US President Barack Obama has told Cubans in an unprecedented live television address that he came to their country to open a new chapter in the relations between Washington and Havana.
“I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas,” Obama said on Tuesday during the speech, delivered at the Great Theater in Havana and broadcast on the island nation’s state-run television.
“Creo en el pueblo cubano,” he said, then repeating himself in English: “I believe in the Cuban people.”
“I have come here to extend the hand of friendship to the Cuban people,” he added, earning cheers and applause from the audience, which included Cuban President Raul Castro.
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