U.S. and Cuba restore full diplomatic relations after 54 years
*[tweet_dis]The American flag will not fly in Havana until Scretary of State John Kerry visits Cuba in August. [/tweet_dis]VL
By Associated Press/Fox News Latino
WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States and Cuba restored full diplomatic relations Monday after more than five decades of frosty relations rooted in the Cold War.
[pullquote]Without ceremony in the pre-dawn hours, maintenance hung the Cuban flag in the lobby of the State Department.[/pullquote]The new era began with little fanfare when an agreement between the two nations to resume normal ties on July 20 came into force just after midnight Sunday and the diplomatic missions of each country were upgraded from interests sections to embassies. When clocks struck 12:00 in Washington and Havana, they tolled a knell for policy approaches spawned and hardened over the five decades since President John F. Kennedy first tangled with youthful revolutionary Fidel Castro over Soviet expansion in the Americas.
Without ceremony in the pre-dawn hours, maintenance hung the Cuban flag in the lobby of the State Department alongside those of other nations with which the U.S. has diplomatic relations.
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