Albio Sires

Today, this system of intimidation and violence against those who speak out against the regime continues under Miguel Diaz-Canel.

For almost 50 years, Fidel Castro ruled Cuba by repression which denied the Cuban people their most basic human rights and violently crushed political dissent.

I think that a return to a policy that protects those doctors and provides them with refuge would be a welcome step forward.

I was disturbed to hear about Cuban LGBT activists being arrested and beaten up for participating in a peaceful demonstration in May.

I would like to add for the record that--to the Cicilline resolution that in Cuba the LGBT community had a parade and the government broke up the parade by beating them and breaking up the parade.

We in Congress must continue to call for the investigation to be completed.

The family of the victims deserve better.

I want to thank my good friend from Florida, Chairman Ted Deutch, for introducing an important bill to condemn the attack on the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1994.

It seems that we constantly have to go to court to get information.

So at the end, it just seems like the Administration always likes to bypass Congress.

One of the most important things in this country is the fact that we have checks and balances.

An independent panel of experts concluded that Ortega's government intentionally used lethal weapons against protesters in what amounted to crimes against humanity.

The crisis in Nicaragua continues at the hands of the Ortega regime. I want to reiterate my support for the Nicaraguan people and their tireless effort to fight for democracy.

This couple has been in power directly or indirectly for four decades in Nicaragua, so they are not going to leave as easy as we want.

We should demand accountability for the killing of Mr. Montes and for all those Nicaraguans who have been victims of human rights violation.

We must send a clear message that we stand shoulder to shoulder with the people of Nicaragua.

Since April 2018, protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega have been met with brutal oppression.

I was one of the sponsors, with Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, of the NICA Act.

Security officials and armed thugs under the command of Ortega responded by shooting at unarmed protesters, leaving more than 320 people dead.

Since the Trump administration we are seeing a massive decline in our foreign assistance around the world, particularly in the Western Hemisphere.

I want to reiterate my support for the Nicaraguan people and their tireless effort to fight for democracy.

I have been working with colleagues here to sound the alarm about the authoritarian slide taking place under Ortega.

While we sleep, the Russians plot--try to hurt us. And I have spent most of my life trying to wake people up and say hey, let's start paying attention.

I have long felt the United States does not spend enough time engaging with our own hemisphere.

China has propped up a brutal dictator, providing $70 billion that enabled Maduro and his cronies to plunder State resources.