Tag: Cuba

Or how this became a Gitmo world.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin claimed the ban is in retaliation for Cuba “providing a communist foothold in the region and propping up U.S. adversaries in places like Venezuela and Nicaragua.”

The Cuban people, and the rights of Americans, should not be held hostage to brazen partisan politics.

The two nations to vote against it were the U.S. and its ally, Israel, while Ukraine and Moldova simply did not vote.

National security adviser John Bolton declared Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua to be part of a “troika of tyranny” and a “triangle of terror.”

The Russians are emphatically back where the withering of American influence will encourage whatever mischief they mean to create not only in Cuba itself, but in the U.S. and throughout Latin America.

Even Trump supporters agree we can learn something from the country’s universal, low-cost health care system. It’s that good.

It’s unlikely the administration has either the will or the means to roll back the full suite of Obama-era reforms.

Putting Trump in perspective by going offshore.

The incoming Trump administration is leaning toward confrontation and not accommodation in its dealings with Havana.