Cuban dissidents testify on Capitol Hill against Obama policy

[Judi Lynn]

Cuban dissidents testify on Capitol Hill against Obama policy
By MIMI WHITEFIELD
Miami Herald
February 5, 2015

Cuban dissident Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, who spent 17 years in jail as a political prisoner, said Thursday during a House subcommittee hearing that U.S. efforts for a rapprochement with Cuba are a "betrayal."

"These agreements are considered by an important part of the Cuban resistance as a betrayal," said the dissident, who is known as Antunez. "They are unacceptable."

He was one of three Cuban activists who testified before the House Subcommittee on Global Human Rights. Berta Soler, the leader of the Ladies in White, and Sara Martha Fonseca Quevedo, active in the Ladies in White and now a political refugee in the United States, also disagree with U.S. efforts to restore diplomatic ties with Cuba.

New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith, a Republican, said he called the hearing to ask whether in overturning 50 years of U.S. policy toward Cuba, the Obama administration "used the considerable leverage it wields to seek to better the condition of the Cuba people, or, as I fear, it's an opportunity squandered in the haste to achieve a breakthrough and even create a legacy for the president."

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[Mika]

1. I wonder what Ms Soler is talking about ...

"Cuba continues to be a one-party government where fundamental freedoms that are an absolute right in American society constitute crimes against so-called state security," said Soler, who heads a group of pro-democracy women.

I wonder if she means the US fundamental freedom to protest in public spaces without a permit...



Seems as though Cuban "dissidents" are as clueless about America as many Americans are about Cuba.

Maybe they should look up Ferguson while they're here.

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