[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 64 (Friday, May 20, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 20, 1994]
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   NINETY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE CREATION OF THE REPUBLIC OF CUBA

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, on this date 92 years ago, the 
Republic of Cuba was created, after a century long struggle, marked by 
the courage and determination of Cuban patriots who sacrificed all for 
liberty and democracy.
  Sadly, the Cuban people today find themselves struggling once again 
against the forces of oppression. Only this time, not against an 
imperialist foreign power, but against the totalitarian dictator who 
betrayed his country, and has enslaved the Cuban nation for 35 years, 
Fidel Castro.
  The Castro regime's repression of the Cuban people continues unabated 
after many decades. However, the patriotic spirit of Jose Marti, 
Antonio Maceo, Maximo Gomez, and all the other Cuban patriots who 
fought for Cuban independence, remains alive in the hearts and souls of 
all Cubans, both inside and outside the island, who still struggle for 
the liberation of Cuba from the claws of Castro's ruthless regime.
  Mr. Speaker, that fighting spirit will soon define the end of the 
Castro dictatorship and signal a new dawn of freedom and democracy for 
the sovereign nation of Cuba and its people.

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