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MIAMI – After returning over the weekend from Cuba, where I saw the American flag fly atop the U.S. Embassy in Havana for the first time in 54 years, I handed my mother a little gift.
HAVANA — The Stars and Stripes rose Friday over the newly opened US Embassy for the first time in 54 years, making a symbolically charged victory lap for the Obama administration’s new policy… ...
Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco, who read a poem at Obama's second inauguration, was to read a new work before three Marines who lowered the flag at the embassy's closing in 1961 return to ...
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Havana, Cuba to watch Marines hoist the U.S. flag at the American Embassy there, a move marking the ceremonial re-opening of the facility as part ...
By MATTHEW LEEAP Diplomatic WriterWASHINGTON (AP) – The Cuban flag will soon be hung in the lobby of the State Department, joining those of other /news/cuban-flag-to-hang-in-state-dept-lobby-as ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- The American flag now flies over the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba for the first time in more than 50 years. Nationally it has been met with skepticism over Cuba's communist ...