Rubio Predicts U.S. Businesses Won't Have 'Major' Interests In Cuba By 2017
The Republican presidential candidate pledges to reverse the Obama administration's steps toward normalization.
US Senator Marco Rubio speaks at the Foreign Policy Initiative breakfast August 14, 2015 in New York.
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Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio on Friday pledged to reverse the Obama administration's steps toward normalization of U.S.-Cuban relations and suggested American business interests wouldn't be an obstacle because he doesn't envision U.S. companies having “major” contracts and investments on the island nation by 2017.
Rubio, a son of immigrants who fled Cuba, spoke at the the Foreign Policy Initiative in New York City as Secretary of State John Kerry paid a visit to Havana to preside over the historic re-opening of the U.S. embassy.