MIAMI (Reuters) - Barack Obama's historic talks with Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday were the culmination of a long quest by the U.S. president that included meetings with moderate Cuban-Americans frustrated with the hardliners in their own community who refused to engage Havana.
The Obama-Castro meeting in Panama followed a breakthrough agreement by the two men last December to work towards normalising relations, including seeking to restore diplomatic ties that Washington broke off in 1961.
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