President Barak Obama has termed
the changing relations with Cuba as a new chapter in history.
It was an year ago, President
Obama and President of Cuba Raul Castro shook hands at a ceremony after the
death of South African patron Nelson Mandela to create a political and
diplomatic murmur across the world.
On Tuesday, both the leaders
talked to each other for 45 minutes over telephone to discuss the relations
between the two countries. The White House has announced that it is seriously
interested in changing the old way of thinking as it has benefited neither of
the countries.
And on the other side Havana says
that the two countries have agreed to resume the diplomatic relations, which
has never seen the day of light since 1959 when Fidel Castro overturned the
America backed Batista government and right after that nationalized all the US
enterprises in the country. The situation further withered in the 60s with the
Cuban missile crisis when USSR (now Russia) planted ballistic missiles on the
Cuban mainland to keep the US in check.
Cuba, in its gesture of goodwill,
has released Allan Gross, a US citizen who was arrested on charges of
espionage. And the US has reciprocated by freeing three Cuban national as a
sign of recognition.
Obama has used his presidential
prerogative to free the Cubans, but the economic sanctions cannot be lifted
without the Congress' consent. And if the experts are to be believed, Obama
will have a hard time convincing the Congress. The Cuban Cigars and beeches are
still very famous in the US.
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