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US Missing Out On Cuban Business Opportunities (VIDEO)

WorldFocus | Peter Eisner | Posted 04.11.2009 | World

Read More: Video, Cuba Embargo, US-Cuba Relations, Cuban Embargo, Trade-Embargo, Worldfocus, US-Cuba Policy, Cuba, Cuba-Us, World News

For 47 years, the United States has imposed a trade embargo against communist Cuba. And in recent years, former President Bush made it harder to tra...

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Cuban American Leadership Out of Sync

Hani Almadhoun | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Leadership, Florida, US-Cuba Relations, Israel-Palestine, Cuba, World News

Conservative Cuban-American politicians are both vocal supporters of Israel and advocates for continued sanctions against Cuba. The inconsistency of their political stance is obvious.

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Cuba Shake-Up Raises Questions About US Relations

AP | WILL WEISSERT | Posted 04.03.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Cuba, President Obama, Fidel Castro, US-Cuba Relations, Cuba Leadership Shakeup, Raul Castro, Cuba, US-Cuba Policy, Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque, World News

HAVANA — Fidel Castro said Tuesday that two of his closest lieutenants had become seduced by "the honey of power," and hinted that they were dem...

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U.S. Congress Set To Open Cuban Exiles' Passage Back Home

Miami Herald | LESLEY CLARK AND FRANCES ROBLES | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba Travel Restrictions, US-Cuba Relations, Cuban-Americans, Cuban Exiles, US Congress, US-Cuba Policy, Travel to Cuba, Cuba, World News

The 1,128-page budget bill that will begin to work its way through Congress this week contains key paragraphs that alter the shape of U.S.-Cuba policy...

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A Year of Raul

David Paul Appell | Posted 03.27.2009 | World

Read More: Raul Castro, Obama Cuba, Castro, US-Cuba Relations, Cuba Embargo, Cuba, Raul Castro Cuban President, World News

We need to finally get smart and deal with Havana like grown-ups instead of impetuous brats -- continuing the status quo has given us absolutely zero leverage.

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Lugar Calls for a "Return to Realism" on Cuba

Steve Clemons | Posted 03.24.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba Embargo, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, US-Cuba Relations, National Interest, US Foreign Policy, Raul Castro, Hillary Clinton, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Carl Meacham, Realism, Richard Luar, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, World News

For US-Cuba policy junkies, Lugar's report is pretty breathtaking in its indictment of decades of American failure in trying to adjust Cuba's national government's behavior via sanctions and an embargo.

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Raul Castro Warns World Leaders Against Softening Toward Washington

AFP | Posted 02.02.2009 | World

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President Raul Castro has warned that the US "enemy will never stop being aggressive, dominant and treacherous" on the 50th anniversary of Cuba's Comm...

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Cheap Grace

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 01.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cuba, Embargo, Foreign Policy, Barack Obama 2008, Obama Cuba, US-Cuba Relations, Barack Obama Embargo, Foreign Affairs, Cuban Embargo, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, Cuban Americans, US-Cuba Policy, Barack Obama, Politics News

In area after area for Obama, much goodwill can be garnered simply by embracing common sense. Call it cheap grace. A good place to start would be with changing our preposterous policy towards Cuba.

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Cuban Economy Not Self-Sufficient 50 Years After Revolution

miamiherald.com | By MIMI WHITEFIELD | Posted 01.24.2009 | World

Read More: Cuba Oil, Cuba Sugar, Cuba Embargo, US-Cuba Relations, Latin America, Cuba Socialism, Cuba 50 Years Revolution, Cuban Revolution, Cuban Economy, Raul Castro, Cuba Economy Castro, Fidel Castro, Cuba, World News

Three weeks after Cuban revolutionaries claimed victory, Fidel Castro declared that the island wanted not only political freedom but also freedom from...

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Beating the Drum on Cuba Policy

Jake Colvin | Posted 01.09.2009 | World

Read More: Raul Castro, Obama Cuba, Cuba, Cuba Embargo, US-Cuba Relations, Havana, US-Cuba Policy, Foreign Policy, World News

Next January will mark the first time in eight years where there is a chance that the next U.S. President could loosen restrictions on Cuba. A number of groups are watching closely.

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Photo Essay -- Joe The Plumber At Midnight In Miami

Stephen Elliott | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Miami, McCain Campaign, Hugo Chavez, John McCain, US-Cuba Relations, Cuban Americans, Joe the Plumber, Red, Politics News

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Senator McCain: One More Such 'Victory' and We're Ruined

Eric Margolis | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

McCain's insistent claims that the US is winning the war in Iraq thanks to his "surge" strategy is the military-political equivalent of the junk securities that Wall Street's shady financiers have been peddling.

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McCain and the Cuba Libre

Robert L. Borosage | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Mccain, Cuba, Election 2008, Foreign Policy, McCain Cuban Embargo, US-Cuba Relations, Fidel Castro, McCain Cuba, Cuban Embargo, Raul Castro, Politics News

John McCain seems intent on embracing every failed policy of the Bush administration. Iraq, check; top end tax cuts, check. Privatization of Social Security, check. Unraveling employer based health care, check. And this weekend, McCain boldly informed the remnants of the Miami Cuban expatriots that he will sustain the most egregiously failed US policy of them all -- the Cuban embargo.

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