On March 21, 2016, US President Barack Obama and Cuba’s leader Raul Castro held a historic joint news conference. Obama’s visit to Havana, the first made by an American president since Calvin Coolidge’s trip in 1928, was regarded as a seminal event in the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the Cold War-era adversaries. This trip, combined with America’s removal of Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list and Obama’s pledge to end the long-standing US trade embargo against the Caribbean island, has led many international observers to describe the improvement in US-Cuba bilateral relations as a “Cuban Thaw.” …read more
Source: The Huffington Post