Cuban-American lawyers from Miami bring 'lady in white' to Capitol Hill

To highlight the plight of political dissenters in Cuba, the Cuban American Bar Association brought one of the founders of the Ladies in White to Washington Thursday to discuss human rights violations on the island.

Josefa López Peña spoke at a briefing -- largely for staffers and reporters -- in a House committee room alongside Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, David Rivera, Mario Diaz-Balart, all Cuban-American Republicans from Miami, and Rep. Albio Sires, a New Jersey Democrat who is also Cuban-American.

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