TRAVEL BILL
01-07-2010.
(www.miscelaneasdecuba.net).- WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Robert Menendez
(D-NJ) released the following statement today on the House Agriculture
Committee's markup of legislation to lift the Cuba travel ban (H.R. 4645):
"The legislation being considered today in the House Agriculture
Committee would enrich a regime that denies its own people basic human
rights. So let me make this clear: I oppose and will filibuster any
attempt to pass the bill in the Senate. The big corporate interests
behind this bill couldn't care less about whether the Cuban people are
free or not -- they only care about padding their profits by opening up
a new market. The very fact that a travel bill is going through an
agriculture committee makes one wonder why agriculture interests even
care about travel to Cuba , unless it is to generate money for the
Castro regime to buy agricultural goods".
"The rest of the world travels to and invest in Cuba , none of which has
brought democratic change. In fact, the Castro regime continues its
abuse of pro-democratic forces and allows dissidents to die from futile
hunger strikes in the face of one of the world's harshest dictatorships.
Those who lament our dependence on foreign oil because it enriches
regimes in places like Iran should not have a double standard when it
comes to enriching the Castro regime, simply because Cuba offers white
sand beaches 90 miles from our coast. Repression is repression and
dictatorships are dictatorships, no matter where they are located or
whether you want to use their resorts."
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