Rep. Kendrick Meek opposes remittances to Cuba
At a Monday morning rally for his U.S. Senate campaign, Meek said he supports curbing the amount of money Cuban Americans can send to their relatives because the communist government takes a 20 percent cut.
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‘I want to talk to the president about the unlimited remittances, if that’s what he said, because that could be counterproductive to our mission in Cuba to turn it toward democracy the way we’d like to see it,” he said.
He later issued a statement that said free-flowing remittances would amount to “further propping up a regime that suppresses human rights, freedoms and personal mobility. . . . To have remittances meant for family members in Cuba siphoned off by the regime in Havana would be a deep insult to Cuban Americans everywhere.” (more…)
A 20% cut? Sheesh!
