I think we all share your concerns.
Where specifically have human rights conditions improved?
There were over, I just mentioned the number, 8,000 arrests, political arrests, not to mention 200 arrests every Sunday of the Ladies in Whi...
By any objective measure, the Castro regime has not improved its human rights records. If anything, it has gotten worse.
I just want to see if you can give us some facts of where----
in the Appropriations Act, and this is a different issue, we establish conditions on aid to Central America
I really would like to know how the Department of State and USAID intend to assist them and other U.S. citizens to resolve such disputes
I would tell you, and again, going to how this subcommittee works, let me tell you what I expect, and I think what most of us expect.
If, for 15 years, the U.S. Embassy has been trying to help and it hasn't worked, we have got a problem.
If you don't solve that, you can kiss all of the $750 million good-bye.
We expect the U.S. Government to exert leverage when it is time to stand up for the interests of the United States and also for property rig...