Cuba And U.S. To Re-establish Diplomatic Relations

HAVANA, CUBA - DECEMBER 17: A Cuban man carries plastic bags with food up a stairway under an excerpt of a speech of Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro, shortly after a live broadcast a speech by Cuban President Raul Castro about the re-establishment of official diplomatic relations with the U.S., on December 17, 2014, in Havana, Cuba. It was also announced that Alan Gross, an American contractor for USAID, who had been in prison in Cuba for the past five years on spy charges, had been released and could return to the U.S. The U.S. released three Cuban agents of the so-called group "The Cuban Five", who have been in prison for 16 years, and returned to Cuba. (Photo by Sven Creutzmann/Getty Images)