On April 11, 2015, Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro shook hands at the Summit of the Americas in Panama, marking the first meeting between a U.S. and Cuban head of state since the two countries severed their ties in 1961. The meeting came four months after the presidents announced their countries would restore diplomatic relations, and gave rise to President Obama's March 2016 visit to Cuba, the first by a sitting president in over eighty-five years.
We are separated by 90 miles of water, but are brought together through shared relationships and the desire to promote a democratic, prosperous, and stable Cuba. President Obama is taking action to cut loose the anchor of failed policies of the past, and to chart a new course in U.S. relations with Cuba.
What lessons for the U.S., for Cuba, and for other countries can be drawn from the past U.S.-Cuba relationship, especially since the 1959 revolution in Cuba?
President Obama is the first sitting American president to visit Cuba in two generations, heralding the end of decades of enmity between the United States and Cuba.
The thaw in relations between the United States and Cuba is raising concerns among some on the communist-ruled island nation that the U.S. could wipe away a special immigration policy that favors Cubans.
Thousands of undocumented Cuban migrants are stranded here, straining humanitarian agencies amid fears that the United States' immigration policy could soon change.
President Raúl Castro of Cuba on Saturday offered a somber assessment of his nation’s economic advances and warned that the United States — despite the historic thaw in relations — was still intent on changing Cuba’s communist system.
President Barack Obama and the first family touched down in Havana, Cuba, reopening diplomatic ties with the island nation after nearly 90 years of estrangement.
President Barack Obama arrived to small but cheering crowds on Sunday at the start of a historic visit to Cuba that opened a new chapter in U.S. engagement with the island's Communist government after decades of hostility between the former Cold War foes.
