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Mark Pocan: “We've had a blockade mostly on for the last six and a half…”

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

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I got back from Cuba. Here's what I saw.

Published | Video Starts at 01:17

You have to buy food day to day without having any power. And that's directly related to the blockade we're doing on oil coming in. So clearly what's happening in Cuba, it's a humanitarian crisis. We've had a blockade mostly on for the last six and a half decades. and clearly we haven't changed the policies that we say we want to. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. (01:17–01:23)

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Asserts that the U.S. blockade on Cuba has been in place for over 65 years.

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