US-Cuba deal puts human rights on the island in the spotlight

*Well … yeah. The President said “this is still a regime that oppresses its people.” VL

By Fox News Latino

To many exiles and their allies, President Raúl Castro is a brutal dictator who locks up dissenters in gulag-like jails, snuffs out political discourse and condemns his people to socialist poverty.

Cuba’s supporters see the government as heroic, its sins justified by the behavior of its giant enemy to the north, and offset by the fact it provides health care and education that most developing countries could only dream of.

As often is the case, the truth lies somewhere in between.

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