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According to a Breitbart report, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) ripped into the Biden administration for lifting restrictions on Cuba, saying that the second the restrictions were lifted, the Cuban regime immediately enacted “sweeping, draconian consequences” for free speech.
According to the Senator, the latest decision by the Biden administration essentially is a “a unilateral concession that ultimately was responded to by having a penal code that includes the death penalty for free speech activities.”
This news shows not only the damaging effect that the Biden administration's foreign policy decisions have on free speech but serves as a reminder to Americans just how precious and rare free speech actually is.
Menendez said on Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Jose Diaz-Balart Reports,”
“On the day that the administration announced these unilateral concessions to the regime, the regime
put into law, as part of their penal code, sweeping, draconian consequences for people who exercise what we would call here in the United States free speech, including the death penalty under certain circumstances for what would be an act of free speech. So, instead of insisting that the regime move towards change, respect for human rights, peaceful protests, giving a voice to the Cuban people, and stopping the jailing of dissidents, what we have is a unilateral concession that ultimately was responded to by having a penal code that includes the death penalty for free speech activities.”
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