Obama to end Cuba trip with dissident meeting, baseball and hope

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By Jeff Mason and Matt Spetalnick HAVANA (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will meet with Cuban dissidents on Tuesday and watch a baseball game with the communist country's president after delivering a speech that will conclude his historic trip with a hopeful vision for future relations. After a day spent tussling verbally with President Raul Castro over human rights, Obama will address the Cuban people in a speech from the Grand Theater of Havana that will be broadcast live by state media across the Caribbean island. Obama, whose White House tenure ends in January, also will meet with civil society leaders at the U.S. embassy to back up his warning to Castro that a failure to improve Cuba's human rights record would hinder momentum toward ending the decades-old U.S. embargo.




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