María Elvira Salazar to a young woman who interrupted a conference: "In Cuba you would be imprisoned"

The Cuban-American congresswomanMaria Elvira Salazar He questioned the attitude of a young woman who appeared at a meeting with journalists in Washington carrying a sign against the North American embargo on Cuba.

The Republican leader was outside the United States Capitol, urging Joe Biden's government to keep Cuba on the list of countries sponsoring terrorism, when she was interrupted by a young woman who stood a few steps away from her with a sign. that said: "No More Lockdown."

"If you go to Cuba now and do the same thing you are doing in front of a press conference that Díaz-Canel is holding, the first thing they are going to do is put you in something called Villa Marista, and there they are going to interrogate you and They are going to tell you: 'I'm sure imperialism sent you...'", he clarified.

María Elvira reminded the girl that in Cuba the people do not have the right to demonstrate as she does by living in the United States.

"This beauty that you are doing here and that we are respecting, cannot be done in Cuba. (...) The average Cuban who lives in Cuba needs and deserves what you are doing in the United States. Yes or no? "he concluded.

The video of the incident was shared by the congresswoman on her Twitter account.

"I hope the young woman has learned her lesson. If in Cuba they do what she did, they will beat her and put her in jail. We want for the Cubans what she has: freedom," he wrote.

The girl went with other members of the Codepink organization, which demands that Cuba be excluded from the aforementioned list of terrorist countries.

Salazar went before the US Congress with his party colleaguesMario Díaz-Balart, Carlos Gimenez and Nicole Malliotakis, who emphasized that "socialism has destroyed Cuba."

"Grateful to join my Cuban colleagues in asking the State Department to keep Cuba on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism," she said on her networks.

The Cuban-American took the opportunity to send a message to the two Democratic congresswomen who traveled to Havana in February and met with Miguel Díaz-Canel, alerting them of the true intentions of the Cuban government.

"The Castro regime is a snake that all it wants to do is bite you and put poison into your veins so that you die, while they remain in power, because that is their only business: that of power, not to give to the rest of the Cuban population any type of benefit," he stressed.