{"id":81600,"date":"2016-03-20T17:45:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T16:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/obama-touches-down-in-havana\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T09:31:11","slug":"obama-touches-down-in-havana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/obama-touches-down-in-havana\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama touches down in Havana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"547\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/3 March\/21  Mar\/obama (2).jpg\" width=\"973\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Salam Watandar (Havana): U.S President Barack Obama landed in Cuba on Sunday and became the first American president to visit Cuba in nearly 88 years.<\/p>\n<p>The President visited Cuba with his family and said at a staff gathering on his arrival in Havana, where he embarked on what he called a mission to &quot;forge new agreements and commercial deals and build new ties&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"534\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/3 March\/21  Mar\/cuba (2).jpg\" width=\"1000\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Obama will meet with President Raul Castro and both Presidents will attend a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>It has been 54 years since the U.S has posed economic sanctions on Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Political experts believe that Obama&rsquo;s visit will have positive effect on consolidating ties between the two countries and lifting the sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salam Watandar (Havana): U.S President Barack Obama landed in Cuba on Sunday and became the first American president to visit Cuba in nearly 88 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}