By golly, this is definitely a good idea.
On Wednesday, Sen. Ted Cruz introduced a resolution to rename the street in front of Cuba’s embassy in Washington, D.C. after slain Cuban dissident Oswaldo Payá.
Often described as the Nelson Mandela of Cuba, Payá, along with fellow dissident Harold Cepero, was killed in a car accident in 2012. Payá’s death is widely believed to have been a premeditated attack by the Cuban government.
This is not the first time the Texas Republican has stood up to authoritarian regimes. Last year during the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, Cruz requested to rename the area in front of China’s embassy the “Liu Xiaobo Plaza” after an imprisoned Chinese human rights activist.
Cruz isn’t alone in supporting the Payá family or Cuba’s dissidents. Earlier this year, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., invited Payá’s daughter, Rosa Maria, to be his guest at the State of the Union speech. House Speaker John Boehner similarly invited a former political prisoner and Cuban activist, Jorge Luis Garcia Perez, commonly known as Antunez.
Wednesday marks the third anniversary of Payá’s death. To this day, there has never been an independent investigation into his and Cepero’s deaths, and the Cuban government has never been held accountable. The Castro regime’s complicity and downright attacks against human rights activists have become all too common.
http://dailysignal.com/2015/07/22/cruz-pushes-to-rename-street-outside-of-cuban-embassy-after-slain-dissident/
