Date: 2009-04-21
Speaker: LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Florida

Mr. Speaker. the Summit of the Americas held this last weekend in Trinidad and Tobago constituted an embarrassment for this hemisphere. Fidel Castro in Cuba is a psychopath and a serial killer. but he has long had a plan. His longterm goal has been to have the United States apologize to him and for the United States to bankroll his oppressive totalitarian apparatus before he dies. He wants the United States to apologize for having kept the U.S. market and its millions of tourists and billions of dollars in financing from him and for having denied him full diplomatic relations for decades. In order to achieve his goal. Fidel Castro has been recruiting advocates for years. The ideological and psychological fascination -and dependency that Hugo Chavez has on Fidel Castro has allowed Castro to utilize Chavezs billions of petrodollars to purchase many important advocates. ] 2030 It is part of the public record that a suitcase of Chavezcash heading to Mrs. Kirchner in Argentina was accidentally intercepted by authorities before reaching its intended destination. Castro has purchased advocates through the years via the always present threat of blackmail after trips to totalitarian Cuba where the regime tapes visitors in "compromising" situations. as confirmed by Interior Ministry defector Roberto Hernandez del Llano and Cuban CounterIntelligence defector Major Roberto Ortega. Castro also serves as a "banker" for illicit money possessed by those who seek to avoid detection by the antilaundering mechanisms set up by the international community. It matters not if the moneys source is political corruption or narcotrafficking. Hugo Chavezs- absolute dependency on Fidel Castro for every major decision. even for his phrases and gestures in international forums. is unprecedented. While the Soviet Union used to send Castro economic aid and also orders and instructions. Chavez sends Castro billions of dollars and receives orders from him. What the world witnessed at this last weekends Summit of the Americas was a culmination of years of preparation in the purchase and cultivation of advocates by Fidel Castro. The goal of the advocates: mass American tourism with its billions of dollars a year and U.S. trade financing. so that the U.S. taxpayer ultimately bails out and bankrolls Fidel Castro. Castros advocates know very well that article III of the Charter of the Organization of American States requires the existence of representative democracy in all the countries of our hemisphere. and that the InterAmerican Democratic Charter of 2001 even spells out the collective steps to be taken when an American republics democracy is usurped. They know that Cuba. under Castro. was the only country in our hemisphere where free elections have not been held in over 50 years. and where dungeons are full of nonviolent political prisoners. They know that uiider Castro. Cuba is a personal islandestate. a ranch. a personal land holding or homestead. a totalitarian fiefdom. owned by one man. with a brother who enjoys the title of head of state and carefully carries out his brothers orders. Any goods the people on the island purchase must be purchased in the island fiefdoms "company stores" and with worthless "vouchers" called "convertible pesos" sold by the regime. Castro takes 30 percent of all hard currency "off the top" at the time island residents purchase the "vouchers." and all hard currency must be spent with purchased "vouchers" in his "company stores." The inducement for child prostitution on the islandfiefdom is unparal.leled in the world. because no matter how hard island residents work. only foreign "hard" currency allows them to purchase the "vouchers." the "convertible pesos." for use in the stores that sell everything. from food to clothes to soap to toothpaste. Equally. only foreign "hard" currency allows residents to purchase medicines. The shelves in the old stores and pharmacies where residents used to be able to purchase Sovietbloc supplies with their ration cards are simply empty since there is no money to be made there by the dictator. The Castro advocates at the weekend "Summit" knew all this. like when Mrs. Kirchner called for the U.S. to make amends with "our sister republic. Cuba." Or when Mr. Ortega condemned the U.S. for organizing the Bay of Pigi invasion in 1961. Somehow they knew that President Obama would refer to Castros totalitarian fiefdom as "Cuba." Somehow they knew that President Obama would not respond to Mr. Ortega that at the Bay of Pigs. Cubans bravely fought to spare their country half a century of totalitarian oppression. President Obama said. "Im grateful President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was 3 months old." Somehow they knew President Obama would not make clear that. as per U.S. law. the U.S. embargo will go away when all of Castros political prisoners are freed and when there is freedom of expression and multiparty elections scheduled in Cuba. Of course they knew. President Obama had just unilaterally granted the fiefdoms owner hundreds of millions of dollars a year. in exchange for nothing.