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Paths for Future US-Cuba Relations

December 3, 2016

Former dictator Fidel Castro is being laid to rest this weekend. His takeover of Cuba and the imposed communist regime led to a five-decade trade and travel embargo with the U.S. The embargo created an icy relationship which has only begun to thaw in the past year after President Barack Obama’s executive action to normalize relations. Now as President-elect Donald Trump prepares for the Oval Office, he may reverse the orders. Cuban Americans, Mike Gonzalez of Heritage Foundation and Miami-based lawyer Pedro Freyre, go head to head on the best policies for future US-Cuba relations and what route future president Trump should take.

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