Whereas the communist dictatorship in Cuba has been responsible for numerous atrocities including the extrajudicial assassinations of innocent civilians and activists by firing squad and other brutal methods, including the Tugboat Massacre of 1994 and the Brothers to the Rescue Shoot-Down of 1996; Whereas, in the notorious Black Spring of 2003, the Cuban regime engaged in brutal violence against independent journalists, human rights activists, and others who dared to expose the realities of totalitarian Cuba, which was roundly condemned by international human rights groups; Whereas human rights activists such as Pedro Luis Boitel, Juan Wilfredo Soto Garcia, leader of the Ladies in White Laura Pollan, Orlando Zapata Tamayo, Wilman Willar Mendoza, Oswaldo Paya, Harold Cepero, Armando Sosa Fortuny, and Yosvany Arostegui Armenteros died under suspicious circumstances, including while in state custody; Whereas Report No. 83/23 published by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on June 9, 2023, states that— (1) there is serious and sufficient evidence to conclude that [agents of the Cuban regime] participated in the death of Mr. Payá and Mr. Cepero ; (2) the Cuban regime is responsible for the violation of the right established in Article I of the American Declaration to the detriment of Oswaldo Payá and Harold Cepero ; (3) there was a context of reprisals and human rights violations against human rights defenders and persons who expressed dissent against government policies ; (4) Harold Cepero and Oswaldo Paya were subjected to various acts of violence, harassment, threats, attempts on their lives, and finally, a car crash that caused their deaths ; and (5) this case was framed within the contextual elements of state repression of human rights defenders in Cuba