On Monday, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) briefed her constituents on her trip to Cuba.
Breitbart News posted a snippet of Jayapal complaining about the oil embargo and President Donald Trump threatening tariffs on any country that sends oil to Cuba.
From the video (emphasis mine):
In January, Trump issued an executive order threatening tariffs on any country supplying fuel to Cuba. This was this January, just a few months ago, and oil shipments from Venezuela, that’s where Cuba had been getting its oil, were halted after the US operations to kidnap Nicholas Maduro.Since January, only one Russian tanker of oil has made it to Cuba. In fact, it landed just a couple of days before I landed, and one tanker has enough oil basically, for 10 to 14 days of Cuba’s oil means. So it’s a very limited amount of time. Now, Russia has said they’re going to send another tanker. I was in conversations with the ambassadors from Mexico and some other places, and I know other countries in Latin America are trying to figure out how to get oil there, but it is a crisis beyond imagination.Just this past Friday, on May 1, Trump signed a broad executive order that widens sanctions and allows for new penalties similar to what we have for Iran and Russia, against foreign banks and firms that are dealing with Cuba, and it also reinforces the ban on US tourism. I have called these sanctions an economic bombing of the infrastructure of Cuba. It is illegal. It is against the war. We were talking about this, in Iran, obviously, to bomb the infrastructure of any country, that is against international law. This is essentially doing the same thing. It is bombing the infrastructure of Cuba with economic sanctions that essentially ensure that the infrastructure collapses.
Yes, Jayapal also said the U.S. kidnapped Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro despite being indicted on four major charges. No biggie, right!?
It’s true that President Donald Trump told Cuba no more oil or money in January.
It’s also true that Cuba’s infrastructure has collapsed for months. Jayapal has repeated the Communist regime’s talking points, claiming sanctions have prevented officials from repairing the infrastructure.
I wonder how the Cuban leaders live in luxury, though. Why not use that money to fix the decades-old, crumbling infrastructure?
Easy answer: Communist leaders don’t care about the regular people.
Even without the sanctions, why would anyone invest in Cuba? Secretary of State Marco Rubio provided a lesson on communism to a journalist in March:
What do you mean an economic deal? Look, Cuba’s economy needs to change, and their economy can’t change unless their system of government changes. It’s that simple. Who’s going to invest billions of dollars in a communist country? Who’s going to invest billions of dollars in a communist country run by incompetent communists, which is even worse than communists. The only thing worse than a communist is an incompetent communist.
Jayapal gushed over her trip to Cuba, lavishing praise on Cuban dictator Miguel Díaz-Canel and other officials.
Because, you know, you can totally believe everything a Communist believes.
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