The US is preparing to reopen its embassy in Havana on Friday, more than 54 years after it was closed.
The US embassy was closed in 1961 when the US President Dwight D Eisenhover(34th US President)
severed diplomatic ties with the Cuban Government of then 34-year-old Fidel
Castro.
From 1961 until 1977, the embassy was
protected by the Swiss but remained unused, collecting dust as monument
to a tortured relationship between Cuba and the United States.
Then
the embassy reopened as an Interests Section, staffed with 51 U.S.
diplomats but officially part of the Swiss mission to Havana.
On July 20,2015 the diplomatice ties between USA and Cuba restored and on the same day, Cubans officials officially reopened Cuban embassy in Washington,USA
U.S. diplomats in Havana on July 20 marked the occasion in private
ceremonies exchanging American flags and hugs with each other and some
of the embassy's 300 Cuban employees
US Secretary of State John Kerry will attend a ceremony in the Cuban capital Havana that will signal the warming of ties between both countries.
John Kerry will be the highest-ranking US official to visit Cuba since Castro's 1959 revolution and the first secretary of state to visit the island in more than 70 years
Three marines who lowered the American flag for the last time on 4 January 1961 will raise it again during Friday's ceremony in Havana.
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