all of the chickens and different poultry, when embargo? the embargo is one imposed, the castros are the ones who imposed the embargo on the cubans, because the fishermen cannot sell their fish, that has nothing to do with americanic embargo. the farmers cannot sell their crops to their own cubans, the castros have been in the business of power, they have done such a great job in san strangling the population, they say no more, as a congresswoman from the city of miami, heart of cuban exile community, and members of congress, we re
how you do diplomacy with dictators like the castros. what do you say to your critics? i would say that we were learning from the mistakes of 60 years. we were learning from what had not worked in america s cuba policy. this is an island of 11 million people. it is 90 miles from florida. if you allow for travel, the internet, the people are going to be empowered. you talk about a lot of american politicians, talking about the cuban people want. there was research after the obama opening that found that 97% of the cuban people supported normalization. they desperately want that interaction with the united states. the people protesting of course want freedom and deserve greater access to the basic universal values. like freedom of assembly. they re also hungry, mehdi. they want they need medicine, they need food and the united states is in part together with the policies of the cuban government, responsible for the dire circumstances.
different poultry, when embargo? the embargo is one imposed, the castros are the ones who imposed the embargo on the cubans, because the fishermen cannot sell their fish, that has nothing to do with americanic embargo. the farmers cannot sell their crops to their own cubans, the castros have been in the business of power, they have done such a great job in san strangling the population, they say no more, as a congresswoman from the city of miami, heart of cuban exile community, and members of congress, we re
under castro rule. the most cruel, the most evil revolution that the americas has seen since the arrival of christopher columbus, no one has been able to be crueler and take repression to scientific levels, i am sure the castros will write history, and historians will look back and say these people gained power and maintained it over the most cruel and severe repression, but right now those people who have lost everything, their families, food, medicine, they lost their fear. that is where we see them we have seem them for 7 days out in the streets, thousands of cubans, facing torture, facing death, facing jail, and now the
so, one, quick question. i remember, for the audience, the first time i went to cuba. seeing written, on a wall, there is a lot of propaganda, obviously, from the castros. but one of the expressions is [ speaking foreign language ] yes, to cuba. cuba is worthy. cuba is tough. and i remember asking somebody there if this was from the government. and they said, to me, no, cuba is its people. we are held down by its government. do you think the moment s finally come where the people will be freed of a dictatorial regime? that is, obviously, our hope. you know, we ve never seen the kind of spontaneous protests that we ve seen across the island. and i really want to thank you for for highlighting this because i think, you know, in all your comments, you have talked about how this is very important to the united states. and it s very important to people that are living in the united states, that have family in cuba that are dramatically impacted by this. but cubans have done somet