GOP Lawmakers School Pro-Communist Activists On Capital Hill

Sarah Arnold | March 09, 2024 4:00 PM

Far-Left group Code Pink ambushed a group of GOP lawmakers during a press conference who were demanding President Joe Biden take Cuba off the terror designation list.

Reps. Maria Salazar (R-Fla.), Nicole Malliotakis, (R-N.Y.), Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), and Mario Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) confronted the group, giving them a dose of reality of what it's like to live in a pro-communist country.

“I wish the average Cuban could have the same privilege that you’re having right now," Salazar told the activists. “You know, I love this, because if we traveled to Cuba now, and you and I go … you will not be able to come close this close to the Capitol and speak your mind and have a dialogue like we could be having right now, because they will either put you in jail or put you back on a plane back to Miami."

The activists held signs that urged the Biden Administration to free communist Cuba, which was designated as a state sponsor of terrorism in 1982 "because of its long history of providing advice, safe haven, communications, training, and financial support to guerrilla groups and individual terrorists.”

Malliotakis also snapped back at the activists, telling them that Cubans were fleeing the country in makeshift rafts. She added that if the group were in Cuba protesting as they are doing in the U.S., they would be jailed, beaten, and killed.