[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 70 (Friday, May 17, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H2751]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      HONORING JUAN MANUEL SALVAT

  (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, I rise this afternoon to honor Juan 
Manuel Salvat, owner of Miami's first Spanish-language bookseller: 
Libreria Universal, which will sadly be closing after his retirement in 
June.
  Having fled Castro's totalitarian grip, Juan Manuel was eager to 
rescue the essential works of the Cuban culture.
  He sought to tell the story of the Cuban exile, and that is how in 
1965 he founded Universal Publishing and its subsidiary, Universal 
Bookseller & Distributor.
  Since then, this company has been dedicated to the distribution and 
publication of books from Hispanic and Cuban authors, including my 
father, Enrique Ros.
  I thank Salvat for playing a major role in illustrating the road 
traveled by the exile community through the more than 1,600 published 
titles, while giving readers a deeper understanding of Cuba and Latin 
America's culture, history, politics, and literature. We will miss this 
great cultural leader.

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