[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 129 (Thursday, July 22, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3824]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   STANDING AGAINST THE CASTRO REGIME

  (Mr. GONZALEZ of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GONZALEZ of Ohio. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of the 
Cuban people and against the illegitimate, violent dictatorship that 
continues to assault the basic freedoms and rights of the Cuban people.
  This photo here behind me is of two of my heroes, my abuelo and 
abuela. In 1960, they and their children were forced from their 
homeland by the communist regime for having the audacity to say no to 
Castro and his thugs.
  Sixty years later, that same regime and that same poisonous ideology 
wreak terror on the Cuban people as the people march courageously in 
the streets, knowing full well what brutality awaits them as they ask 
for the most basic of human rights.
  Yet, there are some in this body who foolishly wish to blame America 
for the plight of the island and the suffering of the Cubans. Let me 
say emphatically that the Cuban people are suffering and crying out for 
freedom because the communists have spent 60 years cynically destroying 
their country and trying to break the spirit of their own people. They 
will not succeed.
  I stand firmly against the Castro regime and any of their apologists, 
and I stand with the Cuban people who are crying out for freedom.

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