Fidel Castro

February 19, 2008 - 4:42pm
PRESS RELEASE

PRIETO STATEMENT ON CASTRO RESIGNATION

PRIETO STATEMENT ON CASTRO RESIGNATION

(SECAUCUS) - Assemblyman Vincent Prieto made the following statement in response to today's resignation of Fidel Castro as Cuba's president:

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February 19, 2008 - 11:51am
PRESS RELEASE

SEN. MENENDEZ REACTS TO RESIGNATION OF FIDEL CASTRO

WASHINGTON – Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who is of Cuban descent and has been a leading critic of the regime in Cuba, today released the following statement upon the news that Fidel Castro is resigning as Cuban president:

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February 19, 2008 - 11:23am

Menendez reacts to Castro news

Senator Bob Menendez said that Fidel Castro’s resignation as Cuban President isn’t great news, but he hopes the Cuban people will take to the streets to peacefully protest the Castro regime.

“This is not the cause for celebration that some would believe. This does not represent the replacement of totalitarianism with democracy,” said Menendez. “Instead, it is the replacement of one dictator with another.”

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November 1, 2006 - 6:27pm
PRESS RELEASE

Assemblyman Brian Stack

STACK: STATUE PORTRAYING 'HUMANITARIAN' CASTRO
AN INSULT TO CUBAN COMMUNITY
Assemblyman Asks Mayor Bloomberg to Pull Plug on Post-Election Day Ceremony

(UNION CITY) -- Assemblyman Brian Stack today called on New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to put the brakes on a planned Central Park unveiling of a larger-than-life-size statue portraying Cuban dictator Fidel Castro as "a champion of civil rights," saying it is a misguided attempt to rewrite history and a slap in the face of the region's Cuban-American community.

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