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...mention it today—as a turning point in attitudes of many U.S. citizens toward Cuba,” Richard A. Lockshin said. He even quit the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, which he had been a member of, after Castro’s visit.A HAVANA HARBINGERCastro’s visit to Harvard and to the United States in general marked a decisive time for Cuban-American relations. Prior to his visit, a New York Times article even said that the visit was, in some ways, the most important test that Castro had faced thus far. Seen...
...love of salsa dancing. “We met my freshman year. We both dance salsa and I went to take his salsa class,” Gandia said. “Months later, I went out to dance salsa in Central Square at a place called the Havana Club, and he was there. We started dancing.” The pair grew to be quick friends and salsa partners, but did not become romantic for several years. “We were both in relationships, and from my freshman year up until my junior year we were friends...
...politics and U.S. hegemony that burdened the region in the 20th century. Calls for Washington to lift its 47-year-old trade embargo against Cuba have rarely been louder, especially since President Barack Obama, who is popular in Latin America, seems to be opening the door to dialogue with Havana. And last year, regional powerhouse Brazil ushered Cuba into the Rio Group, Latin America's major multilateral organization. (See TIME's photo history of Fidel Castro's years in power...
...summit's marquee issue, largely because other Latin leaders see the embargo as a reflection of how Washington treats them as well. Before leaving for Trinidad, Obama eliminated restrictions on Cuban-American travel and remittances to the island - a gesture that effectively threw the ball, as Obama said, into Havana's court. To everyone's surprise, Cuban President Raul Castro - who is making a serious push to have his country readmitted to hemispheric groups like the Organization of Americans States - responded by saying he was "willing to talk" about matters like the scores of jailed dissidents in Cuba. Obama kept...
...granted a perpetual lease on its naval base at Guantánamo Bay (not). For the next half-century the two countries more or less cooperated, with the U.S. helping to squash rebellions and heavily investing in the economy of its tiny neighbor. The American mafia used Havana as a conference center in 1946. Ernest Hemingway lived there for 22 years; he wrote The Old Man and the Sea at his villa just outside the capital...