1st LD: U.S., Cuban leaders hold face-to-face talks in half century

U.S. and Cuban leaders held first face-to-face talks in decades on Saturday in Panama City, capital of Panama, amid detente between the two nations.

The meeting between U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban leader Raul Castro was held on the sidelines of the seventh Summit of the Americas, in which Cuba participated for the first time.

This is the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders after they announced the start of normalizing relations in December 2014.

On Friday, the two leaders shook hands and exchanged small talk before the opening ceremony of the summit. Endite