Thaw at last: Cuba and the US get talking
Source: The New Internationalist
The restoration of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba announced on Wednesday is welcome – and long overdue.
Cubans have been celebrating in Havana. And – not that you’d guess from some of the news reporting from Miami – it’s been welcomed by Cubans living in the US too.
The fiercely anti-Castro lobby that reporters go to when wanting ‘the Cuban exile view’ is now in a minority. This is partly due to demographic change as the hardliners grow old or die and a new generation of Cubans living in the US want relations between the two countries to be ‘normalized’.