Breaking: US And Cuba Exchange Prisoners. Set To Normalize Relations?

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December 17, 2014

Breaking: US And Cuba Exchange Prisoners. Set To Normalize Relations?

—DrewM.

Cleaning up one of the last bits of the Cold War.

 

Cuba released U.S. citizen Alan Gross from prison Wednesday after five years in captivity. The U.S. released three alleged Cuban spies in return. The exchange is a result of a year of secret backtalks between the U.S. and Cuba. Raul Castro and President Obama will both speak, separately, around noon Eastern time.

 

Apparently the talks were and are so wide ranging as to encompass the resumption of diplomatic relations. The two countries have had official relations since the Eisenhower administration.