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user-inactivated  ·  3633 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: U.S. to Restore Full Diplomatic Relations With Cuba

    In a deal negotiated during 18 months of secret talks hosted largely by Canada and encouraged by Pope Francis, who hosted a final meeting at the Vatican, Mr. Obama and President Raúl Castro of Cuba agreed in a telephone call to put aside decades of hostility to find a new relationship between the United States and the island nation just 90 miles off the American coast.

How on earth did they keep this a secret?