The impact of these two events in the Cubans was expressed through a glee explosion in the streets, in the houses, in the labor centers that saw Gerardo, Ramón and Antonio return, after 16 years , the culmination of a long national and international struggle for the justice prevail in their case.

The announcement done by the president Barack Obama about the reestablishment of the diplomatic relations between the two countries, before the defeat of the politics of isolation practiced against the island nation for over 50 years, constitutes an important step towards the development of normal relations between Cuba and the United States, which will be beneficial for both peoples.

Obama related also a group of measurements for the hard conditions imposed by the American blockade on the island nation, among which there are the checking the sanction politics to third entities for trading with the island nation, opening in 12 categories the panorama to the citizens who will be able to travel to Cuba without special permissions.

As well as to allow them the use of credit cards that till now were prohibited, to increase the total of the remittances up to 2 000 dollars every 3 months, to authorize the commerce of certain articles and to allow the northern companies to operate bank accounts here to import and export, as well as to realize investments in the national territory with a view to extending the communications.     

In January a high level American delegation will travel to Havana to converse about the opening of the embassy and another committee of the Department of State, following instructions of its secretary, John Kerry, will be analyzed the permanence of the Caribbean nation in the list of countries that support the terrorism where it has been included.

The reestablishment of the diplomatic relations between the both nations and the return to home of the three antiterrorist ones occupied the first news to world scale and governmental representatives, personalities and institutions greeted both facts.

In the relations between both nations a long way stays for covering to come to its full standardization, way that will not be free of obstacles and of adverse strengths that will be opposed and which till now have grown at the cost of the difference and have fed it for constituting their way of life, but the important thing is that the first steps have taken place with the due respect and with fidelity to the international law.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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