US President Barack Obama, the US president, is planning an historic visit to Cuba next month, which will make him the first serving US president to step foot on the island in nearly nine decades.
US President Barack Obama's visit in mid-March will be part of a broader trip to Latin America that the White House will announce on Thursday, Obama administration officials told news agencies.
US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced last year that they would begin normalising ties after a half-century of Cold War opposition.
On Tuesday February 16,2016, the two nations signed a deal restoring commercial air traffic for the first time in five decades.
Immediately after signing the commercial flights deal, the US Department of Transportation opened bidding by American carriers on as many as 110 US-Cuba flights a day — more than five times the current number. All flights currently operating between the two countries are charters
US President Barack Obama is the first serving U.S. President to visit Cuba after Calvin Coolidge in 1928
- 1902: Cuba gets independence with Tomas Palma as president. But Platt Amendment gives the U.S a right to interfere in Cuban affairs
- 1959: Fidel Castro leads a 9,000-strong guerrilla army into Havana forcing autocrat Batista to flee; Castro takes over
- 1960: All U.S. businesses in Cuba are nationalised, U.S cuts off diplomatic ties; imposes embargo
- 1962: Cuban missile crisis hits ties with U.S. as USSR deploys missiles
- 1996: The Helms—Burton Act passed as a US. federal law, which strengthens the embargo
- Dec 2014: Barack Obama and Raul Castro reach a deal to begin normalising ties
- May 2015: U.S. officialy removes Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terrorism
Calvin Coolidge
The Last serving U.S. President to visit Cuba
Cuba's Fidel Castro
with then U.S. Vice-President Richard Nixon
Ex-President Jimmy Carter
During a visit to Cuba in May 2002Note
President Calvin Coolidge went to Havana in January 1928 to give a speech to the 6th International Conference of American States, according to the State Department historian's office, which records the foreign travel of presidents and secretaries of state.
President Harry Truman visited Guantanamo Bay, which is controlled by the United States, so that was not considered a state visit; he didn't meet with any Cuban government officials, according to his presidential library.
Former President Jimmy Carter has paid multiple visits to the island since leaving office.
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