MIAMI— Ileana Garcia, a Republican state senator, confronted
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the left-wing organization Code Pink, in
Washington. Benjamin, with a loudspeaker and messages of "unity" with
Cuba, tried to sabotage the demonstration that Cubans organized in the
country's capital to demand democracy and an end to the repression against
those who express themselves on the island.
As can be seen in a video, the Code Pink activist rebuked
the protesters who traveled by caravan from Miami and other parts of the
country. He accused them of being "a small group, you from Miami, who do
not want normal relations with Cuba." When Senator Ileana García
approached to speak, Benjamin allowed her to do so and said "we believe in
freedom of expression," a right that is precisely repressed in Cuba with
beatings and arrests.
Garcia indicated that the alleged "blockade"
should be lifted when the political prisoners are released. Faced with the
question of another activist in favor of the Castro regime, he stressed that
the regime in Cuba must be tried for crimes against humanity.
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