Castro's Man in Europe (Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos)

Wall Street Journal ^ | OCTOBER 20, 2009, 4:00 P.M. ET | OPINION EUROPE

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Havana's man in Europe is returning from Cuba with a simple request: For his EU partners to drop their focus on human rights. After a two-day visit with the Cuban government, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos will press his Continental counterparts to scrap their 1996 "Common Position" on Cuba in order to fully normalize ties with Raul Castro's dictatorship. ..

"Consider Mr. Moratinos a trend-setter in the age of Obama, as the U.S. president's own overtures to Castro (not to mention to Iran, Burma and now Sudan) follow a distinctly Moratinian philosophy. This holds that engaging dictators will yield better results than offering succor to their dissidents, and that tyrants and terrorists are somehow more malleable than their brutality suggests. Mr. Moratinos is the same Socialist minister who has lobbied in the past to have Hamas removed from the EU's blacklist."

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Supporting Leftist Dictators is now acceptable??

Here is a treatment of the article in a Latin American Source (in Spanish)>

http://www.noticias24.com/actualidad/noticia/103700/wsj-carga-contra-moratinos-y-le-llama-el-hombre-de-castro-en-europa/