Diaz-Balart comments on the people-to-people tours to Cuba

Miami, FL –Today Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL)issued the following statement as the first people-to-people tours take off to Cuba. Diaz-Balart comments:

“Regrettably, numerous reports and travel promotions indicate that President Obama's easing of sanctions against the terrorist regime in Cuba have led to numerous abuses amounting to thinly veiled tourism, which is prohibited by U.S. law. As the Obama Administration demonstrates weakness by granting unilateral concessions to the Castro regime; the Castro brothers respond with increased brutality, imprisonment of American humanitarian aid worker Alan Gross, and the murder of political prisoners. It is past time for the Administration to stop providing unilateral concessions to the Castro regime by easing travel regulations and channeling millions of U.S. dollars to the brutal regime.”