On Friday, PolitiFact writers Samantha Putterman and Maria Briceno gave Secretary of State Marco Rubio a “half true” rating for his claim that the United States is not the reason that Cuba is experiencing 22-hour blackouts.
According to Putterman and Briceno, it is true that economic mismanagement—the words “communist” or “socialist” appear nowhere in the article—has led to the decay of Cuba’s energy system and the original blackouts. However, in the “If your time is short section,” they write, “The U.S. government’s oil blockade has worsened the situation. The U.S. cut off Venezuela’s oil shipments to Cuba and threatened tariffs and sanctions on other countries seeking to send fuel or do business with the island.”
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