Cuba's Repressive Machinery: Human Rights Forty Years After the Revolution

by Sarah A. Decosse and Human Rights Watch

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564322343
• ISBN13: 9781564322340
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Human Rights Watch
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

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Detailed account of the systematic denial of human rights

Human Rights Watch offers a systematic overview of the repressive apparatus the Cuban regime wields against the Cuban people. Tying together Cuba's consitution, penal, and family code and citing specific examples of their application HRW demonstrates the systematic, and insitutionalized nature of repression in Cuba.From forcing children to sign petitions in elementary school supporting the imprisonment of anyone who speaks negatively of the revolution to foreigners for up to 20 years. When some of the children refused to sighn they were hauled to the office, and there parents brought in. When the parents refused to have them sign. The parents were black listed and in at least one case detained.To what was apparently a government conspiracy to trap, ram, and sink a boatload of refugees fleeing from Cuba. The result was the slaughter of 41 men, women, and children on July 13, 1994 Murdered for trying to exercise a human right: the right to exit one's homeland.These are just two items among hundreds presented in this scholarly work. Well documented and researched I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the real Cuba.Human Rights Watch is a center-left organization best known for their denunciation of right-wing dictatorships in the 1980s in Central America.