Pocan Reacts to State Department’s Cuba Report

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Representative Mark Pocan (WI-02) issued the following statement after the State Department released its latest report on Cuba:

"The State Department just published a ridiculous report about the threat to America from Cuba. It may be the stupidest, most fantastical, most biased thing I've ever read from a governmental agency. This report focuses on the 1960s & 70s with no clear connection to today. Yet somehow, the State Department uses this report to say that this impoverished nation is responsible for everything from Black Lives Matter to Antifa, the anti-ICE protests and more.

"It's clear that this report was written for Marco Rubio and his South Florida politics as a way to justify Trump setting up another war, not based on the reality of an impoverished nation due to our blockade. We simply can't get involved in another illegal war."

Pocan recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Cuba, where he saw firsthand that the U.S. policy toward Cuba is not working, and that this blockade must end.