Obama's handshake with Castro
Friday, December 20, 2013
Many who witnessed it because there has never been a handshake between a Cuban leader and an American president in the last half-century met their handshake with a lot of optimism. Indeed this was historic.
We all know that the US has maintained an embargo on Cuba for the last 50 years.
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