Mauricio Claver-Carone: “we are currently seeing a spike in repression in Cuba.”

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.

Undoubtedly, Cubans remain persecuted for their political opinions by the Castro dictatorship, which remains as brutal as ever.

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.

The Cuban dictatorship is working systematically against democratic institutions in Latin America.