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| https://www.cruz.senate.gov?p=news&id=2048 | Dallas Morning News: Ted Cruz and other GOP Texans fault Obama's Cuba shift | 2014-12-17 | 2014 | 2014-12 | Republican | House | TX | Ted Cruz | C001098 | www.cruz.senate.gov | legacy | Sen. Ted Cruz has joined the chorus of Republicans blasting the president’s shift in policy toward Cuba, a country from which the senator’s father fled as a teenager. “Fidel and Raul Castro have just received both international legitimacy and a badly-needed economic lifeline from President Obama,” Cruz said in a prepared statement issued four hours after the president’s announcement at the White House. “But they remain in control of a totalitarian police state modeled on their old state sponsor, the Soviet Union.” “This is one more very, very bad deal brokered by the Obama administration,” said Cruz. Like other critics weighing in this afternoon, the senator lauded the release of Alan Gross, the American aid worker imprisoned by Cuba for five years. But, he said, the deal Obama has struck won’t stop indefinite detention of others without legal process, “as the many political prisoners still languishing in the Castros’ prisons can attest.” Read more | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |