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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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Critics of the law, joined by the hard-line Cuban-American congressional delegation, say it is being abused by recent waves of Cuban arrivals who regularly travel back and forth between…
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"On December 17 we saw the beginning of the end of the blockade. While in Cuba, I used a metaphor for a future foretold and said that all that's left of the blockade is a shell of its…
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Democratic Sen. Richard Durbin said Friday that he is working on legislation to ease the U.S. embargo on agricultural and telecommunications exports to Cuba as a step toward normalizing…
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Statements on Cuba during the Question & Answer segment from the official State Dept. transcript.
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Mexico and Canada can help the United States reestablish relations with Cuba, said Secretary of State John Kerry in Boston on Saturday, after meeting with the foreign ministers of the…
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