The Senator by Florida Rick Scott It seeks that the Donald Trump administration restrict flights to Cuba in which it would constitute a new step in the pressure against the island’s government. “I don’t think we should travel to Cuba,” he told the news channel CBS News Miami.
“When people travel to Cuba, those close to the government, mainly the military, benefit,” He added Scott
For the Republican, trips from the United States “financially benefit the Cuban army and feed government repression”, since, he says, “the funds are used to repress those who oppose the government.”
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The Republican’s statements are related to the rumors unleashed shortly after Trump’s assumption on January 20. Then it was said from the networks that a package of sanctions against the Cuban regime would be announced on those dates.
The alleged statement was signed by the Department of National Security (DHS) and related five measures that would be announced on January 30 and among which was the suspension direct commercial flights to Cuba, as well as the limitation of travel for Cubans residing in USA.
Shortly after, a senior state department official, aforementioned by Strong coffee, He denied these rumors.
A bill
Scott also recently presented a bill appointed “Law of Democracy”, whose objective is to freeze assets and prohibit visas to members of key sectors of the Cuban government, particularly the army.
The project is part of a broader strategy to weaken “authoritarian regimes in Latin America”.
Next to Tommy Tuberville, Scott presented This law that aims to apply “unprecedented financial pressure. Scott had headed this project with then Senator Marco Rubio in last congress, according to Martí News.
“All his problems in Latin America begin with the Cuban regime,” said the senator, according to the report of CBS News Miami Posted yesterday on your website. “If we get rid of Castro’s regime, it will help us get rid of [Nicolás] Maduro (from Venezuela) and Daniel Ortega (from Nicaragua) ”.
Make “life more difficult”
As soon as the trips to the island, he said: “If you want to return to Cuba, return to Cuba. But that does not help the people of Cuba, helps the regime to oppress it. ”
Meanwhile, the news channel interviewed several Cuban Americans who were traveling from Miami to Havana, and who were worried about possible restrictions, because this would make them “the most difficult life for their loved ones.”
USA: They reversed Cuba flight policy of the Trump administration
Some of these Cuban Americans say they understand the reasoning of restrictions, but recognize the personal difficulties that would bring the common people to apply.
In 2019, Trump, then in his first mandate, gave way to suspending all the charter flights inside Cuba from the United States, just maintaining the Havana route. With the arrival of Biden to power, these measures were reversed.
