The world’s last bastion of the failed Stalinist ideology, Cuba, has yet again arrested the outspoken musician Gorki Aguilar.Jeane Kirkpatrick once said of her penchant for standing on the floor of the UN and naming the names of those held in Soviet gulags, “Statistics don’t bleed; it is the detail which counts.” It was important then and it is important now. After years of government harassment and frequent imprisonment, the Cuban dissident was arrested in Havana yesterday and is reportedly going to stand trial in a Cuban kangaroo court for the crime of "dangerousness" on Thursday. He faces up to 4 years in prison.“Dangerousness” may mean different things to different people but to Raul Castro it means being critical of his governance. So while we celebrate our democracy over the next few months leading into the general election, Gorki Aguilar may very well be sitting in a Cuban jail cell simply for speaking his mind; A striking thought...(Read Full Post)