
The more than 8,000 Cuban refugees stranded in Costa Rica after Castro ally Nicaragua rejected their legal visas will fly over Nicaragua to El Salvador to commence their voyage to the United States, a coalition of Central American nations announced this week.
by Frances Martel29 Dec 2015, 9:00 PM PST0

Speaking before the United Nations General Assembly, Cuban dictator Raúl Castro insisted that, without the transfer of sovereignty of Guantánamo Bay to the communist regime and the censorship of U.S. broadcasts condemning human rights violations, the normalization of relations with the United States cannot occur.
by Frances Martel28 Sep 2015, 2:25 PM PST0

Among the many foreign policy disasters for which President Barack Obama has been responsible, none is uglier than the recent Cuba deal. We are less safe because of Iran, Russia, and ISIS, But the Cuba deal has made us less free.
by Joel B. Pollak21 Aug 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

The Obama administration has yet to question American Alan Gross about his lengthy imprisonment in Cuba–six months after he returned home in a prisoner swap that set the stage for full normalization of U.S.-Cuban relations this week, the Daily Beast reports. Though Gross spent more than five years in a Cuban prison, and could potentially provide valuable intelligence on the regime, as well as information about political prisoners, the Obama administration showed no interest.
by Joel B. Pollak2 Jul 2015, 6:13 AM PST0

The first round of talks between high-level Cuban and American diplomats since President Obama announced unprecedented concessions to the Castro regime has concluded, with Cuban officials insisting that any changes to the way the communist regime treats dissidents or controls
by Frances Martel26 Jan 2015, 11:20 AM PST0

Cuba should be a bountiful island with an excellent growing season. But the workers’ paradise has to import $2 billion in food each year to prevent the workers from starving. American farmers have been able to get a small piece of the market since food sales were allowed as an exemption to the 1962 trade embargo in 2000. But with Obama Administration moving to normalize relationships, California, as America’s top food producing state, looks forward to serving a market of 11 million new consumers.
by Chriss W. Street13 Jan 2015, 4:37 AM PST0

Peggy Noonan’s praise for the Obama administration’s new Cuba policy has one particularly ugly paragraph that demands its own response. (I posted an initial criticism of her overall column on Friday, and this one paragraph has bothered me for the better
by Joel B. Pollak20 Dec 2014, 7:56 PM PST0

The gloves are off. Two possible contenders for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination are taking shots at one another by name over their respective stances on the Obama administration’s decision to begin to normalize relations with Cuba. Sen. Rand Paul
by Caroline May19 Dec 2014, 10:53 AM PST0

When Wall Street Journal columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan made “the case for Barack Obama” in 2008, she put his foreign policy at the top of her list: “He has within him the possibility to change the direction
by Joel B. Pollak19 Dec 2014, 6:36 AM PST0