President Obama announced today the United States is establishing full diplomatic relations with Cuba, ending more than a half-century of official hostility. "To the Cuban people, America extends a hand of friendship," Obama said during a nationally televised press conference this afternoon.
Restrictions that have kept Cuban islanders landlocked for half a century have been mostly lifted according to a foreign ministry statement in the Central Committee's official newspaper, Granma.
[Remember Elian Gonzalez, the 6-year-old Cuban kid who became the center of a custody controversy in 2000? Well, that's him, now, with Cuban President Raul Castro, officially marking the ten-year anniversary of his return to Cuba. Pic via AP.]
