On the part of the Cuban government, there has been a massive deployment, with the help of other countries, especially China, to set up solar power to power public facilities like polyclinics, hospitals, maternity clinics and children's homes. Mexico has been providing a lot of direct aid—at least five ships. Other countries are also working through Mexico to send aid. The Canadian Network on Cuba, as I said, has sent eight million dollars' worth of aid so far.
We do send it through the Cuban government. This lie is repeated over and over again by people from NGOs that receive funding from the U.S. State Department. We don't. I can say that there's a total lack of verifiable evidence that aid gets diverted to dollar stores. There's never been a proven chain of custody where that has happened.
I really think we need to stop putting on political conditions when we're providing aid to Cuba, because that becomes complying with the U.S. sanctions and undermining the Cuban government. The goal ultimately is to try to destabilize the Cuban government.