Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-09-03-Speech-3-019"
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"Mr President, Cuba is a Communist dictatorship with all the hallmarks of a totalitarian regime. Not only is the human rights situation abysmal, but the economy is a disaster too. We all have our opinions about the United States' foreign policy, but America's embargo was introduced following systematic human rights violations in Cuba, and not the other way round. The United States is for the Castro regime the scapegoat that is blamed for everything that goes wrong. Quite a few Members of this House are guilty of this rather simplistic way of thinking. To some, a dictatorship is quite justifiable as long as it is politically correct. The European Union must respond to the current situation in a forceful manner. This means that we must stand united. Castro no longer wants any support from the European Union, only from NGOs and other private organisations. In the Netherlands, organisations such as Novib, Oxfam and Hivos are currently receiving the criticism that they are offering support to one of the world's last Communist dictatorships via support to bodies such as the Anap farmers' union, Casa de las Americas and the Martin Luther King Centre. According to Carlos Payá, spokesman of the Faella Project and brother of Osvaldo Payá, financing these organisations is tantamount to financing Castro. Let us play into Castro's hands; support of any kind to the regime should be withdrawn, and if it transpires that NGOs use European subsidies inappropriately to support the Cuban regime, their funding should be cut off too."@en1
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