Obama Calls for Updated US Policy on Cuba

U.S. President Barack Obama says it is time for the United States to revise its policies regarding Cuba. Speaking in Miami Friday, Obama said it doesn't 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 Obama was born. The United States cut off diplomatic relations with Cuba that same year and imposed an economic embargo a...

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