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President Obama touched down in Cuba on Sunday, becoming the first American leader to visit in nearly nine decades.
His trip, the result of a policy reversal 15 months ago, holds the potential to forge closer ties between longtime adversaries and exorcise one of the last ghosts of the Cold War.
Obama also arrives with a great deal of support for his effort to bring old enemies together, both among the Cuban people, who describe Obama as a transformative figure, and within the United States, where interest in Cuba has already begun to swell.
The president arrived with the first lady, daughters, Sasha and Malia, and his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson.
his itinerary is shaped by the contradictions that still complicate the United States’ relationship with Cuba: a meeting on Monday with Castro at the Palace of the Revolution, the seat of the Communist government, and another on Tuesday with dissidents who have been victims of government repression.
Obama was accompanied by a large delegation of members of Congress from both parties who are eager to support his call to lift the trade embargo against Cuba, which still looms as an obstacle to the rapprochement the president is seeking.
Cubans have shown a great affinity for Obama throughout his presidency, but their sense of kinship intensified after he announced restored relations with Cuba on Dec. 17, 2014. That date is now recited often as a new starting point for the country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/21/world/americas/obama-arrives-in-cuba.html
