Demanding Decency
A Cuban human rights activist critically examines the country's treatment of dissent October 2005
The “other face” of the Cuban revolution—the face of dissent—has been a grotesquely distorted one for more than four decades. Opposition to Fidel Castro is seen in the eyes of the world as being centred in the Cuban exile community of Miami, where inflammatory public melodramas such as the Elián González story are counterpointed with the clandestine machinations of Bay of Pigs plotters and Watergate burglars to create a distasteful mix of rabid right-wing…