Cuba Denies Entry to Right-Wing Felipe Calderon, Former Chilean Education Minister Television del Sur
go to original February 23, 2017

Former Mexican President Felipe Calderón deployed the troops to fight against criminal organizations (Dallas Observer)

Cuba reportedly denied entry into the country to one of Mexico's ex-presidents and a former Chilean minister to attend an award ceremony hosted by a political group opposing the Cuban socialist government.

Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon tweeted that Cuban immigration prevented him from boarding a flight from Mexico City to Havana to attend an event planned for Wednesday that was organized by the Latin American Network of Youth for Democracy, a group opposed to the Cuban government.

Calderon, from Mexico's right-wing National Action Party, was president from 2006 to 2012 and he was responsible for the country’s war on drugs with the help of the United States, a war that social movements and human rights groups have accused of being one of the deadliest and bloodiest in the country’s history.

In an interview in 2014, Calderon admitted that abuses were carried out under his watch and that 60,000 to 70,000 dead represented a lot of casualties in his war on drugs. Human rights groups said that torture was widespread and that many of those dead were in fact civilians who had nothing to do with drugs.

Mariana Aylwin, a former Chilean education minister was also blocked from entering Cuba Monday night, according to the Chilean government. She is the daughter of Patricio Aylwin, Chile’s first elected president after the end of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

...Cuba has not made any comments regarding the claims by Calderon and Aylwin. Meanwhile, the governments of Chile and Mexico issued statements condemning the move to block their former officials from entering Cuba.

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