President Barack Obama announced Wednesday that the United States and Cuba would restore full diplomatic relations and reopen their respective embassies in Washington, D.C. and Havana on July 20—a move he said would begin “a new chapter with our neighbors in the Americas.” “We don’t have to be imprisoned by the past,” Obama said in…
U.S. President Barack Obama intends to remove Cuba from the American government’s list of state sponsors of terrorism, news outlets reported Tuesday afternoon. The news came after a much-anticipated meeting between Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro during last weekend’s Summit of the Americas meeting in Panama, the first such formal session between leaders of…
President Barack Obama today announced the end to over 50 years of non-diplomacy with Cuba, as well as an easing of both trade and travel restrictions. The United States severed diplomatic ties with Cuba in 1961 at the height of the Cold War. While the Soviet Union has fallen, the trade embargo along with its…
