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00:29Madam Waters, for decades you traveled to Cuba dozens of times to visit Fidel Castro personally, whom you consider your friend.
00:40Congresswoman Waters was in Havana and she saw the destruction of biblical proportions that Castro cost on that island,
00:48who at the time in 1960 had the highest per capita income in the Western Hemisphere.
00:53At that time, Madam Waters knew that thousands and thousands of Cubans were escaping on a raft, exposing their lives and their children to be eaten by the sharks.
01:06She knew that Afro-Cubans were being beaten on the streets of Havana, discriminated against by Fidel Castro, Mr. Speaker.
01:17And for that reason, I am bringing up all these facts because Madam Waters knew that the Cuban jails were full of political prisoners
01:26and the Cubans did not have the same privileges that we are having right now to speak freely.
01:34At that time, Madam Waters never raised her voice.
01:38So thank you for joining us.
02:31Play by the rules, you can succeed.
02:36And that only happens in a country where you have freedom, where you have liberty, where you have self-determination, and you have the free market.
