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Argument: US sanctions back Cuban people's fight against totalitarianism
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- Helms Burton Act of 1996. Thomas, Library of Congress - "(8) The consistent policy of the United States towards Cuba since the beginning of the Castro regime, carried out by both Democratic and Republican administrations, has sought to keep faith with the people of Cuba, and has been effective in sanctioning the totalitarian Castro regime.
- [...](18) Although a signatory state to the 1928 Inter-American Convention on Asylum and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (which protects the right to leave one's own country), Cuba nevertheless surrounds embassies in its capital by armed forces to thwart the right of its citizens to seek asylum and systematically denies that right to the Cuban people, punishing them by imprisonment for seeking to leave the country and killing them for attempting to do so (as demonstrated in the case of the confirmed murder of over 40 men, women, and children who were seeking to leave Cuba on July 13, 1994).
- [...](27) The Cuban people deserve to be assisted in a decisive manner to end the tyranny that has oppressed them for 36 years, and the continued failure to do so constitutes ethically improper conduct by the international community."
- Lindsey Graham. 2003. - "in Cuba, once freedom comes, those who did not do business with the dictatorship will be viewed much more favorably by the people than those who did. The people are going to want to do business with those who didn't go in with Castro, and that should be pretty easy to understand."[1]
- Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL). "U.S. Sanctions Critical for Cuban Democratic Transition". October, 1999 - "The United States Congress has always stood with the Cuban people's right to be free. This Congress and its Leadership has continued that admirable tradition, and I am deeply grateful for that support. As Congress is confronted by the issue of 'sanctions reform', I will continue to work for a policy of solidarity with and support for the Cuban people's right to be free."