[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 19 (Friday, February 18, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E285]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        HONORING FIDEL GONZALEZ

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                        HON. ILEANA ROS-LEHTINEN

                               of florida

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, February 17, 2005

  Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN. Mr. Speaker, today I rise to congratulate Mr. Fidel 
Gonzalez.
  Fidel Gonzalez practiced law in Cuba and defended many dissidents of 
the Fidel Castro regime.
  Among his various activities in the United States, he has worked as a 
social worker in the city of New York's Social Welfare Program.
  He studied nights and weekends at Fordham University in New York, 
where he received a Master's Degree in Social Work and graduated with a 
high grade point average.
  When he retired as a social worker, he began working with a well-
known law firm in Union City.
  In addition, Fidel Gonzalez was an outstanding leader of the Cuban 
Attorneys Delegation in New York and New Jersey.
  He has been a member for many years of the Pan-American Culture 
Circle, where he has participated in their conferences as coordinator 
of the historic and literature sessions.

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