>From the little bit I read of the Human Rights Watch report that Louis forwarded, what they called "torture" sounded a lot like prison in most poorer countries (while it's likely that prison conditions improve when most people's living standards improve). Over the last few decades, the US seems to be emulating that for its general prison population to an increasing extent, while actually applying _classic and explicit torture_ in Guantanamo, Bagram, and other "anti-terror" prison sites.
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Jim Devine wrote: >> >> I have a question: how often (and when) has the Cuban government been >> accused of torture? Note that in asking this question, I don't care if >> they actually tortured anyone. Rather, have the "human rights" people >> pointed to this problem? (I don't care what the anti-Castro Cubans >> say.) >> >> The idea is to compare Castro's Cuba to the actual torture that we >> know that the US government did under Bush and earlier governments. > > > I hope someone else can answer your question, since my memory on this is > vague. But If I remember correctly, some of the 'anguaisshed' > description of horrid experiences in Castro's jails would sound like > heaven to many people in u.s. prisons! > > Carrol > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
