The historic handshake in Panama between the president of the United States, Barack Obama, and the president of Cuba, Raul Castro (brother and successor of Fidel) brings down the wall between the United States and Cuba which had lasted since 1961. It was by no means the It was the first time that XNUMX-year-old Obana and XNUMX-year-old Castro had seen each other but it was the first time that a Cuban president was able to speak at the Americas summit underway in Panama.
The time of the cold war is over. "We want to re-establish new diplomatic relations with Cuba and I will ask Congress to lift the sanctions and the economic blockade" said Obama who added: 2There are many things wrong in the history of the United States, for which we should apologize, but the strength of my country lies in its ability to correct itself, to change and to look back on the past. I'm not much interested in being a prisoner of facts that go back to when I wasn't even born."
Castro echoed him: "Obama is an honest man and is not to blame for history." Now Cuba is awaiting the Turkish invasion of the detested Yankees but the real challenge awaiting the United States is the ability to recover a positive relationship with all of Latin America, after too many political and military interferences of the past which often ended up feed extremism.
