The US president, Barack Obama, today concluded a historic and intense three-day visit to Cuba and his counterpart Raul Castro came to see him off to him and his family to Havana airport before leaving for Argentina.
The Air Force One presidential off from Jose Marti airport in Havana at 16.20 local time (20.20 GMT) from where Obama, his wife Michelle, daughters Malia and Sasha and her mother, begin their journey Argentina.
Obama and ended his first official visit to Cuba, where he met with his Cuban counterpart, Raul Castro, and representatives of civil society as dissidents and entrepreneurs in the private sector, and offer a speech to the Cuban people.
Also they came to see him off at the airport Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez, director for North Cuban Foreign Ministry of America, Josefina Vidal, who leads by Cuba to normalize relations-negotiations, the charge d'affaires of the US embassy in Havana, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, and the Cuban ambassador to Washington, Jose Ramon Cabañas.
Raul Castro also accompanied Obama today at the start of symbolic baseball friendly match between the national team of Cuba and the Tampa Bay Rays, Major League US, Latinoamericano Stadium in Havana, a sport that has united the two countries over the years.
On the last day of his three-day visit to the island-the first of a representative US 88 years Obama also gave a speech to the Cuban people, broadcast live on state television and radio, in which he appealed for reconciliation of Cubans and Americans and defended the values of democracy.
Then he met in the US legation in Havana, turned into embassy last July, with prominent dissident figures and representatives of independent civil society, as bloggers LGBTI rights activists and even a critical rapper, whom he praised for his "courage".
Obama held a bilateral meeting Monday with President Raul Castro at the Palace of the Revolution, the third between the two leaders since the restoration of relations, although the first Cuban territory, after paying tribute to the monument to national hero Jose Marti.
Following that meeting, press conference, both presidents confirmed their willingness to make further progress in normalizing relations between the two countries, although they came back to the fore the differences in human rights and political models.
The president also participated in a business forum of US business leaders with representatives of Cuban state companies and entrepreneurs in the emerging private sector of the island on Monday that US He has addressed many of the measures approved in the past year to ease the embargo.
Obama, who arrived on the island on Sunday with his family and a large retinue of officials and congressmen, today ended his first official visit to Cuba, which was intended to shore up the diplomatic thaw announced fifteen months. EFE