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Obama to Reverse Cuba Travel Policy Today

By | 04.13.09 | 1:07 pm

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 More…

Obama Suggests Cuba Policy Reform

By | 12.31.08 | 9:25 am

As the world ushers in the new year, Cuba will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power and sparked an intense political conflict with the United States that has far outlived the Cold War.

President-elect Barack Obama had not yet been born when More…