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The detention facility at Guantanamo Bay will go out of business by the year’s end. So what’s the point of the facility after that? The Cold War and the era of Fidel Castro are finished, and the Obama administration has been slowly signaling that a new relationship is possible through acts like ending the ban [...]

My friend Bettina Inclan passed on a link to this video, and I clicked on it, expecting Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-Fla.) to rant angrily about Cuba policy, like he does every single time he comes to the floor. And behold! (Watch after the jump.)

Following up on Spencer’s post, Human Rights Watch isn’t the only voice expressing concerns that the Obama administration’s new Cuba travel policy doesn’t go far enough. Here’s the statement moments ago from Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D), a long-time sponsor of legislation to lift the ban on Americans traveling to Cuba.
[M]ore needs to be done. We [...]

Aaron hit this earlier, but the Obama administration has lifted the ban on Cuban families in the United States visiting their Cuban relatives. Human Rights Watch welcomes the move but says in a release that the administration should have gone further:
Congress should promptly extend to all Americans the right to travel to Cuba, Human Rights [...]

President Obama will announce today that the United States will lift its long-standing ban on travel by Cuban-Americans to their homeland, according to The Washington Post.
The Post also reports that Obama will “relax the rules governing what items can be sent to the island,” which presumably means eliminating the cap on remittances that Cuban-Americans can [...]

Former Cuban President Fidel Castro has not made a public appearance in more than two years, and conspiracy theorists have been speculating for some time that he may no longer be alive.
Well, if his Sunday column in the Cuban state newspaper, Granma, is any indication, his heart is still beating — and his brain is [...]

As Cuba celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its revolution on New Year’s Day, political shifts in the United States present Barack Obama with an opportunity to change long-standing policies.