 minutes later, he was walking down the Avenue Territorial, behind the Defense Ministry. Joachim Løvschall walked, according to the Cuban authorities, first on the sidewalk that lies opposite the Ministry. Midway he crossed over to the other sidewalk, considered to be a military area, though it is not blocked off. The Cubans have explained that Joachim Løvschall was shouted at by two armed guards, who in addition fired warning shots, which he did not react to. Therefore, one guard shot from the hip with an AK-47 rifle. The first shot hit Joachim in the stomach and got him to crumble down. The second shot hit slanting down the left side of the neck. Joachim Løvschall gunned down in Cuba in 1997 Fifteen years ago On June 12, 2007 Christian Løvschall, Joachim's father, at a parallel forum at the United Nations Human Rights Council spoke about his son's disappearance and the struggle to find out if Joachim was dead or alive: "Although the killing took place on the 29th of March, we only came to know about it on the 6th of April - i.e. after 8 days were we had the feeling that the Cuban authorities were unwilling to inform anything about the incident. Only because of good relations with Spanish speaking friends in other Latin American countries did we succeed in getting into contact with the family with whom Joachim stayed and the repeated message from their side was that they could reveal nothing, but that the situation had turned out very bad and that we had to come to Cuba as soon as possible. At the same time all contacts to the responsible authorities turned out negatively... Only after continued pressure from our side on the Cuban embassy in Copenhagen, things suddenly changed and the sad information was given to us by our local police on the evening of the 6th of April. We are, however, 100% convinced that had we not made use of our own contact and had we not continued our pressure on the embassy in Copenhagen, we might have faced a situation where Joachim would have been declared a missing person, a way out the Cuban authorities have been accused of applying in similar cases."  Ten years later Christian Løvschall outlined what he knew concerning his son's untimely death: We do feel we were (and still are) left with no answers except to maybe one of the following questions: Where, When, Who, Why Starting out with the where we were told that Joachim was killed by the soldiers outside the Ministry of Interior. Where What we do not understand is why no fence or signs did inform that this is a restricted area? I have been on the spot myself, and the place appears exactly like a normal residential area. So you may question whether this in fact was the place of the killing? Contrary to this the authorities keep maintaining that the area was properly sealed off, and the relevant sign posts were in place. When As to when Joachim was killed we only have the information received from the police because of the delay informing one might believe that this is another forgery made up to cover the truth. Who The who was in our opinion has never been answered by the Cuban authorities. We understand that a private soldier on duty was made responsible for the killing, and also it has been rumored that his officer in charge has been kept responsible. This is of course the easy way out, but why can't we get to know the whole and true story?    Why  Why did the soldiers have to fire two shots, one to his body and one to his head, to murder him? Was Joachim violent and did he, an unarmed individual, attack the armed soldiers? Or is it simply that the instruction to Cuban soldiers are: first you shoot and then you ask? But again: Who can explain why two shots were needed? Despite the claims made by the travel industry there have been other travelers to Cuba who have been killed or gone missing under suspicious circumstances. Others have been falsely imprisoned in legal proceedings that fall far short of international standards. Like North Korea, but with a tropical twist, Cuba suffers a dictatorship where both nationals and foreigners have no legal protections locally if they run into trouble with the regime. The ongoing plight of Benjamin Tomlin, who has spent three years in a Cuban prison, should lead others considering a holiday in Cuba to think twice. So should what happened to Joachim Løvschall on March 29, 1997 when he was gunned down by an AK-47 wielding Cuban soldier for allegedly walking on the wrong sidewalk.         Read Full Article       Center for a Free Cuba 417 West Broad Street, Suite 204 Falls Church, VA 22046 www.cubacenter.org Preferences  |  Unsubscribe

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Our once-stellar intelligence community has morphed into an intelligence cabal Pete Hoekstra Fox News  Having spent 10 years on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, including more than six years as either the Chairman or Ranking Republican, I developed a deep appreciation for the work of what is often called the "Intelligence Community" (IC). I also was thoroughly impressed by the quality of the men and women who worked in the trenches, often in hostile and very dangerous locales. They were, and I suspect most still are, great patriots.  Sadly, that cannot be said about many of the higher-level professionals who lead the community as demonstrated by their actions over the last number of years. The Hunter Biden laptop episode is just the latest dagger in the side of the Intelligence Community, but it needs to be put into a larger context regarding the IC leadership’s shift in focus. The partisan behavior of so much of the past and current leadership of the Intelligence Community is so bad, it might be more accurate to call it the "Intelligence Cabal." It is a rot that continues to expand. Consider the unfortunate answer that the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper provided to Senator Wyden in a 2013. Asked the simple question of whether the IC was conducting mass surveillance of Americans, Clapper falsely answered, "No sir. Not wittingly." As revealed a few months later, the National Security Agency had been collecting the metadata for nearly every call and text on American networks. While not necessarily partisan, this deceitful behavior by Clapper would become a disturbing pattern for him and other IC leaders. In 2017, efforts clearly designed to undermine and perhaps collapse the administration of incoming President Donald Trump were executed by leading FBI and intelligence officials, including DNI Clapper, FBI Director James Comey, CIA Director John Brennan, and former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden. They embraced the phony Steele Dossier and talked with the media to bolster its credibility and damage Trump. They pedaled this narrative until it collapsed under the weight of its own lies when a key Russian source of Christopher Steele was arrested and charged with lying to the FBI. It also was revealed the dossier had been a hoax bought and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign, with Steele pocketing almost $170,000 from the campaign. But far from being chastened after promoting the politically funded lies of the Steele Dossier, the individuals continued their partisan behavior and attacks. In another blow to the credibility of these much-ballyhooed former IC leaders, The New York Times finally admitted the contents of the abandoned laptop of Hunter Biden first revealed by the New York Post in October of 2020 were real and had been authenticated by the paper.  This after discussion about the laptop had been banned from many social media outlets like Twitter and Facebook as being Russian misinformation or the result of a hack.  And after the mainstream media dismissed the New York Post’s reporting out-of-hand and even refused to look into it, dismissing it as a waste of time and not really a story. And after these vaunted former intelligence officials, joined with 51 former IC colleagues and leaders, to write a letter stating: "All of us have an understanding of the wide range of activities of Russian overt and covert activities that undermine U.S. national security … Perhaps most important, each of us believes deeply that American citizens should determine the outcome of elections, not foreign governments."  "… has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation." "If we are right, this is Russia trying to influence how Americans vote in this election, and we believe strongly Americans need to be aware of this." Well, they were wrong, and in an ironic twist, they were doing exactly what they accused Russia of doing—engaging in a classic partisan, political information campaign to influence the outcome of an election. They had, wittingly or not, made themselves tools of the Biden presidential campaign. Signatories of the letter included many familiar and some not so familiar names: Clapper, Hayden, Brennan, and David Buckley. Why do I mention Buckley? He was at one-time staff director for the minority Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee, and I know him and can attest that he is a personally nice guy. The partisan behavior of so much of the past and current leadership of the Intelligence Community is so bad, it might be more accurate to call it the "Intelligence Cabal." It is a rot that continues to expand. So why bring up someone I like? It’s to demonstrate that the "Intelligence Cabal" never quits. They went after Trump before he assumed office, while he was in office, and during the 2020 election. Their ongoing information operation, which started with the Steele dossier, continues to today. The latest chapter, David Buckley, who signed the laptop letter, is now the staff director for the January 6 Committee.  Many of us have raised questions about the January 6 Committee, including its construct, its membership, and scope just to mention a few. This latest revelation about the role of its staff director in influencing the 2020 election through a partisan disinformation campaign is the latest major red flag.