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(Reuters 10-05-01) Should Cuba Be on U.S. Terrorism Blacklist?

CNN: May 3, 2001: U.S. ousted from U.N. Human Rights Commission[Excerpt] "Washington should have seen it coming because there has been a growing resentment towards the United States and ... votes on key human-rights standards, including opposition to a treaty to abolish land mines and to the International Criminal Court and making AIDS drugs available to everyone," she said in a Reuters report.

Other nations the United States has held up to the spotlight in the Geneva commission, such as China or Cuba, resented U.S. actions on the committee and "made their feelings well known in their speeches, " Weschler said in the Reuters report. Weschler also said the 53-member commission was turning into an "abuser solidarity" group with more and more countries with questionable human-rights records gaining election and then voting as a bloc not to single out individual nations for human rights abuses.

In the Reuters report, she cited Libya, Syria and Sudan among those given seats in the commission during the past two years.[End Excerpt]

Miami Herald (Oct 4, 2001) Dangerous anti-Americanism next door--Chávez, a left-leaning nationalist, has allied himself with Cuba's Fidel Castro, Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Libya's Moammar Gadhafi. These countries may end up having played a role in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Orlando Sentinel (Oct 4, 2001) Open your eyes - Cuba belongs on list

Chinese President Jiang Zemin (L) waves to the press after he was met at Havana's Jose Marti Airport by Cuban leader Fidel Castro April 12, 2001. Jiang Zemina arrived to begin a three day state visit to Cuba. China yesterday released the 24 U.S. crew members of a surveillance plane which was forced to land on Chinese soil after a mid-air collision with a Chinese fighter.REUTERS/Andrew Winning

Cuban President Fidel Castro is accompanied by Hajj Seyed Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the late Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran, as he leads more than 1.2 million Cubans in the largest anti-U.S. protest in four decades of hostilities, July 26, 2001. The march was billed by the ruling Communist Party as a protest against all U.S. "aggressions and crimes' since Castro's 1959 revolution. Khomeini is in Cuba as part of an Iranian delegation visiting on Castro's invite.(Rafael Perez/Reuters)