Marekani yasimamisha bendera Cuba baada ya miaka 54

MK254 · 2015-08-15T14:20:42+00:00

Late US writer Ernest Hemingway's former home has been turned into a museum outside Havana, Cuba Secretary of State John Kerry was seen at the museum using a cane for support, as he still heals from a bicycle accident in France two months ago The cane is on loan from the Kennedy family has has been used by JFK, Joseph B Kennedy and Ted Kennedy The Secretary of State was in the country for a flag-raising ceremony at the US embassy in Havana Cuba ceremony follows official reopening of the island's embassy in Washington in the middle of last month John Kerry becomes first Secretary of State to visit the island since World War II at ceremony outside embassy US and Cuban officials continue to press for end to embargo, which can only be lifted by Congress By KELLY MCLAUGHLIN and CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and REUTERS PUBLISHED: 10:00 GMT, 14 August 2015 | UPDATED: 12:43 GMT, 15 August 2015 1.6kshares 215View comments Secretary of State John Kerry visited the former home of late US writer Ernest Hemingway in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, on Friday and brought a little history of his own by using Former President John F Kennedys cane for support. Kerry was in the country for an American flag-raising ceremony at the US embassy in Havana, the first of its kind in 54 years. It came four weeks after the United States and Cuba formally renewed diplomatic relations and upgraded their diplomatic missions to embassies. After the ceremony Kerry, the first secretary of state to visit Cuba in 70 years, took a trip to Hemingways house, which has been converted into a museum, called the Finca Vigia. He walked the streets of Cuba using a cane - loaned to him by the Kennedy family - for support as he still heals from a bicycle accident in France two months ago. Scroll down for video +32 Secretary of State John Kerry tours Finca Vigia (Lookout Farm), the former home of late U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway in San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, on Friday while using Former President John F Kennedy's cane for support while his leg, hurt in a bicycle accident two months ago, heals +32 Kerry looks a typewriter that was used by Hemingway as he tours the writer's former home, which has since been turned into a museum +32 Kerry was in Cuba for an American flag-raising ceremony at the US embassy in Havana, the first of its kind in 54 years, which came four weeks after the two countries formally renewed diplomatic relations +32 Kerry peruses one of the several bookshelves in Hemingway's former home. While at the museum, Kerry used a cane that had been loaned to him by the Kennedy family +32 Kerry looks over items on Hemingway's desk, which include animal figures, photographs, a quill pen, magnifying glass and several other objects +32 Kerry examines one of the stuffed animals hanging from the Havana museum's walls. Kerry was in the country four weeks after Cuba and the United states estored diplomatic relations July 20, as part of efforts to normalize ties between the former Cold War foes Far before it was in Kerrys hands, the special silver-tipped cane belonged to Joseph B Kennedy during World War II, according to TIME. Soon after, President John F Kennedy suffered back injuries and used the cane when he experienced bad pains. Seven months after JFK was assassinated in 1963, Former Senator Ted Kennedy broke his back in a plane crash, which led him to use the cane on and off for the rest of his life. This is the third time Kerry has been loaned the cane by the Kennedy family. While in Hemingways Havana house, Kerry took time to look at bookshelves and other objects and structures in the museum. Kerry had visited the museum after attending the flag-raising ceremony, where he was accompanied by aides, members of Congress and three US Marines who last lowered the flag there in January 1961 as thousands of Cubans lined up outside the embassy to see the banner rise again. While the Cubans celebrated with a flag-raising in Washington on July 20, the Americans waited until Kerry could travel to Havana, where he gave a speech about the future of the country and its relationship to the United States. +32 +32 Former President John F Kennedy (left) and Secretary of State John Kerry (right) are seen using the same cane, which has been part of the Kennedy family for decades +32 This is Kerry's third time using the Kennedy family's cane. Ted Kennedy's widow, Victoria Kennedy, holds on to the cane and has lent it to Kerry on multiple occasions +32 Hemingway, pictured here in front of his hilltop home in Cuba, purchased the house in 1940. It has since been turned into a museum that is open to the public John Kerry strolls through the picturesque Old Havana more 'For more than half a century US-Cuba relations have been suspended in the amber of Cold War politics,' Kerry said in an address before the flag raising that included sections in Spanish and was broadcast on Cuban state television. However, he also acknowledged that there was still more work to do in terms of reconnecting the neighboring countries and that the 'establishment of normal diplomatic relations is not something that one country does as a favor to another'. 'The embargo has always been something or a two way street. Both sides need to remove restrictions that have been holding Cubans back,' Kerry said. 