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Roberta Jacobson, U.S Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, arrives to speak to the media before taking questions during diplomatic talks with Cuba at the Palacio de las Convenciones de La Habana on Jan. 22, 2015 in Havana, Cuba.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images  by [Karl Vick](https://time.com/author/karl-vick/)  ## Karl Vick Editor at Large Jan 24, 2015 5:52 PM UTC HAVANA — The visit of the most senior U.S. official to Cuba in 38 years gave every appearance of doing what it aimed to, drawing the nominal enemies into a distinctly Caribbean embrace, complete with broad smiles, warm body language and actual language commodious enough that everyone could fit together for a group photo. It was a simple dance, but required coordinated footwork, which both parties appeared to have practiced in private. The good feeling on display appeared to be partly genuine and partly a concerted effort to maintain the momentum that surged up suddenly on Dec. 19, the day President Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro simultaneously announced their intention to end a half century of what one U.S. diplomat termed “diplomatic estrangement” and, finally, re-establish formal ties. As formal talks proceed toward making the changes that the Cubans and Obama are free to make on their own—such as re-opening embassies in one another’s capitals, a primary topic in Havana on Thursday—officials of both governments privately acknowledge a secondary, over-arching intention. That would be to aim to sustain if not further swell the wave of public enthusiasm, leaving the U.S. Congress scant alternative but to repeal the 1960 Cuba Embargo Act that barred almost all exports to the emerging communist state. Which made for some peculiar sights at the colorless Havana convention center where the delegations spent most of Wednesday and Thursday. Scores if not hundreds of journalists had gathered in the Hotel Palco waiting for something that has never happened in any previous U.S.-Cuba talks: a press briefing. Longtime Cuba watchers were gobsmacked by the spectacle of a room crowded with video cameras and reporters’ laptops. On the sidelines, senior Cuban officials smiled sheepishly. This was after all the land of the Central Committee communiqué, not to say diktats. “Usually,” said one senior official, “we don’t have a culture of informing the press.” ### A History of Cuba-U.S. Relations in 13 TIME Covers  Fulgencio Batista on the Apr. 26, 1937, cover of TIME TIME  Fidel Castro on the Jan. 26, 1959, cover of TIME Cover Credit: BORIS CHALIAPIN  Che Guevara on the Aug. 8, 1960, cover of TIME Cover Credit: BERNARD SAFRAN  Jose Miro Cardona on the Apr. 28, 1961, cover of TIME TIME  Blas Roca on the Apr. 27, 1962, cover of TIME Cover Credit: BERNARD SAFRAN  Adm. George Anderson on the Nov. 2, 1962, cover of TIME Boris Chaliapin  Fidel Castro on the Oct. 8, 1965, cover of TIME Cover Credit: BERNARD SAFRAN  Fidel Castro (and others) on the Jun. 13, 1969, cover of TIME Cover Credit: KARSH, HARRY REDL, BEN MARTIN.  Fidel Castro and Cyrus Vance on the Sept. 17, 1979, cover of TIME Cover Credit: RODDEY E. MIMS; HIRES-GAMMA/LIAISON.  Fidel Castro on the Dec. 6, 1993, cover of TIME Cover Credit: GIANFRANCO GORGONI  The Sept. 5, 1994, cover of TIME Cover Credit: PAUL DAVIS  Fidel Castro on the Feb. 20, 1995, cover of TIME Cover Credit: DAVID BURNETT  Fidel Castro and the Pope on the Jan. 26, 1998, cover of TIME Cover Credit: GERARD RANCINAN And yet, they proved pretty good at it—better than the Americans, on this day at least. Havana put forward youthful Josefina Vidal, head of the U.S. Division in the Foreign Ministry, and though she was never less than correct, she was also warm and apparently at ease. She spoke first in Spanish, then in English. The English was more direct: “It was a first meeting,” she said at one point, cutting what could have been four paragraphs into one. “This is a process. So we just made a list of things we have to do, when.” By contrast, the top U.S. diplomat stood stock-still before the cameras, answered questions in detail, but betrayed not the merest hint she was happy to be here. Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemispheric Affairs Roberta Jacobson appeared to recognize her most dangerous audience was the anti-Castro Lobby that for five decades had blocked the kind of rapprochement of which she has been made the face. It was as if she had the sense that the merest smile line would create traction for naysayers watching from Capitol Hill, calling it evidence democracy had been undermined. The Cubans acknowledged the peculiarity of their side appearing more transparent than the Americans, but also signaled they understood why. The official offered an explanation on the relative powers of the U.S. system of government so often lost on Americans: “The power in the U.S. is not with the president,” the senior official observed. “It’s with a class. Don’t be fooled.” And so, let the momentum go forward, from Havana to Miami and up the seaboard to Washington. After the Dec. 17 joint stunner, both governments moved with unusual dispatch—exchanging prisoners, papers, and statements of good will. President Obama took only a few days to re-write regulations that now allow Americans to fly to Havana without Washington’s permission—no great rush evident quite yet, but demand is clearly there—and opened previously closed gateways to electronics and other goods. “That’s what he’s allowed to do,” the senior Cuban official observed. Another executive action, Cuba’s place on the State Department’s list of states sponsoring terrorism, is already under review. ### Witness Cuba's Evolution in 39 Photos  An old American car, long a staple of Cuban roads, sits along Guanabo Beach, near Havana. