It shows Governmentorganized mob attacks on dissidents. It shows nationwide political surveillance. It shows extrajudicial killings of Cubans attempting to flee. for example. the sinking of boats loaded with refugees by Government forces last year. It shows. by every significant human rights standard. the Castro regime has an appalling record on freedom of speech. of assembly. and freedom from arbitrary arrest. Castro has been largely immune to the democratic changes that have swept the hemisphere during .the past 10 years and what that regime has in common with totalitarian states such as the ones created by Erich Honecker in East Germany and Kim Ilsong in North Korea.
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