I must comment on the article about professor Lenore Gallin’s trip to Cuba.
While Gallin is critical of the travel ban and embargo, she apparently chooses to see no evil in the Castro regime. Perhaps she should have sought out the “Ladies in White” while on her last visit.
The “Ladies in White” is an opposition movement in Cuba consisting of wives and other female relatives of jailed dissidents. The women protest the imprisonment of their loved ones by wearing white dresses to Mass.
Why would they do such a thing in a country that abounds in love, peace, and equality for all? Because during the Black Spring of 2003, the Cuban government arrested, tried and summarily sentenced 75 human rights defenders, independent journalists, and independent librarians to terms of up to 28 years.
I would have far more respect for Gallin if her purpose for visiting Cuba was to assist the “Ladies in White”.
Instead, she seems to have been seduced by Marxist dogma and prefers to ignore the repression and real human suffering inflicted by the Castro regime.