Obama Says Cuba Trip to `Bury the Last Remnant' of Cold War
- In televised speech, Obama declares he wants to end isolation
- Baseball with Castro draws rebuke from human rights advocate
Obama: We Don't View Cuba as a Threat to U.S.
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President Barack Obama appealed to the Cuban people to realize their potential with a more open, dynamic economy and leaned on the Cuban government to improve its human rights record, casting his visit to the country as a final repudiation of outdated ideology.
“My lifetime has spanned a time of isolation between us,” Obama, born a year after the of the US. trade embargo began, said in a speech directly to the Communist nation’s people, broadcast from the baroque Grand Theater of Havana. “I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.”