He pointed to the recently released State Department report, “Cuba, the Capital of 21st Century Communism,” which details seven decades of the Cuban regime’s subversion. Tens of thousands of medical workers across more than 50 countries are subjected to this exploitation, historically making the medical missions among Cuba’s largest sources of foreign currency. Cuba continues to pose a unique threat to the United States. “This objective continues to serve as both the founding myth and the central principle of the Cuban state.” It is a threat the United States is determined to defeat once and for all, and sanctions remain a critical tool to do so.