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The French bank BNP Paribas will pay nearly $9 billion in penalties for violating U.S. sanctions against Iran, Sudan, and Cuba. There is no doubt that the bank’s actions were illegal.…
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On Monday the Supreme Court struck down a key part of the Affordable Care Act, ruling that privately-owned corporations don’t have to offer their employees contraceptive coverage that…
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Within the Cuban community, the rising--U.S. born Cuban Americans, younger Cubans, recent arrivals--are precisely those most likely to oppose the embargo.
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The Central American children who flee from their countries has transformed the U.S.'s southern border into a window that displays the reality of human rights in that country -…
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Cabanas acknowledged that political circumstances, including the influence of a Florida Cuban community strongly critical of Havana’s human rights record, don’t suggest the likelihood…
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In Havana to visit her husband, Judy Gross again urged Washington to do whatever is necessary to secure his release after more than four years behind bars.
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Comedian Russell Brand condemned Fox News as a “fanatical terrorist propaganda organization” during a 10-minute tirade on video this week. “Don’t think of a bomb as going down there and…
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We should ask Clinton and Obama if they understand that the problem is not one of domestic policy but of foreign policy, and that there is no possible solution unless they begin to…
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The White House on Friday (June 20) admitted that President Obama asked Uruguayan President José Mujica to deliver to Cuban President Raúl Castro a bid for the release of Alan Gross.
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U.S. contractor Alan Gross' mother has died at age 92 in Texas, because of lung cancer.
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