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		</div><p>Barack Obama will pay a historic visit to Cuba next month, becoming the first US president to step foot on the island in nearly nine decades.</p>
<p>The brief visit will mark a watershed moment for relations between the US and Cuba, a communist nation estranged from the US for half a century until Mr Obama and Cuban president Raul Castro moved to relaunch ties in 2014.</p>
<p>Since then, the nations have reopened embassies in Washington and Havana and moved to restore commercial air travel, with a presidential visit seen as a key next step toward bridging the divide.</p>
<p>Mr Obama&#8217;s stop in Cuba will part of a broader trip to Latin America that the president will take next month.</p>
<p>Though the president had long been expected to visit Cuba in his final year, word of his travel plans drew immediate resistance from opponents of warmer ties with Cuba &#8211; including Republican presidential candidates.</p>
<p>Texas senator Ted Cruz, whose father fled to the US from Cuba in the 1950s, said Mr Obama should not visit while the Castro family remains in power.</p>
<p>Florida senator Marco Rubio, another child of Cuban immigrants, criticised the president for visiting what he called an &#8220;anti-American communist dictatorship&#8221;.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;Today, a year and two months after the opening of Cuba, the Cuban government remains as oppressive as ever.&#8221;</p>
<p>With less than a year left in office, Mr Obama has been eager to make rapid progress on restoring economic and diplomatic ties to cement the rapprochement with Cuba that his administration started.</p>
<p>Following secret negotiations between their governments, Mr Obama and Mr Castro announced in late 2014 they would begin normalising ties, and months later held the first face-to-face meeting between an American and Cuban president since 1958.</p>
<p>On Tuesday, the two nations signed a deal restoring commercial air traffic as early as later this year, eliminating a key barrier to unfettered travel that isolated Cuban-Americans from their families for generations.</p>
<p>Not since Calvin Coolidge went to Havana in January 1928 has a sitting US president been to Cuba&#8217;s capital.</p>
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