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Pramila Jayapal: “The United States has been strangling Cuba [through its…”

Featuring: Pramila Jayapal, Democratic | U.S. House Washington, District 7

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We Went to Cuba | Rep. Jonathan Jackson | #20

Published | Video Starts at 16:43

It was just so beautiful to watch you deliver that and to see all of the work that you've done on u. S. Cuba relations and fixing this broken foreign policy that we have from The United States has been strangling Cuba [through its foreign policy]. You called it economic asphyxiation. I've called it economic bombing of the infrastructure. One of the other meetings that we had was with ambassadors from Latin American countries and from African countries. (16:43–16:52)

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Asserts that U.S. foreign policy has negatively impacted Cuba.

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