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Marco Rubio: “Cuba imports sugar, despite being one of the world's leading…”

Featuring: Marco Rubio, Republican | Secretary of State, United States | National

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FULL GAGGLE: Rubio Takes Questions From Reporters After Cuba Claims Deadly Strike On U.S. Speedboat

Published | Video Starts at 33:41

None of that money goes to schools. None of that money goes to roads. None of that money goes to feeding the population. You have a country that has fertile farmland that Cuba imports sugar, despite being one of the world's leading exporters of sugar. Now they import sugar. They import almost all their food. It's a dysfunctional. It's just not even an economy. It's total dysfunction. That's their fault. (33:41–33:46)

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Asserts that Cuba, once a leading sugar exporter, now imports sugar.

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