“The sanctions mean nothing if they are not enforced,” Cuban American congresswoman said.
Miami, United States. – Cuban -American congresswoman María Elvira Salazar (Florida District 27) asked the State and Treasury departments to investigate companies based in South Florida who, as she denounced, would be evading the sanctions of the United States and benefiting the Cuban regime.
“I am asking the State Department and the Department of the Treasury to investigate companies in southern Florida suspected of evading US sanctions and helping the Cuban dictatorship. The sanctions mean nothing if they are not fulfilled. District 27 demands answers,” wrote in x the congresswoman when disseminating the document addressed to both agencies.
The petition appears in a letter with letterhead of the House of Representatives, dated August 21, 2025 and sent to Marco Rubio, as Secretary of State, already Scott Besent, as secretary of the Treasury. In the text, Salazar states that “a number of companies” recently opened in southern Florida “to offer a variety of services whose main purpose is the evasion of sanctions on the communist regime in Cuba”, so he requests that both units “examine these violations and take the appropriate action”.
🚨 I’m calling on @StateDept and @USTreasury to investigate South FL companies suspected of evading U.S. sanctions and aiding the Cuban dictatorship.
Sanctions mean nothing if not enforced. District 27 demands answers. pic.twitter.com/NhDdvKhPRt
— Rep. María Elvira Salazar (@RepMariaSalazar) August 21, 2025
According to the letter, the companies indicated offer “tourism packages”, “logistics”, door -to -door shipments, modalities that, ”they will allow to overcome the restrictions. Salazar emphasizes that “both the spirit and the letter of the United States law regarding Cuba prohibit American tourism in Cuba, as well as trade with the communist regime” and recalls that President Donald Trump made clear, in a presidential memorandum of National Security on Cuba on June 30, “which supports the strict application of the sanctions to the regime.”
The congresswoman also warns about the background of some of these businesses: “Many of these companies are owned by the regime.” As an example, he cites the case of Jorge Javier Rodríguez Cabrera, Recently detained for the United States Immigration and Customs Control Service, and from whom it has been revealed that it is an associate narrow of one of Raúl Castro’s grandchildren. ” He adds that “it is not unthinkable that many of these companies have been created with the knowledge and consent of the communist regime.”
Salazar asks the state departments and the treasure to “take appropriate legal action” and argues that their voters want the government to investigate “this contempt for law”, because “they feel that it is an insult to all their hardships by building new lives as Americans that some people seek to undermine the struggle for freedom in Cuba.”
The initiative received public support from Florida Carlos A. Giménez, who wrote in x: “We are both for the repressors and the testaferros of the murderous dictatorship of Cuba that have infiltrated our community. We have identified them and we are calling on the administration to apply the entire weight of the law.”
