Senior Cuban-American politicians responded with fury to President Obama’s dramatic move, with one Republican senator describing him as “the single worst negotiator we have had in the White House in my lifetime”.
Before the president had even uttered the first words of his statement from the Cabinet Room of the White House, Marco Rubio — the Miami-born son of Cuban immigrants — denounced the deal as “absurd”, noting that it came just a week after sanctions were imposed on human rights violators in Venezuela.
“It’s part of a long record of coddling dictators and tyrants this administration has established,” he said.
Mr Rubio, 43, who is considering running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, said there was no support in Congress for lifting the