MARCO RUBIO CRUSHES “U.S. OIL BLOCKADE” LIE ON CUBA: REGIME TOOK FREE VENEZUELAN OIL, RE-SOLD 60% FOR CASH, AND IS “INCOMPETENT COMMUNISTS”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio directly debunked claims of a U.S. oil blockade on Cuba during a White House briefing.
“There’s no Oil Blockade on Cuba per se,” Rubio stated. “Here’s what’s happening with Cuba, okay? Cuba used to get free oil from Venezuela. They would take like sixty percent of that oil and resell it for cash. It wouldn’t even go to benefit the people.”
He continued: “So the only blockade that happened is the Venezuelans have decided we’re not giving you free oil anymore.”
Rubio added: “And you can only imagine nowadays the way oil prices are. No one’s giving away free oil much less to a failed regime.”
He went further: “So the problem of Cuba is worse okay. Their economic model doesn’t work. The people who are in charge can’t fix it. And the reason I can’t fix it is not just because they’re communists. That’s bad enough, but they’re incompetent communists.”