President Barack Obama has begun a historic three day trip to the Cuban capital Havana in what marks a historic visit that would have been all but unimaginable just a few years ago.
Obama is the first sitting American president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge arrived on a battleship in 1928.
President Obama has described being in Cuba as "wonderful" after becoming the first US President to visit the country in 88 years.
Speaking shortly he said his visit would be a "historic opportunity to engage with the Cuban people".
A joint news conference for the USA and Cuba ended abruptly as long-standing tensions between the two countries were laid bare.
The US president will hold talks with Raul Castro as part of a trip that would have been all but unimaginable just a few years ago.
Cuba's capital has played host to foreign leaders before, but the US president's visit marks an historic change in US-Cuban relations.