Cuba Ready to Exchange Diplomats, Raúl Castro Says

In the article “Cuba Ready to Exchange Diplomats, Raúl Castro Says” the main idea is that Cuba and the United States are ready to restore full diplomatic ties with one another. That means restoring embassies and also diplomats. On May 29^th, 2015, it is expected that Cuba will be removed from the state sponsored terrorist list. However, exchanging ambassadors and diplomats can only happen once Cuba is removed from the list and the U.S. and Cuba make a deal on abilities of the ambassadors. For example, American ambassadors are only allowed to stay within Havana, Cuba. They are not allowed to travel outside of that area. This is probably so they wouldn't see how poor the rest of Cuba is. Something the U.S. would want in the new deal is allow ambassadors to travel anywhere in Cuba they please. The same goes for Cuba though, usually, Cuban diplomats could not travel outside of Washington D.C. or New York if they were there for a United Nations meeting. The most important stipulation of the deal would be building embassies in each other’s nations.

By Josh Hubbs 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/world/americas/cuba-ready-to-exchange-diplomats-raul-castro-says.html