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» Feds Consider Puerto Ricans Disabled Because They Speak Spanish - Washington Free Beacon
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» Puerto Ricans Getting Disability Checks Because They Don't Speak English - Investor's Business Daily (blog)
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» Expansion of Disability Fraud Under Obama: Puerto Ricans ...
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» Why Chapter 9 for Puerto Rico is a bad idea - The Hill (blog)
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» Is Puerto Rico on the Brink of Economic Disaster? | Global ...
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» Treasury Officials Increase Efforts With Finances of Puerto Rico - New York Times
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» Puerto Rico Set to Become Medical Tourism Hub - Huffington Post
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» Puerto Rico's dilemma - The Hill (blog)
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» Puerto Rico woos the rich but so far gains little
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mikenova shared this story . DORADO, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager Robb Rill grins. He has just had word that U.S. financial regulators have finally closed Puerto Rico's ailing lender Doral Financial, a stock he has been sho...

» Puerto Rico woos the rich but so far gains little - Reuters
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» Stop Letting the Rich Move to Puerto Rico as a Tax Haven
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» Stop Letting the Rich Move to Puerto Rico as a Tax Haven - New York Times
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» Documentary Studies Armed Rebellion in Puerto Rico 65 Years Ago
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Obama, in Jamaica, Seeks to Reassert U.S. Influence in Caribbean

Thursday April 9th, 2015 at 10:14 AM

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KINGSTON, Jamaica — President Obama is expected to use a meeting of Caribbean nations on Thursday to try to reassert American influence in the region and press its leaders to pursue alternative energy solutions that would loosen their reliance on oil from Venezuela.

Mr. Obama and Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz arrived here Wednesday night, ahead of a day of meetings focused on trade and energy use and production in the Caribbean basin.

The gathering is a prelude to a larger meeting of Latin American nations, the Summit of the Americas, which opens Friday in Panama City. Mr. Obama’s push to normalize relations with Cuba, and tensions with Venezuela, are likely to overshadow a crowded policy agenda there.

Both stops this week are efforts by the president to improve relations and strengthen American engagement with smaller and less wealthy neighbors in the hemisphere. The push for stronger Caribbean ties comes as an economic crisis intensifies in Venezuela, whose subsidized oil is used by most Caribbean countries.

American officials say they are eager to work with Caribbean partners — 14 of whom will participate in meetings with Mr. Obama on Thursday — on alternative energy solutions. They also want to demonstrate a commitment to a region they concede has sometimes felt ignored by the United States.

Mr. Obama, the first American president to visit Jamaica since 1982, will also meet on Thursday with Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller and he will hold a town hall-style meeting with young people before departing for Panama.

The Caribbean outreach comes amid strained relations between the Obama administration and President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela, who has reacted angrily to an executive order by Mr. Obama that froze assets of midlevel officials in his government suspected of human rights abuses or violations of due process.

The order described Venezuela as a threat to United States national security, a charge that senior American officials have recently tried to soften, arguing that it was merely pro forma language that accompanies any such sanctions.

Mr. Maduro says he has collected millions of signatures on a petition calling for the sanctions to be lifted, and that he will deliver the document to Mr. Obama during the summit meeting. A top State Department official made an unexpected trip on Wednesday to Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, for a round of diplomatic maneuvering before the regional meeting begins on Friday.

But the dispute could nevertheless play out at the gathering, where Mr. Obama is hoping to highlight his move toward détente with Cuba and a corresponding tightening of ties throughout Latin America.

The dynamics are less complicated in Jamaica, where Ms. Simpson-Miller was waiting Wednesday night at the foot of Air Force One to embrace Mr. Obama upon his arrival in Kingston. Before turning in for the night, the president made a brief tour of the Bob Marley Museum, in a large Victorian house adjacent to a palm tree-shaded courtyard with red, yellow and green walls. Mr. Marley’s “One Love” could be heard during Mr. Obama’s visit.

As he took in Marley memorabilia, the president reminisced about his days of listening to the reggae legend.

“I still have all the albums,” Mr. Obama said.

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“The criteria is very straightforward,” Mr. Obama told NPR on Monday. “Is this particular country considered a state sponsor of terrorism — not, do we agree with them on everything, not whether they engage in repressive or authoritarian activities in their own country.”
“I think there’s a real opportunity here, and we are going to continue to move forward on it,” Mr. Obama said of opening relations with Cuba.
Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey and a leading Cuban-American critic of Mr. Obama’s decision to seek normalized relations with Havana, said any decision to remove Cuba’s terrorism designation should receive “close scrutiny by the Congress.”
“A recommendation to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism would represent another significant misstep in a misguided policy, and it is both discouraging and alarming to read about unwarranted pressure from the White House to rush the State Department’s review process,” Mr. Menendez said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Cuba was first put on the list in 1982 because of its support of leftist insurgents in Latin America.
The most recent State Department report, issued in 2013, said Cuba had “long provided safe haven” to Basque separatists from the group known as ETA and to the FARC rebels in Colombia, and had harbored “fugitives wanted in the United States.” But the report said that Cuba’s ties to ETA had become “more distant” and that the nation was trying to broker a peace deal between FARC and Colombia’s government.

