Dear Sir,

I am concerned that Caribbean Net News often quotes or rewrites US propoganda without comment while failing to critically analyze each claim. Today: "Cuba sanctions must remain, says Gutierrez ... remain "economic captives" mired in "indentured servitude," he said.

I won't support the restriction of freedom in Cuba but ask that equal time be given to the fact that no other Central or South American or Caribbean nation has so successfully virtually eliminated poverty and insured access to education, health care, and the arts.

And ask that you cover the US use of torture, detention without trial, and the jailing of so many innocent persons both poor and of ethnic minorities. Only a few countries in the world have a proportion of people in prison to match ours.

Thank you for listening,

Cliff Dillmann
Marysville, PA, US

Editor's note: In the case of news items, we merely report what was said, and allow readers to make up their own minds as to the validity or otherwise thereof. There is no place in a news story for comment or analysis, this is left for editorials, commentaries and letters, along with the expression of opposing points of view, as Mr Dillmann ably demonstrates.