[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 166 (Wednesday, October 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10749]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          FIDEL CASTRO'S VISIT

  (Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, today, Cuban tyrant Fidel Castro will 
leave the United States after having been the catalyst for the most 
shameful behavior seen in a long time. It was disgusting to observe how 
many ignored the documented repression in Cuba.
  Let me remind world leaders that while they dined with Castro, 
thousands of political prisoners remain in Castro's gulags. Let me 
remind the American media, that while they asked Castro about who will 
win the World Series, 11 million Cubans continue to be denied their 
human rights. And let me remind United States business leaders, and 
even some of my congressional colleagues that while they glorified 
Castro, Cuban workers continue to live in misery, as they are paid 
almost nothing in Castro's new plantation style economy.
  Ironically, in the midst of its 50th anniversary celebration, the 
United Nations was the clear loser, for that same organization which 
now wants to create global taxes, accepted and idolized as one of its 
own, the last tyrant of the hemisphere, and turned its back on the 
millions of Cubans who suffer under his dictatorship. Shame on all.

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