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The National Capitol of Cuba in Havana was built in 1929 and is said to be modeled on the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., 2014. The United States embargo against Cuba has prevented U.S. businesses from conducting trade or commerce with Cuban interests since 1958.
A logistic regression model analyzed Congress members' attitudes towards two nearly identical pieces of pro-embargo legislation before and after receiving campaign funds from the Cuban–American lobby groups. Trevor Rubenzer found that pro-embargo PAC contributions had a statistically significant effect on Representatives' likelihood to adopt ...
This is a list of Hispanic and Latino Americans who have served in the United States Congress. Persons included are identified as having a lineage from Spain or Latin America, a definition that includes Brazil, but not Portugal. Entries shaded in gray refer to current members of the U.S. Congress.
A congressional hearing Thursday about Cuba’s emerging private sector exposed the political divide between Republicans and Democrats on Cuba policy, with U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar, a Cuban ...
Cuban Americans in Congress question the move. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
She was the first Cuban American elected to the United States Congress and the first Republican woman elected from Florida. Upon her election, Ros-Lehtinen was incorrectly informed that she was also the first Latina elected to Congress, [14] the first having been Rep. Barbara Vucanovich, who was of partial Mexican descent and was elected in ...
President John F. Kennedy widened the embargo in 1962 to include all Cuban trade, including food and medicine. Kennedy later imposed travel restrictions to Cuba after the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1963.
The US-Cuba Democracy PAC contributes to candidates who "a) have key roles on congressional committees responsible for Cuba-related issues or b) have demonstrated their support for the struggle for human rights in Cuba." It targets new members of Congress in an effort to create bipartisan support for the embargo.