Under Castro all information is controlled and there is no choice. He could not say that in front of the hundreds of thousands of men, women and children inhumanely herded and tortured in Castro's gulag. Nor facing the families of the 27,000 dead due to executions, extra-judicial assassinations and deaths in jails because of beatings and denial of medical care. Nor facing the families of the 60,000 dead at sea while escaping Castro's tyranny. Before Castro the death sentence did not exist in Cuba.
Human rights have different meanings when observed from a deep versus a shallow point of view.
Trump and Robinson are far apart and their choices exemplify each.