Obama Meets Castro

Washington Post: On first full day in Cuba, Obama meets with Castro and will address the public

HAVANA — President Obama’s historic trip to Cuba officially began Monday as President Raúl Castro greeted him with a military honor guard and the playing of the U.S. and Cuban national anthems at the Revolutionary Palace here.

Earlier, Obama stopped at the nearby Plaza of the Revolution, where he laid a wreath at the massive statue of 19th century independence hero José Martí, who gazes pensively down at the place where Fidel Castro later delivered stem-winding speeches denouncing U.S. imperialism.

Immediately after the wreath-laying, Obama was mobbed by Cuban and U.S. television reporters standing in the plaza. As he chatted, Secretary of State John F. Kerry and national security adviser Susan E. Rice hovered outside the media scrum before a smiling Obama made his way back into his security bubble.

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