[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 139 (Wednesday, October 7, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H9728]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 MARCH FOR CUBAN FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY

  (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, this Saturday, the South Florida 
community will hold a march through the streets of Miami to reaffirm 
our commitment with the Cuban people in their struggle for freedom 
against the last totalitarian dictatorship of our hemisphere, that of 
Fidel Castro.
  This march will join our diverse community as one, under one ideal; 
that the people of Cuba are not alone in their struggle for freedom. 
This march will ask the Clinton administration to stop appeasing the 
Cuban Communist regime and start enforcing the sanction laws that this 
Congress has imposed on the Castro tyranny that the White House has 
conveniently refused to apply.
  We will also ask the international community to stop its immoral 
investments in Castro's slave-economy that only serve to strengthen the 
dictatorship.
  It will be a solemn occasion to remember the hundreds of thousands of 
victims who have fallen prey to the Castro regime over its almost 40 
years reign of terror and repression.
  The thousands of people who will walk through the streets of Miami 
this Saturday will send a clear message to the tyrant in Havana: We 
will not rest until the Cuban people reclaim their freedom and 
democracy.

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