The Cuban-American congressional delegation from Miami, Florida, held a press conference denouncing the opening of the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, as well as calling the new Cuban embassy in the United States as a " base" for the Cuban Intelligence Service.
Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Carlos Curbelo, and Mario Diaz-Balart, all Republicans, each took turns of expressing their anger and disappointment over President Obama's apparent acceptance of the 56-years of human rights violations and acts of terrorism committed by the Castro regime.
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R) spoke out against Obama's normalization of diplomatic relations with communist Cuba, saying that the president has given the regime a "license to spy" on the U.S.
Diaz-Balart stated that Obama's "failed policy of appeasement, appeasing brutal dictators" has threaten U.S. interests, adding that the "Cuban people have not chosen the Castro brothers" as their legitimate representatives.
The Cuban embassy will represent the Cuban Intelligence Service-Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R)
Corbel didn't mince his words either, saying that the Obama administration has legitimized Cuba, an "enemy of the United States."
One of the most reckless foreign policy decisions that we have seen in decades in this decision by the Obama administration to legitimize and embrace a government that has been an enemy of the United States. A government that has abused and repressed its own people every single day of its existence. A government that continues sponsoring terrorism around the world, especially here in our hemisphere.-Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R)
Curbelo also stated that the existing and "robust" Cuban spy network in the U.S. now has a base in which to spy from.
