Waco-based Texas Farm Bureau pushing for free trade with Cuba

Leaders in business and agriculture, including the Waco-based Texas Farm Bureau, have joined forces to create the Engage Cuba Texas State Council, which will push to have travel and trade restrictions abolished between the United States and the island country 90 miles from Florida. The goal is to give farmers and manufacturers a multibillion-dollar economic nudge by permitting the sale of products to Cuba.

Group pushing for free trade with Cuba

Leaders in business and agriculture, including the Waco-based Texas Farm Bureau, have joined forces to create the Engage Cuba Texas State Council that will push to have travel and trade restrictions abolished between the United States and the island country 90 miles from Florida. The goal is to give farmers and manufacturers a multi-billion-dollar economic nudge by permitting the sale of products to Cuba.

Obama Gives Kitchen Sink Away to Vietnam

"President Obama lifted the decades-long U.S. arms embargo against Vietnam on Monday in an apparent effort to shore up the communist country's defenses against an increasingly aggressive China - though he faced criticism that the move takes away U.S. leverage to press for human rights freedoms. "Obama announced the full removal of the embargo at a news conference in Hanoi alongside Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang.