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Like any other police state, Cuba’s totalitarian regime must maintain a network of gulags for political prisoners. And, like much else in the proletarian paradise, life therein is unnecessarily unpleasant.

"Food and hygiene are substandard and medical care either unavailable or inappropriate," according to a special United Nations representative, French magistrate Christine Chanet. She also found that, as compared to previous years, in 2005 "more people were arrested and given disproportionate sentences for expressing dissident opinions." You think?

And the blame for this abysmal record of slavery and oppression? Why, the United States, of course:

The extreme tension between Cuba and the United States has created a climate which is far from conducive to the development of freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.

Are we making this up? We are not. Reuters story HERE.