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State Department postpones event on Cuba after Sen. Rubio protests

May 17, 2018

Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald
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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 [Miguel] Díaz-Canel" and organized by the department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, was to hear only from experts who support the friendlier policies on Cuba advanced under former President Barack Obama.

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