Giant Cuban flags hung from the balconies of nearby apartment ... newly emblazoned with the letters "Embassy of the United States of America." Cuban-American poet Richard Blanco, who read a ...

It was the peak of the Cold War and the Cuban Missile Crisis was in full swing. Now, all those years later, Kraemer finds himself about to witness the American flag rising atop the U.S. Embassy in ...

Marines return to Cuba to witness the raising of the American flag. — -- The three Marines who took down the American flag at the U.S. embassy in 1961 were on hand in Havana once again today ...

Polls indicate the American people do, as well. On July 20, before a huge and joyous crowd, the flag went up at the Cuban embassy in Washington, and the American embassy opened in Havana (with the ...

Cuba’s blue, red and white-starred flag was hoisted Monday at the country’s embassy in Washington, signaling the start of a new post-Cold War era in U.S.-Cuba relations. Cuban Foreign Minister ...

In a historic moment in US-Cuba relations, the Stars and Stripes flag has been raised over the restored American embassy in Havana. Secretary of State John Kerry had travelled to Havana to lead ...

HAVANA — A jubilant flag-raising at the reopened U.S. Embassy in Havana is giving way to serious talk about the road ahead in improving relations between the United States and Cuba. Capping off ...

HAVANA -- Jubilant crowds waved American flags and chanted "Long live the United States!" as the Stars and Stripes rose over the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in Cuba on Friday after a half-century ...