Julia Sweig

University of Texas-Austin

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Julia Sweig is a senior research fellow at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. A long-time scholar of US-Cuba relations, she is the author of Friendly Fire: Losing Friends and Making Enemies in the Anti-American Century and Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know.

Sweig is a former director of Latin America Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Florida's Republican Senator, Marco Rubio, flew to Miami today with President Trump and introduced him, "A year a half ago an American president landed in Havana to outstretch his hand…

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Florida's Republican Senator, Marco Rubio, flew to Miami today with President Trump and introduced him, "A year a half ago an American president landed in Havana to outstretch his hand…

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There was a major step forward in the process of normalizing relations with Cuba today as President Obama  officially removed Cuba  from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism,…

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There was a major step forward in the process of normalizing relations with Cuba today as President Obama officially removed Cuba from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism,…

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The Obama Administration today announced  new rules for travel to Cuba . They'll take effect tomorrow. Strictly speaking, they don't allow tourism in the traditional sense.

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The Obama Administration today announced new rules for travel to Cuba . They'll take effect tomorrow. Strictly speaking, they don't allow tourism in the traditional sense.

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