• Submitted by: Juana
• Havana
• United States
• Politics and Government
• 08 / 14 / 2015

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Cuba and the United States are living a historic day today after the official opening of the Embassy of the northern country on the island by John Kerry, US Secretary of State.
At the beginning of the flag-raising ceremony, the Cuban national anthem was played with the embassy´s limits for the first time in over 50 years.
Then, Kerry delivered a speech switching from English to Spanish several times in which he stressed that the road for normal relations is long but it must start this minute. "We have nothing to fear, because we will both benefit from it."
Also he said he was sure that the time of the approach of two countries that are no longer enemies or rivals but neighbors.

Larry Morris, Mike East and Jim Tracy, the three Marines that were in charge of lowering the US banner from the pole in front of the embassy 54 years ago, gave that standard to the three young Marines who unfurled the US flag today for the first time after 1961.

source: www.cibercuba.com