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Delay:
Cuban travel will subsidize oppression; Castro,
thugocracy only beneficiaries of amendment
U.S.
Newswire, Sept. 9.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House
Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) today opposed
an amendment to the Treasury and Transportation
Departments appropriations bill that would lift
the current prohibition of American tourism in
Cuba.
"This amendment would reward injustice,"
DeLay said. "There is no such thing as a
'Cuban tourism industry.' There is only Fidel
Castro and his thugocracy.
"Fidel Castro -- thief, murderer, and tyrant
-- is the only Cuban who will benefit from this
amendment.
"Proponents of this amendment would have
us believe that vacationers in flip-flips and
Hawaiian shirts, sipping mojitos at Cuban beach
resorts will somehow improve human rights conditions
there," DeLay said. "Instead it will
subsidize Castro's oppression and torture.
"Fidel Castro is not some curious anachronism:
he is a violent criminal. Money American travelers
spend in Castro's Cuba will be confiscated by
his secret police and invested in his criminal
empire."
/© 2003 U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
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