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U.S. President Barack Obama, center, 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, Cuba, Monday, March 21, 2016. At right is Salvador Valdes Mesa Vice-President of Cuba's State Council. "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 a memorial dedicated to the memory of Jose Marti. (AP Photo/Enric Marti)

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Obama, Castro lay bare tensions

by Julie Pace Associated Press, and Michael Weissenstein Associated PressMarch 21, 2016

President Barack Obama, center, and first lady Michelle Obama, visit la Catedral de La Habana in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, March 20, 2016. Obama's trip is a crowning moment in his and Cuban President Raul Castro's ambitious effort to restore normal relations between their countries. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Obama says ‘wonderful’ to be in Cuba

by Julie Pace Associated Press, and Michael Weissenstein Associated PressMarch 21, 2016

A musician performs wearing a T-shirt designed with an image of President Barack Obama at a weekly rumba dance gathering in Havana, Cuba, Saturday, March 19, 2016. For hundreds of thousands of black Cubans, Obama isn’t just the first U.S. leader to visit their country in nearly nine decades. He’s a black man whose rise to the world’s most powerful job is a source of pride and inspiration for a community that still struggles with informal racism and economic disadvantage despite the revolutionary government’s attempt to end racial prejudice in Cuba. (AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

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Black Cubans inspired by Obama visit

by Michael Weissenstein Associated PressMarch 20, 2016

Refrigerator magnets are displayed for sale in a tourist shop, several showing images of U.S. President Barack Obama, at a market in Havana, Cuba, Monday, March 14, 2016. President Obama will travel to Cuba on March 20. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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Cuba embargo is slowly dismantled

by Michael Weissenstein Associated PressMarch 15, 2016