Whereas some claim that "Cuba Slowly Improving Human Rights Record," and misguided politicians from all portions of the political spectrum are arguing that capitulating to the wishes of a communist dictatorship is good foreign policy -- all the while spinning correspondingly fantastical tales to support this narrative, the reality tells a far different story. In 2013, I showed that Cuba's record on a number of basic human rights issues was abyssmal -- and since that time it has not improved. In 2012, Cuba was ranked 167th worst on the Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders. Its 2015 ranking has dropped down to 171st. That is not improvement. Only China, Iran, Somali, Syria, Turkmenistan, North Korea, and Eritrea have less free press systems. Over the past few years, Cuba's corruption index ranking by Transparency International has also declined substantially, representing yet another diminishment of its human rights record. The Economist...(Read Full Post)