One year after President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced the re-opening of an American embassy in Havana, and more than 50 years after the Eisenhower administration cut ties with the island nation’s communist regime, Mr. Obama says he’ll consider a trip to Cuba before the end of his term. If “we’re seeing some progress in the liberty and freedom and possibilities of ordinary Cubans, I’d love to use a visit as a way of highlighting that progress. … I’m not interested in validating the status quo,” Obama told Yahoo! News’s Olivier Knox in an extended interview released today. Although the United States embargo continues, Obama’s administration has…
Source: Dutch Caribbean News Obama to Cuba? President lays out conditions for visit
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