IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1351 
Commending the courage, bravery, and resolve of the fathers, mothers, sons, 
and daughters of Cuba, who, three years ago, stood in the face of 
brutal harassment, beatings, and torture to protest against the Com-
munist Cuban regime, demanding access to their fundamental rights 
to life, dignity, and freedom. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 10, 2024 
Mr. DIAZ-BALART (for himself, Mr. MCCAUL, Mr. GIMENEZ, Ms. SALAZAR, 
Mr. MOONEY, Mr. WALTZ, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mrs. CAMMACK, and Mrs. 
GONZA´LEZ-COLO´N) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Commending the courage, bravery, and resolve of the fathers, 
mothers, sons, and daughters of Cuba, who, three years 
ago, stood in the face of brutal harassment, beatings, 
and torture to protest against the Communist Cuban 
regime, demanding access to their fundamental rights 
to life, dignity, and freedom. 
Whereas July 11, 2024, marks three years since the historic, 
pro-democracy demonstration in Cuba when thousands of 
courageous Cubans took to the streets in more than 40 
cities, across all provinces, to demand access to their 
freedoms and civil liberties and call for an end to com-
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•HRES 1351 IH 
munism, censorship, and the oppression imposed by the 
totalitarian Cuban regime; 
Whereas, in an attempt to silence the Cuban people and pre-
vent future protests from taking place, the Cuban dicta-
torship responded with a wave of terror, repression, and 
criminalization and detained and persecuted more than 
1,400 protestors, including women and children; 
Whereas, in a crude and savage effort to silence the Cuban 
people, the Communist regime cut internet connectivity 
and mobile services throughout Cuba, which hindered the 
Cuban people from organizing and hid from the outside 
world images and videos of the oppressive and brutal 
crackdown by the regime; 
Whereas totalitarian regimes such as Communist China, Rus-
sia, Iran, Venezuela, and Nicaragua surveil and repress 
their citizens in a similar manner to the Cuban regime, 
with China, according to reports, even establishing an 
electronic eavesdropping facility in Cuba to spy on Ameri-
cans and citizens of China abroad; 
Whereas the ongoing imprisonment of Jose´ Daniel Ferrer 
Garcı´a, a Cuban human rights and democracy activist 
who has worked tirelessly to advocate for fundamental 
civil liberties for the Cuban people, has suffered from the 
tactics of the brutal, despotic regime in Cuba, which aims 
to silence anyone who would dare speak out against its 
cruelty and barbarity; 
Whereas, according to Jose´ Daniel Ferrer Garcı´a’s family in 
January 2022, since his unlawful arrest on July 11, 
2021, he had been subjected to months of solitary con-
finement, physical and psychological torture, and inhu-
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•HRES 1351 IH 
mane treatment from Cuban operatives, resulting in dire 
health conditions; 
Whereas Jose´ Daniel Ferrer Garcı´a suffers from severe head-
aches, breathing problems, mouth bleeding, malnutrition, 
vision loss, and bouts of coughing with an inability to 
sleep, can barely sit in a chair properly, and shows phys-
ical signs of repeated torture; 
Whereas, three years into his ongoing and unjust imprison-
ment by the Communist regime, Jose´ Daniel Ferrer 
Garcı´a continues to be subjected to evil, inhumane treat-
ment and has not had contact with his family; 
Whereas, like Jose´ Daniel Ferrer Garcı´a, three years after 
the historic demonstration, an unknown number of pro-
testers remain in prison, including minors, many are 
being held without access to or communication with fam-
ily members, international human rights organizations, or 
legal counsel, and some have even been disappeared; 
Whereas, in an effort to intimidate Cubans from daring to 
protest again, the Cuban regime has held mass sham 
‘‘trials’’ that lack any semblance of due process and has 
imposed disproportionate prison terms of up to 25 years 
for ill-defined charges such as ‘‘public disorder, contempt, 
or violence such as rock-throwing,’’ according to media 
reports; 
Whereas the brutal and illegitimate Communist regime re-
presses the brave and resilient men and women of Cuba 
who stand resolute in speaking out against the regime’s 
humanitarian crimes and efforts to persecute, kidnap, 
torture, and eventually kill anyone who stands up against 
its tyranny; 
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•HRES 1351 IH 
Whereas unilateral concessions to the Cuban regime in the 
form of weakened economic sanctions have effectively re-
warded malicious governance, leading to more despicable 
and resolute repression of the Cuban people; 
Whereas the corruption and failures of Cuba’s closed, Com-
munist economy, in which many industries are run by the 
Cuban military, have failed the people of Cuba; and 
Whereas the international community should stand in soli-
darity with the Cuban people in condemning the human 
rights atrocities committed by the brutal, illegitimate, to-
talitarian, Communist regime and should demand free-
dom and democracy for the men, women, and children of 
Cuba: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) commends the bravery, courage, and resolve 
of the members of the pro-democracy movement and 
all freedom activists in Cuba for risking their lives 
to bring freedom to the Cuban people; 
(2) condemns the repression of the hundreds of 
pro-democracy activists and political prisoners, in-
cluding children, that the Cuban regime is unjustly 
detaining and subjecting to physical and psycho-
logical torture, and calls for their immediate and un-
conditional release; 
(3) condemns the Cuban regime’s brutal, totali-
tarian dictatorship and demands an end to the suf-
fering of the men, women, and children of Cuba and 
the impunity of the regime’s human rights abusers; 
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