{"id":590129,"date":"2021-07-13T15:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T19:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=590129"},"modified":"2021-07-13T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T19:36:24","slug":"watch-rubio-gives-impassioned-speech-about-cuba-protests-on-senate-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-rubio-gives-impassioned-speech-about-cuba-protests-on-senate-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Rubio Gives Impassioned Speech About Cuba Protests On Senate Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-rubio-gives-impassioned-speech-about-cuba-protests-on-senate-floor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=590129&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230460465.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>On Monday afternoon, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) delivered an impassioned speech on the Senate floor about historic anti-communism protests in Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The lawmaker \u2014 who is of Cuban descent \u2014 expressed hope that the United States and the international community would immediately support the Cuban people as they oppose the island\u2019s regime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Senator Rubio Delivers Floor Speech Addressing the Political Protests in Cuba\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pkORrPkO9Q0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe first lesson we need to take away from it is that Marxism, socialism, doesn\u2019t work,\u201d Rubio told his colleagues. \u201cThe way socialism, the way Marxism has always worked, the way it\u2019s always empowered itself, is it goes to the people and immediately divides them. It says there is an oppressor class and that there is this victim class and these evil oppressors, capitalists, in the case of socialism or traditional Marxism, they oppress the victims.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Although socialists promise security in exchange for freedom, Rubio emphasized that they universally fail in their plans: \u201cAnd when it can\u2019t deliver the security, you don\u2019t get your freedom back. And in fact, when you start to complain about that, that is when the repression comes. That\u2019s what\u2019s happened in Cuba.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Socialism likewise fails to deliver on its promises of prosperity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThere is no real economy in Cuba. \u2018Give up your freedom and you\u2019ll have an education. Free education for everybody.\u2019 That education, number one, you\u2019re a doctor. You can drive a taxi cab in Cuba and make more money. Or number two, you get sent, forced, to go overseas and work basically on slave wages, no pay \u2014 barely any pay at all. It\u2019s basically human trafficking, as our own Department of State found when it looked at the Cuban doctors program and how it\u2019s been abused.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rubio also noted that although the Cuban government blames the American embargo for rampant poverty, Cubans within the nation are artificially stopped from pursuing entrepreneurship and basic economic activities: \u201cWhy aren\u2019t fishermen and farmers in Cuba allowed to fish or grow things and sell to people? It\u2019s not the embargo that keeps them from doing that. It\u2019s the regime. Why can\u2019t Cubans own a small business? Why can\u2019t a Cuban do in Cuba what they can do in Miami, what they can do in Washington, what they do in countries all over the world?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rubio called on American officials to not cede ground to the Cuban government \u2014 namely, by being \u201cclear about whose side we\u2019re on,\u201d refusing to change Trump-era policies, making it a \u201ctop priority to allow the people of Cuba to have free, unfettered open internet access,\u201d encouraging allies in Europe to stop giving cover to the Cuban regime, and refusing to tolerate a mass migration event to American shores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The senator also pointed out that artists \u2014 particularly, the composers of \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/my-people-demand-freedom-cuban-popstars-blast-communist-regime-with-viral-song\"><span>Patria Y Vida<\/span><\/a><span>,\u201d which translates to \u201cFatherland and Life\u201d \u2014 tired of repression are behind the current movement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe chorus reads, \u2018Se acab\u00f3. Tu cinco nueve, yo, doble dos \/ Ya se acab\u00f3. Sesenta a\u00f1os trancando el domin\u00f3.\u2019 How it translates is basically it says, \u2018It\u2019s over. You\u2019re 59, meaning 1959, the year Castro took over, but I have double twos,\u2019\u201d explained Rubio. \u201cAnd everyone knows in the domino game, at the end of the chain\u2026 if no one has any dominoes left to put down, the game gets locked and you count numbers and you count dots to see who won. So it says, \u2018It\u2019s over. You\u2019re 59, but I have double twos. It\u2019s over. Sixty years with the domino game locked up for us.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday afternoon, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) delivered an impassioned speech on the Senate floor about historic anti-communism protests in Cuba.The lawmaker \u2014 who is of Cuban descent \u2014 expressed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314600,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230460465.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Rubio Gives Impassioned Speech About Cuba Protests On Senate Floor","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1230460465.jpg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"WATCH: Rubio Gives Impassioned Speech About Cuba Protests On Senate Floor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}