Stories on Cuban-American relations is on going. More will be posted.
On Friday, August 14, marines raised the US flag at the new Cuban Embassy in Havana. This event, attended by John Kerry as well as several American lawmakers, has come after months of negotiations in various places around the world, including the Vatican.
The embassy has been greeted with both bad and good reactions. Some say that the normalization of relations will bring us back into the international trading world. Others say that America should not start having relations because the Castros are still in power.
The three marines, Larry Morris, Mike East, and Jim Tracy, are actually the same marines that lowered the flag in 1961. Jim Tracy admitted that he thought about raising the flag.
Another reason lawmakers believe this is a good idea is because America might be able to get Assata Shakur and William Guillermo Morales back into America and into prison. Shakur escaped prison in 1979 after killing a New Jersey state trooper. She is currently living in Cuba. Morales is a Puerto Rican separatist who put a bomb in a New York military installation. He also has lived in Cuba since escaping from the hospital where he had been confined by the police.
“Let me be clear: The establishment of normal diplomatic relations is not something that one government does as favor to another,” said Kerry, the first U.S. secretary of state to visit the communist-led island nation since 1945. “It is something that two countries do together when the citizens of both will benefit.” He added, however: “Cuba’s future is for Cubans to shape.”
Cubans will shape their future- and we can only watch.
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