What Obama’s Visit To Cuba Means For U.S.-Cuba Relations

What Obama’s Visit To Cuba Means For U.S.-Cuba Relations
U.S. President Barack Obama (right) and Cuban President Raul Castro pose for photographs after greeting one another at the Palace of the Revolution March 21, 2016 in Havana, Cuba. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
What Obama’s Visit To Cuba Means For U.S.-Cuba Relations
U.S. President Barack Obama (right) and Cuban President Raul Castro pose for photographs after greeting one another at the Palace of the Revolution March 21, 2016 in Havana, Cuba. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

What Obama’s Visit To Cuba Means For U.S.-Cuba Relations

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President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba will have broad implications for both the United States and Cuba. The trip comes after a decades-long freeze between the two nations.

Julia Sweig is an authority on the transformation of Cuba and U.S.-Cuban relations and the author of a number of books on Cuba, including “Cuba: What Everyone Needs to Know.” She tells Here & Now’s Lisa Mullins that this visit is necessary to help Cuba’s economic reform, but it’s unlikely to dramatically change the country’s human rights practices.

Guest

  • Julia Sweig, senior research fellow at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. She tweets @JuliaSweig.

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