Obama Takes His Hopes for Cuba to Summit Meeting

Thursday April 9th, 2015 at 11:14 AM

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WASHINGTON — President Obama’s push for a historic opening with Cuba faces its first major test this week as he travels to a summit meeting in Latin America, where he hopes to highlight momentum toward ending a half-century of isolation from the island nation.

Even before Mr. Obama boarded Air Force One on Wednesday, White House officials signaled that the administration was nearing a decision on whether to remove Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. That left open the possibility that he could use the Summit of the Americas in Panama to clear a major sticking point in the effort to restore diplomatic ties between Washington and Havana.

The move would pave the way for the reopening of embassies that have been closed for over 50 years, a crucial step in the easing of tensions between the United States and Cuba that Mr. Obama announced in December.

Mr. Obama will travel first to Jamaica before going to Panama for the summit meeting, which begins Friday. Cuba is attending the meeting for the first time since being expelled from the Organization of American States in 1962 at the behest of the United States. Mr. Obama and President Raúl Castro of Cuba will face each other in official meetings for the first time, interacting at summit events and on the sidelines of the gathering.

Although White House aides said no formal one-on-one meeting between the two men was scheduled, top Cuban and American officials are expected to hold talks, building on months of behind-the-scenes diplomatic negotiations. And with or without any change in the terrorism designation, the meeting will offer a stage for a powerful moment and some closely watched body language.

“When you have two countries that haven’t really spoken to each other like this in over 50 years, you have a lot of issues to work through,” said Benjamin J. Rhodes, a deputy national security adviser.

Mr. Rhodes said the State Department, which oversees the list of state sponsors of terrorism, “is likely in the final stages” of reviewing Cuba’s inclusion in it at the president’s direction.

Mr. Obama strongly suggested this week that he was inclined to remove the designation, which has limited Cuba’s access to banking services around the world and, more symbolically, relegated the nation to a rogues’ gallery that includes Iran, Sudan and Syria.

“The criteria is very straightforward,” Mr. Obama told NPR on Monday. “Is this particular country considered a state sponsor of terrorism — not, do we agree with them on everything, not whether they engage in repressive or authoritarian activities in their own country.”

“I think there’s a real opportunity here, and we are going to continue to move forward on it,” Mr. Obama said of opening relations with Cuba.

Senator Robert Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey and a leading Cuban-American critic of Mr. Obama’s decision to seek normalized relations with Havana, said any decision to remove Cuba’s terrorism designation should receive “close scrutiny by the Congress.”

“A recommendation to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism would represent another significant misstep in a misguided policy, and it is both discouraging and alarming to read about unwarranted pressure from the White House to rush the State Department’s review process,” Mr. Menendez said in a statement on Wednesday.

Mr. Obama’s trip, during which he will discuss energy cooperation with Caribbean nations in Jamaica and visit the Panama Canal, is emerging as a crucial milestone in his effort to turn the page on a Cold War-era grudge that his advisers say has led to policies that are ineffectual and harmful to American interests.

“It made no sense that the United States consistently essentially made the decision to isolate ourselves from the rest of the Americas because we were clinging to a policy that wasn’t working,” Mr. Rhodes said. “We would anticipate that this does help begin to remove a significant impediment to having a more constructive engagement in the hemisphere, because we demonstrated an openness to engage all the countries in the Americas, to include Cuba.”

Julissa Reynoso, who was a top State Department official in charge of Cuba policy from 2009 to 2012, said, “When I was involved, having one or two meetings with Cuban government officials per year was a significant event, so the fact that these folks are talking continuously is in itself an important thing.”

But Senator Jeff Flake, Republican of Arizona and a leading proponent of re-establishing ties with Cuba, said he thought that Mr. Obama would have acted by now to remove Cuba from the terrorism list. “Movement on that front would really signal that we’re pushing ahead,” Mr. Flake said in an interview, adding that the opening of embassies could not be far behind.

Ms. Reynoso, a partner at the law firm Chadbourne & Parke who is a former ambassador to Uruguay, said the Cuba opening could be a game changer for American relationships throughout Latin America.

“It’s an important historical moment for the entire region,” she said. “Folks are going to be very focused on the body language, the gestures, any form of contact” between Mr. Obama and Mr. Castro.

If Mr. Obama recommends that Cuba be removed from the terrorism list, he will have to send a report to Congress certifying that Cuba has not supported international terrorism in the last six months. Congress would have 45 days to review the removal of the designation, and it could either do nothing, in effect allowing the removal to occur, or try to block it with a joint resolution.

Cuba was first put on the list in 1982 because of its support of leftist insurgents in Latin America.