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In the past month, the island nation of Cuba has been hit by a 6.8 magnitude earthquake, Hurricane Rafael, and a series of blackouts. The U.S. embargo continues, and now Cuba has to deal with the announcement that President-elect Donald Trump has picked Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to be his secretary of state.
Trump’s selection of foreign policy hard-liner Rubio will have political repercussions not only in Cuba, but throughout the rest of the Caribbean and Latin America.
