Mr Castro promoted the separation of Cuban families. The Castro Brothers have promoted fear, have not made available food, groceries to their people it’s a well known fact ,professionals can barely buy groceries to feed their families. Is this a country Mr Sparks wants to do business with?
We are not talking about JUST another banana republic people, Cuban families thrived in a robust economy, their childred fed, they had good schools and clean neighborhoods. I’ve seen Cuba in pics, videos. Dirty, horsedrawn carriages in the cities. Mr Castro transported Cuba back, the economy didn’t go forward, human rights didn’t go forward.
The Castros do not give their people a chance to get ahead,no freedom of expression it’s all about power , the Castro’s will not give up their power ! Cuba is a fertile land, always was. Mr Castro’s ulterior motives for doing business with Alabama, there are many I’m sure. Did you know Mr Castro sells donations given to his people during catastrophes, i,e. devastiing hurricanes. Indeed, I have European friends who’ve seen items marked for donation in the diplotiendas, or stores where purchase is with American Currency, where foreigners shop easily and where Cubans must form lines that curve for blocks.

Mr Castro is not interested in keeping his people well fed, well housed or clothed. It’s about power, so many well educated Americans are ignorant beyond belief.
Well maybe it just doesn’t matter, doing business with a communist regime, a dictatorship,it’s about Alabama’s economy, , THEN do business and at the very least put pressure on the Castro’s ! . I don’t see pressure from American Leaders . I see greed.
Mr Sparks says God guides him …, did he say a prayer for the Damas en Blanco, wives sisters mothers who march down the streets of Havana on Sundays in support of their loved ones,political prisoners who dared speak against the regime, March 2003, Cuba’s black spring ? they risk getting beat up by Castro’s thugs..
.Does he pray for Marta Beatriz Roque dissident, jailed for writing The Homeland Belongs to All. If God guides you Mr Spark, and I do believe you have good intentions for your state, then listen to your gut. That little voice inside you, it must be telling you doing business with the Castro’s is morally wrong.
Mr Castro ‘intervened’ American businesses in Cuba in 1959-1960. Americans got kicked out, Cuban business owners lost everything. The STATE owns everything. When will you learn Mr Sparks. Well you know, this history lesson is brought to by an American, born in Cuba, grew up in NYC ,reside in Miami and all that I have mentioned affects me, although, by the grace of God I live comfortably in the USA. I thank my parents for having the courage to leave their homeland with 4 young children so that they would not be indoctrinated by che or castro… I thank the United States for giving my parents the chance to work,educate support their kids in a way that never would have possible in Castro’s Cuba.
I have never suffered the hardships, the scare tactics of the neighborhood commitees of defense. The fear of imprisonment for grilling a steak or frying yellowtail snapper in my home..

You had the courage, as you say, to go to Cuba for trade with Alabama, will you have the courage to address the human rights violations of the Cuban people the next time you go to Havana?