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Marco Rubio: “Cuba resold 60% of the oil from Venezuela for cash.”

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

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio conducts a White House briefing

Published | Video Starts at 25:27

That alone, mining in the water is illegal, period, under any circumstances. And they've done it. This is crazy stuff, but this is what they've done on Cuba. Oil blockade on Cuba. … Cuba resold 60% of the oil from Venezuela for cash. … go to benefit the people. So the only blockade that's happened is the Cubans have decided. I mean, the Venezuelans have decided we're not giving you free oil anymore. (25:27–25:32)

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Asserts that Cuba resold a majority of the oil received from Venezuela for cash.

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