Sec. Rubio: Cuban Regime Would Rather Destroy the Country than Ever Walk Away from a Failed Ideology

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RUBIO: “I think for us, we’re looking for an opportunity to influence the direction that that goes, because it’s 90 miles from our shores, and we want Cuba to be prosperous, we want Cuba to be free. But in that sense, on the level of detail you’re asking me, suffice it to say that as long as the people that are in charge think the way these people think and act the way these people act, it’s going to be difficult for them to make the changes that need to be made in order for Cuba to have a better future, because they just really — they either — they don’t understand, and some of them are incompetent, and some of them just basically don’t understand, and others are just so recalcitrant that they’d rather, you know, destroy the country than ever walk away from a failed ideology, although I think the number of people in that category is less than it’s ever been.”