State Department postpones event on Cuba after Sen. Rubio protests

BY NORA GÁMEZ TORRES May 17, 2018 06:17 PM Updated May 17, 2018 07:18 PM A State Department seminar on Cuba scheduled for Friday has been called off in another sign of the differences between the department and the White House on Cuba policy. Anti-Castro activists complained that the seminar, titled “Cuba under Díaz-Canel” and organized by…

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