How Obama outmanoeuvered hardliners and cut a Cuba deal

WASHINGTON/MIAMI: The December breakthrough that upended a half-century of US-Cuba enmity has been portrayed as the fruit of 18 months of secret diplomacy. But Reuters interviews with more than a dozen people with direct knowledge of the process reveal a longer, painstakingly cautious quest by US President Barack Obama and veteran Cuba specialists to forge the historic rapprochement.

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