Kerry in Havana Says U.S. and Cuba Aren’t Prisoners of Past
(Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking at a flag-raising ceremony at the reopened U.S. embassy in Havana, says President Obama and Cuban Presdient Raul Castro “made a courageous decision to stop being prisoners of history.” (This is an excerpt of Kerry's remarks. Source: Bloomberg)
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John Kerry, the first U.S. secretary of state to visit Cuba since 1945, told guests at the reopened American embassy in Havana that the two nations’ leaders “made a courageous decision to stop being prisoners of history.”
After more than a half century “suspended in the amber of Cold War politics,” Kerry said before the American flag was raised in front of the embassy on Friday, “the time has come for us to move in a more promising direction.”