President Obama lands in Havana with his family

Barack Obama has now become the first US President in 88 years to visit Cuba after Air Force One touched down in the Jose Marti International Airport, Havana. He was greeted by foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez but not president Raul Castro. This visit is the first by a sitting president since Calvin Coolidge arrived on a battleship in 1928. The absence of Raul Castro at the airport has been criticized by Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 21 March 2016.

Raul Castro and Barack Obama had announced in December 2014 that they would re-open diplomatic relations and put an end to an estrangement that began when the Cuban revolution had ousted a pro-American government in 1959. Commercial flights have already resumed and respective embassies have reopened, but the economic embargo of Cuba continues to remain following Republicans in the US blocking its rescission.
The US President is accompanied by daughters Malia and Sasha, and Michelle, the first lady and her mother. On arrival in Havana, the President has termed his visit an "historic opportunity to engage with the Cuban people". In his itinerary of the three-day-trip are private meetings with dissidents, addressing Cubans live on state TV and attend an exhibition baseball game.


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