Tom Hudson

President Barack Obama and his family with Cuban President Raul Castro at an exhibition baseball game between the Cuban National team and the MLB Tampa Bay Rays in Havana.

Obama to Cuba: ‘I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas’

March 22, 2016Global Politics

President Barack Obama’s speech to Cubans today featured echoes of Ronald Reagan’s 1987 plea to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

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