Raul Castro was "exposed and diminished" after an incident with Almagro and Calderón, says La Nación

Raúl Castro on January 24, 2017, in Punta Cana (Dominican Republic).

The Cuban government sent a "crude totalitarian message" where control is imposed on any other consideration says an editorial in the Costa Rican daily.

The main Costa Rican newspaper La Nación published an editorial this week criticizing the attitude of the Cuban government by preventing the entry into Cuba of renowned personalities from Latin America to participate in the Oswaldo Payá award ceremony organized by the opposition platform Cuba He decides.

By preventing the entry to the island of Luis Almagro, Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), the Chilean exile Mariana Aylwin and Mexican President Felipe Calderón, "the dictatorship of Raúl Castro revealed, again, so clumsily As indefensible, the totalitarian nature of the regime and its determination to put control, intransigence and exclusion above even any hint of good diplomatic forms. "

"The regime refused to grant visas to Almagro, Aylwin and Calderón, against whom it also formulated strong attacks, among them, to participate in" anti-Cuban activities. "In other words, for the top of Castro's power, the dominant group is the Even though no one has freely conceded that authority, this assumed representation implies deciding what is Cuban and what is not, and gives a license to violate the rights of the population and even prevent politicians (One, Almagro, exchancer of the leftist Frente Amplio de Uruguay) visit the island, "the newspaper criticized.

The editorial titled Crudo totalitarian message values ​​that "as a result of the intransigence of Castroism and the democratic clarity of the Secretary General of the OAS, Almagro was strengthened and Raúl Castro, exposed and diminished." The Cuba Decide movement was extolled as an option to which The regime fears for the simple fact of using a mechanism provided by the Constitution itself. "

The Tico newspaper laments that "unfortunately, in the middle are trapped the Cubans, who, in the final analysis, addressed the implicit message emanating from the top Castro: anyone who tries to cross their narrow limits of tolerance will be rejected and drowned without contemplation. The logic of absolute control, for an apparatus of totalitarian power, prevails over any other consideration, let us call this economic opening or permission for an independent group to reward foreign personalities like Almagro (worse if they are Cuban) for their support of Democracy is a message as unacceptable as it is revealing. "

[Based on editorial from The Nation of Costa Rica]