"Cuba is literally collapsing, both generationally in terms of all the young people leaving but it's also collapsing economically" said Rubio

Less than a week before leaving the White House, President Joe Biden is lifting the state sponsor of terrorism designation for Cuba, nearly four years to the day from when President Donald Trump ...

His remarks, during his Senate confirmation hearing to become secretary of state, come a day after Biden removed Cuba from the list.

Jose Daniel Ferrer, the leader of one of the largest banned anti-government groups in Cuba, was released two days after a surprise flurry of diplomatic activity involving the communist-run island in the waning days of the Biden administration.

Even though Marco Rubio’s Cuban-born parents left the island for the U.S. a few years before the coming to power of Fidel Castro in 1959, the next U.S. Secretary of State has wholeheartedly embraced the hardline anti-Castroism and anti-communism of the exile community in Miami.

Marco Rubio, Trump's nominee for secretary of state, spoke about China’s influence in the region and zeroed in on Mexico, Venezuela, and Cuba.

ATENCIÓN CLIENTES: ESTE VIDEO TIENE RESTRICCIONES, VER SHOTLIST / NO DIFUNDIR EN ESTADOS UNIDOS NO DIFUNDIR EN AUSTRALIA NO ACCESS FROM CUBA / IRAN / SYRIA / NORTH KOREA / SUDAN / CRIMEA / DONETSK AND LUHANSK REGI...

By removing Cuba from the list of nations who support terrorism, Biden has gifted the island’s communist government | Opinion

On NATO, Rubio repeatedly called it a “very important alliance.” He suggested NATO members should pay their fair share and be “capable” of defending themselves, but nowhere in his comments was a suggestion that the U.S. might leave the alliance, as Trump has suggested.