President Obama visits Cuba
President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama wave as they board Air Force One at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on March 22, 2016, ending the president’s historic three-day visit.
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President Barack Obama is visiting Cuba amid a wave of excitement and expectations from the Cuban people.
President Barack Obama and his family are escorted by Cuban President Raul Castro to Air Force One at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana, Cuba, on March 22, 2016.
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President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro attend an exhibition game between the Cuban national baseball team and the Tampa Bay Rays in Havana, Cuba, on March 22, 2016.
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President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro attend an exhibition game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban national team in Havana, Cuba, on March 22, 2016.
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U.S. President Barack Obama delivers brief remarks on the 22 March terrorist attacks in Belgium, while addressing the people of Cuba at the El Gran Teatro de Havana, in Havana, Cuba, on March 22, 2016.
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President Barack Obama, center right, and first lady Michelle Obama walk out with Cuban President Raul Castro, center, after attending a State Dinner at the Palace of the Revolution, Monday, March 21, 2016, in Havana, Cuba.
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President Barack Obama jokes as he tries to find a spot for a group photo after laying a floral wreath at the Jose Marti monument in Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba, Monday, March 21, 2016.
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President Barack Obama speaks during an entrepreneurship panel discussion in Havana on March 21, 2016.
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Cuban President Raul Castro (L) poses for a photograph with first lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama before a state dinner at the Palace of the Revolution March 21, 2016 in Havana, Cuba.
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Cuban President Raul Castro lifts up the arm of President Barack Obama at the conclusion of their joint news conference at the Palace of the Revolution on March 21, 2016, in Havana.
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With the U.S. and Cuban flags as a backdrop President Barack Obama, left, and Cuban President Raul Castro shake hands after a joint statement in Havana on March 21, 2016.
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Cuba’s President Raul Castro gestures as he speaks during a press conference after a joint statement with President Barack Obama in Havana, Cuba, on March 21, 2016.
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U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama speaks with Cuban girls during a Let Girls Learn roundtable at the Fabrica de Arte Cubano, in Havana, Cuba, on March 21, 2016. Let Girls Learn is an initiative launched by the Obamas in 2015 to help overcome obstacles preventing adolescent girls from attending and completing school.
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Local residents shoot cell phone video from their front porch as the convoy carrying U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama arrives at Hemmingway House, in the San Francisco de Paula district of Havana, Cuba, on March 21, 2016.
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Back dropped by a monument depicting Cuba’s revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara, President Barack Obama listens to the U.S. national anthem during a ceremony at the Jose Marti Monument in Havana, Cuba on March 21, 2016. “It is a great honor to pay tribute to Jose Marti, who gave his life for independence of his homeland. His passion for liberty, freedom, and self-determination lives on in the Cuban people today,” Obama wrote in dark ink in the book after he laid a wreath and toured the memorial dedicated to the memory of Jose Marti.
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A Cuban military color guard carrying a Cuban flag and an American flag wait for the arrival of President Barack Obama before he attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Jose Marti Memorial in Revolution Square on March 21, 2016 in Havana, Cuba.
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US President Barack Obama takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Jose Marti monument in the Revolution Square of Havana on March 21, 2016.
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US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro review the troops at the Revolution Palace in Havana on March 21, 2016. US President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro met Monday in Havana’s Palace of the Revolution for ground-breaking talks on ending the standoff between the two neighbors.
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Cuban cadets hold the Cuban and US national flags prior to the welcoming ceremony for US President Barack Obama at the Revolution Palace in Havana on March 21, 2016.
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Cuban President Raul Castro speaks with President Barack Obama during a meeting in Revolution Palace on March 21, 2016. Brushing past profound differences, Obama and Castro sat down for a historic meeting, offering critical clues about whether Obama’s sharp U-turn in policy will be fully reciprocated.
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President Barack Obama, left, attends a State Dinner hosted by Cuban President Raul Castro, right, at the Palace of the Revolution, Monday, March 21, 2016, in Havana, Cuba.
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Cuban President Raul Castro shakes hands with President Barack Obama during a meeting in Revolution Palace on March 21, 2016.
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President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro during a welcoming ceremony at the Palace of the Revolution on March 21, 2016, in Havana.
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President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro greet each other before bilateral meetings at the Palace of the Revolution on March 21, 2016, in Havana.
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President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, left, listen to the U.S. national anthem during a ceremony at the Jose Marti monument in Revolution Square in Havana on March 21, 2016.
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First lady Michelle Obama greets Cuban girls as she arrives for a Let Girls Learn roundtable at the Fabrica de Arte Cubano in Havana on March 21, 2016.
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President Barack Obama holds an umbrella for first lady Michelle Obama as they walk across the tarmac upon their arrival at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana on March 20, 2016.
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama greet children and families of embassy personnel during an event at Melia Habana Hotel in Havana on March 20, 2016.
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U.S. President Barack Obama, right, makes a face towards a group of children in the audience as he stand on stage with first lady Michelle Obama, center, as he is introduced by Ambassador Jeffrey DeLaurentis, left, Charge d’Affaires to the U.S. Embassy in Cuba, during a meeting with embassy personnel at Melia Habana Hotel, in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, March 20, 2016.
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visit la Catedral de La Habana in Havana on March 20, 2016.
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President Barack Obama, with first lady Michelle Obama, daughters Malia and Sasha and the first lady’s mother, Marian Robinson, take a walking tour of Old Havana on March 20, 2016, in Havana.
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President Barack Obama talks to tourists and Cubans on his arrival at the Havana Cathedral on March 20, 2016.
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Government supporters stage a counterprotest to one held by Ladies in White, a dissident women’s group that calls for the release of political prisoners, near the dissident group’s weekly protest in Havana on March 20, 2016.
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President Barack Obama waves after his arrival at Jose Marti airport in Havana on March 20, 2016.
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrive March 20, 2016, at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana on Air Force One.
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A Cuban family in Havana, with a photo of legendary Argentine-Cuban revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara on the wall, watch on TV the arrival of President Barack Obama to Cuba on March 20, 2016.
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The plane carrying President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, lands at Jose Marti International Airport in Havana on March 20, 2016.
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Tourists stand next to a sign showing President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro next to the cathedral in Old Havana, Cuba, on March 20, 2016
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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama wave as they board Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews near Washington, D.C., on March 20, 2016, to travel to Cuba.
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A house in Havana displays the flags of the United States and Cuba on March 20, 2016, the day of a historic visit by President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama.
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Police officers drag away members of Ladies in White, a women’s dissident group that calls for the release of political prisoners, during the group’s weekly protest in Havana on March 20, 2016.
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