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Pair of Democrat lawmakers slam 'blockade of fuel' to Cuba, 'economic bombing' after visit to island

Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Jonathan Jackson, D-Ill., said after a congressional delegation returned from Cuba that U.S. economic restrictions on the island represented an "illegal U.S. blockade of fuel" and "effectively an economic bombing of the infrastructure of the country."The lawmakers, following their five-day delegation to Cuba, spoke out against what they described as a humanitarian crisis on the island that they argue is linked to the U.S. embargo. "The illegal U.S. blockade of fuel to Cuba—90 miles south of the United States—adds to the longest embargo in world history and i...