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President Obama arrived in Cuba for a three-day visit on March 20, 2016. [87] Obama headed a delegation of between 800 and 1,200, including businesspeople and congressional leaders who had helped in establishing the 2014 normalization deal. [88] Obama was the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. [88]
Obama's visit to Cuba was the first by an American president in more than 80 years. Beginning in 2013, Cuban and U.S. officials held secret talks brokered in part by Pope Francis and hosted in Canada and Vatican City [88] [89] [90] to start the process of restoring diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States. On 17 December 2014 ...
Barack Obama made 52 international trips to 58 countries (in addition to visiting the West Bank) during his presidency, which began on January 20, 2009 and ended on January 20, 2017. [1] Obama set the record as the most-traveled president for any first year in office: he took the most trips, visited the most countries, and spent the most days ...
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President Barack Obama arrives in Cuba on Sunday for a 48-hour visit, making history by venturing into what was once enemy territory.
In January 2012, an Angus Reid Public Opinion poll showed that 57% of Americans called for ending the U.S. travel ban with Cuba, with 27% disagreeing and 16% not sure. [136] The Cuban Research Institute at Florida International University has conducted thirteen polls (from 1991 to 2020) of Cuban Americans in Dade County, Florida. [137]
Obama, the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba in nearly 90 years, is under pressure from critics at home to push Castro's government to allow political dissent and to further open its ...
President Obama views an exhibition baseball game with Cuban president Raúl Castro at Estadio Latinoamericano during Obama's historic visit to Havana, Cuba, March 22, 2016. This is a list of presidential trips made by Barack Obama during 2016 and early 2017, the eighth and final year of his presidency as the 44th president of the United States.