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Cuba, without Fidel Castro, enters the Trump Era After Fidel Castro's death on Friday night, President Obama expressed hope that the warming of relations between Cuba and the United States could continue. Donald Trump and members of his transition team issued statements reflecting what Trump said on the campaign trail. "All of the concessions that Barack Obama has granted the Castro regime were done through executive order which means the next president can reverse them, which I will do unless the Castro regime meets our demands -- not my demands, our demands. Those demands will include religious and political freedom for the Cuban people and the freeing of political prisoners." Photo courtesy of Televisione Streaming We hear more about Fidel Castro's complex legacy from Nick Miroff, who reports for the Washington Post in Havana, and Ann Louis Bardach, a former journalist for the Daily Beast and the author of several books, including Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana, and Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington .
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Colombia's President Santos wins Nobel Peace Prize President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009 -- when he was barely in office. It was seen more as encouragement to the new leader than a reward for his accomplishments. In Oslo today, the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced this year's award to the President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos "for his resolute efforts to bring the country's more than 50 year long civil war to an end, a war that has cost the lives of at least 220,000 Colombians and displaced close to six million people." But here's the irony. Just last Sunday, Santos' historic peace deal with FARC rebels was rejected by Colombia's voters. Nick Miroff, Latin American correspondent for the Washington Post , reports on the ironic circumstances surrounding this year's Nobel Prize for Peace.
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Colombian voters reject FARC peace deal The President of Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos — and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon — are trying to keep alive the peace deal with FARC rebels. Colombia’s voters defeated it yesterday by a margin of less than one percent. Nick Miroff, Latin American correspondent for the Washington Post , joins us from Bogota.
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The longest US war: Will Trump send more troops to Afghanistan? The Trump White House is divided over the Pentagon's request for more troops in Afghanistan—where the US has been fighting for the past 16 years. Is there a formula -- either for "victory" or a political settlement? Is there an end in sight for America's longest war?
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Trump plays scolder-in-chief with NATO allies At the opening of NATO’s dramatic new headquarters in Brussels today, President Trump acknowledged that Article 5 — promising that “an attack on one nation is an attack on all” -- has only been invoked one time: in the aftermath of September 11. But the President failed to provide what 27 other Alliance members have been waiting for: a re-commitment by America’s new leader to Article 5. Instead, they got a scolding.