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Marco Rubio: “The Trump administration sanctioned Gaissa [in Cuba].”

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

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Marco Rubio discusses Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti after Rick Scott's questions at hearing

Published | Video Starts at 06:53

And while you have electrical blackouts and you have all these other problems economically in Cuba, Gaissa is sitting on billions of dollars that they've generated for their permanency. We in 2017, The Trump administration sanctioned Gaissa [in Cuba]. Unfortunately, the Biden administration lifted some of those sanctions and restrictions a couple of years ago, which increased the amount of money they were able to generate through things like manipulating remittances and the like. (06:53–06:58)

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