'We remain convinced the people of Cuba would be best served by a genuine democracy, where people are free to choose their leaders'. Washington severed diplomatic ties with Havana as relations soured soon after the 1959 Cuban Revolution led by the island's former president Fidel Castro. +32 Marines raised the American flag at the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on Friday, the first time the banner has flown at the building since 1961 +32 The flag raising followed the reopening of the Cuban Embassy in Washington last month. Above, the banner is raised in front of three vintage cars parked behind it +32 Three Marines who brought the flag down for the last time 54 years ago, (from left) Mike East, Jim Tracy and Larry Morris, were present at the ceremony and handed a flag over to be raised +32 Secretary of State John Kerry spoke at the flag raising and praised the reestablishment of diplomatic relations, but said that 'the people of Cuba would be best served by a genuine democracy' Cubans and tourists cheer on flag raising at U.S Embassy more videos 'The United States has had 10 new presidents. In a united Germany, the Berlin Wall is a fading memory. Freed from Soviet shackles, Central Europe is again home to thriving democracies'. In the crowd were Jim Tracy, Mike East, and Larry Morris, three Marines who had promised themselves raise the flag back over the Embassy on the day they brought in down 54 years ago. Kerry said, 'Larry, Jim, Mike. This is your cue to deliver on words that would make any diplomat proud, just as they would any member of the United States Marine Corps: "Promise made, promise kept."' The three Marines delivered a folded flag to a trio of active duty soldiers who raised it Friday morning. In a speech with tempered excitement, the Secretary praised the deal that reestablished relations, as well the Cuban-American community in the US. 'My friends, it doesnt take a GPS to realize that the road of mutual isolation and estrangement that the United States and Cuba were traveling was not the right one and that the time has come for us to move in a more promising direction.' U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Cuba for symbolic flag-raising more videos +32 The three Marines who brought down the flag 54 years ago were unsure if they would ever return to the island where they were stationed. Above, they hold the US flag at Friday's ceremony +32 Three Marines currently stationed in Cuba raised the American flag at the Embassy after a speech by Kerry. The ceremony followed months of negotiations about the reestablishment of relations between the US and its neighbor AMERICAN-CUBAN RELATIONS SINCE THE ISLAND'S 1959 REVOLUTION 1959: After leading a guerrilla campaign against US-backed dictator Jose Bautista, Fidel Castro and his army take power in the country. 1960: Cuba becomes more friendly with the Soviet Union and nationalizes all foreign assets on the island. The US retaliates with a partial embargo. January 1961: The US breaks off diplomatic relations with Cuba and the embassy in Havana closes. April 1961: Cuban exiles backed by the CIA are defeated in the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion February 1962: President John F Kennedy imposes a complete trade embargo on Cuba. October 1962: The US and the Soviet Union endure thirteen days of tense negotiations after the USSR brought missiles to a base in Cuba. The situation is eventually deescalated as the Soviets withdrew the missiles and the US took nuclear missiles out of Turkey. 1977: The administration of President Jimmy Carter and Cuban officials reach an agreement to establish interest sections in Washington and Havana, though the smaller missions are not full embassies. 1996: Congress passes and President Bill Clinton signs the Helms-Burton Act, which tightens the embargo and creates conditions for removing it including the removal of Fidel Castro and his brother Raul from power. 2008: Fidel Castro steps down as president of Cuba, handing power over to his more moderate brother Raul December 2014: In a deal brokered by the Vatican and Pope Francis, President Barack Obama and Raul Castro announce that they are moving towards reestablishing diplomatic ties. Obama announces easing on travel restrictions to the island and calls for an end to the embargo. May 2015: Amid continued negotiations about reestablishing ties, the US removes Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, a major barrier to normalized relations. July 20, 2015: The US and Cuba both reopen embassies in Havana and Washington, respectively. Neither of the countries appoints an ambassador, according to CFR.com. August 14, 2015: Secretary of State John Kerry travels to Cuba, the first to do so since World War II. He and the three Marines who took the American flag down in January 1961 watch as the banner is raised again. +32 The US has kept a special interest section in Cuba since 1977, though the reestablishment of relations has turned it to an embassy. Above, children look out at both the US and Cuban flags after the ceremony Marines who lowered flag at US embassy return to Cuba more videos Kerry also thanked the Vatican and Pope Francis for helping broker the reestablishment in relations and the government of Switzerland for housing the American mission over the last decades. The seven-story seafront building in Havana and Cuba's mansion in Washington were closed from 1961 until 1977, when they reopened as interests sections, with the US building technically on Swiss land. Seeking to end the long hostilities, Cuban President Raul Castro and President Barack Obama announced last December they would restore diplomatic ties, reopen embassies and work to normalize relations. Obama has also used executive power to relax some US travel and trade restrictions, but