WASHINGTON, May 24, CMC – Caribbean-American Democratic Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke has written to President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging an end to the oil blockades imposed on Cuba.
In the letter, Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants and chair of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), appeals to the Trump administration to “relieve the economic pressure on the island, which has led to an increase in infant mortality rates, the threat of starvation, and a declining standard of living for innocent Cuban civilians.
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