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A Mother Separated From Her Child In Havana
The forced separation of the family and how it is a strategic tool deployed by the Cuban government to maintain power.
Forced Family Separation is a Crime Against Humanity
Among every list of Castro’s greatest crimes committed against the Cuban people appears this one: The Forced Separation of Families. This one crime against humanity has affected and continues to affect every single Cuban family since 1959. Human Rights Watch reported this statement in a 2005 report titled Families Torn Apart The High Cost of U.S. and Cuban Travel Restrictions:
Cuba routinely refuses to grant its citizens permission to leave their country and often denies those who have left permission to return. These restrictions have resulted in the involuntary separation of many Cuban families, violating the rights of children to be with their parents. ()
Prior to Castro, the Cuban people were free to travel to any place in the world they so desired. For centuries Cuba was historically a country of immigration. Since 1959, it has been and continues to be, at record numbers, a country of emigration.
Emigration = the act of leaving one’s own country to settle…
