The US defies the UN once and is vilified, what about a regime that has done it for 40-plus years:

Fidel Castro's government ignored international criticism and pressed ahead Friday with its prosecution of 80 dissidents it accuses of working with U.S. diplomats to undermine Cuba's leadership.

The well-known poet and independent journalist Raul Rivero were among those being tried Friday in a second day of court proceedings aimed at crushing a small, but growing, opposition movement.

Rivero was being tried alongside Ricardo Gonzalez, the editor of De Cuba, a new general interest magazine publishing the works of Cuban journalists working outside state-controlled media.

Prosecutors were seeking 20 years for Rivero and life for Gonzalez under a law that prohibits Cubans from working with a foreign power to undermine the government.

The silence of the UN and the journalist community is deafening. Wouldn't want to offend the little Communist Utopia now would we.