Mariela Castro Espin, Fidel Castro's niece and Raul Castro's daughter will visit the US to receive an award from a LGBT group despite being part of a repressive, totalitarian system that rounded up across the island all homosexuals to place them in concentration camps under the guise of preventing the proliferation of the HIV virus. The semblance of tolerance and inclusion of the LGBT community in Cuba is hypocritical, mendacious, nothing if not false propaganda, an attempt to gloss over the violation of civil rights the government has been perpetrating on the Cuban people since 1959. Allowing Ms. Castro Espin to receive this award is promoting the atrocities of the regime and the abuses it continues to inflict on its people. We urge you to revoke this visa.



