From Net for Cuba:

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION
(Miami, Florida / February 22, 2012) – This Thursday, February 23, 2012, While the President attends a lavish campaign fundraiser at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, courting voters and seeking campaign contributions, his administration has trampled on the rights of its own citizen and Miami resident, defending a criminal regime. President Obama’s Department of Justice sided with a government that is on the State Department’s list of terrorist nations, and against a U.S. citizen; a citizen who was victimized by Castro’s agent on U.S. territory.

"I respectfully ask the media to question President Obama on how he can court women voters when he denies a female U.S. citizen her basic right to justice” states Ana Margarita Martinez."

Unlike Cuba, the U.S. is a country of laws where those who do wrong must compensate their victims for the harm they suffer. A judge awarded a judgment in the case of Ana Margarita Martinez vs. the Republic of Cuba and ordered the defendant to pay compensatory damages for the harm done by Cuba’s agent, Juan Pablo Roque. The U.S. judgment states that Martinez is entitled to these damages, yet the DOJ intervened on behalf of the Cuban government, derailing her attempt to attain justice.

The 2001 judgment states: “Spy actions at the behest of the Cuban Government constituted a sexual battery on Ana Margarita Martinez.”

And the testimony of Congressman Peter Deutsch includes this statement: “Cuba is a terrorist state and the action ordered by them against Ana Margarita was torture.”

Cuba does not recognize basic human rights. It does not recognize our courts. Hence, while the Cuban Government hid from the recent Federal Proceedings, the United States intervened and did their bidding claiming that garnishing the accounts of the charter companies that fly to Cuba would interfere with flights to Cuba and with U.S.-Cuba relations.

“It is naive and ludicrous to believe that the Cuban Government would forego hundreds of millions of dollars that bolster their economy and finance their stranglehold over the Cuban population for the amount of my judgment” adds Martinez.

The United States’ strength since its founding has been its role as the world’s frontrunner in the protection of individual rights. It is inconceivable that our leaders have made such a historical policy shift to the detriment of a violated woman.

The U.S. government’s primary responsibility should be to its citizens. However, the Obama Administration has taken a position that the rights of a U.S. citizen should be subjugated to placate a brutal dictatorship.

For more information, call (305) 431-0300 or visit www.anamargaritamartinez.com.

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Ana Margarita Martinez was a Cuban-American working mother and wife in suburbia when her entire world crashed in 1996 after her husband turned up in Cuba just two days after Cuban MiG’s shot down two U.S. civilian planes killing four volunteer pilots and co-pilots in a Brothers to the Rescue search and rescue mission – an organization of which her then husband, a Cuban MiG pilot who had reportedly defected from Cuba, had been a member. Juan Pablo Roque’s marriage to her had been part of his cover – and a sham, making Ana Margarita and her children a part of the machiavellic espionage plan. She was suddenly thrust into the public limelight and consequently became active in the Cuban pro-democracy cause and politics.

Three years after Roque returned to Cuba, Ana Margarita – who had by then annulled her marriage to the Cuban spy in a civil court of law – won two judgments against the Cuban government for the rogue government’s role in the fraud. The debt is still unpaid.

In February of 2010, lawyers for Ana Margarita filed motions to garnish eight charter companies that do business with the Cuban government in order to collect the legal debt ordered by a circuit court judge. The U.S. Department of Justice intervened in court in defense of the Cuban government.

URL: http://netforcuba.org/2012/02/22/press-release-president-obama-visits-south-florida-while-doj-tramples-on-citizens-rights/