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Ted Cruz: “Cuba, when the Cuban Revolution happened, was the number one…”

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

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If something does happen in Cuba the same way that we saw with Maduro, where we actually take a someone with the last name Castro, how significant is that in the moment in history and for all the victims of the Castro Cuba, when the Cuban Revolution happened, was the number one sugar producer in all of Latin America. Cuba is like the land that time forgot. They strangled the economy. There's misery, there's poverty. You look at Cuba, the cars that most of the people drive are cars from the 1950s. (24:23–24:29)

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Asserts that Cuba was the leading sugar producer in Latin America at the time of the Cuban Revolution.

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