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  A group of youngsters in Central Havana sit on a street corner to discuss the latest news of the Spanish La Liga football league. Their hair is styled like their idols'—soccer stars and Reggaeton singers. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  In route to his job as a welder, 62-year-old Carlos stops at a government cafeteria to buy cigarettes. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Cockfighting, a Cuban tradition, takes place in an anti-aircraft bunker to avoid the police. Fighting is not forbidden, but gambling, which is always present at the matches, is. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Antonio Perez Hernandez shows off his prize-winning rooster prior to a fight in Campo Florido. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Havana’s most famous street, the Malecón, as a cold front rolls in. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  At his teacher's request, Rodney Cajiga, gets his hair cut in Justiz, a small town east of Havana. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Corrugated zinc sheets barely cover a grocery store. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Jesus, a fisherman from Puerto Escondido, returns from the sea. “It was a good day, despite the cold front,” he said, displaying one of the fish he caught. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Roberto, 22, is a college dropout from the East, who moved to a small cottage in Havana to farm with his father, Jorge. “My wife got pregnant and I had to support her and the child. Here I have a chance," he said. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  A pumpkin for sale, cut in half for clients to see it is still fresh. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Delvis Montero, 39, works seven days a week making charcoal and earns $100 a month. “I work hard so my children can go to school and never have to do this extremely hard work," she said. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Madelin, who works at a Havana boutique, hitchhikes to work each morning rather than taking the bus. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Around 7 in the evening, Cubans begin preparing dinner. Central Havana, usually crowded, look deserted. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  At night, neighbors leave their doors open to let the breeze in. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Yunier Utre, 19, lives in the Teodoro Rivero settlement in Jaguey Grande, Matanzas province. He works in the mango plantations from sunup to sundown. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Tourists relax on lounge chairs at Melia Las Americas in Varadero, which is next to the only 18-hole golf course in Cuba. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  The wiring for the electrical system at a tenement in Old Havana. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Old Havana at dusk. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Juan Lara, 72, takes his cows to graze roughly 10 miles from his home every morning. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Juan Carlos has been a fisherman all his life. Close to 70, he keeps this cottage in the Puerto Escondido fishermen’s village. “I have a real house in my town, 20 miles from here," Carlos said. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Jaguey Grande’s Library, where students from nearby schools come every day to do their homework. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Fidel Hernandez sets fire to the bushes around the fence he just installed to keep his goats enclosed. He has taken his grandson with him, as he says that he loves to hang around his grandpa. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  The growth of small private businesses, like this one in Pedro Pi, is a sign of changing times. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  A woman at a telephone booth in Pedro Pi. There is only one phone in this farmer’s community, 12 miles from downtown Havana. Neighbors come to make their calls, get their messages and share gossip. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  A government-run auto repair shop in Jaguey Grande. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  A huge concrete school building. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Ricardo Rodriguez and his wife travel 30 miles every day to the town of Ceres to buy charcoal that they later sell in the town of Cardenas, near the Varadaero resort in Matanzas province. “The profits are meager, but we survive on that," Rodriguez said. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Aguedo Leon (far right), 82, goes to the cattle register in Campo Florido, Havana city, to report the birth of a calf. It is mandatory for farmers to do so immediately after the cow delivers. Failing to report a new birth can result in a $20 fine. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Outside Havana, an old American car with a new Japanese engine is used as a taxi. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  At the Puerto Escondido fishermen’s village, a welder repairs the carriage they use to move fish into town. