--- title: Watch President Obama Announce Cuba Embassy Opening description: The U.S. and Cuba re-established diplomatic relations earlier this year canonical: https://time.com/3943191/obama-cuba-embassy/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-01T15:04:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:42:17.589Z article:section: World og:title: Watch President Obama Announce Cuba Embassy Opening og:description: The U.S. and Cuba re-established diplomatic relations earlier this year og:url: https://time.com/3943191/obama-cuba-embassy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch President Obama Announce Cuba Embassy Opening twitter:description: The U.S. and Cuba re-established diplomatic relations earlier this year twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch President Obama Announce Cuba Embassy Opening by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 1, 2015 3:04 PM CUT by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jul 1, 2015 3:04 PM CUT The United States and Cuba will open embassies in each other’s capital cities, formally rebuilding diplomatic relations for the first time since 1961 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3943191/obama-cuba-embassy/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3943191/obama-cuba-embassy/"},"headline":"Watch President Obama Announce Cuba Embassy Opening","datePublished":"2015-07-01T15:04:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:42:17.589Z","description":"The U.S. and Cuba re-established diplomatic relations earlier this year","url":"https://time.com/3943191/obama-cuba-embassy/","keywords":["Cuba","Cuba topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/cuba/","name":"Cuba"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3943191/obama-cuba-embassy/","name":"Watch President Obama Announce Cuba Embassy Opening"}}]}] ```