Mauricio Claver-Carone: “It's really a privilege to be here and join you today to discuss these important and consequential issues surrounding…”

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.

We are talking about providing private financing to one company owned by the Castro regime that is going to hold food hostage over a people.

What the Cuban regime wants is... it wants our taxpayers to guarantee it.

It is abundantly clear, and not just me, the International Trade Commission, in a 2007 report, acknowledged that the Castro regime particularly targets states and districts with certain agriculture populations in order to indirectly…