The resolution, sponsored by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., was introduced this week in an effort to show "solidarity with Cuban citizens demonstrating peacefully for fundamental freedoms, condemning the Cuban regime's acts of repression, and calling for the immediate release of arbitrarily detained Cuban citizens."
The House passed the measure in a vote of 382 to 40, with all no votes arising from Democrats. Included in the list of Democrats who voted against the resolution are all members of the left-wing House "Squad," as well as Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y. Four lawmakers voted present, while five did not vote.
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The resolution intended to punish the Cuban government's response to a set of protests that took place over the summer amid high prices, food shortages, and the nation's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Furthermore, the measure calls for the Cuban government to permit Cubans to peacefully demonstrate on Nov. 15 throughout a planned demonstration over civil rights organized by a group named Archipelago.
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Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., who voted against the resolution, tried to defend his vote, stating in a tweet that the resolution fails to recognize "the role the U.S. plays in contributing to the suffering of ordinary Cubans."
The U.S. maintains a decades-long embargo on Cuba, a central part of its policy with that country.
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"We can defend the right to peaceful protest and remove restrictive U.S. policies that add to the economic pain experienced by the Cuban people. It is hypocritical to denounce the former while failing to fix the latter. For these reasons, I voted no on H. Res. 760," McGovern stated.
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The "no" vote by Democrats gives Republicans ammunition heading into next year's midterm election when the GOP is likely to continue with the messaging, saying Democrats are socialists.
A report by Human Rights Watch discovered that the Cuban government "systematically engaged in arbitrary detention, ill-treatment of detainees, and abuse-ridden criminal prosecutions in response to overwhelmingly peaceful anti-government protests in July 2021."
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"When thousands of Cubans took to the streets in July, the Cuban government responded with a brutal strategy of repression designed to instill fear and suppress dissent," Juan Pappier, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch, announced back then. "Peaceful protesters and other critics have been systematically detained, held incommunicado and abused in horrendous conditions, and subjected to sham trials following patterns that indicate these human rights violations are not the actions of rogue agents."
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