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Riding on horse drawn carriages is still the main way to move in the Cuban countryside. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Ormiles Lores Rodriguez, 40, works as an accountant at the Grito de Baire farmimg cooperative. She says salaries have improved and employees get bonuses every three months if they meet their output quotas. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Dusk falls on Old Havana. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Despite its age, the driver claims his car can reach speeds of 100 miles per hour, thanks to its engineering that includes a mix of American, Russian, Japanese and Cuban parts. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Two young men wait to go out with a girl in Old Havana. "We dress to impress her," they said, "and we take pictures to our barber for him to know exactly what we want." Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  Alicia, 8, crosses the street to buy candy in Patricia’s Cafeteria, 2 miles from Guanabo beach. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  An aging car drives through Old Havana at dusk. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME  A woman prays to Yemaya, the sea goddess, on the Malecón, Havana's main esplanade. Joakim Eskildsen for TIME At the same time, in a sop to the Miami lobby, the American delegation conspicuously made good on Obama’s vow to continue to harp on Havana’s human rights record. On Friday morning, Jacobson had seven Cuban dissidents to breakfast at the splendid tropic compound that will once again be the ambassador’s residence if Washington and Havana re-establish formal diplomatic ties—the move perhaps most easily accomplished, despite the nations’ complex history. Prominent in the sculpted garden of the dining room was a broad wooden American Eagle said to be salvaged from the USS Maine, the destruction of which became the _casus belli_ for the Spanish-American War. The attention to human rights clearly irks the Cubans, who blame their government’s paranoia on a long and colorful history of U.S. intelligence operations aimed at bringing it down. But like both sides, they appear prepared to file the dispute under “profound disagreements” that can be addressed from embassies at least as well as Interests Sections, the cumbersome arrangement through which Cuban and American diplomats operate now in each other’s capitals, beneath the protection of the Swiss. No timetables were offered, but the next round, perhaps in DC, may address technical matters. For the moment, the focus remains on keeping things clicking along toward a kind of “normality.” At a news conference at the residence on Friday, after the breakfast with dissidents, Jacobson thawed a good deal answering a question on the Embargo Act, projecting sympathy if not empathy for anyone trying to square Obama’s executive changes with persistent existence of that legislation. But the Cubans have patience. “”It’s a good sign,” said one other senior official, smiling wryly. “We have nothing to lose.” ### See 15 Famous Cuban-Americans  Gloria Estefan Born in Havana, Estefan is arguably Cuba's most famous singer. The seven-time Grammy Award winner. As a teenager, Estefan's family fled the Cuban Revolution for Miami. Ethan Miller—Getty Images  Jose Canseco The former Major League Baseball All Star's family left Cuba for Miami when he was an infant. Michael Zagaris—MLB/Getty Images  Desi Arnaz The I Love Lucy star was born in Cuba in 1917\. Arnaz's Father was a Cuban politician, and his grandmother an executive at Bacardi. Hulton Archive/Getty Images  Sammy Davis, Jr. The beloved entertainer was born in Harlem in 1925 to African-American and Afro-Cuban parents. Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images  Cesar Romero, Most famous for playing the Joker in the Batman television series, Romero was born in New York City to Italian and Cuban immigrants. Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images  Rosario Dawson The Hollywood starlet was born in New York City to a mother of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban descent. Ian Gavan—Getty Images  Cameron Diaz The Hollywood actress, and four time Golden Globe nominee, has a father from Cuba. Theo Wargo—Getty Images  Marco Rubio The Senator from Florida grew up in Miami. Both of his parents immigrated to the US from Cuba in the 1950s. Jacquelyn Martin—AO  Jeff Bezos Founder of Amazon.com and owner of the Washington Post, Bezos' father moved to the United States from Cuba as a teenager. Bloomberg/Getty Images  Eva Mendes The actress was born in Miami to Cuban parents. Michael Tran—FilmMagic/Getty Images  Pitbull Born in Miami to Cuban expats, the rapper has made a huge impression on the rap and reggaeton scene in Cuba and Latin America. Michael Caulfield—Getty Images  Andy Garcia The Academy Award-nominated Godfather actor was born in Havana and moved to Miami in high school, where he began taking acting classes. Victor Chavez—WireImage/Getty Images  Gilbert Arenas The basketball star was born in Florida and raised in Los Angeles. His paternal great-grandfather descended from Cuba. Susan Walsh—AP  Soledad O'Brien The notable broadcast journalist and producer's parents are Australian and Cuban immigrants to the US. Monica Schipper—Getty Images  Ted Cruz The Texas Senator's father was born in Cuba and fought for Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution. He later became a critic of Castro's politics and moved to Texas. J. 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