{"id":2256480,"date":"2024-05-31T08:18:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T12:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ag-moody-calls-on-treasury-to-stop-supporting-cubas-communist-interests\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T08:22:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T12:22:07","slug":"ag-moody-calls-on-treasury-to-stop-supporting-cubas-communist-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ag-moody-calls-on-treasury-to-stop-supporting-cubas-communist-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Moody urges Treasury to cease backing &#8216;Cuba&#8217;s communist agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fag-moody-calls-on-treasury-to-stop-supporting-cubas-communist-interests%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2256480&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Florida AG \u2062Ashley \u2064Moody has urged \u2063Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to cease supporting\u2062 Cuba\u2019s communist interests amidst\u200b concerns over Chinese espionage and recent policy shifts benefiting the Cuban regime. The controversial regulatory changes in the \u2062Cuban Assets Control Regulations\u2064 have sparked criticism for potentially\u200c aiding oppressors rather than the oppressed in the Cuban population of Miami.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on Thursday called on U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to stop the agency\u2019s \u201ccontinued support of Cuba\u2019s communist interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She did so after Cuban-American lawmakers <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/thecentersquare.com\/florida\/article_d8c7325e-0935-11ee-a0d0-a75eb2515ec8.html(opens%20in%20a%20new%20tab)\" title>r<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/florida\/article_d8c7325e-0935-11ee-a0d0-a75eb2515ec8.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aised the alarm<\/a><\/strong> about Chinese spies operating in Cuba, reportedly targeting Cuban-Americans as well as about the Biden administration recently allowing Cuban regime officials to tour TSA facilities at the Miami International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>She also did so after a former U.S. diplomat in Miami pleaded guilty to charges of acting as a secret agent for the Cuban government.<\/p>\n<p>At issue is the Treasury Department issuing new regulatory changes to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, known as the CACR amendments. They include authorizing Cuban nationals who identify as \u201cindependent private sector entrepreneurs\u201d to open and use U.S. bank accounts regardless if they physically live in the U.S. They also authorize \u201cU-Turn\u201d transactions reversing a 2019 Treasury Department ban on the practice.<\/p>\n<p>Under the previous administration, the Treasury Department banned such transactions to deny Cuba \u201caccess to hard currency\u201d and to curb \u201cthe Cuban government\u2019s bad behavior while continuing to support the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-threatens-to-impose-more-sanctions-on-ethiopian-leaders-over-conflict-in-tigray-region\/\" title=\"U.S. threatens to impose more sanctions on Ethiopian leaders over conflict in Tigray region\">long-suffering people<\/a> of Cuba.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/border-official-warns-of-flood-of-unaccompanied-minors-families-coming-to-us-most-in-over-20-years\/\" title=\"Border Official Warns Of Flood Of Unaccompanied Minors, Families Coming To US: Most \u2018In Over 20 Years\u2019\">current policies<\/a>, Moody says, benefit Cuba and \u201cfly in the face of reasoned opposition and common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden continues to be manipulated by the Castro regime, and now for the first time in over 60 years, the U.S. will open its banking institutions to those who may bolster or be affiliated with the Communist dictatorship,\u201d Moody said in a statement. \u201cThese ill-thought-out amendments will likely do little to help the suffering of the Cuban people and will only strengthen those bad actors who keep the Cuban people oppressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Florida is home to the largest Cuban population in the United States, with the majority living in Miami. While Cubans have fled to Florida claiming freedom from persecution from the Cuban communist regime, Moody argues the CACR amendments \u201cmay do more to help the oppressors than the oppressed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the Biden administration considered implementing the CACR amendments but didn\u2019t after receiving opposition from members of Congress and the Cuban American community. They emphasized there is no legitimate free enterprise in communist Cuba and any \u201centrepreneurs\u201d are \u201cunder total government control\u201d of the Cuban regime.<\/p>\n<p>The current CACR amendments don\u2019t require Cuban nationals using U.S. bank accounts to provide proof that they are not connected to members of the communist government.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the regulations \u201ccould potentially allow for businesses owned or controlled by relatives or associates of communist regime members to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-istanbul-and-dubai-russians-pile-into-property-to-shelter-from-sanctions\/\" title=\"In Istanbul and Dubai, Russians pile into property to shelter from sanctions\">open bank accounts<\/a> and infiltrate the American market by masquerading as \u2018independent private sector entrepreneurs,\u2019\u201d Moody warned. Allowing U-turn transactions would only ensure more money would flow into communist Cuba and \u201cmake U.S. banking institutions a shiny new destination for those looking to launder money to or from Cuba,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba is designated as a State Sponsor of Terrorism. Despite this, the Biden administration removed Cuba from the short list of countries deemed uncooperative on counterterrorism, Moody notes.<\/p>\n<p>Cuban American Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Florida, and other Florida lawmakers have been sounding the alarm about Biden\u2019s Cuba policies, including the TSA tour. In response, Gimenez introduced legislation to prevent the TSA from granting sensitive security access to agents from State Sponsors of Terrorism-designated countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019d think it unnecessary and commonsense, but commonsense isn\u2019t very common in the Biden Administration,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also sent a letter, with Florida Republican U.S. Sens. Rick Scott and Marco Rubio, to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and TSA Administrator David Pekoske demanding answers about the Cuban TSA tour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnly under the Biden Administration would they allow a terrorist regime into our secure facilities at one of the busiest airports in America,\u201d Rubio said, adding that he asked DHS officials \u201cwhy they would be so oblivious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The TSA tour was the second time under Mayorkas\u2019 watch that members of Cuba\u2019s Communist Party have been invited to tour U.S. facilities, the Florida lawmakers said. In February 2023, the U.S. Coast Guard invited Cuban officials to visit USCG headquarters in Washington, D.C., and tour U.S. port facilities in Wilmington, North Carolina. In response, language was added to the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act to prohibit such tours from occurring in the future.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida AG Moody urges Treasury Secretary Yellen to halt support for Cuba\u2019s communist interests. 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