One year after President Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro announced the re-opening of an American embassy in Havana, and more than 50 years after the Eisenhower administration cut ties with the island nation’s communist regime, Mr. Obama says he’ll consider a trip to Cuba before the end of his term. If “we’re seeing some progress in the liberty and freedom and possibilities of ordinary Cubans, I’d love to use a visit as a way of highlighting that progress. … I’m not interested in validating the status quo,” Obama told Yahoo! News’s Olivier Knox in an extended interview released today. Although the United States embargo continues, Obama’s administration has…
Obama to Cuba? President lays out conditions for visit
