Our favorite amigo Fidel cracked down on dissidents to protect Socialism and because the US was backing these horrrible people:

Perez Roque also denied criticism the crackdown was timed so the world's attention would be focused on the Iraq war.

"This decision was taken before the war on Iraq," Perez Roque said.

The sentences have been condemned by governments and human rights groups around the world.

I have heard nothing from the major networks and page 10 stories in the papers. What does Jimmy Carter think? A Nobel Laureate could not stand back and allow this to happen, could he?