US, Cuba to announce embassy openings Wednesday

Fox News ^ | June 30, 2015 | (Lucas Tomlinson, Kevin Corke and the Associated Press)

[Olog-hai]

President Obama will announce Wednesday that the U.S. and Cuba have reached an agreement to open embassies in Havana and Washington, an administration official confirmed to Fox News.

The announcement marks a major step in ending hostilities between the longtime foes and an opportunity to re-establish formal diplomatic relations.

The U.S. and Cuba have been negotiating the reestablishment of embassies in each other’s capitals following the Dec. 17 announcement that they would move to restore ties. …

[Zuben Elgenubi]

We’ll be able to get Habana Cohibas soon. This is the only benefit of this arrangement that I can see.

[SoFloFreeper]

...and the monies for this travesty was approved by Congress, right?

[SevenofNine]

Can we get 1957 chevys and Cuban cigars LOL!

[Popman]

I wonder how many bugs the Cubans will try and place in our embassy...

On second thought, why waste the equipment..?

Just ask Obama...

[blackdog]

Alan Greenspan and his wife Andrea Mitchell have expressed real concern that Cuba may now just let plain simple Americans walk on their private beach. There may even (shudder at the thought) be resumed commercial air service to and from Cuba.

Poor Andrea Mitchell. The commoners are on their way.

[alpo]

We...get Cohibas

Yeah and Fidel won’t have to go to Spain to get his health care.

Probably already has a suite reserved at Walter Reed.

[Rome2000]

We currently have a communist moslem faggot foreign left wing dictator in the WH with a blackmailed bunch of degenerate homosexuals and lesbians on his "Supreme Court" as his allies.

Unless he is ready to start CWII, he will be gone soon.

The USA is Post Constitutional and the RIGHT WING DICTATOR IS COMING.

FU FIDEL CASTRO

DIE SCREAMING!!!!

[molson209]

Obama will visit soon and Party with the Castros

[EQAndyBuzz]

Paging Joann Chesmard. Ms. Chesmard to the green room please.

[keving]

Cuba has an Embassy in DC, and Missions in NY and SF. So we let them keep there embassy open and closed ours?OK Jimmy Carter already tried this almost 40 years ago.

*S and Cuban Interests Sections staffed by actual US and Cuban diplomats were mutually agreed upon in 1977 after the Carter Administration took office and decided to seek normalization of relations with Cuba. US officials replaced the Swiss in the US Interests Section in Havana on September 1, 1977. Both under the Swiss and later with US staff, the Section has occupied the former United States Embassy building on Havana's Malecon which was designed by Harrison & Abramovitz architects and originally entered into service in 1953. When relations were broken in 1961, the building was occupied, and its contents safeguarded, by the Swiss Embassy personnel who handled US Interests in Cuba on behalf of the US Government as the protecting power until the arrival of the US staff in 1977.

[Dagnabitt]

LOL. She’s good to go so long as Democrats are in power. The Democrat base considers her a hero.

[Cronos]

My two cents -- this will hasten the collapse of the Castro regime. When Fidel dies, Raul has not got the charisma. People will see that all the stories that have been told about the great northern evil (read Theodore Dalrymple's "The Wilder Shores of Marx") were lies.

They will turn against Raul and the remaining Castroists