Mauricio Claver-Carone: “It would be devastating. I mean, energy has always been the Achilles heel of the regime.”

It's really a privilege to be here and join you today to discuss these important and consequential issues surrounding U.S. trade policy toward Cuba.

Essentially 80 percent of the economy right now is being put in the hands of the Cuban military.

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.

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…