Obama and Raul Castro Warm Up at Mandela Funeral

HAVANA TIMES – Few times has a US president and a Castro shaken hands, thus the greeting between Barack Obama and Raul Castro today at the Nelson Mandela funeral in Johannesburg was considered big news, despite any real indication of a change in the Cold War relic relationship.  Here is the CNN video of the brief encounter.

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