The home of a former president, Ramón Grau San Martín, in Miramar.

According to my (non-governmental) sources, his descendants, two old women, live

there and won't move out, though the government would dearly love them to so that the place can be

restored as a museum. The women refuse to move even though the government has offered to give them

another house in good condition. How can this be true? Surely, the state has the power to move them out.

In the U.S., the women would have been moved out long ago. Perhaps this demonstrates something about human rights

in Cuba. There is no question that there are human rights abuses in Cuba, but maybe Cubans would view

our willingness to force these women out against their will to be a human rights abuse.