Cuba's Stalinist regime

Represented by an empty chair draped with a Cuban flag, dissident Guillermo Fariñas was awarded the Sakharov prize -- the EU's main human rights award -- on Wednesday.

Havana's refusal to allow him to attend the award presentation in France "is the most irrefutable evidence that, unluckily, nothing has changed . .. in the neo-Stalinist regime," Fariñas said in strongly worded video message he sent to the European Parliament, which awards the prize.

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For some inexplicable reason, certain liberals and progressives, including some in the White House, continue to tolerate, if not outright support, Cuba's Castro regime.