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Cuban embargo stories: 21 news summaries

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(Newser) - Taking advantage of loosened US rules, Cuban-Americans are flocking back to Havana and sparking a mini economic boom, the Guardian reports. Expatriates are bringing everything from Victoria's Secret bras to M&Ms to toothbrushes—and, of course, American dollars—for their Cuban families. "Capitalism à la carte," said... More »

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Barack Obama • Cuba • Cuban embargo • expatriates

Fidel: Raul's Overture Was 'Misinterpreted'

Ex-prez puts a chill
on warming relations between US, Cuba

Apr 22, 09 7:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - What President Obama took to be a historic overture from Cuba was actually just a misunderstanding, according to Fidel Castro. The former president—apparently enraged by suggestions that Cuba make concessions in return for improved US-Cuban relations—wrote in his online column that Obama "misinterpreted" his brother Raul's statement... More »

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diplomacy • Fidel Castro • Cuba • Raul Castro • Cuban embargo • President Obama

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 Summers: End 
 of Cuban Embargo 
 'Way Down Road' 

Economic adviser says Obama acting out of 'morality'

Apr 19, 09 9:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US trade embargo against Cuba won’t be ending anytime soon, President Obama’s economic adviser insisted today. “That’s way down the road, and it’s going to depend on what Cuba does going forward,” Lawrence Summers told NBC’s Meet the Press, saying Obama’s... More »

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CIA • Cuba • Michael Hayden • Cuban embargo • Janet Napolitano • Lawrence Summers

OPINION

Kinsley: Cuba Policy Hasn't Just Failed—It's Backfired

If we can be sure of anything, this is it

Apr 17, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - It's time—actually it's way overdue—for America to admit that its Cuba policy simply hasn't worked, writes Michael Kinsley in the Washington Post. The US has been "unrelentingly hostile" to Havana, but to what end? Communism has collapsed just about everywhere else, but here it survives "unreformed... More »

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communism • Fidel Castro • Cuba • Raul Castro • Cuban embargo

 Artsy Americans Offer 
 Preview of Cuba Thaw 

Travel to Cuba shows signs of loosening

Apr 12, 09 7:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - American tourists are flooding into Cuba as the freeze between the countries shows signs of thawing, reports the Los Angeles Times. For the recent Cuban Biennale art show, young Americans arrived to enjoy the culture and nightlife, defying the longstanding travel ban. With a bill to lift restrictions pending in... More »

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Barack Obama • tourism • art • Cuba • Cuban embargo • US Senate • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - President Obama is close to letting Cuban-Americans travel freely to Cuba and send unlimited funds to families there, the Wall Street Journal reports. Amid growing pressure from Democrats in Congress, Obama plans to fulfill a campaign promise and loosen current restrictions, which allow Cuban-Americans to visit family once a year... More »

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Barack Obama • Cuba • Cuban embargo • Cuban Americans

Lugar to Obama: Reach Out and Touch Cuba

Senator slams embargo, calls for policy shift, new envoy

Apr 2, 09 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - As members of Congress move to rethink US-Cuban relations, Sen. Richard Lugar is urging President Obama to take firm action, including initiating direct talks, the Washington Post reports. The Indiana Republican says the US embargo on the country “undermines our broader security and political interests in the Western Hemisphere,... More »

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diplomacy • Cuba • Richard Lugar • Cuban embargo • Organization of American States • President Obama • letter • special envoy

Congress Ready to End
Cuba Travel Ban: Senators

Lawmakers believe time has come for bipartisan bill to end 50-year-old travel ban

Apr 1, 09 5:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - A bipartisan group of senators has introduced a bill that would allow Americans to travel freely to Cuba for the first time in nearly 50 years, the Miami Herald reports. Previous efforts have been shot down by conservatives and anti-Castro Cuban-Americans, but the lawmakers say momentum is on their side... More »

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Senate • Cuba • travel ban • Cuban embargo • Cuban Americans

 Senate Eyes Lifting 
 All Travel Bans to Cuba 

But Cuban-American senator fights colleagues to block it

Mar 30, 09 10:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - A bipartisan group of senators is set to introduce a new bill on US-Cuban relations tomorrow that would remove all legal barriers to traveling to the island, reports the Washington Post. The bill goes far beyond earlier efforts to relax travel restrictions and enjoys support from committee leaders, top Republicans,... More »

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Senate • Fidel Castro • Cuba • Raul Castro • Cuban embargo • Cuban Americans • Robert Menendez • Byron Dorgan

Obama to Announce New Cuba Travel Rules in Spring

Administration plans to allow more citizens to visit Communist island

Mar 25, 09 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama will travel to Key West this spring to announce the softening of travel restrictions to Cuba, the Washington Times reports. New rules will tweak the decades-long embargo to allow more US citizens to visit. Currently, only individuals such as journalists or researchers with specific business can travel to... More »

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Barack Obama • Cuba • Key West • Cuban embargo • Obama administration • President Obama • travel restrictions

