[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 149 (2003), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15111]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       FREEDOM WILL COME TO CUBA

  (Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. Mr. Speaker, today I bring to the 
floor of the U.S. House of Representatives the case of Cuban political 
prisoner Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, known as Antunez.
  This young man has been in Castro's gulag since 1990, since his high 
school days, for failing to keep silent. An extraordinary leader of 
unlimited courage, Jorge Luis Garcia Perez was sentenced to 18 years in 
prison for so-called ``verbal enemy propaganda.''
  Antunez, Mr. Speaker, is the face of the real Cuba.
  Those who visit Cuba to have a good time, to take advantage of the 
regime-encouraged child prostitution, or simply to dine with the 
tyrant, may avoid seeing Antunez these days. But, sooner or later, 
Antunez will be free, Cuba will be free, and those who collaborated 
with his jailers and torturers will have to face him and many others 
like him.

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