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

I, for one, have no problem with taking cash away from the Castro regime, and that's not a point of contention in this hearing in any way.

What the Cuban regime wants is... it wants our taxpayers to guarantee it.

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…

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.