THE wind at the end of the cold season, blowing in the direction of Lake Lemans in Geneva, brought icy weather that made the UN offices freezing cold. Not far from there at the Geneva International Conference Centre the cold air was dissolved by the warmth of the atmosphere within. The eyes of the audience were focused on the panellists in absentia on the video screen. Nestor Rodriquez Lobaina, the Cuban dissenter who was unable to obtain consent