American President in Cuba after 88 years!
posted on Feb 19, 2016 @ 3:54PM
- The American President is going to visit Cuba after a span of 88 years
- Cuba has been the most hostile nation towards US along with Soviet Russia.
- Calvin Coolidge was the last U.S. president to visit Cuba in 1928.
- After the communist revolution in Cuba in 1959, US has severed its ties with the country.
- The relations between both the countries were so tense that they almost gone for a nuclear war.
- Fidel Castro, the leader of cuba till 2011 was considered to be a die hard enemy for US.
- According to the Castro supporters, hundreds of attempts were made by CIA to eliminate Castro.
- Ever since his brother Raul Castro became the supremo of Cuba, things began to get softer.
- In 2015 both Cuba and US have restored their diplomatic relations by reopening their embassies.
- But some American leaders are still sceptical in maintaining good relations with Cuba. They blame Cuba to be governed by an oppressive regime which ignores human rights and democratic choice.
- And here is a tiny piece that might stun the preachers of Universal brotherhood- Cuba is just 90 miles away from US!