Quote:Cuban diplomats at the United Nations shouted down speakers and disrupted a U.S.-hosted event Tuesday highlighting the plight of Cuban political prisoners, prompting an American ambassador to say if the communist regime’s diplomats behave that way, one can only wonder how its police behave.

“I have never in my life seen diplomats behave the way that the Cuban delegation did today,” Ambassador Kelley Currie told reporters outside. “It was really shocking and disturbing.”

“And it makes you wonder, that if the diplomats of this government behave this way, how do the police behave? You can understand very well why people feel afraid to speak their minds, why people are thrown in jail for speaking their minds, with this kind of government, this kind of thuggish behavior.”

The Cuban delegation, she said, “should be ashamed of themselves for the way that they behaved today.”

Cuba complained that U.N. facilities – the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) chamber and U.N. webcast system – were being used by one member-state to “attack” another.[...]

Currie, who is the U.S. representative to ECOSOC, was hosting the meeting, launching a U.S. campaign entitled “Jailed for What?” focusing on the estimated 130 political prisoners held by the Cuban government.

Panelists included a former Cuban political prisoner, the sister of a current political prisoner, and Organization of American States secretary-general Luis Almagro.

(10-17-2018 11:55 AM)Captain Bearcat Wrote:  Sounds a lot like the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.