Church leader on human rights in Cuba

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Church leader on human rights in Cuba

HAVANA — Reverend Eunice Santana, president of the 400-million-member World Council of Churches, says the United States is pointing an unfair finger at Cuba when it comes to human rights.

She said: "We have visited Cuba continuously for the past 20 years and when we experience what happens here, when we see that the educational system covers all of the children , when we see that health care is available to the people regardless of their economic conditions, when we see that women and children are placed first, then it's impossible for us to see that 'violation of human rights'. We are not witnesses to that. And we are not just transient visitors."

Reverend Santana noted that when someone compares the situation of people in Cuba with the minorities in the United States, with people in Haiti and in other parts of Latin America and the world, where they are grossly tortured and disappeared, then it's a sin to single out Cuba, where conditions are so much better than in any other country.
[Radio Havana/Pegasus.]

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