; sense of Congress (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Cuban Communist takeover of 1959 established in Cuba a one-party authoritarian state of the Cuban Communist Party. (2) Cuba is a totalitarian state, in which the Cuban Communist Party has brutally oppressed the people of Cuba for more than 60 years. (3) Cuban democracy activists, including Las Damas de Blanco (also known as Ladies in White ), a group composed of wives and relatives of political prisoners, prisoners of conscience, and peaceful activists in Cuba, are routinely repressed, censured, beaten, and unjustly imprisoned by the Cuban Communist Party. (4) On July 11, 2021, protesters marched in the streets throughout Cuba voicing their opposition against the communist regime of Cuba. (5) During those protests, Cubans in more than 40 cities held demonstrations chanting Freedom! , Down with the Dictatorship! , and Patria y Vida ( Homeland and Life ). (6) Through those protests, the people of Cuba demanded the end to communism in Cuba and access to food, medicine, water, and electricity, basic needs that the communist system in Cuba cannot provide. (7) Cubans gathered outside of the headquarters of the Cuban Communist Party chanting, Cuba isn’t yours! . In a clear message, Cubans exercised their fundamental God-given rights to peaceably assemble, express their political opinions, and live free of censorship and oppression and demanded the ruling elites, especially the Cuban Communist Party, release its control of their government and give the power back to the people. (8) During the July 11, 2021, protests, the Cuban Communist Party deployed a wave of terror throughout Cuba by— (A) unleashing its secret police and some military forces on peaceful protesters and unlawfully detained them, including by— (i) harassing and threatening people in their homes; (ii) abducting and torturing civil society leaders and other Cubans peacefully exercising their fundamental rights