The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, pointed out on Twitter that “Inclusion, cooperation, social justice, human dignity, respect for diversity are the principles that Cuba defends as a member of the… UN Human Rights Council.
“Those who don’t believe in these principles don’t want us to have a voice in the Council either,” the head of state added, referring to the annual report recently released by the United States government, which expressed concerns about its Expressing respect human rights people in the archipelago.
What human rights do the officials of successive United States governments talk and write about when this country is the greatest violator of those rights?
What rights are they talking about while justifying a criminal blockade against an entire people?https://t.co/vzDN1hUtDK— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) April 14, 2022
“What human rights do the officials of successive governments of the United States speak and write about when this country is the greatest violator of those rights? What rights are they talking about while justifying a criminal blockade against an entire people?” asked Díaz-Canel.
Also via Twitter, the party’s Politburo member and Cuba’s Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, denounced that the United States government’s “disinformation operation on human rights issues aims to divert attention from gross human rights abuses in its own population, where 1,009 people died from police bullets in 2021.” .”
The genocidal policies that the US is conducting against our nation are aimed at breaking our economy and the social consensus achieved by the revolution. To do this, they resorted to all sorts of strategies.
This time it’s the annual report on human rights in the United States, released April 12 by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in which he blames Russia, Cuba, Nicaragua and China for alleged human rights violations.
At the same time, they are preparing a new compromise against Cuba, for which they have chosen the 73rd session of the United Nations (UN) Committee against Torture, which will take place on April 19th, as the stage.
cuban reasons have exposed this plan, as part of which they intend to bring into the debates the analysis of a report by an alleged NGO called Prisoners Defenders accusing Cuba of torturing what they call “political prisoners”.
Prisoners Defenders has its registered headquarters in Madrid, “but in reality this bogus NGO is an organization set up by the US State Department, which it runs through its embassy in Madrid and is funded with USAID and the NED. It targets subversive activities against Cuba,” points out this website, where media operations against the Cuban revolution are often denounced.
They also point out how some major media outlets like the Washington Post or the agency Deutsche Welle (DW) “warm up the engines” and titles like “Opinion: Cuba tortures political prisoners while being a member of the UN Human Rights Council” or “They demand that Cuba and Venezuela also leave the Human Rights Council.”
The petition is being made by the counter-revolutionary organization Center for a Free Cuba (CFC), which was founded in the United States in October 1997, is funded by USAID and Ned, and has a mission to promote subversion against Cuba, Reasons states.