Without any shots, threats or military invasions, the US's 44th president, Barack Hussein Obama, arrived in and departed from Cuba. Cubans all over were glued to their screens, engaging in the inevitable debate about his visit's motivations and, more recently, its effects. Beyond the images and speeches, the end of antagonism with the "restless and brutal north" has rattled, like an invisible earthquake, the myths upon which our national narratives have been based.
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