The CEO of the monopoly holding company in Cuba that owns all of these hotel rooms, the single largest conglomerate in Latin America of tourism, is not just a general in the repressive military. He is also the son-in-law of the dictator of…

I find this concerning given the fact that these are the two individuals who the administration put forward in negotiating the deal.

I have deep reservations and in many instances direct opposition to many of the changes that we are going to review here today.

Give me an example of a policy like this that you are implementing here today that has led, in the 20th or 21st century, into a reluctant tyranny becoming a democracy.

This hearing of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues will come to order.

The notion that somehow we should be more patient with Cuba than all these other societies is quite frankly unfair and offensive.

I will insist that there be no concessions to the Castro regime that do not bring human rights, freedom of assembly, and transparent democratic elections to the people of Cuba.

In announcing the policy change, the President stated that this is fundamentally about freedom and openness.

the Castro government has turned our policy against us, and how this has helped an authoritarian form of government survive.

So the CEO of this company that owns all these hotels on the island is also a general of this repressive government.

none of this, Cuba's repression, its poverty, its isolation, is the fault of the United States or of the embargo.

Is there an example of a country in the modern era that has gone from a tyranny to a dictatorship because of these sorts of economic openings that then have led the government to make political changes?