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Arizona's Stormy Senate Race: Why the National GOP Is Watching
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyWhen Rep. Jeff Flake, a pro-immigration-reform Arizona Republican, said earlier this week he would run for the U.S. Senate in 2012, he immediately set off a chain of political storms inside and outside his own party, both in his state and in Washington. His campaign is no home-state affair. It could be a barometer of GOP unity nationwide, illustrating how the party would navigate the divisions between its two major wings -- its hard-line tea party advocates and its traditional conservatives. Arizona already has been a player at the national presidential level, and Flake's candidacy may be ...
Obama Lifts Some Cuba Travel Restrictions
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyNEW YORK – The Obama administration has ended some restrictions on Americans' travel to Cuba, but let the nearly 50-year-old embargo stand. The White House said Friday that the changes would allow travel to Cuba by academic, religious and cultural groups. But restrictions remain in place on tourist travel to the island. The president also expanded the number of airports that can serve the Cuban market. Most travel to Cuba from the United States originates in Miami and New York. The administration had been expected to make the changes months ago but did not want to announce them before ...
Ten Reasons to Lift the Cuba Embargo
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyBack when I worked as a producer for Chicago Public Radio in the early part of the decade, we would periodically revisit the question of whether to do a show on Cuba. Every year, the same anniversaries would roll around -- Fidel Castro's 1959 overthrow of the U.S.-backed Batista government, President Kennedy's failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion -- and every year we'd invariably conclude that things really weren't changing enough to warrant an update. What a difference a few years makes. As my colleague Luisita Lopez Torregrosa reported back in May, the Obama administration has been working ...
Americans Who Can Travel to Cuba Right Now
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Aug. 17) -- If all goes according to plan, the Obama administration will make it slightly easier for Americans to travel to Cuba in the future, the New York Times reported today. The plan would effectively return the country's travel restriction policies to those in effect under President Clinton, who allowed groups like athletic teams, universities, museums and chambers of commerce to conduct exchanges with Cuban counterparts. President Bush tightened some of those restrictions during his time in office, dividing Congressional Republicans, but now that Democrats are in power, a ...
Reader Feedback: Arizona Immigration, Debt, Cuba and More
By not in system - AOL News(April 29) -- Editor's note: Below is a sampling of reader feedback about op-eds published on AOL News over the past week. The comments have been edited for length and clarity. (To submit a letter to the editor, write to opinion@aolnews.com.) Arizona's Immigration Law I just wanted to say thank you for posting this article ("Don't Buy the Hype About Arizona's Law"). There are so many people who don't like this new law but really have no idea what it is. Finally ... someone who will explain what it really means ... and not put the people down who back it. I commend you! Phyllis Low Yakima, ...
Debate: Travel Ban Hurts Cubans and Americans
By not in system - AOL News(April 29) -- If a handful of powerful members of Congress have their way, by this time next year U.S. citizens will be able to travel freely to Cuba. It's about time. For reasons that have to do more with domestic politics than logic or effectiveness, the U.S. places tougher sanctions on Cuba than on any other country in the world, including those with poor human rights records like China, Iran and North Korea. Former President George W. Bush once suggested that "trade with China will promote freedom." Perhaps, as Stephen Colbert has noted, the difference is that Cuba is "a totalitarian, ...
Debate: Keep the Cuba Travel Ban in Place
By not in system - AOL News(April 29) -- At a congressional hearing today, lawmakers will hear about why the U.S. should relax travel and trade sanctions against Cuba. It would, the argument goes, be good for the travel industry, good for farmers and even good for the Cuban people. Scott Fritz of the American Soybean Association recently put it this way: "If the travel ban is eliminated, the number of U.S. citizens traveling to Cuba annually would increase to between 500,000 and 1 million. This growth in travel would bring in more hard currency, enabling the Cuban state-trading agency to buy more U.S. agricultural ...
Opinion: Next Stop, Havana?
By not in system - AOL News(Feb. 12) -- Lawmakers searching for a shot in the arm for the U.S. economy could find it in the unlikeliest of places – Cuba. Next year will mark a half-century since the Bay of Pigs invasion that helped incite the long cold war across the Straits of Florida. Although Fidel Castro has disappeared from the public stage, replaced at the helm by his brother Raúl, Americans still think of Cuba as the dictatorship that time forgot – a poor, sweltering island of rusted 1950s-era automobiles that clings against all sense to the vestiges of Communist orthodoxy. Maybe once, but no ...
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