United States, Cuba to normalize relations

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Grand Vol said:
I'd be happy just to find a nice Cuban woman that looks like Daisy Fuentes and settle down on a nice beach plot in the Caribbean shores...I mean take advantage of her in my evil capitalist ways.
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Yes! If mrs hog messes up I'm on the first thing smoking.
 
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Thread bump with news info.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...eech-set-to-roll-back-obamas-cuba-policy.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-40231074

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/americas/cuba/article155354549.html

President Trump will head to Miami on Friday, home to a large and influential Cuban-American community, to unveil his administration’s new Cuba policy -- which will roll back central parts of his predecessor’s efforts to normalize ties with the Communist island nation, according to a senior administration official and other sources.

While details on the changes to the policy have yet to be fully revealed, a U.S. official suggested that Trump would call for Cuban President Raul Castro to push for more political freedom and to release democratic activists in Cuban prisons, among other initiatives.

Trump is at the same time expected to announce a reversal in some areas of former President Barack Obama's previous steps toward normalizing relations including the opening of embassies between the two countries and the easing of flight restrictions between the U.S. and Cuba.

The final actions have not been set as the review over the specifics of the plan continues. However, there will likely be steps in restricting travel from the U.S. to Cuba; there are now daily flights from Florida to Cuba. Another directive being weighed is taking steps to limit American companies from dealing with businesses owned by the Cuban military, U.S. sources confirm to Fox News.
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Trump implements new travel restrictions to Cuba, bans purchase of rum and tobacco

'Today, we proclaim that America will never be a socialist country,' Trump said

Trump also applied new sanctions against Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua as part of an ongoing crackdown against communism.

The announcement was made during the president's address honoring Bay of Pigs veterans who survived a failed attempt nearly 60 years ago to topple the communist government of the late Fidel Castro in Cuba.

The Bay of Pigs Veterans Association endorsed Trump's presidency in 2016 and Trump thanked the group for officially endorsing him again for his bid of a second term in office.

"The Obama-Biden administration made a weak, pathetic, one-sided deal with the Castro dictatorship that betrayed the Cuban people and enriched the communist regime. I canceled the Obama-Biden sellout to the Castro regime," Trump said during Wednesday's remarks from the White House's East Room.

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Trump's newest sanctions threaten to further cripple Cuba's tourism industry already caving in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic. Cuba's government owns all of the hotels on the island.

Democratic presidential rival Vice President Joe Biden has said he would consider reversing course if he becomes president and reattempting diplomatic advancements with current Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel.

During his brief remarks that also touched on honoring Hispanic Heritage Month, Trump alluded to parallels between ongoing Black Lives Matter and social justice protests in the U.S. and communist tyranny in Cuba.

Trump implements new travel restrictions to Cuba, bans purchase of rum and tobacco
 
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The End for Cuba's 60-year Castro dynasty: Fidel Castro's brother Raul, 89, prepares to hand power to President Miguel Diaz-Canel ending family's grip on Communist country's leadership

Cuba's leadership is passing to a younger generation, with the final Castro leaving office and ending a 60-year family monopoly - but there is little other change as power remains firmly with the Communist Party.

At a four-day party congress starting on Friday, 89-year-old Raul Castro will relinquish the country's most powerful position - that of party first secretary - to 60-year-old Miguel Diaz-Canel, Cuba's president.

It officially ends six decades of the Castros dominating Cuban politics - first by Fidel, who ruled for nearly half a century from 1959 to 2006 and is widely revered as the country's father and saviour, and subsequently his brother Raul.

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Fidel Castro's brother Raul, 89, relinquishes Cuban presidency to Miguel Diaz-Canel, 60 | Daily Mail Online
 
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