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Obama, Castro break decades-old freeze to talk US-Cuba relations
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Apr 13, 2015
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Obama, Castro break decades-old freeze to talk US-Cuba relations
President Obama met with Cuba's Raul Castro in the first formal meeting between Cuban and American heads of state in more than 55 years.
US President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with Cuba's President Raul Castro during a meeting on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas at the ATLAPA Convention center on April 11, 2015 in Panama City.
US President Barack Obama (R) shakes hands with Cuba's President Raul Castro during a meeting on the sidelines of the Summit of the Americas at the ATLAPA Convention center on April 11, 2015 in Panama City.
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President Obama met with Cuba's Raul Castro in the first formal meeting between Cuban and American heads of state in more than 55 years.

President Barack Obama met with Cuba's Raul Castro in the first formal meeting between Cuban and American heads of state in more than 55 years.

It happened during the Summit of the Americas in Panama.

AP correspondent Josh Lederman, who just returned from Panama City where he was covering the Summit, joins Take Two.