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Marco Rubio: “We gave Cuba $6 million of humanitarian aid, but they won't…”

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 26:50

And we have shared concerns about religious freedom, religious freedom in different parts of the world. We'd love to talk to them about that. The topic of Cuba, you know, We gave Cuba $6 million of humanitarian aid, but they won't let us distribute it. We distributed it through the church. We'd like to do more. We're willing to give more humanitarian aid to Cuba, by the way, distributed through the church, but the Cuban regime has to allow us to do it. (26:50–26:56)

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Asserts that the U.S. provided $6 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba, but distribution was blocked by the Cuban regime.

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