WASHINGTON -- With efforts to open Cuba to travel and trade heating up on Capitol Hill, the sister of a prominent Cuban democracy activist plans Wednesday to deliver a letter from her brother decrying three members of the Congressional Black Caucus for meeting with Fidel and Raúl Castro -- but no dissidents.
Berta Antúnez is also asking to meet with California Democrats Barbara Lee and Laura Richardson and Illinois Democrat Bobby Rush to tell them her brother was ''outraged that these members of Congress would not take the time while in Cuba to meet with any of the island's human rights and pro-democracy activists.'' The delegation spent five days in April in Cuba, talking with government officials and said on their return that Havana is interested in talking to the United States.
But Jorge Luis ''Antúnez'' Garcia Perez questions the trip in the letter, charging that while the lawmakers met with the Castros, ``our home and the five protesters who remain within it were subject to a brutal siege by the combined forces of the national and political police.
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