The Two Faced Cuban Government

Seems like April Fool's came a few months early. Cuba announced today that staring early 2009, it will allow the U.N. Human Rights Council to monitor their human rights record. As the announcement was made, plain clothes state "gestapos" were preventing a march from taking place protesting Cuba's violation of human rights. That gives a new meaning to the term "two face".

Minutes after he spoke, plainclothes policemen broke up a small demonstration by
dissidents marking International Human Rights Day in a nearby square. Two were
detained and driven away in a car, a witness said.

Government
supporters, apparently coordinated by state security agents, booed dissidents
and shouted "Viva Fidel" for ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who has not
appeared in public in 16 months.

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Cuban Interdiction at a 13 year high

According to this Miami Herald article, the interdiction of Cuban is at its highest level since the 1994 crisis. There has also beena steady increase since the July 2006 "handover of power".

"The year 2007 will go down in the history of South Florida as the year with the greatest number of Cuban migrant interdictions since the 1994 raft crisis."

Read more: Miami Herald