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On the recordJune 29, 2011
I think it's started, because I think that the economic changes that the government has announced, modest though they are, hemmed in though they are by all kinds of restrictions, I think for the first time they involve changes that the regime will not be able to control.
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware

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Coons comments on the potential for change in Cuba due to economic reforms.

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