Cuba's President Raul Castro (L) shakes hands with Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro (R) during the opening session of the 10th ALBA alliance summit in Havana December 14, 2014. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Potential Republican 2016 presidential candidate Jeb Bush on Wednesday criticized the White House's move to restore diplomatic ties with Cuba, calling the shift a "dramatic overreach" of President Barack Obama's executive authority.
"Cuba is a dictatorship with a disastrous human rights record, and now President Obama has rewarded those dictators," Bush, the former governor of Florida, a key state with a large Cuban-American population, said in a statement.
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