NOTE TO STUDENTS: Before answering the questions, read the “Background” and watch the videos under “Resources” below.

1. What did Secretary Rubio tell the Cuban people the U.S. is offering to do?

2. What does Rubio say is the real reason the people don't have electricity, fuel, or food?

3. What is GAESA? Who runs it and who profits from it? Be specific.

4. Instead of using the GAESA profits or money relatives send Cubans from the U.S. to buy oil, from what source had the regime been obtaining oil?

5. What else did the regime do, and choose not to do, with GAESA profits?

6. What type of relationship is President Trump offering the Cuban people? Be specific.

7. What is the only country where Cubans have not achieved success?

8. What is standing in the way of Cubans having the same opportunities and freedom experienced in the countries around them, including the U.S.?

9. Consider the "Background" summary and also the links to previous articles. What is your reaction to Secretary Rubio's message to the Cuban people?

10. What do you think of what Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said about communism and the Castro communist dictators when announcing Raul Castro's indictment for the 1996 murder of the four unarmed American civilians (when he ordered their small planes to be shot down in international waters)?