Can Mariela Castro Explain Away Cuba's Support for the Death Penalty for Gays?

[Sandokan]

Can Mariela Castro Explain Away Cuba's Support for the Death Penalty for Gays?
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Yoani Sanchez
December 1, 2010 11:49 PM

I still can't believe that the Cuban delegation at the United Nations added its vote to a group of "countries that include homosexuality as a crime under the law, including the application of capital punishment for that reason, in five of them." I didn't invent the quoted phrase, it comes from a statement published by CENESEX (The National Center of Sex Education) to try to explain this absurdity, to justify the abominable. On a peculiar list, where some of the great suppressors of individual liberties appear, this Island also appears, despite the official discourse that has assured us for some time that abuse of homosexuals is chapter from the past.

The way to help the Cuban LGTB to put an end to their misery by their counterparts in other parts of the world is by helping themselves to avoid falling into similar predicaments by being easy prey of deceptive political systems. They should learn as much as they can about the realities of their counterparts trapped in Cuba. Promoting the truth about them will set them free

 

[Sandokan]

Mariela Castro stated to the international press that in Cuba there is debate on sexual diversity. Homosexuality, however, remains a taboo for Cuban society and a problem silenced by the government and its mass media. The regime vote in the UN in support of the death penalty for gays is proof of it.

 

[Sandokan]

Castro brothers’ draconian anti-homosexual policies are coherent with their enslavement of the Cuban people. These policies share a totalitarian underpinning that bars basic human choice, like where you can live, whom you can love, etc. A regime that reduces human beings to personal property is hardly willing to allow manifestation of particular affection.