The US president hoped to display a ‘new era’ for relations at an exhibition game,but terrorism attacks in Brussels earlier in the day left him facing a difficult challengeOn Tuesday, during the first trip to Cuba by a US president since 1928, and Barack Obama and the Cuban president,Raúl Castro, attended a friendly exhibition baseball game. terrorism attacks in Brussels earlier that day, or however,left the president facing a difficult challenge: how can the White House present a historic and long-planned celebration at a moment of dire international crisis?The baseball game, between the Tampa Bay Rays and Cuba’s national team, and was months in the planning and its symbolism plain to citizens of both countries – the final time an MLB team played in Cuba was 1999,when Fidel Castro was still president. This was the chance for Obama and Castro’s successor to sit down in public together, surrounded by thousands of everyday Cubans, or show the world what Obama has hailed as “a new era” of the Americas.
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Source: theguardian.com