December 17, 2014
\”The total number of political arrests during the first eleven
months of this year to 8,410.\”
~U.S. Senator Robert Menendez
NEWARK, NJ – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), issued this
statement regarding the U.S. – Cuba relationship.
\”Today’s policy announcement is misguided and fails to understand the nature of the regime in Cuba that has exerted its authoritarian control over the Cuban people for 55 years. No one wishes that the reality in Cuba was more different than the Cuban people and Cuban-Americans that have fled the island in search of freedom.
In November, the Cuban Commission for Human Rights & National Reconciliation (CCHR) documented 398 political arrests by the Castro regime.
This brings the total number of political arrests during the first eleven months of this year to 8,410.
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