Cuba just signed two major international human rights treaties at a UN conference today. Fidel Castro had opposed the signing of these treaties, but Cuba agreed to sign them without his consent. The treaties, however, were not signed until after he stepped down from his position of power.
I'm not really sure what kind of significance this has, whether it means anything about the long term political policies of the new Cuban regime, but this is certainly a step in the right direction. If nothing else, it presents a positive image of Cuba that certainly we Americans and others in the international community have not seen for a long time.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080228/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/un_cuba_human_rights;_ylt=AvMo9rbupngJVeBdmB1qjZm3IxIF
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