Washington, D.C. — Republican U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott of Florida are pushing to amend the Senate Budget Resolution to require the Biden Administration to facilitate free, open and uncensored access to the internet for the people of Cuba.
The Rubio/Scott approach would, if adopted, establish a Deficit Neutral Reserve Fund in the forthcoming reconciliation bill to be used to build up and deploy existing technology on the island.
“I’ve been highlighting the importance of getting internet access to the people of Cuba since the historic protests began one month ago,” Rubio said. “The regime’s crackdown makes the need to act clear. Thankfully, the technology exists to provide connectivity from balloons and other methods directly to those without internet access. Efforts were underway under the Trump Administration to do exactly that, but the Biden Administration is sitting on those plans. The people of Cuba cannot afford any more delays. It is time to act.”
In December 2020, Rubio warned the Biden Administration needed to prioritize internet access in Cuba, well before the recent round of public demonstrations against the Communist dictatorship that has ruled the island for more than 60 years broke out.
“A more responsible policy towards Cuba would follow in the footsteps of President Trump and advance policies meant to protect the fundamental rights of Cubans. In the coming years, that will particularly mean working to promote internet access on the island, so Cubans are better connected with independent sources of information,” the state’s senior United States senator said.
Scott joined Rubio in condemning the oppressive regime keeping the Cuban people from pursuing their natural right to a better, more prosperous, and secure life and in calling on the United States to stand by them. “As the Cuban people take to the streets to call for freedom and democracy, and an end to the brutal, illegitimate communist Cuban regime, the United States must stand with these brave freedom fighters,” Scott \said. “The communist regime is terrified of the Cuban people, trying to cut off their communication with each other and the rest of the world and doing everything in its power to prevent them from shedding light on the regime’s oppression and atrocities.”
Scott went on to call on President Biden to end the review his Cuba policy in favor of taking what he described as “immediate action to implement all technology to facilitate the free flow of information to and from the island” so that the voices of the Cuban people crying out for freedom could be amplified around the world.
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I wish Rubio would include the USA as having a good internet. Hey, with the censorship that is going on now it is just the CATHOLIC traitors that get the message across… Now we have Biden, CATHOLIC TRAITOR, Pelosi CATHOLIC TRAITOR, Cuomo CATHOLIC TRAITOR, Newsom CATHOLIC TRAITOR, Murkowski, CATHOLIC TRAITOR. AND THE LIST GOES ON! Oh yeah, Bill Gates MSNBC CATHOLIC TRAITOR, Bezos, Amazon CATHOLIC TRAITOR Jack Dorsey CATHOLIC TRAITOR. Yep, the list goes on and on. We in the USA would like to get news, not propaganda!
Vote for ANY CATHOLIC and you vote for a traitor.
And catholic morons bussing infected illegals everywhere in USA
THAT was covered by Biden, Catholic Trader
A federal judge STOPPED that business today, MPP is back ON again, they have to stay in mexico
Infected with what exactly????? 2 countries have myth busted #CoronaSCAM2020 to oblivion! The first was New Zealand, they did it very easily the main stream media hyped up outrageous numbers as death tolls while not even thinking about how small the Island really is and how small of a population they have when they first started with the lie there it stated that mysteriously half of the population seemed to have died of coronavirus, which did not happen! Canada recently myth busted it as well when a citizen there asked the Canadian Government for a sample of their coronavirus for independent lab analysis the judge gave the Canadian Government 30 days to comply with the request they even asked the US Government for help but when the 30 days expired the Canadian Government could not supply 1 single cell of Coronavirus as ordered! All coronavirus measures in Canada were immediately ordered to be dropped!
New Zealand hit the nail on the head when they stated that Coronavirus was just a propaganda campaigned designed to steal an election!
The demo RATS tried to steal elections with fake viruses in the past but did not have enough money to pay off the media to make it work this time they had China backing them financially so the were able to pull it off the other 2 fake viruses were Swine Flu and AVIAN Bird Flu!
If you watch and listen to how they test for coronavirus in a lab it is very obvious what is going on! All cells die when deprived of fresh oxygen! they test 10,000 times so that by the time the tests are performed the cells are dying by the time the 10,000th test is run it is dead so the computer is freaking out because it started with a living cell and the cell died while testing automatically throwing up a red flag by the computer then the red flag is being labeled as coronavirus rather than the death of a cell!
Your just as STUPID as alfie boy
Chuckle. By FAR your most Sensible diatribe!
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YES! to the News vs. Propaganda!
WHAT an Increasing CROCK OF SHIT we ‘GIT!’ !
If TRUTH has to wait for approval, I DON’T TRUST THIS WEBSITE
I won’t be posting any more truths here this site doesn’t care to know the truth.
I know what you mean!!! I am always waiting for approval!! The only crap here is alfie, the catholic HATER!!!
But Michael, alfie DID Actually make a great point This time with his commentary about News/Propaganda! Glory Be!
What I posted is is all in Hunter’s emails.
I say ALL kinds of crap about almost Everybody, and I’ve had NO censoring. A couple of times my comments didn’t ‘register’ or Something, That’s imperfect technology for you, but when I re-posted them, they showed right up. I suggest You try the same.
Well I remember Radio Free Europe and thus ‘Internet Cuba Libre’ makes perfect sense to me. However, what I fail to understand is how it will get through to them. Would the ruling blckheads in Cuba NOT be able to block it from the inside? In any case, the Cuban people had better not get inspired via internet to come here. Beijing Biden will turn them away just because he wants no fighters of Communism. He wants only a willing proletarian underclass from Central America that will vote DemonCrat.
Nah, Biden doesn’t deviate from the socialist agenda that runs us into stagflation of immense proportions. He doesn’t care about Taiwan or Afghanistan so why should he care about Cuba? He doesn’t care about us here and allows a million illegals across the Southern Border and spreads their Wuhan Coronavirus across the US by moving these illegals to cities all across the USA and blames the rise of infection on the Republicans who aren’t running the show now. You can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time but you cannot fool all the people all the time goes an old quote.
Biden and his Marxist ilk will not move a finger. If anything, they would be more than willing to help those communist oppressors.