Ex-US diplomat looks back on 50 years of ties with Cuba
Ex-US diplomat looks back on 50 years of ties with Cuba
By Aldo Gamboa (AFP) 52 mins ago in World .
As the US diplomats headed out to sea, their embassy in Havana closed but still visible on the horizon, the lights in its windows flickered.
One of the travelers that day in 1961 was Wayne Smith, who would later become head of the US interests section in Cuba.
Smith has had a front row seat as Cuban-American relations have evolved and now head for restoration, with the opening of embassies later this month as announced last week by Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro.
Now 83, Smith remembers that day of departure: helping close the embassy on January 3, 1961 after the United States severed relations with Fidel Castro's newly communist Cuba, and embarking on a Florida-bound ferry.
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