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Obama, Raul Castro hold talks in the heart of revolutionary Havana
Reuters
U.S. President Barack Obama and President Raul Castro held historic talks in Havana on Monday, discussing enduring disagreements over Cuba's human rights record and Washington's trade embargo as the two countries took another stride away from Cold War-era animosity.
Obama arrived in Cuba on Sunday for the first visit by a U.S. president in almost 90 years, achieving a goal for his final year in office that became possible after secret talks led to a 2014 agreement to normalize relations.
The opening ended decades of U.S. efforts to force Cuba to change through isolation. But Obama is under pressure from critics at home to push Castro's government to allow political dissent and to further open its Soviet-style state-run economy.