U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro said today they would begin normalizing relations between the two nations, a deal brokered by Pope Francis and aided by the generational shift in Florida’s Cuban-American community.
The action means not simply the opening of a U.S. embassy in Havana but the lifting of some of the restrictions that have limited travel and commerce and kept aficionados from legally bringing Cuban cigars to U.S. soil.
