Recent political shifts make this the right moment to build a new relationship,
including formal diplomatic ties.
For the first time in more than 50 years, shifting politics in the
United States and changing policies in Cuba make it politically feasible
to re-establish formal diplomatic relations and dismantle the senseless
embargo. The Castro regime has long blamed the embargo for its
shortcomings, and has kept ordinary Cubans largely cut off from the
world. Mr. Obama should seize this opportunity to end a long era of
enmity and help a population that has suffered enormously since
Washington ended diplomatic relations in 1961, two years after Fidel
Castro assumed power.
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La Habana en junio de 2011.Credit
Desmond Boylan/Reuters
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