[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12436]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



            SUPPORT FOR EFFORTS OF CUBAN INTERNAL OPPOSITION

  (Mr. DIAZ-BALART asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Madam Speaker, a message to Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, 
Dr. Leonel Morejon Almagro, William Herrera Diaz, Marco Lazaro Torres, 
and Rolando Munoz, and the scores of others who have joined throughout 
the island of Cuba 3 days ago in protest to reject the violation of 
human rights and demand democracy for the Cuban people:
  We are with you. We will continue with you. You have our support, our 
solidarity, like all of the heroic political prisoners in Cuba; such as 
Vladimiro Roca, Marta Beatriz Roque, Feliz Bonne, Rene Gomez Manzano, 
Jorge Luis Garcia Perez Antunez, Maritza Lugo, Rafael Ybarra Roque, and 
the thousands of others.
  And, Madam Speaker, I am still waiting to see the first time when 
someone in this body who advocates trade and tourism for Castro comes 
down here and advocates freedom for the thousands of Cuban political 
prisoners.

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