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ARTICLE · 02 JANUARY 2015

A New Latitude: Charting A Course For Cuba

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Today President Barack Obama made a stunning speech announcing steps the United States will take to reduce U.S. sanctions against Cuba.

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Today President Barack Obama made a stunning speech announcing steps the United States will take to reduce U.S. sanctions against Cuba. The announcement followed the release of two U.S. citizens held by the Cuban government. Alan Gross was detained by Cuban authorities in 2009 while working as a USAID subcontractor. Separately, a U.S. intelligence officer, not named in the announcement but described by the President as "one of the most important" U.S. intelligence agents in Cuba, had been imprisoned in Cuba for nearly two decades.

Easing Cuban sanctions reverses five decades of policy intended to isolate the island nation, dating back to the Castro revolution. In announcing the changes, President Obama said the new direction will "end an outdated approach" to Cuba. Over the last few years, U.S. sanctions policy has trended away from total economic embargoes such as the Cuba and Iran embargoes, and toward more targeted sanctions. The President described the Cuba

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