President Obama Announces Changes to U.S.-Cuba Relations

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 17, 2014

A prisoner exchange between the U.S. and Cuba paves the way for starting the normalization of relations between the two countries. Christopher Sabatini, senior director of policy at the Americas Society and Council of the Americas (AS/COA) and founder and editor-in-chief of the hemispheric policy magazine Americas Quarterly (AQ), offers analysis of the president's speech.

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