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Marco Rubio: “The regime has survived on, you know, on subsidies from the…”

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio Remarks to the Press

Published | Video Starts at 13:25

But for the most part, it's just people that don't know what an economy is supposed to look like. They really don't. And because they've always relied on foreign sponsors, that The regime has survived on, you know, on subsidies from the Soviet Union and then from Chavez. This is the first time they don't have a sponsor that's giving them subsidies for free, and they don't know what to do with themselves because all they've done is freeload off these countries for all these years. (13:25–13:37)

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Asserts that Cuba's regime has historically relied on subsidies from the Soviet Union and Venezuela.

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