MIAMI, United States. – During his confirmation hearing before the United States Senate this Wednesday, Cuban-American Senator Marco Rubio attacked the Cuban military corporation GAESA, which he blamed for concentrating most of the Island’s income and aggravating the economic crisis that crosses the country.
Rubio, who dedicated part of his speech to the situation in Cuba, assured that the nation is “collapsing, both generationally—because young people are leaving—and economically,” and questioned the role played by the military entity: “Basically, The situation in Cuba is that, despite being a communist regime and that Marxism does not work, they [los dirigentes cubanos] They decided to create this company called GAESA. “It is a company owned by the Cuban military that controls everything that generates money in Cuba,” said the legislator.
The Republican senator also stressed that GAESA accumulates million-dollar resources while the population faces prolonged blackouts: “And why are there electrical blackouts and so many other economic problems in Cuba? GAESA sits on billions of dollars for its permanence,” he highlighted during his appearance.
In his speech, Rubio criticized the recent elimination of sanctions on GAESA by the Joe Biden government. “In 2017, the Trump Administration sanctioned GAESA. Unfortunately, the Biden Administration lifted some of those sanctions and restrictions a couple of years ago, which increased the amount of money the company could generate through manipulating remittances and things like that.”
“And then yesterday, the Biden Administration announced that it was rescinding all sanctions imposed on GAESA,” he explained.
The senator also pointed out that “the new Administration is not obliged to maintain that decision, but, for the moment, that is what is in force.” In his opinion, this step could favor the Cuban authorities, who, he noted, maintain a failed model “because Marxism does not work, because there is corruption.”
“Those who run the country will have to make a decision: will they open themselves to the world? Will they allow each Cuban to decide their own economic and political destiny of the regime? Or will they triple the bet and simply say that they prefer to be the owners and controllers of “A fourth world country that is collapsing and has lost 10% of its population in the last two years?” Rubio asked.
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