
The
three-day trip, the first by a sitting U.S. president in 88 years, is
the culmination of a diplomatic opening announced by Obama and Cuban
President Raúl Castro in December 2014, ending a Cold War-era
estrangement that began when the Cuban Revolution ousted a pro-American
government in 1959.
Obama,
who abandoned a longtime U.S. policy of trying to isolate Cuba, now
wants to make his shift irreversible. But major obstacles remain to the
full normalization of ties, and the president’s critics at home say the
visit is premature. (AP)
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