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Poll of 4 heartland states show strong support for restoring ties with Cuba

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A new poll finds a majority of voters in Iowa, Indiana, Ohio and Tennessee think  restoring relations and relaxing the travel ban with Cuba is the right thing to do. The poll of four heartland states was conducted by The Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center in partnership with Engage Cuba. It shows that although 70 percent of voters think the United States is on the wrong track, 58 percent of those same voters are for President Barack Obama’s new policies on U.S.-Cuba relations. “For…

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Marco Rubio warns Obama to not abstain on anti-embargo resolution at the U.N.

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The United Nations General Assembly is scheduled to vote sometime next month on demanding an end to the U.S. economic embargo against Cuba. It’s essentially a symbolic vote, as it’s done nothing to end the now 54-year-old sanctions against the Communist island. Last year the body voted 188-2 to end the embargo. Only Israel joined the U.S. in opposing the measure. However, there is a strong possibility that the United States may do the unprecedented maneuver of abstaining from their own resolution…

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Today on Context Florida: Joe Biden tours Florida, two Marco Rubios and Donald Trump, demagogue

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Today on Context Florida: Vice President Joe Biden visited Florida this week supposedly to do what Bob Sparks says vice presidents do. He came to raise money for Democrats and talk about a college-readiness policy initiative on behalf of President Obama. Free community college is not why the media showed up. With the vice president in town, it’s all about the potential contest between the sitting vice president taking on the former secretary of state and the rest of the field.…

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U.S. culture already widespread in Cuba as ties resume

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Even Cubans who don’t speak a word of English eat “un cake” on their birthdays. They wear “los tennis” and “bloomers.” Their kids go crazy for Taylor Swift and “The Big Bang Theory.” U.S. science fiction master Ray Bradbury has pride of place on their bookshelves beside revolutionary poet Jose Marti. Far beyond the antique Chevys on its streets and the memorials to Ernest Hemingway, Cuba is a country whose language, music, literature and fashion are steeped in American influence…

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Ted Cruz book says his dad asked to fight alongside Fidel Castro

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Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz‘s father was a 1950s Cuban revolutionary who longed to slip into the island’s eastern mountains and join Fidel Castro‘s guerrilla army. At 17, Rafael Cruz led a group of insurgents staging urban sabotage against Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Cruz was eventually jailed and tortured, and upon his release wanted the underground to help him personally reach Castro’s camp in the Sierra Maestra highlands. “My dad asked if he could join Castro in the mountains and…

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Marco Rubio co-sponsors legislation that would require Cuba to address legal claims with the U.S.

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Claiming that there are between $7-8 billion in outstanding claims by American citizens and businesses for properties confiscated by Fidel and Raul Castro in Cuba that are currently unsettled, Marco Rubio and Louisiana Republican U.S. Sen. David Vitter introduced legislation today that would require the Communist government to address such claims before re-establishing full diplomatic relations with the United States. “Many families and entities in the U.S. and around the world deserve just compensation for the properties the Castro regime seized from them…

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Cuba fights public anger with reform in country’s tense east

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Two and a half years after Hurricane Sandy trashed Cuba’s second-largest city, 35-year-old Melba Martinez is still out of work and struggling to feed two children on her state ration book and a daily hustle for extra rice or cooking oil. “There’s no work, no money,” Martinez said, her voice rising in fury. “How are you going to buy a pair of shoes that cost $20? If you buy them, you don’t eat. If you eat, you go barefoot.” Down…

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