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Rubio Introduces Bill Against US Funds for Cuban Military

Official portrait of US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.
Official portrait of US Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.

Republican Florida Senator Marco Rubio revealed a new law that would make it illegal for US companies to engage in financial transactions with the Cuban military. Rubio is a Cuban American, and has also announced his candidacy for president in 2016. His campaing has featured a loud opposition to the new policy recently established by the Obama administration to normalize economic and other relations with the small Communist-led island only 90 miles from Florida.

“It is not in the interest of the United States or the people of Cuba for the U.S. to become a financier of the Castro regime’s brutality,” Rubio said.

“The Cuban Military Transparency Act would prevent U.S. dollars from getting into the hands of the Cuban military and would demand accountability from the Obama Administration regarding fugitives of American justice in Cuba, the return of stolen and uncompensated property and the role of the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior in Cuba,” he added.

Rubio’s bill would call for the identification and denial of any transactions of a financial nature which include the military arm of the Cuban dictatorship, its leadership and subdivisions as well. The 14-page proposed legislation is co-sponsored by one Democrat, Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, and the following Republican Senators: Orrin Hatch (Utah), Tom Cotton (Ark.), Ted Cruz (Texas), Cory Gardner (Colo.), David Vitter (La.) and Mark Kirk (Ill.).

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