President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro “symbolically ended more than five decades of hostility between their nations, with a meeting on Saturday on the sidelines of a summit of countries from across the Americas,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“It was the first substantive meeting between U.S. and Cuban presidents since 1956.”
New York Times: “If Mr. Obama was ready to forget past grudges, Mr. Castro was not. He gave a lengthy speech on Saturday that included a recitation of Cuban grievances against the United States — including its support for Fulgencio Batista, the Bay of Pigs invasion and its opening of the prison at Guantánamo Bay — sometimes pounding the table for emphasis. But Mr. Castro also made clear that he did not blame Mr. Obama for the legacy of bad blood between their two countries.”
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