Havana asks Obama to end the embargo before the end of the mandate

Cuba hopes that the US president, Barack Obama, using his executive powers "to the maximum" while it is still running its mandate, to make "irreversible" the historic rapprochement between the two countries in front of his successor in the White House .

On the day of the first anniversary of the opening of the respective embassies, the Havana government has today called for the lifting of the embargo as a requirement to advance the full restoration of diplomatic relations. "The lifting of the embargo remains a priority for Cuba will be essential for the normalization of relations," said the head of the Cuban negotiator, Josefina Vidal, in an interview published by Granma newspaper. "The block belongs to a politics of the past and must be removed," he added