[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13402]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           THE HEROES OF CUBA

  (Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida. The world, and especially the 
press and the media in the United States, continue to treat the 
political prisoners in the gulags of the Cuban dictatorship as 
nonpersons.
  The most well-known and respected political prisoner in Cuba is Dr. 
Oscar Elias Biscet. He has been in the gulags of the Castros for a 
decade due to his peaceful, pro-democracy work inside that enslaved 
island. Dr. Biscet is the Mandela of Cuba. Today is his 49th birthday. 
I wish him Godspeed and freedom, and freedom for Cuba.
  To the press I ask, how long do the heroes of Cuba have to suffer 
before you acknowledge their existence?

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