U.S. and Cuba reopen long-closed embassies

Photo: Caribbean Journal
Photo: Caribbean Journal

HAVANA — After more than a half-century of Cold War estrangement, the United States reopened its six-story embassy in Havana on Monday, and Cuba raised a flag outside its own stately embassy in Washington.

The resumption of diplomatic relations between the two nations — a historic milestone in the official thaw that President Obama set in motion last year — was the culmination of months of negotiations to overcome decades of enmity.

But the promise of restoring full ties remained remote. Even as top American and Cuban diplomats held a meeting at the State Department for the first time in decades, Cuba’s foreign minister railed against the United States’ travel restrictions, trade embargo and presence at the military base at Guantánamo Bay.

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4 Comments

  1. ATKINSON
    July 22, 2015

    Hey can we go to havana to get and renew our america visa and passport there instead of going to bridgetown. And continue on to the U.S.

  2. too late
    July 21, 2015

    Hopefully the Almighty all Powerful Blessed Dear leader Saint Honorable DR Roosvelt Skerrit knows now which country is the most powerful in the world. apparently it is not Dominica nor Venezuela cause if either were they would have convinced Cuba against this

    • TSB
      July 21, 2015

      Hope you are ok

      • too late
        July 21, 2015

        make your contribution dont allow me o distract you

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