http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/13/is-the-us-opening-to-cuba-dead-in-the-water-trump-castro-rubio/

Is the U.S. Opening to Cuba Dead in the Water?

Obama’s historic normalization with Havana is under threat from Trump’s hardline cabal of Castro-haters.

• By Christopher Sabatini
• January 13, 2017

A few years ago, a former director of U.S. Southern Command — the U.S. military’s outpost in Miami that oversees defense policy south of the Mexico border — confided to me that the only real threat Cuba presented to U.S. security interests was the risk of a massive flood of Cuban migrants flowing across the Florida Straits. On Thursday, President Barack Obama reduced that likelihood by ending the 1995 “wet foot, dry foot” policy that granted any Cuban who set foot on U.S. soil the immediate right to residency and to apply for citizenship. By overturning a law criticized recently even by Cuban-American legislators, Obama has complicated what many expect will be President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to unwind the Obama administration’s recent and fragile normalization of relations with Cuba. http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/01/13/is-the-us-opening-to-cuba-dead-in-the-water-trump-castro-rubio/