President Barack Obama arrived in Havana on Sunday ending over half a century of Cuba’s isolation as a pariah state by the US. The US president as met by Cuba’s foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez when landed at Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport aboard Air Force One on Sunday. ITV reports: The trip, which marks a new chapter in Washington’s engagement with the island’s Communist government, would have been all but unimaginable before a detente brokered in December 2014. The historic visit makes Obama the first sitting American president to visit Cuba since Calvin Coolidge arrived on a battleship in 1928. Traveling with first lady Michelle Obama, her mother and their daughters, Sasha and Malia, the president will mostly take in the sights of Old Havana on his first night. Then on Monday he is due to hold talks with Cuba’s president Raul Castro – but not his brother, the revolutionary leader Fidel – and speak to entrepreneurs, while on Tuesday he will meet privately with dissidents, address Cubans live on state-run media and attends an exhibition baseball game. The Obama administration has chipped away at barriers to US-Cuba trade and eased travel restrictions. A rapprochement between Washington and Havana in 2014 [...]