Cuban Victims of Torture Act

This bill, introduced in 2003, sought to posthumously revoke the U.S. citizenship of Eriberto Mederos, a former Cuban nurse. The legislation was based on findings that Mederos had illegally obtained his naturalization by concealing his past involvement in the torture of political prisoners at a psychiatric hospital in Cuba during the 1960s and 1970s.

If enacted, the bill would have officially stripped Mederos of his status as a U.S. citizen, serving as a formal federal recognition of his actions and providing a measure of symbolic justice for his victims. While Mederos was convicted of making false statements on his citizenship application in 2002, he died before he could be sentenced or have his citizenship revoked through the standard judicial process. This bill was intended to finalize that revocation despite his death, though it did not advance past the committee stage.