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Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 21, 2009; A03 Restrictive U.S. policies toward Cuba are ineffective, have failed to achieve their stated purpose of promoting democracy and should be reevaluated to take advantage of recent political changes on the island, according to the senior ...
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Lugar Calls for a "Return to Realism" on Cuba
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Is Raul Castro the change we have been waiting for?
Power Line —
... Richard Lugar (once Richard Nixon's "favorite mayor") has denounced restrictive U.S. policies towards Cuba and called for a re-evaluation of these policies to take advantage of political changes in Cuba. Lugar made this argument in an appendix to a report by Republican staffers on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Lugar is the senior Republican member of that committee. ...
Lugar Libre
Weekly Standard Blog —
The Washington Post reported on Saturday:
Restrictive U.S. policies toward Cuba are ineffective, have failed to achieve their stated purpose of promoting democracy and should be reevaluated to take advantage of recent political changes on the island, according to the senior Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The views of Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) are appended to a report by minority committee staffers that calls for lifting Bush administration restrictions on travel and remittances to Cuba, ...
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