(Newser) - A bill pending in the US House includes a provision relaxing travel restrictions on Cuban-Americans who wish to visit Cuba by slicing out funding for enforcement of a 2004 law, the Miami Herald reports. The bill, which will likely see a vote today, allows annual visits rather than one... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Congress • Senate • Cuba • House of Representatives • Cuban embargo • Obama administration • President Obama • travel restrictions • budget bill

ANALYSIS

A Year In, Raúl's Cuba In Midst of New Revolution

Fidel's younger brother raises country's global profile, begins reform

Feb 24, 09 6:27 AM CST
(Newser) - Today marks the first anniversary of Raúl Castro's rise to the top of Cuban politics, and as the Miami Herald reports, he has lots to celebrate. Latin America's continuing leftward shift has seen regional leaders cozy up to Fidel's brother, and Russia has used Cuba to expand its presence... More »

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Latin America • Fidel Castro • Cuba • Raul Castro • Cuban embargo • Havana

(Newser) - The Cuban embargo has failed to encourage democracy there, and the president-elect should do something about it, writes Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post. It's time to “bring five decades of counterproductive American policy toward Cuba to a definitive end.” While engagement with other Communist regimes has... More »

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democracy • US foreign policy • Fidel Castro • Cuba • Raul Castro • Communism • Cuban embargo • President Obama

Castro Offers Prisoner
Swap, Talks With US

Raul promises to free dissidents in exchange for Cuban 5

Dec 18, 08 5:45 PM CST
(Newser) - In another sign of a potential thaw in US-Cuban relations, Raul Castro offered today to release five political dissidents if the US frees five Cubans jailed on spy charges. Castro says the prisoner swap could precede talks between himself and Barack Obama, Reuters reports. “Give us back our five... More »

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Barack Obama • Cuba • Raul Castro • political prisoner • Cuban dissidents • Cuban exiles • Cuban embargo • prisoner exchange • President Obama

Hurricanes Prompt Calls to Soften Restrictions on Cuba

Some see aid now as a path toward increased influence, cooperation

Sep 24, 08 10:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - The devastation Hurricanes Gustav and Ike wrought on Cuba has prompted the US to offer direct aid for the first time in the 47-year history of its embargo on the island, but even ardent anti-Castro Cuban Americans are pushing for more, the Washington Post reports. While not all favor... More »

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Fidel Castro • Cuba • United States • Raul Castro • Cuban embargo • emergency aid • Hurricane Gustav • Hurricane Ike • disaster diplomacy

analysis

Minn. Gov. Vetos
Cuba Resolution
He Supported

Is Pawlenty suddenly backing embargo to boost VP odds?

Jun 11, 08 5:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some Minnesota lawmakers are scratching their heads over their governor’s unusual veto of a resolution backing renewed trade relations with Cuba, but Matt Snyders writes in City Pages that Tim Pawlenty’s move may be a play to buddy up to John McCain. Pawlenty's been mentioned as a... More »

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John McCain • Minnesota • vice president • Tim Pawlenty • Cuban embargo

analysis

Miami Cubans
Toe Softer Line
on Embargo

'Waving the bloody shirt of anti-Castro politics' may be out of date

May 23, 08 9:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - In his speech in Miami this week, John McCain talked the familiar macho talk on Cuba, taking a hard line on the embargo and ridiculing Barack Obama for suggesting that he might open a dialogue with Raul Castro. That may still play with older exiles, Time notes, but a growing... More »

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Florida • Barack Obama • John McCain • Fidel Castro • Cuba • Raul Castro • foreign policy • Cuban embargo • Cuban Americans

OPINION

US Should
Have Hugged Castro to Death

Dictator relied on
angry giant to the north to keep people afraid

Feb 19, 08 12:23 PM CST
(Newser) - Fidel Castro has left power, but his legacy endures because the US never did what it took to eliminate his regime: embrace it. Fidel survived for decades because his people were afraid of the angry superpower to the north, writes Newsweek’s Christopher Dickey. Had America embraced him, the Cuban... More »

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Iran • Syria • Fidel Castro • Cuba • Soviet Union • Cuban embargo • isolation

Huckabee Flip-Flops on Cuba Embargo

Candidate tells exiles he'd strengthen ban he once sought to scrap

Dec 11, 07 9:49 AM CST
(Newser) - Mike Huckabee vowed yesterday that he'll strengthen the embargo against Cuba—an about-face from a 2002 letter he wrote President Bush seeking to lift the ban for economic reasons, reports the Los Angeles Times. The change, presented in Miami to a Cuban audience, is just part of the candidate's recent... More »

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Florida • immigration • Fred Thompson • Fidel Castro • Cuba • Miami • Mike Huckabee • Cuban exiles • Cuban embargo

US Official: Embargo Kept Cuba From Meddling

Policy starved Castro's military of funds

Sep 20, 07 6:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - The decades-old US trade embargo against Cuba has been "an absolute and resounding success," the Cuban-born US commerce secretary said today. Carlos Gutierrez told a Latin America conference that the policy has stopped the island's communist government from orchestrating military attacks. But the embargo, in place since 1962,... More »

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Fidel Castro • Cuba • embargo • dictatorship • Raul Castro • Carlos Gutierrez • Cuban embargo

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