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04/18/2018 / By News Editors

Trump to Univisión: ‘We’ve been very tough on Cuba because we want people to be free’

President Donald Trump promised his administration would continue to be “very tough” of the communist regime of Cuba and its Venezuelan proxy in an exclusive Spanish-language interview with Univisión during his visit to Hialeah, Florida, on Monday. (Article by Frances Martel republished from Breitbart.com) Trump visited Hialeah—a working class, majority Cuban-American community—to promote job creation in the […]

01/04/2017 / By whitehousenews

White House expects more Guantanamo transfers

The US government has pledged to move ahead with the transfer of inmates out of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, rejecting President-elect Donald Trump’s demand for a freeze. Article by AlJaazera.com With President Barack Obama set to leave office on January 20, White House spokesman Josh Earnest put Trump on notice on Tuesday that […]

08/25/2016 / By whitehousenews

‘No One but Himself to Blame’: How Obama’s Guantanamo Plans Fell Through

The overwhelming odds against shuttering the Guantánamo Bay detention facility before Barack Obama leaves office have left his allies viewing his latest closure plan as an epitaph for an effort they consider marked by unforced errors. (Article by Spencer Ackerman) Ever since he took office, Obama has watched the collapse of political consensus on closing […]

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