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| https://www.cruz.senate.gov?p=news&id=2040 | Houston Chronicle: Texas Republicans rip Obama initiative on Cuba | 2014-12-17 | 2014 | 2014-12 | Republican | House | TX | Ted Cruz | C001098 | www.cruz.senate.gov | legacy | President Obama’s move on Wednesday to normalize relations with Cuba got mixed reactions in Congress, with Sen. Ted Cruz and a number of other Texas Republicans accusing the administration of lending legitimacy to the authoritarian Castro regime. “Fidel and Raul Castro have just received both international legitimacy and a badly-needed economic lifeline from President Obama,” said Cruz, the son of a Cuban refugee. “But they remain in control of a totalitarian police state modeled on their old state sponsor, the Soviet Union.” Cruz compared the move to Obama administration attempts at rapprochement with what he called “rogue regimes” like Russia and Iran. Democrats in the Texas delegation backed Obama’s contention that decades of sanctions have produced no positive changes in the communist island nation. Read more | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |