Obama: US Needs to Update Policy on Cuba

U.S. President Barack Obama says it is time for the United States to revise its policies against Cuba. Mr. Obama, speaking in Miami Friday, said it did not make sense that policies put in place more than 50 years ago would still be effective in the Internet age. The president pointed out that Cuban leader Fidel Castro came into power in 1961, the same year that Mr. Obama was born. The United States cut off diplomatic relations with Cuba the same year and imposed an economic embargo a year...

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