Even though Marco Rubio’s Cuban-born parents left the island for the U.S. a few years before the coming to power of Fidel ...

Rubio, who if confirmed by the Senate will also be the first Latino to hold the post, is one of the most hawkish members of ...

Trump reversed the Cuba ‘thaw’ initiated by President Barack Obama. But second-guessing the incoming president’s policy on ...

The secretary of state nominee is hawkish on Havana – but his boss may be looking for diplomatic breakthroughs.

Cuba has suffered from US economic restrictions as well as blunders by its own administration. Life on the communist-run isla ...

Marco Rubio of Florida for the role ... Indeed, one recent profile of Trump’s pick for top diplomat described Rubio as “Cuba’s worst nightmare.” So how will Rubio’s antipathy for ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Joseph J. Gonzalez, Appalachian State University (THE CONVERSATION) The U.S. looks ...