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FILE - In this March 22, 2016 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks at the Grand Theater of Havana, Cuba. President Barack Obama is ending a longstanding immigration policy that allows any Cuban national who makes it to U.S. soil to stay and become a legal resident, a senior administration official said Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Obama ends visa-free path for Cubans who make it to US soil

By ALICIA A. CALDWELL and JULIE PACE - Associated Press

President Barack Obama listens as Vice President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, where Obama presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama ends special ‘wet foot, dry foot’ immigration policy for Cubans

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Juan Manuel Santos won the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to halt the country's long civil war, but Colombians still distrust his peace treaty with the FARC rebels. (Associated Press)

FARC peace deal in jeopardy if U.S. lawmakers block funds committed by Obama

By Martin Arostegui — Special to The Washington Times

Cuban President Raul Castro and his government have benefited more than his people from the Obama administration's detente. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump crackdown looms for Cuba as repression continues after Obama outreach

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

5-day Cuba mission costs state $150K _ quarter for security

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Walker to visit Wisconsin troops at Guantanomo Bay

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FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2007 file photo, Prince performs during the halftime show at the Super Bowl XLI football game at Dolphin Stadium in Miami. Widely acclaimed as one of the most inventive and influential musicians of his era with hits including "Little Red Corvette," ''Let's Go Crazy" and "When Doves Cry," he was found dead at his home on Thursday, April 21, 2016, in suburban Minneapolis, according to his publicist. He was 57. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

Final goodbye: Roll call of some of those who died in 2016

By Bernard McGhee - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 21, 2016 file photo, Cuban President Raul Castro, right, lifts up the arm of U.S. President Barack Obama, at the conclusion of their joint news conference at the Palace of the Revolution, in Havana, Cuba. Next year will likely be Castro’s toughest year in office since he took power in 2006, as the 85-year-old general faces a possible economic recession alongside a hostile new U.S. administration promising to undo measures that gave many Cubans expectations of a better future. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa, File)

Raul Castro, Cuban president, faces deep problems in 2017

By Andrea Rodriguez - Associated Press

In this May 24, 2015 photo, US tourists walks outside the Bodeguita del Medio Bar frequented by the late American novelist Ernest Hemingway in Old Havana, Cuba. One airline's cutback in flights to Cuba may be a sign that demand for travel to the island is slowing down amid uncertainty about Donald Trump's Cuba policies along with a near-doubling of Havana hotel prices and concerns over Zika. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan, File)

Is demand for travel to Cuba flattening?

By BETH J. HARPAZ - Associated Press

A woman speaks on a public telephone as a man repairs a wheel in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, the day after Fidel Castro's death. Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule of Cuba, died at age 90 in Cuba late Friday, Nov. 25. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

The Latest: No tears shed by Miami exiles for Castro funeral

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In this Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016 photo, Frances R. Fuller displays a Life Magazine, from Oct. 31, 1960, with the photo, top left, of her parents William Fuller, left, Jennie Fuller, right, and her brother Robert Fuller, center, at her home in Miami. In 1960, Robert Fuller joined an ill-fated mission to lead a boatload of poorly trained Cubans from Miami in hopes of mustering up a counter-revolution on the island. Instead, the men were quickly captured, and Fuller confessed under torture to counterrevolutionary activities. Fuller was sentenced to death by firing squad. The family asked to bring his body back with them to America. Castro's people said no. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

A rose for family of US plantation owner executed by Castro

By TAMARA LUSH - Associated Press

In this 1960 photo, Cuba's revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara, center, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, left, and Cuba's President Osvaldo Dorticos, right, attend a reception in an unknown location in Cuba. Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule, has died at age 90. The bearded revolutionary, who survived a crippling U.S. trade embargo as well as dozens, possibly hundreds, of assassination plots, died eight years after ill health forced him to formally hand power over to his younger brother Raul, who announced his death late Friday, Nov. 25, 2016, on state television. (Prensa Latina via AP Images, File)

U.S-Cuba report card

By Bruce Fein

The Cuban community celebrates the announcement that Fidel Castro died as they gather in front La Carreta Restaurant, early Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, in Miami. Within half an hour of the Cuban government’s official announcement that former President Fidel Castro had died, Friday, Nov. 25, 2016, at age 90, Miami’s Little Havana teemed with life - and cheers. (David Santiago/El Nuevo Herald via AP)

Castro’s death is bittersweet for nostalgic Cuban exiles

By ADRIAN SAINZ - Associated Press

Commercial flights start between Orlando and Havana

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Dania Rivero, right, and her husband Jesus Rivero, of West New York, N.J., settle into their seats on United Flight 1502 the first direct passenger flight from Newark Liberty International Airport to Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016, in Newark, N.J. Commercial flights between the United States and Cuba resumed several months ago as relations between the two countries gradually improved under President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Passengers head to Cuba on 1st flight from Newark to Havana

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FILE- In this Sept. 2, 2001, file photo, former South African President Nelson Mandela, left, and Cuban leader Fidel Castro embrace during a visit by Castro in Johannesburg, South Africa. Some African Americans are remembering late Cuban President Fidel Castro and his efforts to end racial segregation on the Caribbean island following the country’s 1959 revolution. Castro sought out black leaders. In 1960, he met with Malcolm X in Harlem. He also had a close relationship with South Africa’s Nelson Mandela. (AP Photo/Jose Goitia, File)

Some blacks applaud Castro legacy of racial equality

By COREY WILLIAMS - Associated Press

Illustration on the Castor era by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

The left’s love affair with Fidel Castro

By Cal Thomas

Cubans fear Trump to reverse opening, army drills announced

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

People sit at a booth of the United States with wines from California at the 34th Trade Fair in Havana, Cuba, Monday, Oct. 31, 2016. “The Cuban government is using the interest by U.S. companies as bait to entice the interest of companies in other countries,” said John Kavulich of the U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council, a private group that produces mostly skeptical analyses of the prospects of U.S.-Cuba trade. “The Cuban government is saying ‘let’s not give any more than absolutely necessary to U.S. companies so that the companies will continue to salivate toward illusory potential opportunities. There’s far more inspiration and aspiration than reality.” (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Cuba falling short of foreign investment goals

By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN - Associated Press

TripAdvisor gets feds’ OK to book travel services to Cuba

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