Reuters, 21/03 08:41 CET
By Daniel Trotta and Matt Spetalnick
HAVANA (Reuters) – U.S.
President Barack Obama turns from sightseeing to state business on his
historic Cuba trip on Monday, pressing President Raul Castro for
economic and democratic reforms while hearing complaints about continued
U.S. economic sanctions.
Obama and Castro will have their fourth meeting, likely
their most substantial, at the Palace of the Revolution, where Castro
and his predecessor, older brother Fidel Castro, have led Cuba’s
resistance to U.S. pressure going back decades.
A U.S. presidential visit to the inner sanctum of Cuban
power would have been unthinkable before Obama and Raul Castro’s
rapprochement 15 months ago, when they agreed to end a Cold War-era
dispute that lasted five decades and continued even after the collapse
of the Soviet Union.
The two leaders have deep differences to discuss as they attempt to rebuild the bilateral relationship.
Obama is under pressure from critics at home to push
Castro’s Communist government to allow dissent from political opponents
and further open its Soviet-style command economy.
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Source: Euronews
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