American Lawmakers, Others Split on US-Cuba Moves

U.S. President Barack Obama’s move to normalize U.S. relations with Cuba drew sharp and sharply differing reactions across America’s political spectrum, among Cuban exiles in Florida and from the international community. While the return of imprisoned American contractor Alan Gross to U.S. soil was universally welcomed, reaction to a thaw in relations between Washington and Havana was decidedly mixed. Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, one of three lawmakers who flew to Cuba to bring...

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