Mauricio Claver-Carone: “Essentially 80 percent of the economy right now is being put in the hands of the Cuban military.”

I am not against taking money from Castro. To the contrary, sell him as much as you can. Take his cash.

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…

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.

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.