cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45338079

[a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast]

In 2014, something historic happened. The U.S. admitted that decades of economic war toward Cuba had failed — and chose engagement instead. Historian Peter Kornbluh recalls the moment Barack Obama and Raúl Castro announced the opening on live television. “It was everything we had worked for,” he says.