María Elvira Salazar solicita las comunicaciones entre Embajada y MiPyme Madwoman

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La congresista cubanoamericana María Elvira Salazar pidió a un funcionario del Departamento de Estado que envíe a su oficina las comunicaciones entre la Embajada de Estados Unidos en La Habana y la MiPyme MadWoman. "Sucede que la Embajada de Estados Unidos en La Habana contrató a una empresa llamada MadWoman, una supuesta ‘MIPYME’ independiente que despidió a un empleado por criticar al régimen de Castro en las redes sociales”, dijo Salazar.

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00:00 Thank you Mr. Chairman for allowing me this time and thank you Mr. Verma for being here and

00:06 willingly answer our questions. I just want to help me, I want you to help me with just

00:13 basically one thing which is to be able to obtain all communications between the United States

00:19 Embassy in Cuba and a small business called Madwoman and I'm going to explain to you why.

00:25 It occurs that the United States Embassy has hired this company called Madwoman that is supposedly

00:31 in the in the hands of private sector in Cuba, something that is very difficult to believe but

00:37 that's the way they call themselves the MIPIMAS, you know small business or Cubans owning their own

00:44 small businesses. It occurs that the owner of this small business called Madwoman fires one of her

00:52 employees called Alvaro Hernandez just for the mere fact of writing in his own social media

01:00 down with a dictatorship. The owner was honored by the State Department, your State Department is one

01:07 of the top entrepreneurs of the hemisphere, she's invited to come to Washington and as I said she's

01:13 doing business with the United States Embassy to do some type of marketing on the island.

01:20 At the same time this company Madwoman is the offices are in a building which is owned by the

01:28 Cuban regime and specifically the military conglomerate. So that's why I sent a letter

01:34 to the president Biden and I copied Secretary Blinken so we could understand what's happening

01:43 between the embassy and Madwoman and that and the only way we could do that is if we could have

01:50 all communication, emails, texts, phone calls, letters between the embassy and Madwoman.

01:57 My basically my question is could you commit to give us by April 1st as I asked President Biden

02:07 and Secretary Blinken to offer that information to us, do you think that you could commit to help

02:13 me do that? Sure Congresswoman I'm not I haven't seen that your letter I'm happy to follow up with

02:18 you after this hearing if you want to give me a copy of the letter I'm happy to take it back and

02:22 work on it right away. And you said that means that you would be willing to dedicate resources

02:28 from the State Department and put some interest in providing to my office all types of communication.

02:36 I am I am happy to dig into this on your behalf I don't know anything about it I'm sorry. No no

02:40 I understand that you don't that that's why I am I but you are third in command you can definitely

02:46 put some resources that are at your disposal to to look more into this because I sent the

02:53 letter a few months ago back in February and I have not received any type of response and it's

02:59 important because I'm sure that you don't want anyone to be breaking the law there is an embargo

03:05 against Cuba we do not want to be spending taxpayers money on hiring companies that are

03:12 close to the regime right now we want to help those Cubans that do want to be part of the

03:17 free market economy. Yes I can commit to you that we will take this and look into it and come back

03:22 to you right away. Thank you very much I I take your word for it I yield I yield back.

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