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Cuba and the US presidential elections
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THE upcoming US presidential election is being touted as one of the most important in the nation’s history. But there’s another country also extremely interested in the results on November 5: the outcome will have a vital impact on current and future US-Cuba relations.
There are two starkly different scenarios at play: one cautiously optimistic, the other utterly negative.
If Donald Trump wins, Cuba loses.
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