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Moving to Scuttle Obama Legacy, Donald Trump to Crack Down on Cuba - The New York Times

WTF! WTF! WTF!!

President Trump on Friday will move to halt the historic rapprochement between the United States and Cuba set in motion by former President Barack Obama, delivering a speech in Miami in which he plans to announce he is clamping down on travel and commercial ties with the island nation to force the government of Raúl Castro to change its repressive ways.
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Exploring Cuba's skate culture

It was only a matter of time before somebody did a skate video in Cuba. And of course, VICE would be the one. It turns out that Cuba has no real skateboard shop. But despite that fact, it has a somewhat thriving skate culture with people "smuggling" in boards from the US on the regular. Pretty cool and crazy but I feel like it won't be that way for long. At some point, somebody will just go ahead and open a shop and take good care of these skaters. And boy, wait until the internet gets a hold of this country. It's gonna be crazy.

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