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Is Rubio backing off Cuba regime change for his own political good?

Trump wants to make a deal, plus the secretary may not want to be face of crisis if the government there collapses

Trump will be sore when Cuba domino refuses to fall
Latin America

Trump will be sore when Cuba domino refuses to fall

But he shouldn't be surprised. American presidents have been predicting collapse there since 1959.

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Latin America

Today marks 60 years of the Cuban embargo. What exactly is it?

Fidel Castro once called it 'a tangled ball of yarn,' and after six decades, Washington's keystone regime change policy still hasn't worked.

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Washington Politics

The dark side of Eisenhower's foreign policy

While he warned about the military industrial complex, he was less restrained when it came to covert interventions, some which reverberate today.

Cuba-scaled
Latin America

Human rights won't happen in a vacuum in Cuba

Normalizing relations with the island would go a long way towards promoting one of the president's "core pillars" of US foreign policy.