Obama's historic Cuba trip ends half a century of conflict

Havana

US President Barack Obama was due in Cuba on Sunday to bury the hatchet in a more than half-century-long Cold War conflict that turned the communist island and its giant neighbour into bitter enemies.

Reversing generations of US attempts to cut Cuba from the outside world, Mr Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama and their two daughters will arrive in Havana for a three-day trip.

It won't just be the first visit by a sitting US president since Fidel Castro's guerrillas overthrew t…