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All of the chickens and different poultry, when embargo? the embargo is one imposed, the castros are the ones who imposed the embargo on the cubans, because the fishermen cannot sell their fish, that has nothing to do with americanic -- embargo. the farmers cannot sell their crops to their own cubans, the castros have been in the business of power, they have done such a great job in san strangling the population, they say no more, as a congresswoman from the city of miami, heart of cuban exile c...

How you do diplomacy with dictators like the castros. what do you say to your critics? >> i would say that we were learning from the mistakes of 60 years. we were learning from what had not worked in americas cuba policy. this is an island of 11 million people. it is 90 miles from florida. if you allow for travel, the internet, the people are going to be empowered. you talk about a lot of american politicians, talking about the cuban people want. there was research after the obama opening that f...

Different poultry, when embargo? the embargo is one imposed, the castros are the ones who imposed the embargo on the cubans, because the fishermen cannot sell their fish, that has nothing to do with americanic -- embargo. the farmers cannot sell their crops to their own cubans, the castros have been in the business of power, they have done such a great job in san strangling the population, they say no more, as a congresswoman from the city of miami, heart of cuban exile community, and members of...

Under castro rule. >> the most cruel, the most evil revolution that the americas has seen since the arrival of christopher columbus, no one has been able to be crueler and take repression to scientific levels, i am sure the castros will write history, and historians will look back and say these people gained power and -- maintained it over the most cruel and severe repression, but right now those people who have lost everything, their families, food, medicine, they lost their fear. that is where...

>> so, one, quick question. i remember, for the audience, the first time i went to cuba. seeing written, on a wall, there is a lot of propaganda, obviously, from the castros. but one of the expressions is -- [ speaking foreign language ] -- yes, to cuba. cuba is worthy. cuba is tough. and i remember asking somebody there if this was from the government. and they said, to me, no, cuba is its people. we are held down by its government. do you think the moment s finally come where the people will b...

Is going back to obama the answer now? >> it wasnt clear that what we did then made a big difference. im not sure what it means to engage the cuban people in a country which is tightly controlled by the government. i would actually say what we should think about is offering to reduce certain sanctions in exchange for specific reforms, be it about cuban foreign policy. t not clear why they need to have thousands of their intelligence people in a place like venezuela or domestic economic and polit...

Try to blackmail the united states by threatening to send a lot of its citizens to south florida. >> harris: thank you very much. byron donalds, republican congressman from florida is in "the faulkner focus" now. good to see you, congressman. first of all, what is the effect of silence or the omission of a word like communism when the white house responds if and when they do to the protesting thats going on for freedom in cuba? >> that only goes to support the regime that has been in power for m...

Reopen up relations with cuba. he didnt do that. and maybe hes glad now in the sense that these protests really seem to have spread almost from nowhere. there are limited tools. there are tools but weve had sanctions for years, pressure campaigns on due baa for years. right now, theres a humanitarian crisis that involves both economic crisis and also the covid factor which i think is playing into these protests there. theres been blackouts on the island. so you know, the u.s. plays an outsized r...

Does the government have enough control? you castros with the personality, the infrastructure of the communist party. do we have a good sense of now that the castros are gone, can the government withstand these kind of things? >> look, i think thats the big question. when you see the repeatty and speed with which no one took hold. it reminds of the early arab spring moments coming almost from nowhere organized on social media platforms like facebook, on apps like telegram. is it sustainable? wil...

The police. we saw the government sending in their own counter protesters that said they supported the revo revolution, to try to drown out the anti-government protesters and cubas president, the successor to the castros, said that the supporters of the revolution needed to take to the streets, needed to defend the revolution and he was giving them an order to flood the streets to defend their government. so, so far at least, despite these calls for change, unprecedented calls for change, the cu...