January 11, 2017 Opinion: A new paradigm for Cuba/America? Castro made ransom demands that the President gave in to. Will other dictators and terrorists now kidnap Americans to keep as hostages while they negotiate ransoms?
January 11, 2017 Rick Sanchez: This is the Cuban quandary There is a generational divide that tens of thousands of us in South Florida can relate to. We have been raised with antipathy toward the Cuban regime. But we’ve also been raised with the expectation that anti-Castro antipathy would lead to some type of change—something better or at least different.
January 11, 2017 Opinion: Hoping (against hope) for the end of oppression It was a flawed democracy, it’s true, but certain freedoms we take for granted here were taken for granted there: religion, association, press — even the ability to travel freely or start a business.
January 11, 2017 Raul Mas Canosa: Ending the U.S. embargo in Cuba provides a lifeline to the Castro brothers Let’s be clear: I am not against lifting the embargo on Cuba. What I am against is doing it without requiring the Cuban dictatorship to restore real and substantive freedoms to its people.
January 11, 2017 Cuba-U.S. diplomatic thaw pits new and old guard on the streets of Little Havana, Miami While older generations of Cuban exiles are denouncing the president’s action, younger Cuban Americans welcome it.
January 11, 2017 Marco Rubio calls Obama’s Cuba deal ‘absurd,’ says will 'make every effort' to block it Florida’s Senator Marco Rubio issued a sharp rebuke Wednesday afternoon to President Barack Obama’s decision to negotiate a prisoner swap with Cuba and restore diplomatic relations with the communist regime.
January 11, 2017 Pope Francis played crucial role in historic thawing of relations between U.S. and Cuba Both Obama and administration highlighted the importance of the Pope’s appeal to both the U.S. and Cuba in resolving not only the issue of Alan Gross and the Cuban Five, but in helping spur on the major thaw in relations
January 11, 2017 Supreme Court rejects Brewer's emergency appeal, says 'Dreamers' can drive in Arizona The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Arizona must issue driver's licenses to undocumented immigrant who came to the United States as children.
January 11, 2017 Rick Sanchez: I’m grateful my parents have lived long enough to see it "For 53 years, I have wondered if this day would ever come. And now that is has I can’t help think of my mom and dad," writes Cuban-American Rick Sanchez.
January 11, 2017 Geraldo Rivera: A Jew-Rican Christmas Dealing with how we celebrated the Holiday Season when I was growing up was just the most obvious symbol of our struggle to find ourselves religiously.
