REMARKS OF SEN. JOHN CORNYN (R, TEXAS) IN SUPPORT OF THE CUBAN PEOPLE, AND AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSIVE REGIME

REMARKS OF SEN. JOHN CORNYN (R, TEXAS) IN SUPPORT OF THE CUBAN PEOPLE,
AND AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSIVE REGIME
2007-11-02.
U.S. Senate, November 1, 2007.- I wanted to commend my distinguished
friends and colleagues from New Jersey and Florida for this statement of
solidarity with the Cuban people. I couldn't agree more that it's
important, certainly now as much as ever, that we stand arm-in-arm,
shoulder-to-shoulder, opposed to oppressive and regimes that really
govern by fear.

I have to say just briefly, my friend from Florida, Senator Martinez, I
know his personal history being a refugee from Cuba when he was 16 years
old, part of an effort to bring young Cubans to America so they could
have a better life.

He also shared with me recently a movie, which while a work of fiction,
I think gave me a very emotional sense of what people in Cuba and
Havana, in particular, must have experienced with the Cuban people being
oppressed by Fidel Castro, and I have to tell you that it is a bleak,
bleak existence that these people who are seeking nothing more than the
most bake of human rights
have under such a heartless regime and a dictator like Fidel Castro.

I just wanted to express a few words both thanks and words of
solidarity for my colleagues from New Jersey and Florida to reiterate
that all of us, all of the American people, stand in solidarity with
those in Cuba who seek change, who seek what we perhaps too often take
for granted, our freedom to speak, live, to worship as we see fit. We
ought to do everything we can possible to support them.

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