Days before he was elected In march of 1990 to represent Congressional District 18 in New York, Congressman Jose E Serrano -who replaced Congressman Bob Garcia in the U S Rouse of Representatives- attended anti-Castro protests and courted the Cuban exile community by denouncing the Castro tyranny.
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In recent years, Serrano has dedicated his public efforts to fiercely defend the communist oppression in Cuba and is today considered one of the Castro regime’s main lobbyists in Congress.
For quite a while everyone has been wondering why Maxine Waters is so adamant about returning Elián to Cuba. Of course behind every position, there is a reason. Good old Maxine owes Fidel.
She wants Elián to go back to Cuba, because, she says, he belongs with his father. And she also said that we Cubans must obey the law. Good old Maxine is practicing the old saying "Do as I say, NOT AS I DO".
Maxine Waters is supporting someone who has broken the law and is hiding in Cuba, running away from the American judicial system that wants her.
The person in question is Joanne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur, a militant woman member of the Black Panthers Party, who has been found guilty of murdering a police officer in New Jersey. There is a price over her head. And Maxine Waters has asked Castro not to deport her to US.
So visit the following site where you can read all about it. The account of the murder story and the reward. You can also read Maxine Waters' letter to the dictator of Cuba. This information was obtained as a courtesy of the Fairfax County, Virginia, Republican Party: [the link provided no longer works: http://www.fairfaxco-gop.org/mwaters_castro.htm; however, by using the "Wayback Machine" at www.archive.org, this came up:
N.J. GOVERNOR BLASTS CHESIMARD LETTER
Attacks Congresswoman's Support of Cop Killer Dec. 18, 1998