David Rivera Calls Out Hillary Clinton on Cuba

Florida Republican U.S. Rep. David Rivera sent U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a letter on Wednesday, weighing in on the case of Alan Gross, who is in jail in Cuba. The Cuban government maintains that Gross was a spy, while his defenders insist that he was working on Internet projects.

Madame Secretary, being patient with a dictator is not a policy, wrote Rivera, a member of the Western Hemisphere Subcommittee and a sharp critic of the Obama administrations handling of Cuban affairs.

Allowing the Cuban dictatorship to take this action against an American citizen without serious consequences from our government will endanger Americans around the world and embolden other terrorist and rogue regimes in their anti-American activities, continued Rivera. I urge you to respond strongly and credibly to Mr. Grosss impending conviction and sentencing, and not merely sit back and hope for a terrorist dictatorship to do the right thing.'"