Testimony of Frank Calzón Executive Director
Center for a Free Cuba
Before the Sub-Committee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight
Committee on Foreign Affairs

U.S. House of Representatives
Thursday, July 12, 2007, 2:00 pm
 
Ideals and Reality in Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy:
Azerbaijan, Cuba and Egypt.
 
 
Thank you, Chairman Delahunt, for inviting me to testify before this Sub-Committee.  I would like to summarize my testimony and ask that the full text be placed into the record.
 
I am a Cuban refugee who has spent most of my life advocating human rights for Cubans and others. From l986 through 1997 I was Freedom House’s Washington representative. I have testified before the U.N. Commission for Human Rights in Geneva and for the last ten years I’ve been the executive director of the Center for a Free Cuba.
 
During the current fiscal year the Center for a Free Cuba has received from USAID $l, 081,164 and from the National Endowment for Democracy $21,472.84.  We also raise about a quarter of a million dollars a year from the Cuban American community.
 
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