Raúl Castro meets with President Obama on the sidelines of the 7th Summit of the Americas in Panama City, Panama in April, 2015. Estudio Revolucion/Xinhua/ZUMA
By Peter Kornbluh and William LeoGrande,
Mother Jonas
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How wild did things get? Secret missives, the pope, and artificial insemination wild.
On a rainy day last December, President Barack Obama gathered a small group of senior officials in the Oval Office and placed a telephone call [1] to Raúl Castro. Sitting on a couch to Obama's left were National Security Council aides Benjamin Rhodes and Ricardo Zuniga, personal emissaries whose 18 months of secret negotiations [2] were about to culminate in the first [3] substantive conversation between the presidents of the United States and Cuba in more than half a century. |
