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Rubio Comments On Castro Regime’s Latest Wave Of Repression

Jan 5, 2015 | Press Releases

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) issued the following statement today regarding news reports of the Castro regime’s efforts to suppress Cuban activists and independent journalists attempting to attend a rally in Havana:

“The Castro regime’s latest acts of repression against political dissidents in Cuba make a mockery of President Obama’s new U.S.-Cuba policy. The fact that the regime continues to violate the human rights of Cubans like this shows that it has even less incentive to change its ways since President Obama intends to give the Castros numerous unilateral concessions in exchange for zero steps towards more political freedom.

“This is the real human tragedy of the President’s new Cuba policy. President Obama should be ashamed of legitimizing and empowering the Castros while abandoning courageous Cuban dissidents like the ones who have been on the receiving end of the regime’s repressive tactics in recent days.”