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New poll: Majority U.S. support for change in Cuba policy
A new poll has a large number of Americans supporting President Obama’s decision to establish diplomatic ties with Cuba, but an even larger number in favor of ending the trade and…
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‘El Exilio’s’ lament
The change in U.S. policy toward Cuba has rattled one sector of the Cuban American community--hard-line exiles who consider themselves the real or "historical exiles"--to their very…
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Waiting for another ‘gringo’ invasion
The number of visitors from the United States in the past 12 months ranges from 400,000 to half a million. The number that the experts predict for the future is impressive: from 1…
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Rand Paul: Cuba isolationists just don’t get it
I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn’t worked.
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My parents are Cuban exiles. Here’s what Obama’s decision means to us.
Which will it be? Can I hope that one day soon my parents will agree to visit Cuba with me so I can see it through their eyes? I fervently hope so.
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Cuban Parliament: New rules of the game
After a weeklong debate, the final session of the 2014 Cuban Parliament ended with the approval of three major issues: the start of the normalization of relations between Cuba and the…
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Cuba’s gay rights evolution
Mariela Castro, the daughter of the current president, Raúl Castro, has led the charge on legislative and societal changes that have given rise to an increasingly visible and empowered…
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Castro reacts to Obama’s move
In his address Saturday to the National Assembly of the People's Power, Cuban President Raúl Castro Ruz made his first public comments to President Barack Obama's decision to…
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Obama intends to lift several restrictions against Cuba on his own
It would also go to Congress, which could not block the move except by separate legislation that would have to be signed by the president.
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It’s not Cuba that has just decided to rejoin the modern world – it’s the US
Is this the beginning of the end of the road for the sometimes semi-official US belief that Cuba is really Washington’s?
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