HAVANA, Cuba (AP) — Cuba's government is making it clear that there's still a ways to go before its relationship with the United States can be normalized.
Even amid the announcement that the U.S. and Cuba will be opening embassies in each other's capitals, Cuba is demanding an end to the U.S. embargo, and the return of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. It also wants an end to American radio and TV broadcasts aimed at the island.
There's resistance in Congress to ending the embargo — from Republicans and some Democrats who say President Barack Obama is rewarding a government that engages in serious human rights abuses.
Obama says the reopening of embassies in Havana and Washington is another demonstration that the U.S. doesn't have to be imprisoned by the past.
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