WASHINGTON (AP) – How does one end almost 54 years of hostility toward a next-door neighbor?
That’s about to become clear as the Obama administration and the communist government of Raul Castro move to normalize more than a half-century of bitter animosity between the United States and Cuba.
It won’t happen overnight. Some of the likely steps:
RESTORING FULL DIPLOMATIC TIES:
While international relations can be subject to laws passed by Congress, the White House enjoys broad discretion in diplomatic recognition. An exchange of diplomatic notes between Washington and Havana would be enough to normalize diplomatic relations, but that must be preceded by agreement on a series of separate understandings that would govern those ties.