Cuba ordering its dissidents to skip meeting with Obama

LA Times

In Havana on the eve of President Obama's visit, a child runs in front of a wall reading "We keep defending the revolution."

"On the eve of President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba, authorities there are ordering dissidents invited to meet with the American leader to stay home instead, a leading human rights activist said Saturday.

"Elizardo Sanchez, a Cuban anti-government activist who chronicles political detentions month-to-month, said he and most of those invited planned to defy the government order.

"Sanchez, speaking by phone from Havana, said U.S. officials were offering to help the activists get to the meeting with Obama, scheduled for Tuesday.

“ 'Everyone is pretty determined,” he said.

"There was no immediate comment from the U.S. Embassy in Havana, the White Houseor the Cuban government." . . .

It is well to recall when the Iranian people rose up against the Ayatollahs in Iran, Obama sided with the Ayatollahs against the people.