Africa: Cuban Pragmatism, a People's Victory

editorial

In 1973, Cuba's revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, reportedly said that the normalisation of relations between the Caribbean island and the United States would take place when the latter had a black president and when there was a Latin American pope.

The prophetic word came to pass when on December 17, 2014 Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro announced the thawing of relations between the US and Cuba.

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