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Alan Gross made news on Capitol Hill today, only no one seems to have taken notice. He submitted written remarks to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs for its hearing titled…
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Some worried House Republicans have scheduled a hearing today on the Obama administration's "sudden shift on Cuba policy." They have it almost exactly backward: The change in policy has…
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Roberta Jacobson, the top U.S. diplomat for Latin America, told a hostile House Foreign Affairs Committee in Washington, DC, on Wednesday that the Obama administration had ruled out…
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Excerpts from testimony by Roberta S. Jacobson, Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday.
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The U.S. still expects Cuba to raise salaries on the island, as if the U.S. had nothing to do with Cuba’s income. And, while it helps to reduce union membership in the U.S., it demands…
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Two days before President Obama ended a half-century of diplomatic estrangement with Cuba, his national security adviser, Susan E. Rice, asked Senator Jeff Flake of Arizona to be the…
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On the black-and-white board where Cuba and the U.S. have been moving their pieces since Dec. 17 there are some gray squares that might remove the pressure from the game. I say "might"…
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When it comes to poking a finger in the eye of Barack Obama, John Boehner and Benjamin Netanyahu couldn't be more on the same page.
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The people who have spent decades arranging flights between the United States and Cuba compare the history of their industry to a roller coaster. The half-dozen or so charter companies…
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His story reads like a script from the old spy spoof “Get Smart”
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