Secretary Kerry visits Cuba for flag raising ceremony (18 images)

United States Secretary of State John Kerry laughs as the crowd across the street yells "viva Cuba" at the end of the playing of the Cuban national anthem at the flag-raising ceremony at the newly re-opened U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on August 14, 2015. Photo by State Department

United States Secretary of State John Kerry greets the three veteran Marines -- Mike East, James "Jim" Tracy, and Larris Morris -- who lowered the American flag at U.S. Embassy Havana in 1961, during the flag-raising ceremony in Havana, Cuba, on August 14, 2015. Secretary Kerry presided over the flag-raising ceremony at the newly re-opened U.S. Embassy in Havana. This is the first time the American flag was raised over U.S. Embassy Havana in 54 years. Photo by State Department

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry stands for the playing of the Cuban national anthem at the newly re-opened U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, on August 14, 2015. The Secretary is joined by, left to right, General Director of the U.S. Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba Josefina Vidal Ferreiro; Chargé d'Affaires at U.S. Embassy Havana Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis; Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Roberta Jacobson, and U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy. Photo by State Departmen

US Secretary of State John Kerry sits in the driver's seat of a vintage Impala in the Plaza de San Francisco after a ceremony reopening the US Embassy in Havana, Cuba on August 14, 2015. Kerry's visit is the first by a Secretary of State in 70 years. The Embassy has been closed for 54 years. Photo by US Department of State/UPI