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A visitor looks a photograph of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, part of an exhibit titled “To the Brink: JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis” at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts December 18, 2014. U.S. President Barack Obama’s announcement on Wednesday to move toward normalizing relations with Cuba was welcomed by younger Cuban-Americans who have increasingly pushed for change and vote Democrat in growing numbers, a contrast to older exiles who believe President John. F. Kennedy – also a Democrat – betrayed them during the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES – Tags: POLITICS)