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Weekly Report - 29 May 2014 (WR-14-21)

CUBA: “Just another Potemkin village tour”

So harrumphed Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the outspoken South Florida Republican representative and former chair (2011-2013) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in response to the three-day visit to Cuba this week by the president of the US chamber of commerce, Thomas Donohue.  The trip by the head of what effectively amounts to the world’s most powerful business lobby group came on the heels of last week’s open letter by some four dozen former government officials, retired military officers and business leaders, including the influential Cuban-American sugar magnate Andres Fanjul, to President Barack Obama, calling for change in US-Cuba policy.

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