During an event organized by the German NGO, Internationale Geselschaft für Menschenrechte (IGFM, International Association for Human Rights), Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta, one of the political prisoners recently banished to Spain by the Castro regime, urged the European Union to adopt tougher sanctions against the Castro regime, akin to "sanctions it maintains against other dictatorships like Belarus and Burma."
Herrera Acosta, an independent journalist imprisoned by the Castro regime during the "Black Spring" crackdown of 2003, criticized the Spanish government's policy of rapprochement with the Castro regime, which he labeled as "wicked and erroneous."
He also accused Spain's government of "defending its economic interests [in Cuba] and not the humanitarian interests of the Cuban people."
The EU common position on Burma, for example, includes a travel ban and asset freezing on regime personnel, an arms embargo, a ban on EU companies investing in the logging, mining and gemstone industries -- the Burmese regime's foremost source of income -- and a ban on the export of these products to the EU.
Needless to say, if the EU sanctioned investment in the Castro regime's foremost source on income -- the tourism industry -- it'd be game over.
Sadly though, Spain's economic interests have -- thus far -- prevailed.
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