cuban americans

Castrodaemmerung

October 10, 2010

Walter Russell Mead’s interesting take on recent events in Havana and the regime’s strategy to perpetuate itself in power: But the Castro brothers may be doing something bigger than trying to fire up the fifty year old American policy debate on Cuba.  Just possibly, they are signaling their intentions for the next stage of what they hope [...]

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Cuba politics: Freedom calls

July 14, 2010

From the Economist Intelligence Unit: No democratisation If the prisoners — who include journalists, community organisers and opposition figures — are indeed set free, this would be a major concession on the part of the Castro government. It appears to be designed for external consumption, however. It could lead to improvements in Cuba’s foreign relations, [...]

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Paying a price for moderating embargo?

September 9, 2009

“The New Israel Lobby“ article in today’s The New York Times Magazine discusses J Street, a year-old lobbying group with progressive views on Israel and points out to Cuban-Americans’ circumstance: There’s a curious and striking analogy with the situation of Cuban-Americans, whose politics until quite recently were dominated by the generation that fled Castro’s revolution and [...]

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Cuba Sanctions Likely to Ease

November 7, 2008

Via Wall Street Journal: As Candidate, Obama Said He Would Lift Restrictions on Family Visits, Remittances The election of Barack Obama opens the door for the U.S. to relax sanctions against Cuba for the first time in more than a decade. Mr. Obama, in a May campaign speech in Miami, went where presidential candidates have [...]

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