[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 17, 2004)]
[House]
[Page H1120]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     THE TOTALITARIAN GULAG IN CUBA

  (Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, exactly 1 year ago, 
taking advantage of the attention of the world on the liberation of 
Iraq where U.S. Armed Forces and coalition forces eliminated a 
dangerous madman from power, that formerly oppressed country, the Cuban 
dictator 90 miles from the United States utilizing that cover of 
attention on Iraq, commenced a campaign to throw dozens of peaceful 
pro-democracy activists, librarians and economists and journalists and 
students and workers and others into the totalitarian gulag where they 
joined the thousands of others who languish as political prisoners in 
that enslaved island.
  Mr. Speaker, each day we must remind the world of the existence of 
the totalitarian gulag 90 miles from the United States. We must demand 
the release of each and every political prisoner on that island. We 
must not rest until they are all free.

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