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A President’s Legacy: The Obama Years – Cuba

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AURN Newsroom
December 19, 2016

(Left) President Barack Obama with Cuban President Raul Castro during a welcoming ceremony at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba. (Middle) U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his speech at the Grand Theater of Havana, Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Obama who is in Cuba in a trailblazing trip said he came to Cuba to "bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas. (Right) Back dropped by a monument depicting Cuba's revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara, U.S. President Barack Obama listens to the U.S. national anthem during a ceremony. (AP Photos)

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(Left) President Barack Obama with Cuban President Raul Castro during a welcoming ceremony at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba. (Middle) U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his speech at the Grand Theater of Havana, Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Obama who is in Cuba in a trailblazing trip said he came to Cuba to "bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas. (Right) Back dropped by a monument depicting Cuba's revolutionary hero Ernesto "Che" Guevara, U.S. President Barack Obama listens to the U.S. national anthem during a ceremony. (AP Photos) — (Left) President Barack Obama with Cuban President Raul Castro during a welcoming ceremony at the Palace of the Revolution in Havana, Cuba. (Middle) U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his speech at the Grand Theater of Havana, Tuesday, March 22, 2016. Obama who is in Cuba in a trailblazing trip said he came to Cuba to “bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas. (Right) Back dropped by a monument depicting Cuba’s revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara, U.S. President Barack Obama listens to the U.S. national anthem during a ceremony. (AP Photos)

Another historic moment for the President Barack Obama, moving to restore relations with Cuba which had been severed in 1961 during the Cold War.

Allegra Johnson reports…

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