3,233 residents are foreign born (12.3% Latin America, 7.1% Asia). According to our research of Texas and other state lists there were 3 registered sex offenders living in Addison, Texas as of April 01, 2017. The ratio of number of residents in Addison to the number of sex offenders is 5,060 to 1.
President Obama asked Congress to begin to lift the embargo against Cuba during the State of the Union address this evening. In Cuba, we are ending a policy that was long past its expiration date.
The embargo's crippling effects on the Cuban economy prompted Raul Castro to beef up efforts to end the embargo once he took the helm in 2008. While Cuba was sustained by a serious trading relationship with the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War, the Cuban economy took a hard hit with the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991.