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Obama Promise Unfulfilled on Cuba

The Nobel Peace Prize winner is practicing Cuban politics as usual: The Brookings Institution’s Ted Piccone on how Obama’s new course of multilateral engagement isn’t changing anything between Washington and Havana.

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For the 18th year in a row, the United Nations General Assembly is unequivocally calling for the end of “the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.”

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