Barack Obama was only four days old when the Heroic Guerrilla Ernesto Che Guevara publically denounced Washington´s hostile policy against Cuba during an Inter-American Summit, while reiterating Fidel Castro´s desire to dialog in order to solve the differences in an equal footing and carry out secret talks with the US envoy.

Half a century later, US President Barack Obama took on the challenge of approaching its Caribbean neighbor, overcoming confrontations, ill feelings and mutual tensions and begining a process of normalizing relations between both sides.