If we give away the United States, everything that is in trust for the future or Cuba, for future Cuba's democrats and others, we are essentially handing it to this mafia.
He warns against compromising U.S. interests in Cuba's political future.
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I believe that if our principle policy, if we are going to export our principles as we said, we should also make sure that we do it under conditions and under terms that are consistent with those principles.
I, for one, have no problem with taking cash away from the Castro regime, and that's not a point of contention in this hearing in any way.
Essentially 80 percent of the economy right now is being put in the hands of the Cuban military.
But I think that brings to an important point is the reason we have these travel-related, tourism-related transactions in Cuba is because it's the Cuban military and security services' number one source of income.