[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 167 (Thursday, October 26, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H10849]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CUBAN EMBARGO

  (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, one of our colleagues has openly 
challenged the United States embargo against the Castro regime by 
announcing that he has accepted an invitation by Cuban tyrant Fidel 
Castro to visit Cuba in December with a group of Massachusetts 
businessmen.
  I have asked the Treasury Department to deny my colleague, and his 
partners in crime, permission to travel to Cuba, for this trip clearly 
does not fall under the permissable guidelines. The presence of 
business leaders on this trip is an attempt at lobbying for the end of 
the trade embargo against Castro.
  While some try to forge ties with the tyrant, the repression in Cuba 
goes unabated. While Castro fooled the United States media once again 
this week independent journalist Olance Nogueras Roce was jailed in a 
high security prison in Cuba for trying to ask a question at the 
Ministry of Foreign Relations.
  The obvious attempt to violate the embargo on Cuba by these United 
States businessmen is a clear test of the Clinton administration's 
resolve to enforce the law against Castro. The President must step up 
to the challenge by denying them visas.

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