Obama to visit Cuba in historic trip next month, ABC reports

A Cuban foreign ministry official said in reaction to the December interview that Obama was welcome to visit Cuba but not meddle in the country’s internal affairs.

Last year, Obama also advocated the removal of Cuba from the USA blacklist of nations that sponsor terrorism.

US President Barack Obama will make a historic visit to Cuba next month, in a powerful sign of the thaw in relations between the Cold War-era foes, new reports saidyesterday.

US President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks during a press conference on the last day of the US-ASEAN Summit, at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, California, USA, February 16, 2016. The Obama administration is eager to make rapid progress on building trade and diplomatic ties with Cuba before Obama leaves office. The two sides reached an aviation agreement that will allow for regularly-scheduled commercial flights and USA cellular companies are providing roaming service on the island.

The administration will announce the president’s upcoming trip to Latin America, including Cuba, on Thursday, the official said.

The Cuban government is “an anti-American communist dictatorship”, said the Cuban-American senator, who has been an outspoken critic of Obama’s Cuba policy.

Speaking at CNN’s GOP town hall on Wednesday night, presidential candidate Marco Rubio slammed the announcement.

“For more than 50 years, Cubans have been fleeing the Castro regime”, said Lehtinen, the longest-serving Cuban-American in Congress. “Yet the country which grants them refuge – the United States – has now made a decision to quite literally embrace their oppressors”.

Rubio maintained that “a year and two months after the (US diplomatic) opening (to) Cuba, the Cuban government remains as oppressive as ever”.

In early February, U.S. Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler traveled to Havana meet with Cuban officials about increasing Cuba’s connections to the Internet.

Opponents of Obama’s Cuba opening say those arrests prove that Obama’s strategy has already failed. Sen.

Not since President Calvin Coolidge went to Havana in January 1928 has a sitting USA president been to Havana, according to the State Department historian’s office.