President Obama has touched down in Havana, marking a symbolic end to decades of estrangement for the U.S. and Cuba.
It's a shift that the President hopes will nudge the communist government to grant more freedoms to its people and open new economic channels for American businesses. But critics of Obama's policy argue the opening only rewards an authoritarian regime that has yet to show much sign of reform.
The last U.S. president to visit Cuba was Calvin Coolidge, who arrived in Havana Harbor on a battleship in 1928.
It's a shift that the President hopes will nudge the communist government to grant more freedoms to its people and open new economic channels for American businesses. But critics of Obama's policy argue the opening only rewards an authoritarian regime that has yet to show much sign of reform.
The last U.S. president to visit Cuba was Calvin Coolidge, who arrived in Havana Harbor on a battleship in 1928.
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