well, our next hero jorge munoz -- i got it like that -- he did. jorge! jorge munoz!ed a group of men, are you hungry? and now, every night jorge feeds as many as 140 people on the corner of roosevelt avenue in queens, new york. he spends all day driving the school bus and then goes home and cooks with his family pots of rice, beans and chicken and i'll tell you this, after 16 years of marriage i'm very envious of that. at around 9:30 at night, he takes the meals out and hands them out one by one who to the people who are always waiting. jorge's called the angel of queens, the superman of roosevelt avenue. he is my hero because one day he rolled a window down and asked, are you hungry? >> i'm school bus driver. one day, i see these guys standing in the street. i saw them and say, why these guys doing here? i stop and i ask them. he says, the day laborers spend the whole day on the corner hoping to get a job. says, if we have a job, we got money to eat. if not, we don't eat nothing today. so i say, okay. wait for me tomorrow here and i'm going to bring something to eat

and the letter is signed from jorge luis garcia antunez in december, 2009. .. dictatorship, not what the regime tells the world about that, you know, cubans who are all white are -- seek to oppose the dictatorship. most of the movement for democracy inside of cuba are afro-cubans. inside of cuba, they are subjected to a citizenship status that is less than any human being should be subjected to. antunas' voice rings in my head, mr. president. it tugs at my conscience. his words -- "despite almost two decades of torture and cruel and inhuman punishment during my unjust, you can not break my dignity and my position as a political prisoner, because even political prisoner, because even >> i have taken the decision not to leave my country and which i will continue struggling poor a change i feel is necessary and inevitable. yet she is ripe for change is inevitable but the united states needs to be a catalyst of that change. it does not need to be a sustainer of that dictatorship broker does not need to create an infusion of money that amigos to a regime that ultima

and the letter is signed from placentas jorge luis antunas, december, 2009. mr. president, this is the voice of those who languish under castro's brutal dictatorship. as you can see, mr. antunas is an afro-cuban, not part of the white elite of the regime's dictatorship, not what the regime tells the world about that, you know, cubans who are all white are -- seek to oppose the dictatorship. most of the movement for democracy inside of cuba are afro-cubans. inside of cuba, they are subjected to a citizenship status that is less than any human being should be subjected to. antunas' voice rings in my head, mr. president. it tugs at my conscience. his words -- "despite almost two decades of torture and cruel and inhuman punishment during my unjust, you can not break my dignity and my position as a political prisoner, because even though i am accosted and brutalized and above all risk returning to prison, i have taken the decision not to leave my country in which i will continue struggling for a change i believe is both necessary and inevitable." antunas is right: cha

k jorge tweets. scrap this bill and start over. public option is a must.s hear next from lake watery south washington. tony independent line. caller: thanks to c-span. good to talk to you. what i'm hearing, if it's correct, this is going to be an individual mandate from the government that i have to go out and buy a private insurance plan but whatever they're willing to sell it to me for. i'm unemployed and have no insurance coverage and i'm burning through my nest egg at  rapid rate and if the government is going to require me to shell out anywhere from 500 to 5,000 dollars a month to buy health insurance i'm going to be bankrupt in a year and a half and if that's way it is, they need to get righted of it. i voted for president barack obama thinking we would get affordable healthcare coverage but they've rolled over. he and congress to the insurance industry and now they're trying pass this thing so just they is say can we passed something. seems more political than in the best interest of the american people. host: norm. a democrat. caller: morning, sus

orel sambrano, killed on january 16, 2009, jorge uribe, killed on april 5 in 2006, hor ray derah cruz, april 11, 2002, he was killed in caracas, maria , killed in caracas and fernandez of universal, killed in 1992 and the committee to protect journalists just a little while ago gave us the news of a journalist who was critical of the venezuelan government arrested on contempt of court charges. the arrest of the journalist, his name is gustavo azucar was arrested on trumped up charges. he was host -- he is host of a news and political commentary show on local tv station televisor -- he's in the western city of san cristobal. these are more examples of the repression of the freedom of the press by hugo chavez of vens way. -- venezuela. i yield to the chairman of the western hemisphere subcommittee, my good friend from new york, mr. engel. mr. engel: i thank the jerusalem for -- gentlewoman for yielding. he was mentioning venezuela, i agree with everything she said about the lack of freedom of the press and the shutting down of opposition papers, newspapers, but i wanted to add, because