Lawmakers Applaud Principled Corporate Leaders

Read the "Commitment to Freedom" by over a dozen Cuban-American Fortune 500 executives here.

Rubio Applauds Business for Standing Against Easing Sanctions with Cuba

Senator Marco Rubio:

"I commend these business leaders for standing firm in their commitment to the freedom of Cuba. The Cuban communist dictatorship is a threat to all human freedom. I strongly support these members of the business community for stepping up and urging solidarity with Cuba's internal democratic movement as the key catalyst for the regime's demise and liberation of the Cuban people. We should not tolerate the regime's violations of human rights, and I applaud these leaders for drawing attention to the plight of the Cuban people and highlighting the human rights violations that continue to occur just ninety miles from America's shores."

Prominent Cuban Exile Business Leaders Reaffirm Their Refusal To Do Business With Castro; Ros-Lehtinen Commends Them For Principled Stand

Ros-Lehtinen:

"I enthusiastically commend and support the principled stand of these Cuban American business leaders reaffirming their commitment to a free and democratic Cuba rid of the repressive Castro dictatorship.

As any student of history knows, it is only a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’ the Castro regime will crumble under the weight of its oppressiveness. After more than half a century of brutalizing and repressing the Cuban people, the regime is on its last leg and the octogenarian dictators know it.

The future of Cuba belongs to the Cuban people, not to their oppressors. The stand that these business leaders have taken assures that this future will be bright and full of possibilities for Cuba and its citizens."

Diaz-Balart Commends Business Leaders for Standing with the Cuban People

Diaz-Balart:

"I am pleased that many of our community’s most distinguished business leaders pledged their support of Cuba’s brave pro-democracy movement, and publicly vowed to repudiate all business ties with the Castro dictatorship.

These business leaders clearly see the regime’s sham economic 'reforms' for what they are: a cynical attempt to garner international support and divert attention from its failures and increasingly brutal oppression. Rather than falling for the latest manipulations of the Castro dictatorship, these leaders call for the unconditional release of all political prisoners, the recognition of basic rights, and the complete dismantling of Castros’ machinery of oppression before they would consider pursuing business interests in the country of their birth.

I commend these pillars of our community for definitively choosing to stand with the Cuban people as they continue their courageous struggle for freedom, and for steadfastly refusing to do business with their oppressors."