TIM DONNER: Long National Nightmare For Cuba Almost Over

For as long as they have held power, the communists governing Cuba have been a nasty thorn in the side of the United States. The Bay of Pigs fiasco and the Cuban Missile Crisis under President John F. Kennedy threatened world peace and led to decades of tension between the two countries. The only temporary thaw came in 2014, when President Barack Obama restored diplomatic relations, reopened embassies, eased travel and trade restrictions, and removed Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.