The Outsized Burden Cuba is a small island country that imposes an outsized burden on U.S. politics, but this is declining. Historically, there were two problems with Cuba in the U.S.: 1) Fidel Castro’s nationalization of American-owned assets in 1959, and 2) Cuban-American exiles in Florida who influenced presidential and congressional politics. The second problem has largely receded as evidenced by some relaxations under President Obama and, more recently, a farm bill provision allowing agricultural cooperator marketing on the island (though it is a less valuable market than many U.S. farm organizations believe it to be). President Trump is now taking a hard-line approach on the first problem by enforcing a 1996 law that allows Am...

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