Excerpt from Human Rights Violations in Castro's Cuba: The Repression Continues: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittees on International Operations and Human Rights and on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session; June 27, 1996 Chairman burton. We are here today to learn more about a problem that, unfortunately, has been a constant for the past 37 years in Cuba: systematic violation of human rights. I am very pleased that we are holding this meeting jointly with the Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights, chaired by my good friend, Chris Smith. He is a real champion of human ri hts and human dignity and has been for a long time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.