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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
T-Shirt of the Day
A dark sense of humor for planet Earth's longest reigning dictator.
Wow. Tiger Woods has really started something. Everybody is jumping on the Apology Bandwagon. Raul Castro has just apologized for letting one of Cuba's leading dissidents starve to death in prison.
"Raul Castro laments the death of Cuban prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who died after conducting a hunger strike," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday, adding that any reports that the man was tortured or mistreated in jail were false. Zapata Tamayo launched the hunger strike to protest what he said were poor prison conditions on the island.
"There are no torture victims, there have not been any torture victims nor have there been any executions," the ministry quoted Castro as saying during meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that was closed to media on the island.
"That sort of thing happens at the base at Guantanamo," he added, referring to the U.S. military base in eastern Cuba used to jail terror suspect.
Raul Castro should win a Nobel Peace Prize this year for that statement. 'There are no torture victims' in Cuba is right up there with 'There are no homosexuals in Iran.'
A dark sense of humor for planet Earth's longest reigning dictator.
Is that Cheney with a beard?
ReplyDeleteWow. Tiger Woods has really started something. Everybody is jumping on the Apology Bandwagon. Raul Castro has just apologized for letting one of Cuba's leading dissidents starve to death in prison.
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"Raul Castro laments the death of Cuban prisoner Orlando Zapata Tamayo, who died after conducting a hunger strike," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement Wednesday, adding that any reports that the man was tortured or mistreated in jail were false. Zapata Tamayo launched the hunger strike to protest what he said were poor prison conditions on the island.
"There are no torture victims, there have not been any torture victims nor have there been any executions," the ministry quoted Castro as saying during meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva that was closed to media on the island.
"That sort of thing happens at the base at Guantanamo," he added, referring to the U.S. military base in eastern Cuba used to jail terror suspect.
Raul Castro should win a Nobel Peace Prize this year for that statement. 'There are no torture victims' in Cuba is right up there with 'There are no homosexuals in Iran.'