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...Multiple members of US Congress also expressed support for the Cuban protesters, including Marco Rubio, the Republican senator from Florida who is of Cuban descent....
...Fidel’s younger brother Raúl handed over the reins of power last month, weeks before his 90th birthday, and departed the politburo along with the remaining gerontocrats from the 1959 revolution which brought...
...His brother Raúl retired as de facto ruler in April and in June turned 90. It fell to Miguel Díaz-Canel, a party bureaucrat lacking any revolutionary pedigree, to respond....
...“We can already see how the Cuban regime responds when it thinks relief may be on the way,” Mr Rubio wrote in the Miami Herald last month....
...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”....
...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....
...“Venezuela can always count on Cubans being in the front line of militant solidarity,” Raúl Castro, Cuba’s president, said recently....
...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....
...Raúl Castro, who congratulated Mr Trump on his election victory, has said little about future US relations....
...But in tandem with a series of modest economic reforms by Raúl Castro, Obama’s policy helped fuel the single largest growth in the island’s private sector since 1959....
...“The dictator has died, but the dictatorship has not”, said Marco Rubio, US senator for Florida....
...The White House said Mr Obama would meet Raúl Castro during his visit and would also speak with “members of civil society and entrepreneurs”....
...The one candidate who made a stand against the opening to Cuba was Marco Rubio, the Florida senator....
...In April, he held his first proper meeting with Cuba’s President Raúl Castro at a summit in Panama....
...“Cuba is a state sponsor of terrorism,” said Mr Rubio....
...Speaking on Cuban television President Raúl Castro, Fidel’s younger brother, said Cuba and the US had been able to “advance the solutions of some themes of interest”....
...Sir, While individuals as politically different as Raúl Castro and Marco Rubio may think Cuba won some special status following President Barack Obama’s efforts to regularise diplomatic relations between...
...Several leading Cuban-American politicians denounced Mr Obama’s decision, including potential Republican presidential hopefuls Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and Democrat Robert Menendez....
...Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American Republican senator, commented: “What the [US] president has done is give away much of the leverage in exchange for zero.”...
...On Mr Rubio, he said: “He’s got to ride this hardline horse all the way through . . ....
...Raul Labrador, the Tea Party-backed Republican lawmaker sometimes called the “Marco Rubio of the House”, quit that chamber’s bipartisan gang of eight last week, saying he could not support any bill that...
...A sizeable number of Republicans have indicated a willingness to overhaul the system, and Marco Rubio, the Florida senator, is leading an effort to craft a less generous alternative to the president’s reforms...
...The Obama administration has relaxed travel restrictions and remittances to Cuba, just as its communist President, Raúl Castro, seems to be liberalising its economy, although the long-standing embargo remains...
...In Havana, cultural diplomacy between the administrations of Barack Obama and Raúl Castro saw the American Ballet Theatre dance at the Karl Marx Theatre, thrilling a national television audience....
...Raúl Feliz, an economist at Cide, a Mexico City think-tank, says of the trends: “It is a terrible combination.” On the administrative side, the legislation has promise....
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