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Here's a Blueprint for a Trump-Castro Deal on Cuba

By Richard E. Feinberg, Ted Piccone

A grand bargain on issues from security cooperation to open markets could give both sides what they want.

President-elect Donald J. Trump has vowed “to terminate the deal” that his predecessor in the White House negotiated with Cuba’s President Raúl Castro. Trump’s incoming chief-of-staff, Reince Priebus, last week added these details in an interview on “Fox News Sunday”:

“Repression, open markets, freedom of religion, political prisoners – these things need to change in order to have open and free relationships,” Priebus said. “There’s going to have to be some movement from Cuba in order to have a relationship with the United States.”

In fact, beyond the exchange of prisoners...

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