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American stars and stripes are being spotted all around Cuba. — -- The American flag will be raised on Friday over the U.S. embassy in Havana for the first time in more than 50 years. While ...
HAVANA — The Stars and Stripes rose Friday over the newly opened US Embassy for the first time in 54 years, making a symbolically charged victory lap for the Obama administration’s new policy… ...
The event marked the first time a U.S. Secretary of State has set foot on the island since 1945. It will be a busy day for Kerry, as he’s expected to meet with his Cuban and Swiss counterparts ...
Editor’s Note: Rebecca Bodenheimer is a freelance writer and Cuba scholar with a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology. She writes on Cuba, American popular culture, identity and higher education. The views ...
MIAMI – After returning over the weekend from Cuba, where I saw the American flag fly atop the U.S. Embassy in Havana for the first time in 54 years, I handed my mother a little gift. U.S ...
The U.S. Embassy in Cuba reopened with a flag-raising ceremony earlier today, fifty-four years after the Embassy closed in one of the angriest standoffs of the Cold War. It was a sentimental and ...