President Obama’s visit to Cuba

President Obama made a historic trip to Cuba this week as the first sitting US president to visit the Communist ruled island since Calvin Coolidge did in 1928. “My lifetime has spanned a time of isolation between us,” Obama said. “I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas.”

This week, the world witnessed the last remnants of the Cold War fall away. The occasion was US President Barack Obama’s historic visit to Havana, capital of Cuba. It was the first time in 88 years that an American president visited the city. His trip – and the predicted end of economic sanctions and other hostilities that America inflicted on its tiny southern neighbour for 57 years – is historic for several reasons.

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