Rick Lowe
Representatives from The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce recently returned from Cuba singing praises about the opportunities available for Bahamians that might wish to take a chance to trade with the Castro regime.
I say take a chance to trade because one does not have property rights nor access to the rule of law as we know it.
Furthermore, your employees are provided by the state. An employer cannot hire Cubans directly.
The Chamber stands for ethics in business and I believe they are on shaky ground recommending we do business with a regime in Cuba that apparently does not honour basic human rights, unless you "toe "the state or should I say Castro line. (Note: I say "toe" the line as you get a toe in the you know what if you don't tow the line...)
If the trade with Cuba could directly impact the Cuban people I would feel better about it.
So, it is somewhat serendipitous that I received the following e-mail and attachment from the Cuba Archive that I would say proves my point about the Castro Regime.
"Whereas everyone recognizes Ché -or his famous image on a t-shirt - his victims are mostly unknown."Dear friends and colleagues,
As you may know, Cuba Archive is documenting the cost in lives of the Cuban Revolution. We have long been receiving inquiries on Ché Guevara, which we have addressed on a case-by-case basis. In order to attend to the topic more thoroughly, the attached report (Che Guevara's Forgotten Victims) provides an examination of how Ché Guevara approached fundamental rights including the right to life and focuses attention on some of his victims. Some of this material has never been published.
Please support this project by visiting the How to Help section of our website, www.CubaArchive.org. Your generous assistance will allow us to translate this report to Spanish and other languages and also have it published in pamphlet form, to give it more widespread circulation.
By releasing this piece on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we honor freedom as an essential human right and celebrate the end of repression in Central and Eastern Europe. Sadly, today, we must also call on the international community to remember the continued repression of those still living under Communism and, in particular, the Cuban people.
We welcome your comments and suggestions.
Maria C. Werlau
Executive Director
Cuba Archive
P.O. Box 529
Summit, NJ 07920 U.S.A.
Download Che Guevara's Forgotten Victims 11.11.09 (PDF) here...
