Cuban Hunger Strikers Need Our Solidarity and Our Support

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Diaz-Balart: Cuban Hunger Strikers Need Our Solidarity and Our Support

Washington, D.C.
Sept. 13, 2012

Congressman 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