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Diaz-Balart: Cuban Hunger Strikers Need Our Solidarity and Our Support
Washington, D.C.
Sept. 13, 2012Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart spoke on the House Floor regarding the hunger strike underway in Cuba by brave human rights and pro-democracy activists to protest the regime’s brutal oppression and the unjust imprisonment of political prisoners. The growing list of those who have joined the hunger strike, which now has a reported twenty-eight participants, includes well-known pro-democracy leaders Jorge Luis García Pérez “Antúnez” and Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello as well as:
Jorge Vázquez Chaviano;
Arturo Conde Zamora;
Yerandi Martínez Rodríguez;
Orlando Almenares Reyes;
Luis Enrique Ponce Sánchez;
Roberley Villalobos Torres;
Israel Robert Isaac;
Yuniel Álvarez García;
Luis Enrique Santos Caballero;
Yosmel Martínez Corcho;
Alberto Reyes Morales;
Omar Pedroso Suárez;
Yadira Rodríguez Bombino;
Ibis María Rodríguez González;
Fermín Zamora Vázquez;
Yasmani Nicle Abad;
Rosa María Naranjo Nieves;
Ramón Esteban Enamorado;
Ángel Caballero Oduardo;
Leonardo Cancio Santana;
Pedro Fernández Vega Cortés;
Arcelio López Rojas;
Misahel Valdes Diaz;
Jorge Luis Recio Arias