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Obama to Make Historic Visit to Cuba

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President Barak Obama will visit Cuba in the coming weeks. This trip marks an historic end to more than a half-century of official estrangement between the two Cold War rivals.

The visit to Cuba will be a part of a larger tour by Obama of South America.

Obama and Cuban president Raul Castro announced in December of 2014 that they would normalize relations after decades of broken ties. A year later in December of 2015 Obama announced that he would visit Cuba if there was evidence of significant improvements in civil liberties.

Obama and Castro met in Panama last April in the first official meeting of the two leaders of the two nations since the United States cut diplomatic relations in 1961, when Fidel Castro seized power.

The last sitting president to visit Cuba was Calvin Coolidge who addressed the Pan American Conference of Western Hemisphere leaders in Havana in 1928

Senator Ted Cruzvowed never tovisit Cuba as long as Castro was in power and Senator Mark Rubio of Florida criticized reports of Obama’s plans , calling Castro’s government “an anti-American communist dictatorship”

President Obama will visit Cuba on March 21 of this year.

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