page_title: Nancy Pelosi
section_title: Cuba
hierarchical_section_title: Nancy Pelosi / Political positions / Foreign affairs / Cuba
caption_attribution_description: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California at the Estadio Latinoamericano in Havana, Cuba, as they and other members of a U.S. delegation led by President Obama attend an exhibition game on March 22, 2016, between the Cuban National Baseball Team and the Tampa Bay Rays. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
context_page_description: Nancy Patricia Pelosi is an American politician serving as a congresswoman from California, and is the two-time and current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. A member of the Democratic Party, Pelosi is the only woman in U.S. history to serve as Speaker, and is the highest-ranking female elected official in United States history. As House speaker, Pelosi is second in the presidential line of succession, immediately after the vice president.
  Pelosi was first elected to Congress in 1987, following her father Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., who served as a U.S. Representative from Maryland and Mayor of Baltimore, into politics. She started her 17th term in 2019. She represents California's 12th congressional district, which consists of four-fifths of the city and county of San Francisco. She initially represented the 5th district, and then, when district boundaries were redrawn after the 1990 Census, the 8th district. Pelosi has led the House Democrats since 2003—being the first woman to lead a party in Congress—serving twice each as House minority leader, and as Speaker.
context_section_description: In 2008, Pelosi said: "For years, I have opposed the embargo on Cuba. I don't think it's been successful, and I think we have to remove the travel bans and have more exchanges—people to people exchanges with Cuba." In 2015, Pelosi supported President Obama's Cuban Thaw, a rapprochement between the U.S. and Castro's regime in Cuba, and visited Havana for meetings with high-level officials.
caption: Pelosi and John Kerry at Estadio Latinoamericano in Havana, Cuba, March 2016
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