Obama arrives in Cuba for historic visit

Barack Obama has become the first US president to visit Cuba in 88 years after he landed there [mon] for a 48-hour visit to the Communist nation.

President Barack Obama is greeted at the Jose Marti International Airport for a 48-hour visit on March 20, 2016 in Havana, Cuba. (AAP/AP) Source: AAP

The visit would have been unthinkable until Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro agreed in December 2014 to end an estrangement that began when the Cuban revolution overthrew a

pro-American government in 1959.

President Obama will meet President Raul Castro, but not retired leader Fidel Castro.

The two are expected to discuss trade and political reform.

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