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Bob Menendez: “Well, with my thanks to Sara Marta Fonseca, Jorge Luis Perez ``Antunez'' and Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia for coming under…”

On the recordJune 6, 2012
Well, with my thanks to Sara Marta Fonseca, Jorge Luis Perez ``Antunez'' and Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia for coming under very difficult circumstances and for once again exhibiting your courage and risking, I understand, the potential consequences from being willing to speak the truth about your reality and challenges in a simple public forum here in the United States via our satellite hookup, with enormous respect for your commitment to peacefully creating civil society and space inside of Cuba, you have the thanks of myself as the chairman, Senator Rubio, and the members of this committee.
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Bob Menendez
Democratic · New Jersey
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Menendez praises activists for their courage in discussing Cuban realities.

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