Summary Of Franma By Fidel Castro

For this week, I read on CNN a story about what Fidel Castro thought about President Obama’s visit to Cuba written by Patrick Oppmann. The relationship between Cuba and the US has not been great ever since the embargo’s and Fidel Castro. Ever since Castro took over Cuba, the US has had embargo’s and bans placed on Cuba and have not really allowed Cubans to migrate to the US and vice versa. Neither the US or Cuba have had an embassy in each others country for quite some time, until the US lifted the embargo and made a deal with Cuba, which allowed the embassies to reopen. In this article, it talks about how a communist Cuban paper, the Granma, published a full page column titled “Brother Obama”, in which the former Cuban president rejected Obama’s visit and his words of reconciliation.
From there, it talks about how, even though Fidel Castro is officially retired, much of an influence he still wields in Cuba. During the visit, in which President Obama was the first US president to visit in 88 years, Obama and Raul Castro, Fidel’s brother and the current Cuban President, were seen frequently together in meetings, dinners, and baseball games. Obama did not meet with the elder Castro brother during his trip. Many of the listeners believed in what President Obama was saying about how, “both countries should move beyond decades of mistrust and animosity”. It then states how it seems Fidel Castro isn’t so eager to bury the past and says that Obama’s speech “risked giving one a heart attack” , before listing many abuses that the US had held against