Barack Obama and Raul Castro, the Cuban president will gather Friday in Panama for the Summit of the Americas. A historic peak doomed to seal the reconciliation between the US and Cuba after 53 years of antagonism.
Before Panama, Barack Obama's visit to Jamaica. A historic visit also because no American president had gone since Ronald Regan in 1982. Barack Obama met with the Prime Minister of this island in the Caribbean Sea, Portia Simpson-Miller.
"I never thought that everything can change overnight, suddenly overnight, Cuba would become a diplomatic partneaire like Jamaica is to us. it will take time, "Obama said before traveling to Panama.
Jedu evening, on the eve of the opening of the Summit of the Americas, a memorable meeting was held between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Cuban counterpart Bruno Rodriguez. the first meeting between officials at this level since 1958.
The Summit of the Americas brings together for two days thirty heads of state. Raul Castro and Barack Obama must attend a dinner for heads of state in the old Panama City Friday night but it will be mainly a question of initiating the thaw between the two countries since the Cold War enemies and solve many contentious issues inherited from more than half a century of fighting.
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