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Mark Pocan: “Ships can't bring supplies due to our blockade.”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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'Literally Everything You Need To Live And Thrive Is Blocked': Mark Pocan Blasts US Blockade On Cuba

Published | Video Starts at 01:34

But all that got taken away by Donald Trump. In fact, we didn't just go back to the same old repression, but instead we went to new levels of sadism against the Cuban people. Ships can't bring supplies due to our blockade. Goods can't be exchanged with the Cuban people because of our blockade. Medicine. Even in war, we allow medicine through. Medicine and medical parts can't get to the Cuban people due to our blockade. (01:34–01:38)

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