People’s Dispatch — Several activists with the National Network on Cuba, CODEPINK, and IFCO/Pastors for Peace were arrested on June 22 after trying to have a meeting with New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez in his office in Washington, DC. Activists were attempting to meet with Menendez to urge him to lift the US blockade against Cuba and take Cuba off the US’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list.

Menendez is a hardliner against socialist countries such as Cuba and Venezuela, and spearheads some of the most brutal sanctions efforts against these countries. He has come down hard on lawmakers from his own party for attempting to lift some sanctions. “Removing U.S. sanctions on Cuba and Venezuela will only betray our democratic values and further empower criminal dictators,” he stated in May in response to progressives urging Biden to ease the devastating measures….

On June 22, a group of activists from the National Network on Cuba, CODEPINK, and IFCO/Pastors for Peace were apprehended when they sought to hold a meeting with Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey at his office in Washington, DC. The activists aimed to discuss with Senator Menendez the importance of ending the US blockade against Cuba and removing Cuba from the US’s State Sponsors of Terrorism list.

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