HAVANA – After negotiations with Cuban diplomats Wednesday and Thursday, the highest-level U.S. delegation to visit Cuba in decades, plans to meet with a group of anti-Castro Cuban dissidents in Havana Friday.
The historic week of meetings began, after President Barack Obama's promised a change of approach during his State of the Union address, and after a somber warning from Cuba to abandon hopes of reforming the Communist form of government.
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