The United States Department of Commerce ordered this week no more Ferraris for the oppressors, revoking export licenses that allowed the shipment of luxury items to Cuba, including Ferraris, Aston Martins, Maseratis, jacuzzis, and jet skis that would benefit the elite of the Cuban regime.
The decision was recorded in a letter dated this past Monday, signed by Jeffrey I. Kessler, Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security, and addressed to Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar.
"The Biden administration granted export licenses for certain luxury items such as Ferraris, Aston Martins, Maseratis, jacuzzis, and jet skis. This is unacceptable. I have instructed the staff of the Bureau of Industry and Security to revoke the corresponding export authorizations," Kessler stated in the letter, in response to pressures from local lawmakers and officials who sent a joint letter on February 10 demanding concrete measures against the regime.
Institutional pressure had begun weeks earlier, when Miami-Dade County approved a unanimously approved resolution urging firm actions regarding commercial ties with the Cuban government.
Meanwhile, the Miami-Dade Tax Collector's Office launched a Compliance Transparency Page to identify businesses with possible connections to the regime, and subsequently proceeded to notify nearly 3,909 businesses about potential links to entities associated with the Cuban government.
Congresswoman Salazar also publicly confronted Deputy Secretary David Peters in the context of these efforts, intensifying pressure on the administration to take effective measures against the commercial privileges that benefited officials of the Cuban regime.
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