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Marco Rubio: “Cuba used to get free oil from Venezuela.”

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio conducts a White House briefing

Published May 5, 2026 | Video Starts at 25:27

This is crazy stuff, but this is what they've done on Cuba. Oil blockade on Cuba. There's no oil blockade on Cuba per se. Here's what's happening with Cuba, okay? Cuba used to get free oil from Venezuela. used to give them a bunch of free oil. They would take like 60% of that oil and resell it for cash. It wouldn't even go to benefit the people. (25:27–25:30)

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Asserts that Venezuela previously provided free oil to Cuba.

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