Bob Menendez: “Mr. Speaker, where is the outrage? Where is the outrage regarding the latest barbarity from the dictatorship of Fidel…”

“Mr. Speaker, where is the outrage? Where is the outrage regarding the latest barbarity from the dictatorship of Fidel Castro? Where is the outrage that a blind dissident, Juan Carlos Gonzalez Leiva, is detained in the harshest of political prisons and that the Castro regime denies him his needed medication; that Leonardo Bruzon, an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience who suffers from the ill-effects of a hunger strike, is denied needed medical attention? Where is the outrage, that three of the four brave authors of the pro-democracy essay, ``La Patria Es De Todos,'' the nation belongs to everyone, Marta Beatriz Roque, Rene Gomez Manzano and Felix Bonne, have been mercilessly thrown in jail and face sentences raging from 20 years to life? Ms. Roque, who had the audacity to call herself an independent economist and criticized Cuba's economy, has already been sentenced to 20 years. The fourth author, the Afro-Cuban leader, Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet, who already served 3 years for displaying national flags upside down in an act of civil disobedience, will also be sentenced.”