Que cara mas dura tiene Congressman Joe Garcia.
Loosely translated, it means he is two-faced. But I like the Cuban version of “hard face” better. Because Garcia’s has to be made of stone to face a true Cuban dissident, the wife of a man who was held in Cuban prisons for 20 years, and pretend to admire her.
Garcia and the other four Cuban-American House members (who knew?) met Tuesday with Yris Tamara Pérez Aguilera, wife of Cuba’s best known political activist, Jorge Luis Garcia Pérez. Also known as “Antunez,” Garcia Pérez spent almost two decades in prison for working against the improved U.S.-Cuba relations Garcia promotes.
The Garcia press release with the photo opp below attached says Antunez was imprisoned for “actions and activities against the Cuban regime.”
But the truth is Antunez was imprisoned, beaten, choked into unconsciousness and injected with an unknown substance by security agents who warned him to stop working against warmer U.S.-Cuba relations.
“It is an honor to welcome Ms. Pérez Aguilera to Washington today and help her continue the quest for freedom in Cuba” Garcia 
said in his statement. “Having dedicated much of my career to promoting human rights and democracy in Cuba, I am truly inspired by this couple’s untiring commitment to the Cuban people and their courage and bravery in the face of continuing abuses by the Cuban regime.”
Really? Really? Haven’t you dedicated your career, Joe, to taking contributions from the very people here whose companies do business with the tyrant brothers’ monopoly on the island and benefit from the Cuban regime’s forced separation of Cuban families?
The Miami Herald quoted Garcia as saying that he was “truly inspired by this couple’s untiring commitment to the Cuban people and their courage and bravery in the face of continuing abuses by the Cuban regime.”
But that is just a soundbite — unless he is inspired to return the contributions from attorney Ira Kurzban, who legally represents the abuser himself, Fidel Castro, and his interests in the United States and gave $3,700 in donations. Unless he is willing to return the $3,700 contributed by the owner of Marazul Charters, one of the bigger providers of travel to Cuba. Unless he is willing to 
return the $17,000 contributed so far by members of the Fanjul family, who want to get into Cuba to grow and export sugar.
Garcia is seen, at best, as a crack in the hard line policy against Castro more in line with the younger Cuban generations and, at worst, a willing conspirator trying to make things easier on the Castro brothers — an instrument of the regime.
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