IV 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. RES. 1358 
Calling for accountability for grave violations of internationally recognized 
human rights in Cuba and malign activities against the United States 
and democratic countries in the Western Hemisphere committed by the 
Communist regime in Cuba. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 11, 2024 
Ms. SALAZAR (for herself, Mr. MOSKOWITZ, Mr. MOONEY, Mrs. GONZA´LEZ- 
COLO´N, Mr. GIMENEZ, Ms. MALLIOTAKIS, Mr. DIAZ-BALART, Ms. 
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. SMITH of New Jersey, Mr. WALTZ, Mr. 
SOTO, and Mr. LAWLER) submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Calling for accountability for grave violations of internation-
ally recognized human rights in Cuba and malign activi-
ties against the United States and democratic countries 
in the Western Hemisphere committed by the Communist 
regime in Cuba. 
Whereas Freedom House’s Freedom in the World 2024 Re-
port states, ‘‘Cuba’s one-party Communist state outlaws 
political pluralism, bans independent media, suppresses 
dissent, and severely restricts basic civil liberties.’’; 
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•HRES 1358 IH 
Whereas the Department of State’s 2023 Country Reports on 
Human Rights Practices, in addition to numerous inter-
national human rights organizations, established that the 
Communist regime in Cuba continues to violate the te-
nets of the Covenant Against Torture and Other Cruel, 
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, adopt-
ed at New York December 10, 1984, to which Cuba is 
a signatory; 
Whereas the Cuban regime has imprisoned or continues to 
harass thousands of Cuban citizens, including youths who 
participated in the unprecedented July 11, 2021, dem-
onstrations on behalf of freedom for Cuba; 
Whereas the Department of State’s annual Trafficking in 
Persons Report continues to cite Cuba as a Tier 3 coun-
try due to its failure to fully comply with the minimum 
standards against human trafficking, and further des-
ignates Cuba as a state sponsor of human trafficking; 
Whereas, in this regard, the Cuban regime sends medical per-
sonnel overseas into servitude in Mexico and other coun-
tries in which they are paid only 10 to 25 percent of 
what the host nation compensates Cuba for their services 
and denies them their fundamental rights; 
Whereas Cuba continues to a be source of regional instability, 
as noted by a United Nations independent fact-finding 
mission report in 2022 that found Cuban personnel were 
advising and instructing Venezuelan intelligence agencies 
committing crimes against humanity in Venezuela; 
Whereas Cuban security assistance to Venezuelan narco-ter-
rorist dictator Nicola´s Maduro emboldens him to continue 
to resist free and fair elections in Venezuela and has re-
sulted in thousands of Venezuelans fleeing the country 
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•HRES 1358 IH 
and contributing to overwhelming numbers of illegal 
United States border crossings; 
Whereas the Cuban regime uses illegal immigration as a 
weapon to overwhelm the United States border by prof-
iting from international smuggling, exporting dissent, in-
filtrating spies, and fortifying a self-serving black market 
economy; 
Whereas the Cuban regime maintains mutually supportive re-
lationships with Iran, Syria, and North Korea, the three 
other countries the United States has designated as state 
sponsors of terrorism; 
Whereas Cuba harbors United States fugitives from justice 
wanted on charges of political violence, including the 
murders of United States law enforcement officers, in-
cluding fugitives who have resided in Cuba for decades 
and criminals such as Joanne Chesimard, William Mo-
rales, Charlie Hill, Victor Manuel Gerena, who are re-
sponsible for planning and carrying out violent crimes 
against Americans; 
Whereas the Cuban regime maintains mutually supportive re-
lationships with groups the United States has designated 
as foreign terrorist organizations, including Hamas, 
Hezbollah, and Colombia’s National Liberation Army; 
Whereas the Cuban regime also maintains mutually sup-
portive relationships with anti-American countries such 
as Iran, Russia, and China; 
Whereas the Cuban regime has been one of the most active 
defenders of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, pro-
viding diplomatic support and votes in international fora, 
serving as an amplifier of Russian propaganda on a glob-
al scale, and sending Cubans to fight on behalf of Putin; 
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