President Obama to visit Cuba

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President Obama is planning on traveling to Cuba in March, sources told ABC News Wednesday.

Obama's trip to Cuba will be officially announced on Thursday, and is set to take place March 21 to 22, before he flies to Argentina. It's been more than a year since Obama announced the U.S. was starting to normalize relations with Cuba, and just a few days ago the countries signed an agreement to restore commercial air traffic between the U.S. and Cuba for the first time in five decades. The last, and only, sitting president to visit Cuba was Calvin Coolidge in 1928.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.