the Republican-controlled Congress has resisted his call to end America's wider economic embargo. The Obama administration says Washington's long policy of trying to force change in Communist-governed Cuba through isolation did not work. Kerry told Univision television ahead of his trip he hoped to see a 'transformation' begin to take place. +32 +32 The push for diplomatic relations began in 2013 and was brokered by Pope Francis and the Vatican. Above, crowds gather on the Havana streets (left) and a man uses binoculars to look out at the ceremony +32 Thousands of Cubans reportedly gathered outside the ceremony in Havana, carrying both American and Cuban flags for the occasion +32 The flag raising and reopening of embassies follows a warming in relations between the US and Cuba announced last year that has included fewer travel restrictions on Americans going to the island. Above, a man holds the American flag near the embassy 'More people will travel. There will be more exchange. More families will be reconnected. And hopefully, the government of Cuba will itself make decisions that will begin to change things.' He said during his Friday speech that American travel to the island had already increased 35 per cent since January. Friday's ceremony also included a poem written by Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco specifically for the event, called Matters Of The Sea, or Cosas Del Mar. The Secretary of State also met with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez and Havana Archbishop Jaime Ortega. In a press conference with Rodriguez, Kerry said that beyond lingering questions about the US embargo, he sees opportunities for the two countries to work together in areas such as human trafficking and health. +32 Kerry expressed hope during his speeches that the reestablishment of relations would allow US diplomats more direct contact with the Cuban people. Above a woman takes a selfie with the Secretary of State using her tablet +32 After meetings with officials including the foreign minister, the Secretary of State visited the attractions of Havana. Above, Kerry looks into a classic American car in the Old Havana neighborhood of Cuba's capital +32 The easing of travel restrictions for Americans have already brought 35 per cent more US tourists to the island this year. Above, Kerry looks at cigar humidors with historian Eusebio Leal in Old Havana +32 Kerry has said that the US will press for human rights in Cuba, though his remark was met with a response from the Cuban foreign minister about racism in the US. Above, Kerry visits a statue of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, a planter who freed his slaves in the 19th century However, he said that the United State would continue to press for human rights on the island, which his Cuban counterpart responded to firmly. 'Cuba is not a place where there are acts of racial discrimination or police brutality that result in deaths; nor is it under Cuban jurisdiction the territory where people are tortured or held in a legal limbo,' Rodriguez said at the conference. Kerry was not scheduled to meet either Fidel or Raul Castro, though the latter had met with Obama at a summit earlier this year. A flag at the ambassadorial residence in western Havana, where Charge dAffairs Jeffrey DeLaurentis lives, will be raised around 4pm. The Secretary will meet Cuban dissidents at the US embassy residence in Havana on Friday. HIGHLIGHTS OF SECRETARY JOHN KERRY'S SPEECH IN HAVANA On the length of time without diplomatic relations: 'For more than half a century, U.S.-Cuban relations have been suspended in the amber of Cold War politics. In the interim, a whole generation of Americans and Cubans have grown up and grown old. The United States has had ten new presidents. In a united Germany, the Berlin Wall is a fading memory. Freed from Soviet shackles, Central Europe is again home to thriving democracies' On Cuba's future: New technologies enabled people everywhere to benefit from shared projects across vast stretches of ocean and land. My friends, it doesnt take a GPS to realize that the road of mutual isolation and estrangement that the United States and Cuba were traveling was not the right one and that the time has come for us to move in a more promising direction. In the United States, that means recognizing that U.S. policy is not the anvil on which Cubas future will be forged. Decades of good intentions aside, the policies of the past have not led to a democratic transition in Cuba. It would be equally unrealistic to expect normalizing relations to have, in a short term, a transformational impact. After all, Cubas future is for Cubans to shape. Responsibility for the nature and quality of governance and accountability rests, as it should, not with any outside entity; but solely within the citizens of this country. On the Cuban-American community But above all, above all, I want to pay tribute to the people of Cuba and to the Cuban American community in the United States. Jose Marti once said that everything that divides menis a sin against humanity. Clearly, the events of the past the harsh words, the provocative and retaliatory actions, the human tragedies all have been a source of deep division that has diminished our common humanity. There have been too many days of sacrifice and sorrow; too many decades of suspicion and fear. That is why I am heartened by the many on both sides of the Straits who whether because of family ties or a simple desire to replace anger with something more productive have endorsed this search for a better path. On the Marines who lowered the flag 54 years ago: It is with that healing mission in mind that I turn now to Larry Morris, Jim Tracey, and Mike East. Fifty-four years ago, you gentlemen promised to return to Havana and hoist the flag over the United States Embassy that you lowered on that January day long ago. Today, I invite you on behalf of President Obama and the American people to fulfill that pledge by presenting the Stars and Stripes to be raised by members of our current military detachment. Dissidents were not invited to the morning flag-raising in deference to the Cuban government, which sees dissidents as American-sponsored mercenaries. Politicians such as senator presidential candidate Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, have criticized the policy change and event, calling it 'propaganda for the Castro regime,' according to CNN. 