Translation mine.The article suggests that the “Ladies in White” are paid employees of the US Interest Section. I don’t know if that’s true, but the very fact that this US diplomat…Lowell Dale Lawton, undersecretary for the Section of US Interests in Cuba, attended a church mass in the Párraga district of Havana, alongside members of the self-styled Ladies in White. When the liturgy was over, they all took to the streets together to protest against supposed human-rights violations in Cuba.A televised report, broadcast on the “Round Table” program, showed the diplomat accompanying the so-called “dissidents” right down the main street of the Cuban capital.The US diplomat blended in with the demonstrators and with them, walked the full length of Calle 23, to La Rampa. The provocation was spontaneously rejected by ordinary bystanders.That evening, two European diplomats–Volker Pellet, from the German embassy, and Frantisek Fleisman, Third Secretary of the Czech embassy–participated in a similar demonstration, in open collaboration with little counterrevolutionary groups organized and financed by the United States and some European countries. […]These provocative actions featuring US and Western European diplomats in Cuba took place in the midst of a corporate media campaign against the island. The campaign intensified after March 10, when the Europarliament adopted a resolution condemning Cuba for presumed human-rights violations.The Cuban “Ladies in White” have acquired a certain fame in the Western press, which has elevated them to a symbol of the struggle for freedom. The women enjoy a degree of publicity that makes other opposition groups around the world green with envy, while in Cuba, they suffer the indifference or open rejection of the general population.British diplomat Chris Stimpson assured that he was there only as an “observer to monitor human rights and freedom of expression”. However, he did not say whether this “observation” is an habitual British practice in other countries as well.Last December 11, Cubadebate published a report taken from the television news, which showed another provocative demonstration in Havana, in which Lowell Dale Lawton appeared, accompanied by members of the so-called Cuban “dissidents”. Alongside Lawton was another functionary of the US Interests Section, Kathleen Duffy, a politico-economic assistant from the same office.Also present were Volker Pellet of the German embassy, and Chris Stimpson, British diplomat, who made declarations to the international press against the government of Cuba until he was upbraided by counterdemonstrators, and had to be protected by Cuban security guards.

The hypocricy and the decontextualization (US supported terrorism and unrelenting agression) is brazen and par for the course.
Of course, none of these countries scrutinize the US in similar fashion–or any of the repressive countries they make money in.
Cuba is far and away more supportive of real human rights than these capitalist hypocrites.
No question about it. They’re better at it than the “freedom-loving” capitalists up here, too. And it shames me as a Canadian to admit that.