with oil prices going down, this could lead to economic collapse for cuba, for venezuela, so the time was right to have this -- i only hope that the people in cuba will only benefit from this, just like to the people of the united states, the economies will benefit. i at the same time abhor their dictatorial are jet stream. >> that is what's driven people like senator marco rubio and senator menendez, whose families have fled cuba, not so much of the the markets and the united states benefit, but about the people of cuba. that's why it's been so hard to get this done in congress until now. they're not even going through congress. >> i tell you what's been hard, it's been hard because the cuban american lobbyists have been very strong throughout the