'Secretary Kerry's visit is especially insulting for Cuba's dissidents,' said Jeb Bush, another Republican candidate and former governor of Florida, which has a large Cuban population. US officials said that there was 'limited space' for dissidents at the flag raising. During his press conference with Rodriguez, Kerry said that he was hopeful that future American presidents would not try to undo the progress in relations between the US and Cuba and that previous policies of 'isolation' had not worked. +32 Kerry said that despite ideological differences with Cuba, the United States sees possibilities of work in areas such as human trafficking and environmental protection +32 Kerry was the first Secretary of State to visit Cuba since World War II. Above, he meets with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Friday 'I can't imagine a Republican or Democrat just throwing it out the window,' Kery said. Restored diplomatic ties mean US diplomats can travel more freely and increase staff. Cuba has also reduced the number of security guards who keep on eye on Cubans going in and out. The task of bringing overall relations back to a normal state is more complicated. Cuba wants the United States to end the embargo, return the naval base at Guantanamo Bay in eastern Cuba, and halt radio and television signals beamed into Cuba. On Thursday, Fidel Castro turned 89 and said in a rare public appearance that the US owes his country 'many millions of dollars' because of the embargo. The Americans will press Cuba on human rights, the return of fugitives granted asylum and the claims of Americans whose property was nationalized after Fidel Castro came to power. +32 The US broke off relations with Cuba after saying that 'There is a limit to what the United States in self respect can endure'. Above, a file photo from 1961 with three 'unidentified' embassy employees furl up an American flag on January 7 after it was taken down THE DAY THAT AMERICA BROKE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH CUBA The United States broke diplomatic relations with Cuba on January 3, 1961, after escalating tensions between the neighbors separated by only 90 miles of water. President Dwight Eisenhower made the decision in the final month of his presidency, issuing a statement that said: 'There is a limit to what the United States in self respect can endure. That limit has now been reached'. American officials cited for the break the ultimatum by the Cuban government that the US should decrease its diplomatic staff at its offices down to 11 people, according to an AP report from the time. The Castro regime reportedly responded to the statement by saying, 'Cuba is alert'. President-elect John F Kennedy, who would later lead the US during the failed Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, reportedly had no comment on the news. Many politicians said that they had seen the move coming. Suspecting an end to relations, long lines of Cubans looking to get visas to go to the US gathered outside the embassy during the day. US Embassy Treasurer Stewart Adams had been detained over questions about his Cuban maid, according to an AAP Reuters report from the time. The United States asked Switzerland to handle its consular duties at the same time as the announcement of the break. A ship from the West Indian Fruit and Steamship company took embassy staff and other Americans to Florida as the State Department urged US citizens to leave the island. A few top officials, as well as the three Marines who took down the flag, were left behind for several days to close the embassy. +32 The US broke off diplomatic ties with Cuba on January 3, 1961, during the last month of the Eisenhower administration. Above, lines of Cubans outside the embassy the day relations were cut +32 The photo above shows the Swiss flag flying in front of the US Embassy building in Cuba in 1963. The Swiss took over American interests when the US broke relations with Cuba in 1961 +32 Former president Fidel Castro said the day before the ceremony that the US owes Cuba 'many millions'. Above, Castro is shown on on his 89th birthday, with Bolivian President Evo Morales (C) and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Havana +32 Officials on both sides have said that there is more work to do in normalizing relations, though the US lifting its embargo on Cuba can only be done by Congress. Above, the Embassy on Friday Read more: Kerry to reopen embassy in Cuba but tensions remain - CNNPolitics.com www.cfr.org/cuba... The Age - Google News Archive Search John Kerry Used a Kennedy Family Cane at Diplomatic Meetings in Asia Read more: John Kerry walks through Ernest Hemingway's former home in Cuba | Daily Mail Online Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

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