Well, with my thanks to Sara Marta Fonseca, Jorge Luis Perez ``Antunez'' and Jose Daniel Ferrer Garcia for coming under very difficult circumstances and for once again exhibiting your courage and risking, I understand, the potential…

Did Laura Pollan, the founder of the Damas de Blanco, cross the redline, and did that result in her death?

But everything that we can do would include sending the regime a message that you can't keep an American in prison and then have all your people parade over here. To me, that is an oxymoron.

I am outraged by the approval of visas for the daughter of Cuban dictator Raul Castro, Mariela Castro Espin.

So, to summarize, if you are a dissident and what you are doing is sending information about what is happening inside of Cuba to the rest of the world, you are oppressed, but you are not necessarily arrested.

So does crossing the redline then mean gaining public space, gaining recognition for your peaceful activities inside of Cuba? That is what the regime does not permit? That is what gets you arrested?

The United States denies visas to all types of people all across the world. It has broad jurisdiction in doing so. You exercised your discretion in giving a visa to these individuals who are part of a repressive system inside of Cuba…

There is going to be a free Cuba soon. There is going to be.

But you have created regulations that permit abuses to take place rather widely.

Well, it is hard to understand how you have this dramatic increase.

Let the record reflect that what he said was that those policies, the policies that he just described before, of remittances, of travel, of acceptance only creates an impunity for the regime and allows them to continue their oppressive…

I would love to see us possibly fund such an initiative.