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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