{"id":3164,"date":"2014-12-17T14:52:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T19:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3164"},"modified":"2014-12-17T14:52:34","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T19:52:34","slug":"u-s-cuba-to-restore-ties-after-50-years-of-hostility-reuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=3164","title":{"rendered":"U.S., Cuba to restore ties after 50 years of hostility | Reuters"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.S., Cuba to restore ties after 50 years of hostility | Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Reuters) – The United States will restore diplomatic relations it severed with\u00a0Cuba\u00a0more than 50 years ago, a major policy shift ending decades of hostile ties with the communist-ruled island, President\u00a0Barack Obama\u00a0said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Announcing the end of what he called a “rigid” policy of isolation of\u00a0Cuba\u00a0that had been ineffective, Obama said the United States would move toward normal ties and would open an embassy inCuba.<\/p>\n

Obama discussed the changes with\u00a0Cuban President Raul Castro on Tuesday in a nearly hour-long telephone call. Castro spoke inCuba\u00a0as Obama made his announcement on a policy shift made possible by the release of American Alan Gross, 65, who had been imprisoned in\u00a0Cuba\u00a0for five years.<\/p>\n

Cuba\u00a0is also releasing an intelligence agent who spied for the United States and was held for nearly 20 years, and the United States in return freed three Cuban intelligence agents held in the United States.<\/p>\n

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U.S., Cuba to restore ties after 50 years of hostility | Reuters. (Reuters) – The United States will restore diplomatic relations it severed with\u00a0Cuba\u00a0more than 50 years ago, a major policy shift ending decades of hostile ties with the communist-ruled island, President\u00a0Barack Obama\u00a0said on Wednesday. Announcing the end of what he called a “rigid” policy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1983,1984,584,834,865],"class_list":["post-3164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-cuba","tag-havana","tag-obama","tag-us","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3165,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3164\/revisions\/3165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}