In today’s program:

• After 54 years the U.S. flag is once again raised in Cuba as the U.S. Embassy officially reopens in Havana. We have two reports: (1) from Margaret Gilpin in New York and (2) Prensa Latina in Havana.
  

• 21 U.S. students received medical degrees from Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine… Jennifer Wager has a report.
• WE HAVE AN INTERVIEW WITH ONE GRADUATE CURRENTLY DOING HER RESIDENCY IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK..
• AND IFCO’S ANA MARIA CARDENAS SPEAKS WITH US ABOUT NEXT MONTH’S “NATIONAL DAYS OF ACTION” AGAINST THE BLOCKADE..

• WE BEGIN WITH NEWS HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDING A SPECIAL REPORT BY GILDA GILL OF PRENSA LATINA

PRODUCED BY SALLY O’BRIEN AND MARGARET GILPIN…

CUBA IN FOCUS FOR THURSDAY, AUGUST 27^TH 2015… 8PM EST

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Cuban Embassy Open in Washington, DC, U.S.A.