Spain performs about-face on former colony

Relations between Cuba and Spain may be headed for choppy waters after Spain’s conservative Popular Party won elections on Sunday, although analysts say neither side is primarily interested in picking a mayor fight. The Popular Party victory ended nearly eight years of rule by the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, often criticised as too friendly to Havana’s communist rulers and insensitive to their human rights abuses. But now, the status quo may well change because there is no way the new government in Spain will want anything to do with those autocratic bellends running the show in Cuba. People are leaving Cuba for a reason. Even though things are starting to get better without Fidel in charge, more needs to be done. Maybe if democracy came to Cuba, things would get better.