Friday, June 16, 2017

Embattled Venezuela


If Maduro will come to the table with the U.S., we would encourage the Trump administration to chart a reasonable course for U.S. policy toward Venezuela, not one that locks us into a failure like our 55-year-old trade embargo against Cuba. Responding to a large population of wealthy Venezuelans now living in south Florida, Cuban American political leaders such as U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio are staking out hard-line positions with Venezuela and justifying them with the same overheated rhetoric they use about Cuba. So far, they haven't called for a trade embargo, and we can only hope they don't. More…

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