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Barack Obama and Fidel Castro's Cuba.

Hello again, I'm Ornalny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

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At next week's Summit of the

Americas, Latin American leaders will want to know what President Obama plans to do about

communist Cuba. There won't be an end to the 47-year-old trade embargo, but other restrictions

might be lifted. Even some Republicans want relations improved. They and other critics say

U.S. policy has been held hostage by Cuban Americans in Florida

and that it's failed to get a repressive country to change its ways. Is it the U.S. rather than Cuba

that's being isolated from the rest of the world? Can the President act without the approval of Congress?

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Hello again. Mormon Alney, back with To the Poet. In Latin America and in Washington,

there is pressure for changing the policy of isolating Fidel Castro's Cuba. As President

Obama prepares for the summit of the Americas,

how far is he willing to go? Will he insist that Cuba change its repressive ways? On reporter's

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