News Release February 5, 1999

LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART

Diaz-Balart Makes Public Eight Point Plan For

The Prompt Liberation of Cuba

Miami, FL — While welcoming Secretary of State Madeleine Albright to his Congressional district this morning at the inauguration ceremony of the new headquarters for the Office of

Cuba Broadcasting, Congressman Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL) made public the following Eight Point Plan for the prompt liberation of Cuba:

"The time has come for Congress and the Administration to work together on a concrete and specific plan to finish off the Cuban tyranny now. The USSR is no longer.

1. We must strengthen Radio and Television Marti so that they may be heard and seen by all Cubans.

2. Let us begin by working to ensure condemnation of the Cuban tyranny in the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva.

3. Let us work together to enforce our sanctions laws to the maximum extent.

4. Let us ensure that multilateral financing mechanisms such as the Paris Club do not inject new economic oxygen into the Cuban tyranny.

5. Let us devise and carry out ways to help the patriotic internal opposition in Cuba, like we are doing in Iraq.

6. Let the Justice Department indict the Cuban tyrant for the murders of the four Brothers to the Rescue - crimes to which the Cuban tyrant has admitted - and let the indictment that has been prepared here in the Southern District of Florida by the U.S. Attorney against the Cuban regime for drug trafficking, be issued as well.

7. Enforce fully the judgment of the U.S. District Court against the Cuban regime for the murders of the Brothers to the Rescue.

8. And most importantly, let the Cuban Armed Forces and all others in Cuba know that they will have the full support of the U.S. when they take action to liberate the Cuban people.

The Cuban people have suffered for too long, and, just as they had our support in 1898, they deserve out support today.

Let us come together to help the Cuban people free themselves now."