# Cuba’s UN ambassador asks Marco Rubio: ‘What are you afraid of?’

https://mins.news/en/video/28915

- The Associated Press, 2026-08-21 22:49 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PktFgkjteHs

> The United States has pressed Cuba to allow private investment, while Cuba has enacted sweeping reforms to encourage it. Cuba’s U.N. ambassador questions why Washington continues adding sanctions that obstruct the economic opening it has sought for decades.

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