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Ted Cruz: “Cuba is enormously dependent on Venezuela. Venezuela is…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Published | Video Starts at 49:44

What we're going to talk about on Wednesday is there are very significant geopolitical issues in terms of the rest of Latin America and in particular Cuba. Cuba is enormously dependent on Venezuela. Venezuela is enormously dependent on Cuba. And taking out Maduro puts the communist regime and Cuba in real jeopardy. And I think we could end up seeing, I think there's a real possibility that we see the communist government in Cuba fall. (49:44–49:50)

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Asserts that Cuba and Venezuela have a mutual dependency.

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