Diaz-Balarts: Keep Bud out of the hands of the Belgians

Belgian beer brewer InBev is trying to buy out the maker of Budweiser beer -- an effort that's prompted some howls in Congress over potential foreign ownership of the American icon.

Adding their voices to the fray, Miami Republican Reps. Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart who say InBev has "significant links to the Cuban dictatorship, a state sponsor of terrorism.

"InBev distributes and markets its products throughout the entire 'tourism apartheid' sector of communist Cuba," the brothers said in a joint press release. They argue that Cuban citizens face great discrimination in the tourism sector, but that InBev does a significant amount of business with foreign tourists "who go to Cuba to take advantage of the degrading discrimination suffered by the Cuban people at the hands of the dictatorship."

They say that InBev products in Cuba must be purchased with hard currency and thus "are thus out of reach for the overwhelming majority of the Cuban people, who suffer under degrading totalitarian rule."

Comments

[Bill]

Maybe he would prefer we also prohibit all travel to Europe, since they don't have the same asinine travel restrictions on Cuba that we do.

Time for new leadership !

[Roy]

I am still not going to drink Bud or other Anheuser Busch products, they are swill. Who cares who owns the parent corporation. This is not a major issue of national security here.