2 U.S. lawmakers push bill to compel Cuba to return Puerto Rican nationalist Victor Gerena

The bipartisan bill, written by Republican Marco Rubio of Florida and Bob Menendez of New Jersey, would require the state department to press Cuba to comply with a century old extradition treaty. As leverage, it threatens, among other things, to withhold foreign assistance money for Caribbean narcotics control programs benefiting Cuba.

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