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Jeff Duncan: “If trade and lifting the sanctions is seen as a cure-all of foreign policy for the Obama administration with regard to…”

On the recordFebruary 3, 2015
If trade and lifting the sanctions is seen as a cure-all of foreign policy for the Obama administration with regard to oppressive regimes like Cuba, then why did the administration impose more sanctions on Venezuela the very same week as the policy shift in Cuba?
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Jeff Duncan
Republican · South Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Duncan questions the consistency of U.S. foreign policy towards Cuba and Venezuela.

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