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...“While he was talking with [Chinese leader] Xi Jinping, something very different was happening on the ground,” said Renato Cruz De Castro, an international relations professor at De La Salle University in...
...Monday Philippines, newly elected president Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr delivers his first State of the Nation address. He has promised to “sweat” on Filipinos’ behalf....
...Trump, the master salesman with a preternatural ability to locate human weakness, has already carved up formidable-seeming challengers like “Lyin’ ” Ted Cruz, “Little” Marco Rubio and “Low Energy” Jeb Bush...
...It should be a historic opportunity for detente: for the first time in over 60 years, Cuba is no longer run by a Castro....
...“We have NEVER seen a day like today in #Cuba,” tweeted Cuban-American Florida senator Marco Rubio, “62 years of misery, repression and lies boiling over into organic, grassroots protests in over 32 cities...
...In April, Raúl Castro stepped down as head of the communist party at the age of 89, the first time since the 1959 revolution, led by his brother Fidel, that a Castro had not been in charge....
...(The Cubans’ poster boy is US senator Marco Rubio, the Miami-raised son of Cuban immigrants who rose up through the city’s Republican networks.)...
...“More innocent Cubans will pay the price if we return to a one-sided Cuba policy — and throw a lifeline to Raúl Castro’s dictatorial regime.”...
...Marcelo Castro, a portfolio manager at Brazilian hedge fund SPX Capital, believes a slow deterioration in Brazil is more likely than a sudden crisis....
...He allied with a potent Republican machine, built during the Ronald Reagan years and led by Senator Marco Rubio, who once opposed him....
...Castro believes that a revival of Rio’s fortunes can be driven by fossil fuels — oil and gas are the state’s “main vocation”, he says....
...For Marcos Toledo, the notion of a “moonshot” should be interpreted differently in Brazil....
...I knew Fidel Castro, Gandhi, all the great ones of the world, wealth, work, happiness, love, everything, recognition too. I do not regret anything.”...
...Even communist Cuba will get a new president when Raúl Castro steps down on April 19, the first time in 60 years that a Castro brother has not held the post....
...“Venezuela can always count on Cubans being in the front line of militant solidarity,” Raúl Castro, Cuba’s president, said recently....
...Cuba, where Raúl Castro is expected to step down as president next year, has responded to Mr Trump’s frostier approach by claiming that it is “open for business”....
...Marco Rubio, the Cuban-American Republican senator from Florida and hardliner on Cuba policy, tweeted that “the decision to expel 2/3 of Castro regime employees from embassy in D.C. was the right decision...
...In the cross-hairs of the new policy is GAESA, a conglomerate owned by Cuba’s armed forces and run by President Raúl Castro’s former son-in-law, General Luis Alberto Rodríguez....
...She was replaced in May by Paulo Rabello de Castro, from the state statistics agency IBGE....
...Mr Trump, who owes little to Cuban-American lawmakers such as Florida Senator Marco Rubio, an opponent in the Republican primaries, has given little indication as to which way he may go....
...Florida senator Marco Rubio, Miami congressman Mario Diaz Balart and other Cuban-American hardliners have said US policy should go back to shutting off commercial, economic, diplomatic and travel relations...
...However, others were swift to highlight Castro’s poor human rights record and disdain for democacy. “The dictator has died, but the dictatorship has not”, said Marco Rubio, US senator for Florida....
...Fidel Castro always made clear his wariness about US rapprochement....
...“With this anti-establishment sentiment, the big winner is Doria,” said João Augusto de Castro Neves, analyst with Eurasia Group, a consultancy....
...Mr Gutierrez said the result of this month’s election, which saw influential Cuban-American legislators, such as Marco Rubio, re-elected, meant that resistance to lifting an embargo was likely to only grow...
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