Cuba by the Numbers: What You Need to Know

What is clear, as the smoke continues to swirl around President Obama’s decision to reestablish diplomatic ties with Cuba after 55 years of hostility, is that 55 years is a long time. Eisenhower was president way back then. Alaska and Hawaii were just entering the union in 1959 and Marilyn Monroe was sizzling in Some Like It Hot. After more than half a century of mistrust, estrangement, and turmoil, change will hardly come swiftly to the U.S.-Cuba relationship.