Salazar Calls for Freedom in Cuba on 2nd Anniversary of July 11th Protests
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Western Hemisphere Subcommittee Chair María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) joined a roundtable discussion hosted by House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX) with leading Cuban dissidents in the Assault Brigade 2506 Honorary Museum in Miami this week.
During the discussion, Chair Salazar reaffirmed her utmost support for the Cuban protestors against the cruel Castro regime and urged the Biden Administration to take action against the growing Chinese influence in the country.
The bipartisan congressional delegation participated in a lively exchange with Cuban activists Rosa María Payá and Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat, as well as Rafael Montalvo, president of Brigade 2506, before joining a press conference on the event.
Other present Members of Congress included Reps. Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL), Mike Waltz (R-FL), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL). Prominent members of the Cuban exile community in Miami also participated in the roundtable discussion.
“After 65 years, this community that we represent proudly is still waiting to be free,” reflected Rep. Salazar.“Cubans are not Martians–Cubans want the same thing as everyone else in the Western Hemisphere. Freedom. Capitalism. The ability to travel and feed their kids. To live in liberty and do what they want in the pursuit of happiness.”
Two years ago, the tyrannical Castro/Diaz-Canel regime unleashed its military and the National Revolutionary Police Force on protestors who took to the streets on July 11th, 2021. Peaceful protests all over the country were met with hundreds of arbitrary detentions, including those of freedom activists José Daniel Ferrer and Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara.
To this day, the Castro regime has imprisoned thousands of political prisoners since violently coming to power in 1959. The Cuban exile community in the United States and those who represent them in South Florida stand strongly with the Cuban people who remain on the island clamoring for their liberty.
To watch the full press conference following the roundtable discussion, click HERE.
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