Marco Rubio

It was the right decision.

And the world will be a safer place when these radical clerics no longer have access to these weapons.

You see how they're using them now.

Imagine how they would use them a year from now if they had more of these.

Do you worry that that helps Vladimir Putin, though?

Well, I'm not gonna discuss what we would talk about or not.

Suffice it to say that the embargo's tied to political change on the island.

The embargo's codified.

But the bottom line is their economy doesn't work.

It's a non-functional economy.

It's an economy that has survived.

That revolution, it's not even a revolution, that thing they have, has survived on subsidies from the Soviet Union and now from Venezuela.

They don't get subsidies anymore, so they're in a lot of trouble.

And the people in charge, they don't know how to fix it.

So they have to get new people in charge.

That's what has to happen.

Everybody talks about these blackouts.

Cuba's been having blackouts all of last year, all the year before.

There isn't a naval blockade surrounding Cuba.

The reason why Cuba doesn't have oil and fuel is because they want it for free.