The United States and Cuba announced key steps to the reestablishment of their diplomatic relations yesterday Wednesday 17 December 2014. While the end to the trade embargo depends on the US Congress, Presidents Barack Obama of the United States and Raul Castro of Cuba announced the historic turnaround in their relationship in parallel addresses from Washington and Havana.
Obama said the time had come to put an end to an “obsolete” policy towards Cuba that “has failed over decades.” Meanwhile, from his office in Havana, Castro proclaimed “the reestablishment of diplomatic relations” and “mutual measures in order to improve the bilateral climate.”
Since Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who left power in 2006, announced that the revolution would be taking a socialist path in 1961, friction between the United States and the only communist country in the Americas were constant, sometimes bordering on open conflict. This milestone in Cuban-American relations was accompanied by the release of US citizen Alan Gross and an unnamed US spy by Cuba, as well as the release of three Cuban spies by the US.
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