WELL, this is shameful:

Spain is trying to forge a new rapport with the Cuban government amid speculation that Fidel Castro's bad health could accelerate regime change in the Caribbean dictatorship. But other EU states want to step up pro-democracy work with the island's opposition groups instead.

"It's unthinkable that Spain cannot defend and develop an intense and constructive dialogue with the Cuban authorities," Spanish foreign minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said during a rare visit by an EU minister to the island this Monday (2 April).

First Iraqis, then Sahrauis, and now Cuban democrats. Spain's government has abandoned them all. Who'll be next, Zimbabweans?

UPDATE. More here.