Tag: Cuba

President Obama seems to lack confidence and, facing a world that resembles 1800 more than 1945, reaches out to Iran's mullahs and the Castro brothers while disrespecting many of America's friends. (AP Photo)Â

Facing a changing world balance, Obama makes odd choices

Michael Barone · June 24, 2015 10:25 pm

White House dismisses Jeb Bush dig against Obama’s plan to tour Cuba

Susan Crabtree · June 16, 2015 6:39 pm

In this Aug. 26, 2004, file courtroom sketch, Ali Hamza al Bahlul appears before a military commission at Guantanamo Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

Court ruling could help unravel other Guantanamo convictions

Tara Copp · June 12, 2015 9:45 pm

Anatoli Sienczenko, right, Anatoli Sienczenko Jnr, wear Black Sea Cossack uniforms, while attending a commemoration service for the Victims of Communism, in Washington D.C, June 12. 2015.Â (Graeme Jennings/WEX)

Democracies working with tyrants a ‘kick in the balls’

Emilie Padgett · June 12, 2015 9:29 pm

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks during the 69th session of the U.N. General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Fixing the U.N.

Kim Holmes · June 8, 2015 4:01 am

Lifting trade embargoes and re-establishing diplomatic relations will only tighten the Castro regime's grip on the Cuban people. (AP Photo)Â

Will Cuba see political change?

Vincent Amoroso · June 5, 2015 9:00 am

Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are the chief sponsors of a new bill, which comes in response to the Obama administration's decision to restore diplomatic relations with Cuba and remove them from a terrorism watch list.

Rubio, Cotton move to block financial transactions with Castro regime

Susan Ferrechio · June 3, 2015 5:55 pm

Young Cuban students walk arm-in-arm during the March of the Torches from the University of Havana through the Vedado districts and to the Malecon oceanfront on January 27, 2015, in Havana, Cuba.Â (Getty Image)

Only Cubans can make Cuba free

Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet · June 3, 2015 4:01 am

The funding language in the bill seems likely to pass in the House, as John Boehner indicated his support for it in a tweet late Tuesday. (AP Photo)Â

Boehner indicates support for withholding State funding over Benghazi

Pete Kasperowicz · June 2, 2015 10:22 pm

A taxi driver shades himself with an umbrella as he watches a woman prepare to cross the street near Central Park in downtown in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, May 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

House panel hopes to ban funding for U.S. embassy in Cuba

Kelly Cohen · June 2, 2015 3:29 pm

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio will do what he can to block President Obama from naming an ambassador to Havana. (AP Photo)

Marco Rubio threatens to block nomination of ambassador to Cuba

Kelly Cohen · June 1, 2015 7:42 pm

President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro during their meeting at the Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama, Saturday, April 11, 2015. (AP Photo)

Obama’s Cuba thaw: a foreign policy or a smokescreen?

Washington Examiner · June 1, 2015 9:00 am