"When you look at what they [the Cuban Government] have done in recent weeks and recent months with respect to stifling dissent, with respect to arresting people and sentencing them to long years in prison, in jail, just for expressing a point of view that is different from that of Fidel Castro, it should be an outrage to everyone. It should be an outrage to every leader in this hemisphere, every leader in this world."

-- Secretary Colin Powell
U.S. Department of State
April 15, 2003