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Time to Make Nice with Cuba?

If Obama embraces his popularity in Cuba and abandons the embargo, the Castros will lose an enemy, the region will embrace us—and it will ruin the place.

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Fifty years ago, Fidel Castro staged his triumphal New Year’s entry into Havana, Cuba, with a band of bearded guerrillas toting cigars and machine-guns. Not long after, relations between Cuba and the United States began to deteriorate.

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