Two years after island-wide pro-democracy street protests erupted in Cuba, members of Florida’s congressional delegation will host a roundtable discussion on human rights and hear from leading Cuban activists Rose Maria Payá and Orlando Gutiérrez-Boronat.
The roundtable will be held Monday morning in Hialeah Gardens at the Assault Brigade 2506 Museum and will include Republican Reps. Brian Mast, Mario Diaz-Balart and Maria Elvira Salazar, chair of the House western hemisphere subcommittee. Democrats scheduled to attend include Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Jared Moskowitz.
“Two years ago, we witnessed the ultimate act of patriotism, as the Cuban people risked their lives to demand respect for their fundamental rights,” Wasserman Schultz said. “Since then, the Cuban dictatorship doubled down on its oppression, subjecting over one thousand people who participated in the protest movement to violence, surveillance, and draconian jail sentences.”
