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As prospective candidates claim their spot on the coveted 2016 Republican presidential ticket, two senators, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul bump heads on a newly awakened foreign policy issue: Cuba.
After President Obama's disclosure of renewed diplomatic relations with the island nation, an awe-stricken world celebrated the unexpected news. A small, ardent group of troubled leaders, led by Florida's hawkish senator Marco Rubio and bolstered by New Jersey's Bob Menendez, the newly elected Carlos Curbelo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, have vowed to oppose any attempts at rapprochement.
Rubio, who was quick to repudiate the president's initiative, is known for his recalcitrance and hard-line position on Cuba. The utter failure of the fifty years embargo apparently escapes his logic. He represents less and less the will of his constituents, who increasingly rally for open dialogue and free travel to Cuba. Confronted by polls showing how American voters favored Obama's change of U.S policy to Cuba by two to one, Rubio declared his willingness to follow through with his own isolationist agenda even if he was repudiated by 99 percent of his constituents.
Rubio called President Obama the "worst negotiator in his lifetime," with a "naive" and "ignorant" foreign policy. He went on to criticize fellow Republican and 2016 presidential hopeful Rand Paul after he publicly endorsed the president's position. Senator Paul, who demonstrates equanimity on Cuban policy, enjoys the support of several Republican heavyweights with pro-business, pro-trade and libertarian values.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arturo-lopez-levy/rubio-vs-paul-some-libert_b_6397022.html
After President Obama's disclosure of renewed diplomatic relations with the island nation, an awe-stricken world celebrated the unexpected news. A small, ardent group of troubled leaders, led by Florida's hawkish senator Marco Rubio and bolstered by New Jersey's Bob Menendez, the newly elected Carlos Curbelo and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, have vowed to oppose any attempts at rapprochement.
Rubio, who was quick to repudiate the president's initiative, is known for his recalcitrance and hard-line position on Cuba. The utter failure of the fifty years embargo apparently escapes his logic. He represents less and less the will of his constituents, who increasingly rally for open dialogue and free travel to Cuba. Confronted by polls showing how American voters favored Obama's change of U.S policy to Cuba by two to one, Rubio declared his willingness to follow through with his own isolationist agenda even if he was repudiated by 99 percent of his constituents.
Rubio called President Obama the "worst negotiator in his lifetime," with a "naive" and "ignorant" foreign policy. He went on to criticize fellow Republican and 2016 presidential hopeful Rand Paul after he publicly endorsed the president's position. Senator Paul, who demonstrates equanimity on Cuban policy, enjoys the support of several Republican heavyweights with pro-business, pro-trade and libertarian values.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arturo-lopez-levy/rubio-vs-paul-some-libert_b_6397022.html
