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Lincoln Diaz-Balart: a few years ago, actually more than 6 or 7 years ago, the gangster who used to be the President of Mexico, Carlos…

On the recordNovember 4, 1997
a few years ago, actually more than 6 or 7 years ago, the gangster who used to be the President of Mexico, Carlos Salinas, and his accomplice in some crimes and other activities, the former Prime Minister of Spain, Felipe Gonzalez, created a conference that meets every year named the Iberoamericana Summit and they invite the Latin American countries, heads of state and government, and of Spain and Portugal. They all curtsy to the king of Spain as though Spain still rules in this hemisphere every year when they meet, but the main purpose of Carlos Salinas' and Felipe Gonzalez' little gathering was to bring into the club and give credence and help out in every way possible their friend and certainly their accomplice in business and crime, the dictator of Cuba. So the decrepit tyrant is invited every year to these meetings of elected heads of state and government, and he sits there and he demagogues and offends the United States and lies about history, and of course offends even his own people, the people of Cuba, year in and year out. It is grotesque that they have invited to that putrid system that they created called the Iberoamericana Summit, it is putrid because of the fact that it was born with that tyrant and it is offensive that they invite that tyrant year in and year out.
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Lincoln Diaz-Balart
Florida

Editor's note · Context

Criticizing the Iberoamericana Summit and its invitation to the Cuban dictator.

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