The American flag was hoisted Friday over the U.S. Embassy in Cuba
for the first time in more than half a century, marking the end of a
Cold War-era diplomatic freeze between two countries 90 miles apart.
"We are gathered here because our leaders made a
courageous decision to stop being prisoners of history," Secretary of
State John Kerry declared. He is the highest-ranking U.S. official to
visit the communist island since World War II.
"My friends, it doesn't take a GPS to realize
that the road of mutual isolation and estrangement that the United
States and Cuba were traveling is not the right one and that the time
has come for us to move in a more promising direction," Kerry said. "In
the United States, that means recognizing that U.S. policy is not the
anvil on which Cuba's future will be forged."
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