Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “Mr. Speaker, I wish that once, just once, the colleagues who get up and with such passion, and the word ``passion'' has…”

“Mr. Speaker, I wish that once, just once, the colleagues who get up and with such passion, and the word ``passion'' has been used so often this evening, talk about their objection to financing and credits and trade with that brutal dictatorship that has oppressed a noble people, our closest neighbors, for 41 years. Just once I wish, Mr. Speaker, that they would come and demand and ask for free elections, the rule of law, the liberation of the political prisoners, including the political prisoner who had the courage to sneak out a card to send me. What is wrong about demanding, just once the liberation of those people in a gulag rotting away because of their belief and support for the rule of law and for democracy? Why not ask for the legalization of political parties and labor unions and the press, the press that has the freedom in this country and in so many other countries in the world to cover what we say without censorship? Never, Mr. Speaker, never do we hear any of these colleagues who come and defend with such passion that dictatorship 41 years in power.”