[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 21, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3792]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     LIBERTY AND FREEDOM FOR CUBANS

  (Mr. BURCHETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURCHETT. Madam Speaker, I want to express my full support for 
the brave Cubans who are demanding freedom from their tyrannical 
communist government.
  For over 60 years, the regime in Cuba has run the country into the 
ground. It doesn't recognize the basic human rights of its citizens, 
and Cuban people don't have access to food, economic opportunities, or 
COVID-19 vaccines.
  The Cuban people are now taking to the streets to fight for 
individual liberty and freedom. As authoritarians do, the regime has 
arrested hundreds of demonstrators and cut off their communication with 
the outside world.
  Madam Speaker, a communist government will do whatever it takes to 
keep the Cuban people under its thumb. The Cuban Government has a lot 
in common with the Chinese Communist Party. Both will stop at nothing 
to hold on to power and have no regard for the rights of the people 
they govern.
  The Cuban government wants to silence its citizens' demands for 
freedom, just as the Communist Chinese Party silences those in Hong 
Kong and Xinjiang who simply want to be free.
  Cubans, and Cuban Americans especially, know communism does not work. 
It only brings poverty and oppression. It is our privilege as Americans 
to live in a country that values freedom, the Lord, and we must support 
those brave Cubans who want the same in our own backyard only 90 miles 
off the coast of the Florida.

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