A letter to The Chronicle Herald's editor on Peter McKenna

As a Cuban-Canadian who lived 48 years under the brutal repression of a totalitarian dictatorship that violates the most elemental human rights of the Cuban nation for over 53 years I express my profound dismay and disgust with what was stated by Mr. Peter McKenna in his article "Harper government should strengthen ties with Havana".

Politics and ethically regrettable that a Canadian Democrat unaware that more than three thousand Cubans were executed without trials and hundreds of thousands have been sent to the prisons of the dictatorship for the sole crime of defending Human Rights, Freedom and Democracy.

Mr. McKenna should inquire more deeply about the real situation in Cuba and purpose to worry about the situation of Canadian citizens Sarkis Yacoubian and Cy Tokmakjian to which they were expropriated their business and are being held in Cuba.

Very disturbing.

With all due respect,

Lazaro Gonzalez