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Jonathan Jackson: “Cuba had a little more vibrancy then. People have continued…”

Featuring: Jonathan Jackson, Democratic | U.S. House Illinois, 1st Congressional District

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We Went to Cuba | Rep. Jonathan Jackson | #20

Published | Video Starts at 11:23

And so it was the three of us positioned in there, so it was touching that stone again. And so between Cuba then and now, Cuba had a little more vibrancy then. People have continued to survive, they've continued to thrive under those austere conditions. But this time was a Cuba that I have not recognized in the last 40 years, where the roads are empty, where the. (11:23–11:32)

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Asserts that Cuba was more vibrant in the past and people have survived under austere conditions.

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